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I find it very weird the US is showing such restraint here.

I get it's because of Saudi truce with the Houthis, but the entire purpose of the vessels being there is to combat exactly this thing. Allowing Iran to wage this proxy terrorism against our own naval vessels is not something id have expected.

Do you have any source confirming that the average person cares about downvotes?

Asking for a source on this is silly. Go to any reddit thread.

I thought the topic was to show that redditors were talking about Lemmy

The thread linked is a person trying to convince people to come to lemmy.

Who cares about downvotes though, honestly?

Your average person cares very much, and this topic is about getting more of them to join lemmy.

This isn't about how I feel about people being shits. I clearly don't care. This is about growing lemmy.

If you care about downvotes, then I could see your point about the Fediverse being hostile to some more mainstream opinions.

I don't - that's why I'm still here. Most people do.

I regularly get called a Nazi just for saying Israel is demonstrably either not committing genocide or is so laughably bad at genocide that the claim is irrelevant.

30k people dying is bad, and the war is especially brutal, but the US killed nearly that many civilians in Mosul, and that wasn't genocide - the topic was never even broached. Modern war is horrific for civilians. That's why war is not seen as a good thing.

That take will absolutely get you called a Nazi if you post it in Politics or News/World News. This is a very normal position to have, and a significant majority of people will agree with everything above in the real world - these people aren't going to hang out here.

I think what it comes down to though is that the fediverse experience requires some curation and restraint compared to other larger platforms

Yes, this is why it will stay small and insular until changes are made, which is what I'm advocating for.

Is it your belief that Lemmy is not predominantly inhabited by Western/Anglosphere people?

As a dude planning to get a vasectomy this year, I am all for this plan, so long as it includes people who already have children.

China wants people to move from rural areas to cities, which is why they forcibly move them from rural areas to cities.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/world/asia/chinas-great-uprooting-moving-250-million-into-cities.html

China is an authoritarian state that had a literal one-child policy until recently

I'm defending that person's joke.

Read the screen names involved. It's a decent hip-fire joke, but people took it the wrong way and downvote-spammed him

The states that voted against Israel at the UN vote are not led by youthful idealists, are they?

No, they're a block of authoritarian and Muslim countries, primarily. How shocking.

The UN, it cannot be stressed enough, has a 1 country 1 vote policy, which directly benefits these theocratic and totalitarian states.

For the record, I didn’t call you a nazi. I’m not following you around Lemmy. I have better things to do with my life.

I never said you did. Disagreement is fine. Disagreement is where we test our biases and priors. We don't have to agree on everything. There's a difference between disagreement and harassment.

Friendly reminder that we literally fought a war over this, and the good guys absolutely won that war, and we're the people fighting to secure federal supremacy.

"States rights" is almost never invoked unless it's to oppress someone.

That's exactly what I said in my OP

Dude made a simple joke in the same vein as the other joke and was downvoted because it didn't "toe the line" so yes it's exactly what I wanted to link.

If you can't shitpost, there's another huge chunk of people gone.

News and World News are my two main communities. Those are communities that, in any serious community-building sense, should be heavily moderated so as not to alienate normals.

The pro-Palestinian are not fringe

In real life, yes they are.

and not nerds

Anyone who stalks your posts to call you a Nazi when they never get a rise out of you is absolutely a fucking nerd and a half lol

Is this some sort of self-aware joke about the lemmy community?

Jesus dude what country do you live in? That sounds terrible

You can't say "Hamas are terrorists and Israel isn't committing genocide" without 3-6 days of some nerd calling you a Nazi, which means your average joe has no interest in being here, because that's the opinion of the majority of people and the majority of people are not, in fact, nazis.

Posted the bigot using the device created and coded by nerds. Do you fail to realize that “nerd” is what idiots call the smart kids? Of course you do.

Took less than 2 hours lol

It's such a hilariously leftist trope to fuck up your own community's growth with purity tests

The reason you don't get many "normal" people here is that the community is absurdly hostile to anyone on the "normal person" spectrum.

If you're not a software-pirating techbro obsessed with "privacy," a leftist, or a furry, this place generally shits on you.

I very frequently post incredibly lukewarm takes for any mainstream community, and literally get called a Nazi. I have stalkers lol.

I, personally, tend to have "normal" views but significantly more resilience to online communities than "normal" people - which is why I still come here. Most normal people left back before this place even defederated from Hexbear. They ain't coming back.

Until mods of what are essentially "default" communities get serious about growth instead of wanting "their" spaces, Lemmy is never going to grow. Most people don't find getting blasted with piss-takes by Marxists funny the way I do.

Case-in-point from this thread

https://lemmy.world/comment/6400270

Oh and one directed at me, right on schedule.

Posted the bigot using the device created and coded by nerds. Do you fail to realize that “nerd” is what idiots call the smart kids? Of course you do.