I rarely blocked people on reddit but the pool is much smaller here so you tend to run into the same troll repeatedly or they spam throughout ansingle thread
Ive taken to just reporting and blocking left and right because i dont have the mental bandwidth to spend on someone who is looking for fights and not legitimate arguments
Probably because it helps a bit to offset their high losses for infrastructure (servers, bandwidth, storage, compute for compression, search, indexing and backups, electricity, networking, employee wages)
I think only people on your instance would see your comments and posts since if lemmy.world is down, any previously federated content will remain cached
Lemmy.world was back up and running fairly quickly but lemmy.ml took longer to return
I think he forgets that being a foreigner might make you more privy to news that a country's own news might not run or might skew, but doesn't give them any perspective on what the people believe or why they believe it. Especially when he is looking at media and taking joe schmoes "america is a failed state" statements as what the majority of people believe. The majority of americans support progressive actions, but a combination of regulatory capture and corrupt politicians who aren't representative of a majority of their voters means that political decisions made don't align with what the people want. Besides that the amount of people going "she doesn't know real corruption because she doesn't live in south africa, look at her fancy house" is stupid as fuck. Most americans live paycheck to paycheck and are one inconvenience away from losing their job or being evicted or losing their home. Even if she does live in a nice house, it does not invalidate what she has to say. While some of this video is true it just sounds like some ivory tower bullshit.
Besides that, painting the democrats and republicans as the same is completely disingenuous. Republicans use doom gloom and fear to get people to vote for them and then cause the very problems they pretended were the democrats fault. The democrats use fear of the republicans getting power and then do next to nothing when in office but concede and settle somewhere in the middle with the republicans. They don't cause the problems but they do very little to fix them.
You could use gelatin to make a kind of jello. I've seen them promoted as a way to get dementia patients to remember to drink water, by making it appear more snack like and appealing so that they will eat it on their own
195 was a college dorm of a few friends who made a reddit sub to share memes with each other
Over time the sub grew really fast and became a major shitposting sub. I dont remember if it was while 196 was still around or after it shut down, but r/196 was made and became pro lgbt while 195 was kinda a cesspool. The guy running 195 shut it down because they were no longer dorming together or talking, and it was becoming hard to manage a huge sub alone with so many people posting hateful crap
196 became the weird trans femboy lgbt shitpost sub
197 popped up because people didnt like the lgbt stuff and it kinda became more like 195
196 moved here but a lot of people jumping to lemmy havent actually interacted with 196 before do theyre just posting whatever whenever
I rarely blocked people on reddit but the pool is much smaller here so you tend to run into the same troll repeatedly or they spam throughout ansingle thread
Ive taken to just reporting and blocking left and right because i dont have the mental bandwidth to spend on someone who is looking for fights and not legitimate arguments