Yes certainly. Part of the mistake was disclosing that there is some mechanism by which such specific communities can be shut down so quickly. You can disclose that capability by accident, but you can't have that capability by accident.
ew, gross (haven't been to reddit in a year, and time/enshittification has not been kind to it)
we should consider a warning for bare reddit links
this may have been an error, like a script being run in prod that shouldn't have been but it was not a bug. That isn't a technical assessment, it is a human assessment.
I just started playing this based on a similar thread I saw earlier this week, and I haven't put it down. It shows its age but it is an fantastaic and absorbing game. Easy to switch between mission focus and just killing Nazis for fun.
I'll have you know I've been to some pretty dank places on Lemmy, where 40 active users would be an improbable, and frankly questionable, validation. I've seen things.
Then maybe don't tell someone who does live here to keep their head down. Especially if you're from where I think you're from. You should be exhorting us to learn from your history and to not let this overtake us - because the fascists will have learned from your history as well.
Push for good change like calling your congress person and complaining? Campaigning for a progressive candidate in the mid-terms?
If you're going to pretend for youself like it's 2016, then just spare us. Your silence would be better than lumping all direct action into throwing molotovs.
When you dismiss the option set rather than productively try to add to the option set, any rational person would rightfully question your actual intentions.
Your vote for the status quo has been registered, but please note the status quo has been a decade-long continuous slide into fascism, so that is what you will be cosigning by keeping your head down.
One day soon we will look back fondly to when this was a joke.