Mike Masnick is usually right about most things, but in this case section 230 is just the wrong defense to use. That really is meant for hosting providers, not software providers. Doesn't mean they will be held liable, or should be, but it has nothing to do with section 230 as I understand it.
I normally only look at communities I am subscribed to and am not subscribed to places where such things are usually posted. You could try that too.
In general I dislike communities with concepts like "pics", "comics", "memes", etc., I don't want to see just any pics or comics, I want to see ones I might find interesting. Lemmy is unfortunately not yet a big enough place that it has specialized communities for everything.
What kind of information do you want to know about him? What do you find biased about whatever you've been reading? It's not very clear how to answer this question.
By volume, usually I stop pouring milk when it covers approximately 4/5 of the cereal. That makes it so when I put my spoon in it, the cereal at the very top will also absorb some milk.
I switched to "new comments" and don't want to go back to anything else. It has only advantages in my mind:
It gives me a mix of older and very new threads (because new posting also counts as a comment).
It makes sure different threads are shown to me after a short period of time already, making sure I do not get bored by seeing only things I've already seen.
It reminds me of web forums with thread bumping, which I continue to think were one of the best ways to organize online discussions we've ever had.
It still shows me more upvoted stuff more of the time because many other users sort by sorting methods that take upvotes into account, so such threads also get more comments usually.
One disadvantage is that occasionally I get several-month-old (or even year-old) threads at the top of my feed if someone has the brilliant idea to post in them. Doesn't happen very much though.
The point of free software is that it doesn't have owners and you (individually or collectively) can just create an "alternative" yourself by forking it if you disagree with anything its maintainers do.
Ten years earlier, i.e. mid-1980s. I would have been a young adult when the Internet was starting to be awesome, instead I was a preteen or early teen.
If I ever manage to earn ~3000 euros (my current net salary) a month from just investments and interest, I will definitely consider myself rich. There may still be richer people than me even in that scenario, which is why I wrote that "rich" is a relative descriptor.
I think of Mastodon/Twitter as essentially server-side RSS readers: you follow the sources you want to read, then are notified when they are posting something. If you don't already have any followers, there is little point in posting anything there. The forum-like structure of Lemmy is a lot more suited for ordinary people to discuss topics they are interested in.
Pokémon taught children everywhere that if they enter strangers' houses without warning, the strangers might randomly give them useful objects that help them in life.
Why was it previously allowed, one may ask.