I agree. This person is a conservative. The other “conservatives” are just fascists who inherited the label and it no longer fits.

I’m not sure I see the distinction you’re making here. Usually those groups are highly overlapping.

No I’m saying the logic and propaganda of corporate social media seems to work on them, despite it being in obvious contrast to their ideals.

Thanks. Yeah .world is definitely a bit too big, but it’s still miles better than bluesky.

Anyone have the numbers for Lemmy specifically?

I feel like this speaks to an unchallenged myth in our society. That corporate organizations and government organizations are somehow completely categorically different from one another such that they exist in totally separate spheres of reality. But they’re both political groups of people, exercising power over the peasants. It’s not as different as people think. And they often have similar goals and use similar strategies, like propaganda, to achieve them.

Does it? None of my normie progressive friends are on the fediverse.

What makes it impractical? The model’s been working here for years.

I haven’t heard anyone demand .ml shut down. I think people want A: allow for separate funding of Lemmy development and the server so people can avoid contributing to the server if they wish. And B: stop running the server as your personal fiefdom where any dissenting opinion or inconvenience facts result in an immediate ban.

What should be and what is are two different things. I’m just saying that in the US at least, much of the carceral state is privatized.

Are you sure it’s publicly owned?

So most of these are on the front range (which is ass) but it’s interesting that it goes to grand junction. Any stops along the way?

I believe it’s just mbin. That’s one of its advantages over Lemmy.

Cat smol.

Car drivers in the last two years killed about 80,000 people in the US. That is of a similar scale to the murders in Gaza. So your point that this is unimportant is off base.

Most people don’t pay much or any attention to local politics which makes advertising and incumbency very powerful. Most people literally just vote for the name they recognize from TV or mailers.

It would take a large increase in political consciousness to fix this.

Flight requires extreme adaptations that make terrestrial life much more difficult. It’s hard to evolve it and once you do, going back will be difficult. Especially when competing with a bunch of animals that haven’t completely warped their bodies for a totally different lifestyle.

On isolated islands without mammals, many birds do begin to revert to a terrestrial strategy. But the mammal body plan is just better for this, and when mammals have reached such places, flightless birds have almost immediately experienced population collapse.

Is this cubensis?

Is there a less shitty platform on which to watch this? I am not downloading their shitty app for one video.

That’s great to aspire for but there’s still an almost total lack of content in many genres I enjoy on YouTube. I don’t even think PeerTube has progressed as far as the Lemmy community in terms of content availability. Admittedly this is probably because text and image content is much easier to create, but as a user I don’t find much reason to spend time there yet.

So if you don’t want a monetized model, there is still a need to have another solution to the lack of content, and I haven’t seen one yet.