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At the same time as keeping an eye out for “power tripping jerks” you want to watch for poorly moderated instances as well. Instances with little to no moderation are at risk of being defederated by other instances if they can’t stop their users from trolling/harrassing/evading bans/blocks, etc. You don’t want to set yourself up on what seems like a big instance only to have it disconnected from the rest of them because bad actors decided it was a safe haven for acting up.

Oof. How embarassing.

To help deal with the existential dread, at least half of my Reddit subs were various cat subs, as well as subs for other cute animals, and I long for the day that I can get there again.

but him saying the word “triggered” is not harmful

It implies that being against hate speech and harassment is a wrong opinion and while completely isolated and out of context it might not seem harmful, it’s part of a cultural shift towards normalizing those things, and implies that anyone who cares is wrong. Seeing that go unchallenged just emboldens buttholes like that.

I assume that once it’s a subscription service most of that money will be going to Reddit, so you’d basically be paying for the privilege of not having to use their official app. That’s just ghoulish.

This. While things are new, and nothing has taken the place of “service that everyone uses”, LGBTQA+ people are going to avoid the unsafe places which is going to push discussions further and further right. A “moderate” position that treats the bigots the same as people who just want to live and feel safe isn’t moderate at all.

What’s left wing about simping for dictators? Just because they called their countries “communist” to keep people from realizing, they were both effectively totalitarian dictatorships, and that’s about as right as it gets.

Less polished, but the browsing experience is better and more customizable than any Lemmy instance I’ve been on so far.