It just takes time for these communities to form.

As others have already stated, the job market is fine, the stocks are fine, but the ability to afford living day to day is worse than I have ever remembered. Here in my cheaper state here are some random prices:

• A bag of Doritos is over $7.
• Beef shortage makes ground beef for a family of 4 $14
• Gas prices are over $3.70
• My grocery bill increased by nearly 50% overall and we are buying less on top of that
• Car prices are through the roof, making it impossible for people like me to change cars (I’m hearing they are going to drop again soon)
• Rent prices are soaring to the point where it isn’t sustainable
• Interest rate keeps rising

Smart phones. Not even Star Trek could predict we would all be walking around with a slab of glass that is exponentially more powerful than computers that took up entire rooms, can communicate with others sub-second via voice, images, video, or text, can access the sum total of public human knowledge at the blink of an eye, and can guide you to any location with a map for everywhere you want to go. It’s really powerful stuff and it’s in everyone’s hands.

This is why tech monopolies are bad. Google waited until they had a near monopoly on the browser engine and then pulls this shit. Alternatives still exist though, and people will vote with their actions by either not using Chrome or not using those websites that have DRM.

I was part of a support group for people like me on Reddit. I still made the move. It’s time. I suggest those groups leave instructions on where to go.

There are bot instances cropping up that absolutely must be defederated in order to keep the platform viable.

Desantis needs to stop with the culture war bullshit.

Isn’t that basically what softcore porn is? It’s sick and should have been shut down.

I would be more scared that a right wing white supremacist would launch nukes at everyone. Their existence is about hatred of others. Trans people’s existence is about trying to love themselves. I’m not scared of trans people, if you are then please ask yourself why you are. Are you afraid they would retaliate for how you treat them?

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Yeah, as @melpone says it will just take time for admins to respond if you message them directly. I know Lemmy.world doesn’t tolerate people like this. This is from the lemmy/mastodon.world Code of Conduct:

Provide a friendly, safe, and welcoming environment for everyone regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, personal appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, nationality, political affiliation, or other similar characteristic.

People are leaving Twitter and getting their accounts suspended by Twitter. It’s a shit hole. No wonder the Tweets are disappearing.

They never went away. They just hid when it was clear society would not tolerate them and now are out in full force due to all the right wing government support.

Hunter Biden is a private citizen. He can make all the amateur porn he wants and paying for prostitutes may be looked down on but it certainly isn’t worthy of a congressional hearing. It is a really poor decision on her part.

DeSantis also promised to remove anyone from all federal agencies that doesn’t think like him. They are both fascists and a danger to America.

I get cancelling it but why remove it?

We had libertarians popular for a while in Michigan. Then they lost popularity. They usually align themselves to the right wing. In practice, they basically tried to block the government from helping the people at all. No school funding. No health care. Private ownership of all the land. No parks, protected lands or sanctuaries. No real environmental protections (so no public protection of the largest freshwater supply in the world, a precious resource), only property owners can sue for pollution, no gun regulations, no helping the poor or any social programs whatsoever, and a stronger state’s rights take on government (so the state can say no to everything too).

The good parts to me were that they didn’t support drug war policies and they don’t believe in government discrimination against any groups (but the “government” part is important there so I guess that’s not that good).

Sure, take down a post of a Chinese massacre but allow whole communities dedicated to racism, hatred, bigotry, and pedophilia to exist for years unscathed.

As much as I enjoy the idea of an adult community, it has to be adult in both idea and implementation. Allowing depictions of underage people (especially in the age of AI) is plain stupid. I’m blocking lemmynsfw and suggest you all do the same.

Wait, so people can post crazy content to those now unmoderated subs? Did they not think this through or do they now have paid moderators?

It will change. It wasn’t intentional.