We’re still here.
Generation discourse honestly panders to the lowest common denominator intellect. People who constantly talk about boomers or millennials are usually pretty dumb.
The reason you don’t hear much about Gen X is “we” didn’t cause anything culturally significant in an enduring when “we” were in our 20s.
Or maybe I just want to chat with people about my age
Zuck sucks but this open letter is embarrassing. Dial back the smarm and self-righteousness a couple notches. I get it’s marketing and not really an open letter but still, cringe
I recommend therapy.
Poe’s law detector fail
Nazism is a very small subset of fascism, they are not equivalent. Nazi also carries VERY heavy baggage which is inapplicable to Trump. Use the right terms.
It’s dumb to call Trump a nazi and the populist wing of the Republican party nazis.
It’s not even clever at this point, maybe it was edgy and transgressive like 7 years ago.
The reason it’s dumb is that you are wasting all of your powerful language and you will have no more if things get worse. Boy who cried wolf. Just like people did to racist which used to carry great power and now is basically meaningless as a powerful descriptor.
What would your policy be for example if someone showed up and started debating on the side of Bad Team politics but doing so politely?
Some specific examples within lemmy.world that prompted this would be helpful (not a request for you specifically, a general request).
A big problem on reddit is debate-oriented communities aggressively stifling debate and banning people for opinions well within the outside-the-internet window of acceptable discourse. So I can see why lemmy.world would not want to go further down that route if it appeared as if it were beginning to happen. Reddit can semi-tolerate it because there enough users to form niche communities if the big ones are terrible. Lemmy has nowhere near enough people.
Unfortunately t can’t all be (1) or (2) because both extremes are terrible.
Thanks for the explanation and link
Your home instance is lemmy.world, which is outright defederated with all but lemmy.ml
Still learning. How are you here from lemmy.today if lemmy.world is defederated (maybe I don’t know what defederated means)
What is the point of this reply
Algorithm driven social media is different, it just is. There’s a boy who cried wolf element here which is unfortunate, but that doesn’t mean wolves don’t exist.
Social media’s quality and harm lie on a spectrum, it’s not just black and white. Text discussion on a forum is way different from the average TikTok experience.
The “source” request is also annoying because it’s like, dude we’re just chatting here, no I’m not going to respond like this is some academic debate.
Least sensible discussion I’ve been in in a while
We could do laps on this all day. In the end if a trans person says they’re trans and this is what it means to them, I’ll take them at their word.
$10/mo is nothing. Whatever search you use today, you are paying in other ways.