i have this idea that communities should be created due to some actual pressure... as a solution to a group needing a home away from some general purpose stream... like when star trek memes took over the main memes channels and thus, required that signal be extracted into its own community...
you cant just build a community and hope the content creators will come.. they must already need a home.
do you rent or own?
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i feel like you may not really understand how basic the average user is.
for example, most have never even been near people who know what tor is. and as the technical-info proxy for an absurd number of humans the number of people asking me how to be 'uncensored' on the internet is zero. its fucking zero.
this is one of the primary pillars of the u.s. democracy people.
if this falls, the u.s. should be officially declared a fascist state. there will be nothing from preventing the u.s. government from crushing any and all media it deems unworthy including and specifically your personal blogs.
this is removal of freedom of speech with extra steps to pretend like its not.
lemmy isnt really an organization. its a platform that is then utilized by hundreds of different operators/groups implementing their own rules against much of the same content. there are many of these platforms that all offer differing capabilities and features while sharing a lot of the same content. this network is what we refer to as the fediverse.
the reddit-like side is the threadiverse and is mimicked by platforms like lemmy.
then there is the twitter-like (microblog) side i call the twitterverse and is mimicked by platforms like mastodon.
then you have platforms that can access both sides of the fediverse like piefed and mbin.
as for censorship...
its the beauty of this network' if one of those servers goes apeshit people can literally just move their 'subreddit' to a different server and tell the og one to fuck right off. this has happened a few times in different ways. users created new subs on other servers and effectively ignored the original, with no one having to make new accounts. it proves the idea.. no one person or company can control the content of the fediverse.
we have a saying at our house, 'its not christmas until you you kill something'
thus, its always a live tree
its harder than it looks
i would just point out that lemmy is merely a single platform swimming in the fediverse content waters.. there are other options that provide differing features while interacting with the same or more content. see https://fedidb.com/
im an mbin cheerleader
Many people may be unaware that wallabies are considered established in the wild in Britain
i sure as fuck didnt
of course. and dont forget the whole fucking over the globe by forcing our version of democracy everywhere. or that our biggest industry is generating human killing devices we spread across the planet under the guise of 'defense'... or that our country was founded by genociding almost an entire continent of humans.
i find it beyond funny that we support israel because 'they were there first', but if you mention that maybe the american indians should rise up and take their country back you get very different responses. america is the land hypocrites.
as an american, i whole-heartedly support anti-american sentiment. we fucking deserve all of it. we voted in a clown shitshow of a government and of course the world should laugh
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