Adderbox76

Well both, of course.

What I think is insane is that the question of whether an impeached president can run again hadn't been settled years ago. It's just obvious. It shouldn't be precedent setting. it's something that should have been settled a long time ago.

You’re describing this like we all, individually, are blocking Hexbear users. That isn’t what happened. They were defederated by a handful of individuals. They were censored. An authority blocking your words from reaching others is censorship.

No it most certainly is not. Not by any legal definition of the word. Preventing people from speaking is censorship. that's all. "forcing people to listen to you" isn't free speech. And I'm not even going to bother going into the fact that free speech is quite LITERALLY in regards to government's and have absolutely nothing to do with private servers like Lemmy instances.

As someone has already mentioned, the right to free speech is NOT the right to an audience. Just because you don't agree with that statement doesn't make it not true. Facts don't give a shit about your opinion.

Why uneasiness? This is federation working exactly how it's supposed to. People are free to spout whatever garbage they want, and no one else is obligated to listen to them if they don't want to.

No one is infringing on hexbears so-called "free speech". They're still free to shout into their megaphone. But the rest of us can close the damn door on them if we don't want to listen. That's quite literally the best of both worlds.

The only people that are "uneasy" are the people who think that "free speech" means being able to force people to have to listen to their bullshit. It's not. Never has been. Never will be.

I for one love how federation tends to sort itself out without stripping away anyone's right to free expression. Hexbear, or whatever instance happens to be controversial at the moment, can still say whatever they want. No one is shutting them down. No one is censoring them. No one is stepping on their rights. The rest of us just have the power to not have to listen to them. It's a great system working exactly as designed and it's absolutely how the future of social media has to be.

It's absolutely insane that it's even up for fucking debate.

The important thing to understand is that Lemmy doesn't have an inherent culture. Nor does Reddit, or Twitter, or Mastodon, or any other platform.

They are communities, and communities naturally change as they scale.

So yes, of course Lemmy had changed. But I'd argue that the inherent strength of the whole concept of "federation" is that any one particular instance only has to witness as much or as little of that change as they want to.

If you don't like where Lemmy as a whole is going, find (or create) an instance that agrees with you and de-federates from most others. win-win.

The point is that you are responsible for your own particular Lemmy experience in ways that you never were on Reddit.

Surely it has to be something from the Hip.

I would personally much rather fly over it on my way to BC. But can't afford it sadly.

I use it daily.

Of the two different things I used Reddit for, Lemmy is a 100% replacement for one, but sadly lacking in the other.

1. Current events (news, politics, etc...) the transition to Lemmy was seamless.

2. Tech Support on specific niche software (kdenlive, Scribus, Gimp, etc...) is still lacking. there aren't a lot of communities dedicated to specific hobbies where a person can ask and answer questions from other users.

In regards to #1, there is actually one area where Lemmy has an advantage in my case. Because my local instance is my country instance, having that third "local" option means that I can, without any searching, keep up to date on national current events as well.

it's like being in a Canada only news site, and then if I want, I can hit "all" and see the rest of it. it's super easy in a way that Reddit couldn't be.

She is the embodiment of unconditional love. No matter what kind of mood I'm in, all she wants is to be near me.

Very true. I was just comparing corporations to corporations. Craft breweries are certainly not evil; they're the equivalent of local businesses for the most part.

declarative

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/difference-between-procedural-and-declarative-knowledge/

Because alchol sellers aren't widely considered as flat out evil as cigarette makers, meaning that they can still realistically grease the wheels of power with dump trucks full of money.

I'm sure cigarette makers would love to the do the same thing, but no politician is dumb enough to risk taking "campaign contributions" from people who are widely considered to be the scum of the earth. Alcohol makers still have a level of respectability that lets them get away with it.