Most people haven't used Twitter or Reddit, either.
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Federation is enabled on Kbin now.
Pro tip: saying things like "this site" without context means nothing, since your comment can be seen by people on other instances. If you hover on someone's username, the full context including what instance they are coming from will be revealed. The comment you replied to is actually coming from lemmy.fmhy.ml and the other reply to that came from lemmy.world.
Not sure if this is what the parent had in mind, but concrete is absolutely disastrous from an environmental impact perspective. Not only in the manufacturing process, which is quite bad, but the end result, too. Massive water system disruptions lead to deadly floods and erosion, which lead to further problems. Building massive water dams are among the most disruptive thing humans can do to a functional ecosystem.
There's also the societal impact from car-centric city design and all of the negative effects associated with that.
Its most popular applications are cryptocurrencies, which are used for gambling, money laundering, and for collecting payments from ransomware victims
To be fair, you left out one of the most popular uses: scamming and grifting!
Part of the cost of having integrity in this case is needing to be patient. Reddit and Twitter didn't build the communities you are lamenting overnight. It's been two days for Reddit and less than a year for Twitter.
As for the content, nothing is stopping individuals from removing or exporting their comments. There are automated tools that will do this for you with very little effort. Reddit doesn't own the content and neither do the mods.
FYI: Mastodon is also part of the Fediverse, so you may see content from there show up on Lemmy/Kbin, and vice versa.
An email to Twitter’s press account requesting comment returned an autoreply with a poop emoji.
While hilarious, this simple statement in a legal filing does so much to underscore how insecure, weak and petty Musk (and probably all billionaires) really are.
Probably doesn't help their legal case at all, either!
The whole idea of a protest being pointless is pointless!
Protests often do not accomplish their stated goal in the moment. That doesn't mean there wasn't an effect, it may just take awhile (or more protests) to be noticed. Even if it doesn't ever have a measurable effect, the idea that people should just shut up and not express themselves is completely contrary to all of the ideals of democracy.
Because they have been told it matters. That's it.
Trump recently joked on stage at a rally that nobody cared about trans issues 5 years ago. The audience laughed. I don't think either side of that incident had enough self-awareness to realize what that statement implies.
It's almost like there was no actual problem with bathrooms until bigots made it an issue. Almost like they are... hypocrites?!
Once again it's the conservative/religious zealots that are obsessed with children's sexuality. I have never once wondered about what is inside anyone else's pants, let alone wondering that about literal kids. Bonkers.
Nobody mentioned children and sexuality in the same sentence until you did.
I'm not too worried about the learning curve. I can remember when explaining Reddit to my friends ended in a blank stare. I also encountered plenty of people on Reddit, even recently, who were only there for a specific sub and had no real awareness of the larger Reddit system/community.
The same thing can happen with the Fediverse. Communities on specific instances will gain critical mass and attract people from outside the Fediverse, who will sign up and engage with what they think of as just another website.