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I appreciate the irony of coming into a lemmygrad community to complain about tankies and say lemmygrad.ml is "tolerant to assholery".

The book Manufacturing Consent has an excellent analysis of how advertising is one of the major filters which affect the content of news. Regardless of whether it is surveillance ads or not, the model of advertising, while lucrative, profoundly compromises the integrity of news.

Of course, I understand (and I believe the book also suggests) most news can't be expected to self-sustain and compete without having ads in their economic model. So this isn't a rebuttal to the article's discussion on "Non-creepy" contextual ads.

The first rule of moretankie196 is you do not talk about the first rule.

The second rule of moretankie196 is you DO NOT talk about the second rule.

I came over about a year ago. Reddit has had big issues for a while, so I was lurking through alternative frontends, and when I learned a Fediverse alternative was getting pretty decent, I felt an obligation to help make it happen. I might have come from lurking on /r/piracy when they started banning piracy more actively.

Ultimately reddit is a for-profit capitalist venture. Has been from the very start, and that profit motive has directly driven it further from the userbase year after year. Advertising, badges, money-grabs, abusive staff, blocking high-quality communities, API blockages, all this was basically inevitable and it's only going to get worse.

On the bright side, they can make sure their federation works and that their damn site works before opening up to the other Lemmy instances. Their stats are a bit wonky (and probably inflated by ban evasions as mentioned already) but they appear to be HUGE, even compared to the recent influx here and on beehaw.

I've been on many sites that enthusiastically argue over the dumbest things and in the harshest language, but to take them seriously and banhammer people over those disagreements is a level I can't imagine descending to.

Even when old /b/ would ban people for not liking chocolate milk and pouring it down the sink, it was obviously ironic.

It's not useful to make a broad assertions like that about a large (and somewhat vague) term like 'Ultras'. Like many comments have said, that's not the experience we've had with any ultras. It's like saying "why are Americans anti-LGBT", when there are millions of Americans that are, and millions that aren't, and the ones that are often have different reasoning for it (e.g. religion, tradition, misconceptions/pseudoscience, ideology, etc.) so the question will get a bunch of shallow unhelpful answers.

No, it looks like Fedi.tips is driving people away from the software Lemmy, because they have ethical issues about not censoring Lemmygrad's userbase and the devs' ideology.

As it says on the homepage sidebar, lemmy.ml isn't a flagship instance, and I'd expect better from an account calling itself Fedi.tips. They've just thrown Beehaw and sopuli.xyz and all the others in the same bucket.

What actually are the "struggle sessions" on Hexbear? Like, is it just a popular argument or do people actually get banned over them? Because some people seem to be taking them seriously.... which seems silly.

Hi, please consider editing the post title into something more meaningful, like "Which Fediverse software would you recommend for long-form blog posts or photo hosting?". This will help people who know the answer to notice the question.

@nutomic@lemmy.ml It might be a good idea to default the Communities page to All instead of Local, to help push users into discovering other instances and promote them.

If we just talk about the last few years:

• 0 A.D has been very fun, although I play offline because I'm casual af :) Has all the things I liked about Age of Empires and more, and I've been building from source so it gets improvements every week.
• Xonotic has had an excellent community whenever I've gone online, so can recommend.
• Mindustry is a blast

There is a soft spot in my heart for SuperTuxKart too, despite the current project leadership.