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My reply is that yes, it was a top-down mistake, government policy was a major factor compounding the famine (the CPC even admits it) and nothing like that has happened in the many decades since, demonstrating the ability of the government and the broader movement to learn from mistakes and avoid repeating them. As some other replies pointed out, their history of regular famines has stopped entirely since the Three Year Great Famine, so they have clearly learned, improved and overcome a major hunger issue in a country with huge food demands.

If it affects alternative frontends like libreddit, teddit, etc., that will be enough for me to almost completely quit browsing.

Events like this are unpredictable, and it is why places like Lemmy need to always be ready to receive and retain users. I lost some interest because I felt the main instances had similar problems (culturally) to reddit instead of trying to be something better, and that community feedback seemed to go unreceived. The technology can help, but the rest is up to people putting in extra effort.

Torvalds is the kind who doesn't get into the religious wars, like FOSS vs proprietary and such. So I'm not at all surprised by their post.

1. Reddit is a private company founded in 2005, valued at $1.8 billion dollars and employing around 350 people. Lemmy was founded two years ago and is run with relatuvely little funding (I would say approximately two paid employees and a dozen or so volunteers, distributed around different instances). That's not comparable. At all.

2. Most people aren't banned from reddit. Your personal experience is rare. If someone isn't banned from the biggest platform, they need a motivation to leave. Why would they leave? I know why YOU would leave, but why would THEY leave?

3. Most people coming here, not all but most, are doing it because they were banned from reddit. As a result, they just try to recreate reddit here, instead of making something better, a better culture or a higher quality of community. Lemmy is treated by the majority as a 'free speech reddit' and nothing more.

4. Strong political bias in the popular communities may be distasteful to the majority of people who would use a reddit-like site, who tend to be pro-capitalist liberals.

It's incorrect, inflammatory and counter-productive to imply the team colours in chess are racial and not just two arbitrary contrasting colours. The equivocation of skin tones to anything remotely 'black' or 'white' is a harmful attitude.

Do whatever you feel like. Chess variants exist. Flip a coin to pick who goes first. It's just silly to try and introduce politics into the artificially symmetrical game.

A group calling themselves anti-fascist generally should shoot a group that is neo-nazi, yes.

Strawberries seem pretty popular and available, but I'd have to say:

Thanks for linking that post, that's the evidence I wanted for them being a far-right instance.

Can you tell us where the instance is fascist and doesn't merely contain fascists and bigots? For one, their sidebar rules contradict fascism. [note: TheAnonymouseJoker gave convincing evidence, see link in reply]

They're both shitty, but they will behave differently so it's important to distinguish if you want to make these claims.

why would they federate

To grow in numbers, to spread ideas, free advertising, to take advantage of non-political communities their users might want to visit, all kinds of reasons. Did you know wolfballs and lemmy.ml federated for a long time? Sure, neither is fascist but it's an example of highly-conflicting communities federating properly.

I'd like to suggest editing this post title to match the post, about subscribing to Mastodon hashtags or instances.

There is already some "interop with other fediverse platforms" possible, such as Friendica conversations and post rating and what appears to be an early work-in-progress channel viewing/subscription for PeerTube.

I think this idea makes sense for a link aggregator site such as Lemmy and I wouldn't be surprised if it were already a future goal for the project.