I have the same approach of browsing all and blocking what I don’t want as I come across it. Which in my case, happens to be mostly anime and shitposting communities.

I hadn’t noticed until the posts were weeks old, so I didn’t want to dig thru the mod log…

i don’t know why they “trust me” dumb fucks

Real quote from Mark Fuckerburg.

yea so if you ever need info about anyone at harvard just ask i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns

That’s precisely why I left L.W. They also were removing community posts voicing opposition to threads federation. I witnessed it firsthand, where posts I commented in (and in which the majority of comments opposed it) were removed.

Now they removed the piracy communities again after promising not to. They are straight up untrustworthy and don’t care about what their users actually want.

I am happy on feddit.de. They are defederated from Threads and the tankie instances.

Absolutely. I cannot fathom how people can justify Hamas’ terrorism or Isreal’s genocide.

I’ve condemned both groups since the beginning and support only the innocent civilians being starved, tortured, and slaughtered.

I didn’t downvote, but I hate videos being posted in the science community. Should be articles. This post belongs on a video community.

The ones with more melanin who look different. Too easy.

I don’t disagree with you that it’s the product of racism and discrimination. But the terror attacks also fuel that hate.

I can say the same thing about the consequences of my (US) country’s actions in the ‘war on terror.’ We’re the greatest contributing factor to the formation of ISIS. The casualties of our drone strikes alone (from Bush, Obama, and trump) were vastly civilian targets.

Whether it’s politically/religiously motivated drone strikes on civilians, bombs in subways, or knife attacks, those actions spawn further fear, hate, intolerance, and extremism.

Even though Italy is enacting racist policies/systems, they are able to gather support for/‘justify’ their actions due largely to the terror attacks throughout Europe.

I think it just might have to do with the history of Islamic terror attacks…

Such as the London bombings and bridge attack, Charlie Hebdo attack and the more recent stabbings in France, the Madrid train bombings which killed 193 people, the November 2015 Paris attack in which 130 were murdered, the 2016 Atatürk Airport attack in Turkey which left 45 dead, the 2016 Brussels bombings, just to name a few…

I’m not suggesting that all or even most Islamic individuals are dangerous/terrorists. But there is a long, bloody history of Islamic extremism throughout Europe.

I’m also not suggesting this justifies these bans in Italy whatsoever. I share this because it’s essential context to answer your question.

A little of Column A, a little of Column B…

(Want to clearly point out that innocent Palestinians are the ones being slaughtered; not Hamas terrorists.)

Halfway thru high school, I remember accessing MySpace on my original iPhone on safari before the appstore even existed. I felt like hot shit.

I’m so glad social media was still new enough that I didn’t document my awkward dumbass development. I can proudly state that I never made a FB account.

The far-right movement has been spreading around the world… It’s perhaps most on display in the US right now, but it is a global threat.

I was just thinking I want a list of russia’s senior officers with the dead scratched out for visual representation. Their losses are insane…

I was just thinking about the Iraqi Most Wanted playing cards given to US troops, and that if there was one for russia, I feel like half the deck would be dead officers by now.

That is absolutely ridiculous… Our brains don’t even finish developing until our mid 20s (some research suggests it can take an additional few years for those with ADHD).

My school performance (with ADHD) was so much different in middle and high school than thru undergrad and now graduate school.

It’s totally asinine to put that kind of pressure on kids, especially when standardized tests don’t even accurately evaluate learned material.

It’s different on other platforms (like mastodon) but on lemmy, it only blocks posts from the blocked instance. Users from Threads would still be interacting in comments with the user who blocks their instance.

Regardless, I believe they should be defederated by instance admins on ethical grounds. Meta/FB have run unethical, uninformed experiments on their users, including purposefully inducing depression in their users.

The fact that Meta has assisted in genocide should be grounds for defederation by instances which claim to protect and care about their users.

Meta’s platforms have also played a key role in radicalizing users, and they purposefully marketed Threads to far-right extremists.

Here’s my argument with citations

There’s also good arguments to defederate and block them from the fedivers based on EEE.

If an instance’s admins claim they care about protecting their users and providing a safe, healthy community but are federated with Threads, then they are either uninformed or liars.

It basically is…

A good practice is to check who funded the given study. Look under acknowledgements.

In this case, it was Zespri International Ltd. “the world’s largest marketer of kiwifruit”

The purported benefits claims are from self-assessment phone surveys…

Definitively no suspicion of bias in this research…

Nah, it’s on topic to the comment discussing userbase and donations. I’m not alone in leaving due to Threads either.

I voted for Biden and will in the next cycle, but this dark Brandon meme stuff will never cease to make me physically cringe…

It’s some trumpian demigod worship level cringe…

Yeah, I plan on donating here as well. I am a little cleaned out by tuition and textbooks at the moment though…

Just chiming in to say they lost my donations and me as a user for federating with Threads. I’m over on feddit.de now because they’re the only instance I could find defederated from Threads and the tankies.

Edit: Have to edit this comment because I’m laughing at all of the butthurt users who are downvoting me because they don’t like my personal decision.