I’m not actually sure comments get sorted by vote tally by default here.

I’ve always just ignored downvotes - I know when my opinion is unpopular, I don’t see the votes as validating. I’d be fine if there were no visible votes at all

If i could do this without my wife noticing, I’d be golden.

Unfortunately, she took to lurking some reddit communities right as I was exiting

I wonder if anybody here has tried some of the other failed reddit alternatives like Voat for a long enough time to be able to speak on how lemmy has fared relative to them.

I tried a few during other reddit exoduses, and they all felt… bad. Lemmy is the first one I’ve managed to actually stay on comfortably without being tempted back to reddit.

not protest, that doesn’t work

Civil disobedience works too.

If all you do is vote then you’re a big part of the problem.

And this is why libs are made fun of for their feckless electoralism.

Try organizing and building mutual aid networks instead of just sitting on your ass and watching.

Maybe in 4 years you’ll be better prepared.

Hmmm

Because that explanation makes them feel better

The critique of the trolly problem isn’t that you don’t still make the choice, it’s that the outcome was predetermined before you even got there.

Leftists who are making a point of abstaining are doing so to point out that voters have no control over the trolly to begin with - that the choice is artificial because the outcomes were pre-selected by someone/something else to ensure a particular outcome, and that participating in that choice only ends up legitimizing that process.

You misunderstand, I only mean that it’s disconcerting that there may be some reason that cis-women do not find the hobby/group appealing

I was just asleep for three and I do not feel well rested.

I know ghost has a container deployment and uses activity pub

I do wonder how many within the man/woman responses are trans, too.

Idk if that survey was mainly advertised on lemmy, but i know that at least one instance that did a survey had maybe 2% woman respondents, but more than two thirds of those were transfem.

Either way, a little disconcerting. I’m not sure what to make of that or what (if anything) to do about it

But only the data that is explicitly intended to be public. There’s no single entity installing invasive apps or logging your traffic through partner network sites.

Facebook had half the internet using your Facebook login as authentication at one point

I don’t think an apology is warranted when it’s apparent a claim is being made as a bad-faith deflection.

Even if you had made a compelling case for your use of the word (you still haven’t), it’s still in response to someone pointing to a genocide that’s already happening. You could’ve just said ‘Houthis are evil because they are using child soldiers’ and we wouldn’t have anything to talk about (except maybe a debate over whether that changes the ethics of a US-Saudi backed genocide against them), but instead you said “Houthis are using child soldiers”, then “Killing children is a form of genocide”, and then chose not to elaborate any further, even when pressed.

“It really seems like it to me” is about as satirical as dwight type-casting an italian-american as a mobster.

So your point about them using child soldiers is unrelated to your claim that they’re “killing children in large numbers”?

Seemed like you were conflating the two, maybe I got that wrong.

When you casually drop ‘genocide’ into a conversation without elaborating on who or what you’re talking about you’re likely to cause some confusion.

I am comparing your use of the word ‘genocide’ to describe a rebel group because they use under-18 soldiers to dwight accusing a pushy italian-american insurance salesman of being in the mob because he drives an suv.

Not as funny when it needs to be explained, though.

Hey guys, I drive a SUV, does that mean I’m in the mob?

No, not that, by itself. But look at all the facts. He seeeeems like a mobster.

Errr- i see why you might want to say that but that’s not how it works

Mother nature will be like ‘sloooooowwwwww dowwwwwwwn’, and you’ll say “FUCK YOU” and kick her in the face with your

ENERGY LEGS