The point wasn’t that ranged attacks or siege or cavalry weapons are more important than melee weapons, though depending on the battle or the century, that may well be true.

The point was that when it comes to melee, the weapons used by your infantry was never swords. Swords are prestige weapons, expensive and heavy, wielded by wealthy knights and nobility for ceremonial purposes, duels, or tournaments. The king cannot afford to equip a thousand infantry with swords (the way you see in movies like Braveheart or LotR), and even if he could, the infantrymen have neither the skill nor strength to wield them for an extended duration.

Swords weren’t the weapon of last resort. They just weren’t included in the loadout at all, of the soldiers engaging in melee combat. So what did they use? Spears. That’s probably why the OP says spears are king.

But take it with a grain of salt cause I don’t actually know anything about medieval warfare. It’s just a thing I heard.

Modern conceptions of medieval warfare drastically overestimate the amount of usage that swords saw in battle. At least that’s a thing I’ve heard.

Ah. Thanks.

I don’t get it. Are those toppings controversial? What even are they? Pickles?

It was a joke, but you appear not to have gotten it. Hence the wooosh sound.

Wooosh

Seems like your style of humor

These tumblrs just reply by repeating the same joke almost verbatim. Four times. Shades of r/yourjokebutworse

can you recommend a good instance with a no defederation policy?

What is fetching

I thought it had to do with communities

What does it mean “fetching communities on my home instance”?

Bro it was just a chance to improve your grammar. It was offered in good faith. If you don’t want it that’s of course your prerogative. But there’s no need for rudeness and hostility.

Of course in going that route you’ve demonstrated an aspect of lemmy that may be an answer to your question.

I would like to invite you to increase your mastery of the English language by learning about all the tenses. With a judicious choice, (I would recommend a pluperfect progressive), you can avoid writing confusing and self-contradictory things like:

Lemmy’s number of active users has been decreasing for the last month. […] the number has been on an upward trend for the last 6 months

Oh is that so? In that case it is indeed within their rights and I stand corrected.

So is there a place where we can access our lemmy.fmhy.ml accounts right now?

“Every right”? No. They have the power to do so but that doesn’t make it right. They sold those domains fair and square. Contracts were signed.