Homie I'm sorry that happened.

You might want to do some research on:

• verbal abuse
• narcissistic parent
• low self esteem

This is what I wish someone else told me.

Good luck on your journey

Damn they really hate their users

1. They basically say they are, and also run explicitly tankie instance lemmygrad.ml
2. Look at the modlog for lemmy.ml. Among other things, anytime someone has an opinion about China who isn't Chinese it's "Orientalism"

That was the name of the pro-Donald Trump subreddit before it got banned. Aside from being terrible racist shits they eventually got banned for harassment.

I believe it's satire designed to induce in the reader the same disgust that women feel towards incels making this argument

The curse of the zombie hot posts strikes again!

Reported. This sub isn't allowed to give feels (/s)

Honest question, why isn't your clubhouse over at lemmygrad enough?

I, for one, welcome our new toilet-watching overlords

I can't believe it's even possible but you gotta try wefwef.app

It's somehow the smoothest experience on Android, beating out multiple native competitors

This sickeningly glowing profile means we're about 1-2 years out from the big scandal breaking, probably involving illegal use of funds and some weird sex stuff. I bet there's a bunch of drugs behind the scenes too, based on how hard they're pushing that sober shit

If we comment enough, we could get this zombie thread stuck in the 'Active' feed

Lemmy's default sort is "Active" - which I believe is "most recent comment activity"

The classic reddit experience is most like the "Hot" sort option.

Lemmy's other weird default is the "feed" which can be all, local, and following. Lemmy defaults to "local", which is probably not what you want (chronological feed of posts on your home server)

Also highly recommend "blocking" communities if you don't want to see their content. (Mostly important if you browse the "All" or "local" feeds)

I prefer my porn to be 100% industry-exploited humans

So far almost exclusively on nsfw specialized instances, with lemmynsfw.com being the largest.

Those in pursuit of pure science would probably be best served by creating an account directly on that instance

Assumption 1: Meta / Mark Z are objectively untrustworthy

Assumption 2: The Fediverse is a threat to the entire internet advertising machine

Assumption 3: Threads will be a hospitable place for right wing hatemongers. Therefore, federating with it exposes our most vulnerable users and communities to a deluge of (often invisible) hate and harassment.

Assumption 4: Most of the ways that they could use their billions of users and army of programmers to slowly choke us off would go through federation

I think if you believe all four of those assumptions defederation is the clear choice

Not an advertiser but they generally know % of views ("impressions") to clicks (called click through rate) and percentage of clicks that turn into sales (called conversion rate).

For that reason, I don't think they're trying to get rid of human users completely, just the "troublemakers".

I think they want to lead the "silent majority" users into a bot advertorial content hellscape where they control all the levers of power and everything is for sale.

(Possible) room temperature superconductor and (possible) broad-band super-chemo in one week, eh?

I believe that is the reason OP made this post, because of the apparent contradiction

Are you seriously arguing that slavery wasn't profitable for plantation owners?

Aside from being dangerously close to "well actually we were doing the slaves a favor!", that argument is absolutely absurd.

Do you really think that they couldn't get more economic value out of enslaved labor than they put in in shitty food and housing? By that logic, the poor poor plantation owners could just barely scrape by on a subsistence income. Does that match up with the lavish estates that we see in the south to this day?

Aside from being illogical it's also ahistorical - milenia ago the Romans had massive slave-based plantations generating obscene wealth.