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The longer I'm on lemmy, the more I realize just how dumb reddit user controls are

When I was on reddit, it seemed to matter so much how old your account was on any given subreddit, but now i realize it's extraordinarily bad opsec to have a single account.

All this to say: there being a single point of authority that can issue IP bans and shadowblocks and generally have control over user identity information is just so needlessly stupid.

Depends on the type of magnesium

All of those subjects of protests are symptomatic of the larger issue (wealth inequality/oligarchy)

The protests you're seeing are the proximal issues people are angry with, but they all share a root cause: oligarchy.

It's important because 'oligarchy' is too abstract for most people to have strong feelings about, but a specific oligarch destroying public services that everybody rely on is extremely salient. While it might feel divided from your perspective, it's still very useful for people to recognize the real ways the capital-'P'-Problem is affecting them.

Liberals and progressives staying home wouldn't matter if the democratic party appealed to the working class as a whole instead.

I'm of two minds about this.

The sweet vitriol episode built out the world in a really interesting and character-centered way, but it interrupted a really important development that was moving the story forward so it felt like slamming on the breaks

If that episode had come after the return of Irving, Dillan, and Hellena instead of right after Mark's ayahuasca trip, it wouldn't have felt quite so jarring.

It's a shame because I really liked that episode, I just couldn't enjoy it as much because I was dying to know what happened with Mark (I'm still kind of dying for more details)

I honestly get the feeling that she and Ragabi are both withholding important information from Mark because they want something from Gemma's implant. If it's something that would dissuade Mark from going in for her, then I'd guess it's likely that it isn't the 'real' Gemma (in some way) or she's doomed to die once she's out.

I'm curious how you integrate CBD. I've only ever had it before bed for sleep

Sync isn't being maintained actively anymore, and I think this emoji standard was added after the last sync update (pretty sure as a response to hexbear federating with their emojis)

I have sync too, i haven't bothered to find a new app yet but maybe it's time.

Having not actually run into any of the mentioned nazi content myself, I don't feel personally invested in defederation.

I personally prefer for the nazis to be clustered together in one corner so that it's easy to mute or block them without their knowledge, and I do have some apprehension against defederating this early and causing them to scatter into wind on other instances.

If any of those comms they're moderating actually have nazi content, it should be an easy decision to cut them lose since we have a vested interest in keeping that shit off our servers, but if the fear is simply that the right-lean of the comms may create a place for nazis to gather then I might be on the side of waiting for signs of infection before amputation.

It doesn't 'personalize' it for you though, you do that for yourself

All the default sorting algorithms do is sort by basic global metrics like time and activity - anything else is done by the user (blocking, subscribing, ect) and the instance (federation or banning).

People misunderstand just how broad a term 'algorithm' actually is.

It's got an inbox and a spam folder and I use the client to subscribe to RSS feeds. Email and lemmy have more in common than they have differences.

You're using an open source platform bud, you have complete control over your 'algorithmic' feed. People just seem to want control over other people's feeds, too.

The ceasefire ended

Just want to point out the passive language there - it didn't just 'end' by itself, Isreal ended it