Seems like the world has moved away from that

Assuming that the world was once just, and recently changed to become unjust, is completely flawed. History provides endless examples of people with power and money doing horrible things and facing little or no consequences.

It’s ultimately under the umbrella of ideologies that support and prop up capitalism.

I think that’s a good summary.

“Classical liberalism” is basically what modern libertarians want: a laissez-faire capitalist economy, a secular representative government with very limited powers, prioritizing individual freedom over collective well-being, etc.

In my part of the world “liberalism” is now commonly used to refer to a different set of priorities: creating economic safety nets, regulating business, promoting universal healthcare, unions, gender equality, racial equality, etc. Though capitalism and a secular representative government are still part of the mix.

Does this work?

DeWalt gang, stand up!

This is why kbin exists. It’s a Lemmy/Mastodon combo service.

I have noticed this, too. I think the app doesn’t regularly refresh the post and comment vote tallies. If I view the same post in the app and in a browser the post’s vote tally (and all its comments’ tallies) often are out of date.

“English is not a language, it’s three languages wearing a trench coat pretending to be one.”

For more fun, right about the time the printing press came into widespread use and English spelling became standardized, the language was in the middle of the Great Vowel Shift.

Similar to how Subaru brags about their “zero landfill” production. Manufacturing a car absolutely generates waste. They just juggle the supply chain to have all the waste happen at their suppliers.

I think it’s also about being predictable and consistent. Generally, slow traffic stays to the right and fast traffic stays to the left. Breaking convention increases the chance of surprises and accidents.

Prior to June 2023, Lemmy was holding steady around 1,000 monthly active accounts. So it’s still up more than 30x from that baseline.

Since this graph shows active accounts and not active users, I’ll bet a significant contributor to the drop is people not using all the alt accounts they initially created.

Some of my electricity comes from magic rocks. Hold them close together and they get hot enough to make steam. Take them apart and they cool off. Just don’t hold them too close together or bad things happen.

Gravitational force is proportional to mass, so yes.

And the mods usually leave a comment so you know why your post/comment was removed or your account banned. It’s a nice system.

I think we’re all taking the “fake it 'till you make it” approach to some extent. I know I am. There is no script to follow.

Remember that part of being an adult is getting to decide what “adult” means.

Someone linked it in a comment a few months ago, and I happened to bookmark it.

Here are a few other sites that might be interesting:

• https://the-federation.info/platform/73
• https://lemmymap.feddit.de/
• https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/map

When viewing an instance’s main page in a web browser, scroll all the way to the bottom and click on “Instances”. That will show all instances federated with, or blocked by, the given instance.

I’m not sure I can answer your other questions, though you might be interested in https://fba.ryona.agency. It will let you enter an instance and see who is blocking it. For example, here are the instances blocking my home instance, sh.itjust.works: https://fba.ryona.agency/?domain=sh.itjust.works

I imagine a lot of the best stuff also gets developed in public-private partnerships, like In-Q-Tel and the startups it supports on behalf of the CIA.

I bet if you asked nicely in !lemmy_stitch@sh.itjust.works someone would make it for you.

Thanks bot, but I did that intentionally.