Zedstrian

With 20 million barrels of oil going through the straight daily, there’s certainly be plenty of grift to go around if Trump somehow got them to allocate fees to his knockoff UN in the name of ‘peace’.

The amount of grift in the military industrial complex and the value of arms shipments to Israel likely outpaces what he’d realistically get out of Iran. Regardless of the outcome of the war, oil profits and arms shipments are up, and Trump is undoubtedly getting kickbacks from it.

All they’d have to do is call it the Trump Peace Tariff and wire him a cut of it and he’d let them set it as high as they want.

Didn’t go with the MSNBC or Guardian ones since they linked to live feeds that might change, and several of the other ones that popped up first were right-wing outlets glad to be fed whatever the White House puts in their mouth, so CBC seemed like a good, well-balanced choice.

Alternative to CBS.

It’s just gluing together data from random sources it finds with no care for the accuracy or recency of that data; Lemmy has about 38,000 MAU, not 77,000.

If there are no societal roadblocks to prevent anti-vaxx parents raising their children to also be anti-vaxxers, then the cycle of misinformation will only get worse as time progresses.

Regardless, parents should not have the ability to prevent their children from getting vaccinations on the basis of their own unscientific beliefs.

Good to know, thanks!

One thing AdBlock Plus has that I wish uBlock Origin had is a way to disable filters on one page of a website without disabling filters for that website as a whole.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Dataisimportant, but I don’t think illustrations with paragraphs of text to read qualify as ‘dataisbeautiful’.

With lots of land that could be generating solar power instead. The solution to high oil prices is accelerating electric car adoption and reducing oil dependence, not bandaging the problem for short-term gains.

A military dictatorship isn’t particularly representative of freedom.

simplify Reddit and improve Home feed personalization

AKA collect more data for advertisers.

Not in any meaningful way; that makes it less energy-dense, leading to gas needing to be refilled more often.

Discouraging Fediverse participation isn’t a helpful solution to disagreement.

There is core limitations on Lemmy which cannot be fixed even on the long term( for example finding communities via search. Results from .world is very different from the result that your instance fetch

Lemmy Federate is designed to overcome this limitation through automated community federation.

no ability to upload media with the same ease and speed of Reddit,…etc)

This depends on the frontend or app you choose to use. Most Lemmy apps support in-app media uploads.

Herd mentality is very deep on Lemmy, compared to other social media websites

Herd mentality is just as much of a problem of Reddit; there’s just more users there, so more ‘herds’ are able to form.

Lemmy users would like to have a working cancel culture so much that they would have no problem deepthroating a dick to get it

Grouping all Lemmy users together falsely assumes they all share the same opinions and blocking preferences. In any case, instances attract users by tailored moderation practices; users should join the instance that best matches their preferences. While some viewpoints—such as those promoting fascism, transphobia, or racism—are generally unwelcome across major instances, a certain baseline is needed in civilized society to have discussions in which no one is excluded on the basis of who they are.

About moderation, I feel the only outcome that will happen is bad moderation (IMO) will keep happening on the platform till either the servers hosting communities go down or till the mod become inactive.

A very broad generalization about a wide array of moderators and rules across communities, but if you don’t like the way a community or instance is run, just block it and move on. I gladly block all of lemmy.ml and my All feed is better for it.

On a side note it feels like a lot of Lemmy servers are suffering financially and might close soon,

What gives that impression? While donating towards server costs is important, and a handful of notable instances such as lemm.ee have closed, most instances seem to be doing fine.

while Lemmy developers did not even try to help them by implementing third party upload functionality(Imgbox, catbox, imgur,…etc) in the app and the web front end to lighten the load on the server admins.

Have you tried alternative frontends and/or apps? The default Lemmy frontend is known to be simplistic in comparison and should be considered more of a reference implementation than anything.

Ultimately, the Threadiverse is still relatively small and will hopefully continue to improve as Lemmy, Piefed, and Mbin are developed further. All of the core features of Reddit are present, without the commercialization that has left it degraded.

Not unexpected given how inactive it’s been, but still unfortunate.

More options and innovation is good, though I’m not sure there’s enough users yet to viably support a fourth mainline Threadiverse protocol. Mbin serves the same role Catodon is trying to fill and doesn’t have many users as it is.

Alternative to CBS.

Child abuse is not free speech.