I was on one of their megathreads, and it had 900 comments to a 100 up voted post. 95 percent was text. They comment always. The pig stuff are probably a fraction of what they post.

Also a great hack to lower your personal rate of inflation.

The lemmydotworld admins are preemptively defederating from far left hexbear. Defederation is supposed to be the last resort. The ironic thing is, only a few weeks ago we had redditors calling Lemmy devs tankies and telling people not to come here lol. And now we’re losing potential users because of paranoia from lemmydotworld admins.

Clowns everywhere.

Yes, I did. Wow, I’m happy to know that it works. The double notifications are wierd and a touch annoying, (something for devs to fix).

I’m happy it’s worked. But so long as I’m replying to you I suppose I don’t need to tag you.

It’s stopping people from subbing to different communities which is probably a bad thing.

@[email protected] did it work?

The people’s compassion is sadly not represented in government.

We see your handle, bear.

The other guy, schmidt-something is pointing out that people will use their instances to have like-minded community whether that’s interests, language or specialism, while you appear to be advocating for the reddit type congregation of people and for some reason also arguing against the other guy’s description of reality, of how things are. I don’t see why you are offended at him…

And I see you have your own anxiety and disagreement about the nature of Lemmy’s federated system. That’s no reason to shoehorn it into every discussion.

I think you are pessimistic about Lemmy’s potential for small communities.

But have you considered that we’re not indexed on Google yet? And we largely don’t have a pervasive culture of promoting niche communities yet like they did on the large subreddits. So this is two other ways small communities aren’t being found in the first place.

Same, I used to eat it in very small amounts.

I’m not getting that, but maybe that’s because I’m on Firefox with a bunch of extensions.

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Very marxian.

But I’m talking about ‘new athiests’ a specific cringe, backwards and reactionary movement from around the 2010s. Not atheism in general.

Have you seen this? https://youtu.be/tmk47kh7fiE

If the issue is that old school atheists kept their mouths shut, while new atheists are out and proud, you and I are not going to see eye to eye.

If you think ‘new’ means modern, as in present day, then you’ve been arguing with me for hours for no reason. Because ‘new atheism’ refers to a specific movement, around the 2010s. It’s not simply ‘atheism’ now.

I don’t care about shouty atheists or quiet atheists, it literally doesn’t matter to me. I am wary of people congregating around easy targets like broadly religious people, when religious people can mean anybody. It can be a white supremacist American, or it could be a Yemeni Muslim getting genocided by Saudis using American and UK bombs. And I don’t see that very important distinction made when those low iq anti-theist posts are spammed on c/all.

Are you a child?

You appear to be somewhat progressive from your other comments, but you have a wierd blindspot when it comes to religion. You apparently defend black people but don’t realise that minority religious groups can and often have been racialised and attacked in similar ways to how a minority group would be. This is strange behaviour.

It’s like you’re proud of being ignorant of history.

New atheism cringe is different to being pro abortion, women’s autonomy, and advancing marginalised people’s rights. Completely different.

If you specifically identify with new atheism and the thinking of Dawkins and his brigade, I’d seriously reconsider.

When I say easily avoided I mean that I literally don’t see them very often. Whereas new atheism seems to be seeping into the feed wierdly often.

This reminds of when people go to toxic subs on the old place, to shit on fat people or something. The end result of these low iq hateful subs is that you grow a base of angry, preaching anti intellectuals who think they’re right and who are ripe for a right wıng bot army and bad actors to brainwash them, and ultimately afflict cancer on the space.

That said, I am on all too often.

Japanese women are not particularly free compared to similar wealthy nations.

But you are forgetting history - those countries had their own brands of capitalist expansionism within living memory. They both had periods of time pre-World Wars where they homogenised themselves: Germany formed a nation state out of smaller states and kingdoms, while Japan did similarly, as well as forcefully assimilating it’s Ainu ethnic minority groups. As a result of this, a powerful centralised state was able to direct the development of the economy as well as their respective society. Initially fascists exploited this. Then as the US, Soviets and other Western powers repudiated them, they were made to adopt the liberal capitalist model that they’d been on the path towards pre-World Wars.

The Middle East on the other hand has been under the boot of european puppet masters. Iran’s democratic PM was couped (1953), in Afghanistan the Taliban was funded by the US against a secular progressive leader, and in Saudi Arabia, their royal family were puppets for Europeans (UK) and for decades now, the US.

It’s more easily avoided.

But I am seeing 2010 style cringe new atheism though. It’s never a good sign when those people are around, they were the precursors to the cancer we see on the big platforms today.

Pathetic of you to hide behind concern for women’s rights when you don’t acknowledge that we, the wealthiest countries have routinely worked against democratic, secular and relatively feminist and progressive elements in the Muslim world, as I say above and to which I referred to as anti-intellectualism.

Did we bring feminism and human rights to Libya when we democratized it with bombs and left it with slave markets for Africans? Maybe people like you and I should speak with some humility?