the guy famous for his non-profit organisation* asking for donations and losing money on his projects is an extremely weird thing to have an issue with
i honestly do not care about having the option to pay for things
i consider the quality of a platform as if monetised features dont exist, and discord is still a pretty solid platform besides them
if they start monetising existing features, sure, that effectively removes features, but until then getting mad at things that simply do not affect me is silly
more often than not, authoritarian leadership coincides with a strong chokehold on local media and strong dismissal or even attempts to completely bar entry of foreign media
think the great firewall, or local newsstation, being subsidiaries of fox, reading the exact same statements from a script across the USA
oh wow, didnt notice that the community header is there too, thanks a bunch
@subignition im using the mobile site yeah, but its good to know that the issue is circumvented on desktop
this is already a feature, go to 'instances' at the bottom of your page
that was probably commies rather than the alt right
they also have a tendency to call folks race traitors and deny genocides
something something horseshoe
thats pretty unfair, theres no reason to think that they intend on cutting themselves off from the fednet entirely
according to them this is a temporary measure until they have better tools for moderation, more mods or until things have calmed down a bit, I dont see any reason to question that
you can interact with me on their posts, however they will not see your comments ik pretty sure
from what i understand you will still be able to see their content, they just wont be able to see content from lemmy.world or shitjustworks
the level of users is hopefully permanent, but the lack of moderation to adequately deal with it, both from beehaw and lemmy.world, is not
its also a cultural problem, at the moment the culture of the fediverse is still settling and folks are poking and prodding and seeing how much they can get away with
any english speaking social media site is going to have a heavy US focus
theyve got about 5 times the population of the next biggest english speaking country, its pretty unavoidable