As long as you don't make your title incomprehensible to anyone who isn't a native English speaker

we allowed 196 to be here

These aren't mods talking, it's admins. They manage and pay for the server 196 is hosted on, that's a pretty big endeavor

That and "this is worthless, they only tested 10 000 people" are the worst

Key point: they get money for implementing features, not fixing bugs, so I think for now they're surviving off donations

"Signups: no" can also just mean that your sign-up will be checked manually, like on older instances like beehaw and sopuli

Oh damn, I remember people saying that everybody interested in Lemmy already joined by now. I'm really curious how things will look one week from now

are getting butthurt

Were butthurt, until they got what they wanted and the community got banned

Moderates: TheDonald@exploding-heads.com

Man, when I joined this was a brand new instance with only few users. That wasn't even that long ago.

Ah yeah that's also what I associate with rationalism. That whole sphere of Eliezer Yudkowsky, Roko, Effective Altruism, longtermism, the wrong kind of AI doomerism, lots of in-group terms, and really liking Bayes' theorem

What motivated the move, was Tildes the place overtaken by Rationalists?

I agree that ambiguous rules are necessary, but common sense should be enough to figure out most of it. !worldnews@lemmy.ml's opinion on China isn't really advertised (unlike !worldnews@lemmygrad.ml's)