That’s what I meant by causality. Pro-americanism and anti-americanism are not inherently dogmatic. It’s just that the anti-american sentiments I see on lemmy are usually dogmatic. It’s an observational theorem, not a derived one.

Sure I can downland a thing. But what can I DO with it?

You declared a causality that I did not intend to imply.

The source code is open and free, ergo people can do what they want.

You really don’t see the parallels between this statement and “anyone can become a millionaire”?

Not everyone has the opportunity or the skillset to “do what they want” with the source code. I’m not a coder. How can I do whatever I want? I’m beholden to the structures that other people build.

Straw man. Or misunderstanding.

Me? Just now?

There’s no monetary profit, but I could absolutely see competition for whose ideas gain the most support.

And the Fediverse does not collectively own all the instances. Each instance is created and supported by an individual or small group of individuals.

You can even see the failures of unregulated capitslism in how lemmy (especially lemmy.ml and lemmy.world) are consolidating users and engagement. Unregulated capitalism trends towards monopoly.

It’s an extremely apt metaphor for capitalism.

No, it absolutely does not. Lemmy has a LOT of groupthink, just a different type of groupthink than the norm.

Reddit pre 2014 was the wild fucking west. You’d have some girl posting about why she likes sticking goat intestines up her butt and the comments would be all “it’s not my thing but I can see your point of view”. People were selling heroin on a public forum. There was a sub called something like “fiftyfifty” where you click on a link and it’s either a cute bunny or some dude getting beheaded, no blurring or censorship just full gruesome decapitation. The most popular sub was called “jailbait” for chrissake.

Like, kids today cannot comprehend how sanitised everything is. You are locked in a box. Lemmy is a different box than reddit is a different box than Instagram is a different box than Facebook is a different box than Twitter. You don’t know what freedom is. You will never know. It’s exhilarating and terrifying. But all you can do nowadays is pick a different box.

It’s just a different echo chamber though.

If lemmy goes from 200 posts about Linux a day to a thousand posts about Linux a day, I will leave. Fuck that shit

Reverse for me.

Talking about an American politician.

In a thread about American politics.

In a community about American politics.

On an American instance.

Cue 200 “UGH WHY IS EVERYTHING SO AMERICA CENTRIC WHY AREN’T YOU TALKING ABOUT EEEEUUUUUURRRRROOOOOPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPE” butthurt comments.

My lemmy experience got so much better when I blocked any community that talked almost exclusively about anything linux related.

Still, dogmatism in any form is a plague. Pro Americanism, anti Americanism, whatever. Ignoring facts to suit your chosen narrative is gross.

I am extremely offended by this and you are evil for making me feel offended! How dare you! Everyone, flock to me with messages of support and shun this person for saying something so offensive!

My absolute 100% main response to this topic is, by far and away, “TOO MUCH FUCKING EDGINESS”. In all its forms. I say this as a staunch atheist. Get the fuck over yourself, lemmy.

They were literally a bot tho

Lemmy seems to have this zero tolerance policy for calling other users bots, which is…problematic given that we KNOW there are plenty of bots out there.

This is a bad framing. As soon as the media can figure out a narrative, they’ll try to convince us she “blew it” by doing whatever.

Well, one of the rules is not committing treason or sedition and yet we’re still here, so that shows you how useful rules are

Republicans are stupid. Like, deeply, fundamentally stupid in a way that’s difficult for us to comprehend. So sometimes, they see a phrase invented by smarter people, and they start using it ALL THE TIME, because they’re so goddamn stupid that they don’t understand that words have meanings. They think words are like spells in Harry Potter, so if a lib says “oogitty boogitty” to them (and that’s about the level of comprehension they have; everything new and more than a few syllables might as well be “oogitty boogitty”), then if they just shout “oogitty boogitty” back, they can hurt liberals.

“Virtue signaling” is one of those terms.

But don’t let them render the term itself useless, because that’s the insidious secondary goal of the bastards promoting this style of bullshit. The goal is an orwellian control of language by associating important phrases with mouth breathing troglodytes so they can essentially delete them from rational people’s discussions.

“Virtue signalling” is an elegant term that makes a very salient point about how a lot of us on the progressive side do things. People like you and I should feel free to use the term without the association of the swamp people who shout it but don’t know what it means.