It’s very simple. Buy your domain for the next ten years for under $200. Then find an email provider where you can bring your own domain. Namecheap has always been good to me. Maybe also Hetzner in Germany?

Hetzner provides email with their cheapest webhosting package at €1.60 a month.
Namecheap is a little more pricey than I expected. You pay $89.28/2 years with a promo code - Renews for $143.76/2 years

Oh God, it’s this thing again. People really read like this these days.

Read more than one word at a time.

Man, you guys are trying real fucking hard. Known shitbag has sour grapes and turns and suddenly she represents 85% of the democratic party.

1. Get Republicans and Neo-Nazis out.
2. Fix Citizens United
3. Fix the Neolib/Corporate part of the Democratic Party.

One comes first. Haley Stevens being a shitbag doesn’t change that.

I would love nothing more than for Republicans to be rendered irrelevant and for the two parties to be replaced by the DSA and the neolibs. Just be a little strategic in how you go about that. (I worry you are being strategic, and it’s not for the benefit of DSA.)

Is it? Sounds like Republican status quo to me.

Disagree. Defensive or offensive, you’re still killing people. It’s war.

It’s most likely a neutral statement.

I think you mean communities (subreddits), and that can appear that way with an instance (server) ban.

Hi, I’m part of the Community Team for Lemmy.World. We help with finding moderators, make sure communities are kept up, and make sure moderators follow the site rules.

To some extent mods are mods. There will always be people who disagree, vehemently, and some people who resent any rules or moderation at all.

I mention this because there are a couple things I’ve tried to do on our instance to address Reddit mistakes. First, I try to avoid having several large communities under the same mods. The mod who holds a grudge in !trees shouldn’t be able to ban you from !science. (Assuming those are both large communities).

This can be difficult, because you’d be surprised at how few extremely active people are willing to moderate even a tiny community. The other is that instead of putting out advertisements to recruit for mods, I try to draft mods. So our mods are not limited to those who seek out the position.

It’s likely the one most similar to Reddit, for better or worse.

Drawn birds?

Probably not a coincidence with the midterm timing. He just wishes he had done this three weeks ago.

Just a better version of that second pic.

I thought it was more to see if it gets deleted like .ml.

Well, the platform abandoned them.

It’s better than it gets credit for. At least it was billionaires trying to do something to help. It’s no substitute for proper taxes, but it was something.

Largely it has a bad name because SBF had an interview that he didn’t know was an interview and instead he thought it was a therapist. He focused his guilt, said it was all self-serving PR (it wasn’t ), and made himself (and effective altruism) look as terrible as possible in order to try to absolve himself.

It didn’t work, and maybe was as bad as the actual crimes he committed.

It’s a hell of a lot better than the billionaires who are focused on building bunkers instead.

Oh. I meant the guy who stayed the guy but now has darker hair and is slightly less attractive than the original.

I don’t follow. Me or them?

I think the only real “solution” is to have smaller, verified communities. You have to know the people you’re interacting with are real people.

I don’t believe this is something you can do fully anonymously. Someone has to verify you belong.

I’ve thought about creating a Lemmy instance limited to my neighborhood, but I’m not sure how to do a verification scheme yet. I know how Nextdoor does it.

This time is a little different.

This time it’s happening the world over because the fascists are way ahead on using the Internet for propaganda. And they’re doing it more effectively and on a larger scope than radio ever did throughout its history.

Social media is a propaganda machine that has been harnessed to gain control. One of the things they have gained control of is all other major media.

And we all use it. Those who don’t can now get their information from Bari Weiss.

The only reason we have a chance is that the truth makes a whole lot more sense. They do their best to insulate and inoculate those they’ve converted from those truths. But that should only go so far depending on the person.

There’s only so many ways to keep convincing people the sky is green while others are trying to tell them it’s blue. (And yeah, it’s perfectly reasonable to want to scream it at them.)

And they made the guy… slightly worse?

I bought some BP stock at that low. I knew. I fucking knew there would be no real consequences.

I would have been ecstatic to lose every single dime I put into that. That was built into the plan. I could lose that money and be ecstatic , or I could be dejected, but at least dejected with a little bit of money to show for it.

I bet on my skepticism of having a healthy, functioning government. If investors had lost everything, other investors would have begun to value safety and regulatory compliance a little more.

As it is, even if it’s the company itself that blows up instead of the common good, they can just expect a bailout.