Probably don’t need to, with the intimidatory power of a GET OUT OF THE GUARD’S FOOKIN WAY YA EEJIT

If they don’t listen, they get decked. It’s pretty awesome…

She got lucky. 😄

Yep, and if you defederate from too many sites, or from all sites that don’t share your values 100%, your instance starts to die because it’s not interesting to be on it if you’re outside the groupthink.

I like that, it’s a good mechanism for keeping things fresh and interesting. It’s also why I have several accounts on different servers, because I like to see hexbear stuff but also about 5% of the stuff that ml mods don’t like.

Edit: actually, while we’re on the subject: I’m incredibly old so I still like the “information should be free” bullshit that the internet used to be able to run on, is there any instance that only censors people for spamming and CSAM and information-free politics trolling?

Like, all they care about politically is if you’re willing to admit that facts are facts and don’t want to kill or chattel enslave entire sections of society?

Yeah, and here we have beanposting. Which I love.

But if it’s 100% beanposting, it’s bad. That happened to Reddit.

Yeah, but if you think that anyone who legitimately disagrees with you is a bot, you are mistaken. We can have good conversations about our differences here if you want. Or you can just shout at us and call us tankies and bots, even though we actually agree on a lot of things.

Huh. My partner’s kid is named Finarfin. His mums are mad Tolkien fans.

Where did your awesome name come from?

Put his cell in sight of the bonfire where we systematically burn everything he touched or had built in office.

Hello! Good luck!

It’s weird running these things. Why was running a Lemmy or Piefed instance not right for your taste, if I may ask?

When blood is being squeezed from a stone, it does not feel nice to be the stone.

I didn’t think they could make it worse… But apparently they found a way, according to the title of this story. 😄

11 are needed. However, I agree, I think that is possible, and it’s worth the effort.

Nah, she’s dead in the water. It’s the speaking circuit.

Sure, buddy. Whatever.

Lawrence of Arabia.

Ah. We had one of those in Australia in my memory. All came down to a weird iconoclastic independent called Rod who finally announced his choice in a press conference where he famously took twenty minutes to actually announce his choice. Milked it right to the end.

Wasn’t 40 days though. Only a bit over two weeks.

Spear and knife. That’s it.

Nah, you do both. A fast electronic count then a slow paper count. That way you get the advantages of both systems.

Wait, encourage this? Aha! J’accuse! Found the wolf!

Pretty big “aside from” there…