We are using their tools though…

Well, you are, while I am on PieFed:-P If you do not like what you’ve heard here, then consider switching to Piefed.World (Lemmy.World’s recently-announced PieFed replacement for Lemmy)

Skill issue - this N is even smaller:

ml says “avoid criticizing Russia, china, North Korea, communism, communist figures, or cursing at our special little gremlins who will spew vileness at you entirely unprompted. But also don’t be a dick or deny atrocities, unless doing so interferes with any of the previously stated rules.”

If only! To be pedantic though, what Lemmy.ml actually says is:

A community of privacy and FOSS enthusiasts, run by Lemmy’s developers

and

No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.

Which (somehow?🤷‍♂️🤪) translates to what you said, except… no wait, it does not? Hence it says one thing (my quotes) while doing exactly the opposite (your quotes), in point of fact.

On the other hand, there’s the “trust me bro, i iz total1y relaibles” defense, otherwise known as “nuh-uh, I know you are but what am I?”

Because while it is human nature to be wrong sometimes, it might be best not to actively wallow in it? (See also: Hexbear, Lemmygrad.ml, and some smaller ones such as midwest.social)

The meat is not just armor though - a skeleton alone has no capability to move itself, the meat provides the translation between thought and action, while the skeleton is merely a framework upon which the meat rests.

As too did she.

Misinformation is dangerous. Disinformation even more so.

Capitalism sometimes kill, literally.

Meh, I mean you do seem excited so… there’s that.

It depends on whether the asshole has a title of Professor.

(Comment a full week later just out of the blue for no reason…)

But you are still using “logic” there, while she was using “trust”, in the perceived authority source of a combination of “doctor” + “government” (they wouldn’t allow selling of something that could be dangerous).

So… a direct message line to Musk you say?

USA right now be like

There are other health effects than heart issues examined here - e.g. there’s cancer, which occurs due to changes in the DNA of your cells, and that is a cumulative process (although e.g. outer skin layers replenish so in 15 years not the same cells, but I am not sure how long lung and other cells take to similarly replenish).

PieFed is a 100% for this.

Topic-focused puts you into the Threadiverse, where there are mainly 3 options: Lemmy, Mbin, and PieFed. I haven’t looked at nodeBB but that’s a fourth up-and-comer. (Also people expect flarum to gain ActivityPub support but it currently lacks it.)

Mbin’s major claim to fame is combining the topic-focused Threadiverse with the user-centric Mastodon like sharing, which sounds like not what you want… although it does have hashtags, and yet iirc only on the Microblogging side?

A very few - and unfortunately no longer maintained - Lemmy apps have some of what you want, but it is not worth what you would lose out on by doing so.

PieFed has perfectly what you have asked for. Hashtags sit on top of regular communities, so it is not either-or but rather both capabilities at the same time. And while I don’t know if you can block a particular hashtag (that feature should be added, if not, it’s a great idea!), the concept of keyword filtering (regardless of hashtags) can not only block out all of such content, but there’s even an option to only block out some, if you would rather, so that additional level of choice is nice. The only catch is that app support is experimental at best, so make sure to use the web browser view, at the very least to set up your account with the blocking that you want to see associated with your account, even if you then use an app for just daily browsing.

As Rimu (inventor of PieFed) already said, PieFed has numerous other features that you will fall in love with as well - e.g. categories of communities, which are both customizable and user shareable (so you can create a curated one if you like, and then share with literally everyone housed on the same instance, but there are pre-defined ones so that you do not have to) and many other features lacking on Lemmy such as user and post flairs, ability to hold polls, and just an absolute ton more behind all of that. It even goes further in terms of features than Reddit does, e.g. combining all the comments across all reposts of a particular OP into one view, to help deal with the fragmentation inherent in an implementation of the ActivityPub protocol i.e. the nature of the Fediverse trends towards fragmentation so this helps counter-balance that.

Happy explorations!

It is soooo very hard to overcome our natural biases. An interesting video on the subject: https://youtu.be/5Peima-Uw7w .

The excuse used to be that it was new and would eventually get around to it.

I gave up waiting and moved to PieFed, personally.

It also says that it is “studid”…

Arguably, this way conveys the point moar effectively than it would have otherwise? :-P

Forget long, some of us just want quality:-)

Lemmy offers a great deal of freedom - to an instance admin, and to a lesser but still high degree a moderator (e.g. their decisions are immediate, final, and unquestioned unless overturned by a higher authority) - though a lot less to an end-user. Reddit offers things like the modmail, notifications of events, and I can only guess that people are not aware of the level of censorship that has become more common lately. Meh, but if that’s how they want things, then perhaps we here would prefer that they remain over there as well:-P.

As in, perhaps they simply prefer the gilded cage to the level of effort required here to be truly free.