The potential for future growth being very limited, and people spending hundreds of dollars a year on the server (a price that will only go up) plus all the effort in posting content…

I see the reason to not continue here.

These guys just discuss hack stuff it seems…?

Thanks!

That’s cool

No prob at all

I’m also having this issue where I can never upload images or pictures as new threads successfully, whether it’s cut copy paste on a pc or uploading an image from either the pc or android phone

My most controversial take is that the animal rights movement is basically Ninety percent right. I eat as vegetarian as possible but I allow myself meat on like half the days but I try to minimize it.

I also have this other view… That mass production has actually ended up breaking the world economy. Certain countries are damned to be just resource harvesters and others get to reap all the benefits. Neocolonialism is a real phenomenon…and it’s bad.

So I actually have two views that alienate me from a lot of conservatives here…

But my views that alienate me from liberals… They’re more obvious. But not controversial in the context of history. Like telling the audience of humanity past, present, and future that it’s bad to cut your dick off or for men to take dicks in the ass or women to marry other women is about as controversial as announcing that “pissing in a glass and drinking it isn’t good.” yes, some Indians will disagree, but life be like that.

And to me that could even mean that he is something of a deep state approved candidate - he postures hard on the culture wars, but he is going to be dramatically pro-Israel and you can see him even being more interventionist than Trump potentially.

This is a really good point conerning the vaxx.

The vax might actually sink Trump’s legacy over time.

Posted by a woman so there is some credibility here.

DeSantis is also quite young for a politician - in his forties.

What is also funny is that the reparations article was presented without commentary and the shock was that it was such a massive number that had been paid, decade after decade…

A truly progressive group would also point out that this money was going largely towards Israel, which is an apartheid state, to back up Israeli narratives… But that isn’t really what those leftists over there complaining about this are, now is it?

Just wild stuff - “These guys are right wing and mentioned the Holocaust… Must only be to deny it.” lol.

Right - the Holocaust reparations thing was insane to me because at no point does it involve any Holocaust denial anywhere. In fact, the policy is not even criticized or commented upon… It’s treated as a news story, and what criticism may have occurred centers around the fact that so much is still spent for an age cohort that has now largely died out…

Nowadays, they just point out all the memes we have that make fun of trans people.

IDK.

People are just hypersensitive and think of any amount of “transphobia” as a gateway to all forms of hatred.

It makes no sense since most people, I think, come to alternatives for reddit and social media for maximized free speech and to see dissenting opinions but these guys act like the purpose is greater levels of control and censorship (lol).

Giving me a little bit of hope being that the judges involved here are in a DC appeals court.

I set up one to do a specific comment regarding exploding heads. I thought of doing further comments but it came off as a waste of time.

He’s going to read my internet posting history and it’s going to be a doozy.

This is… Truly amazing.

I wonder if it’ll apply to people who post outright racist things? Ecne if it doesn’t, all the people who get to establish a general consensus that free speech on politics will be allowed will make a lot of room for such people.

Let’s maximize free speech!

This is another example of how the US has actually regressed.

In the 60s and 70s, journalists were protected even when they embarrassed the United States, more or less. This was the height of the cold war, yet there was more consideration for the principles of journalism than there are now.

I have no problem with that. Already it seems to be the case that things have improved.

I do not mean to put pressure on you or anything.

lol I lurked one of the nostr sites and I got that impression

Plus there’s peopel who are already integrated into this community who say shit like “OH yeah I ate sushi and it was good”

and people are Zapping them (lol, some kinda crypto tip, right?) and reposting and upvoting like crazy…

and I just know that if I start posting on my own I’ll do like 33 decent posts and barely get any interaction…

Meanwhile, on Twitter, I got interaction and traction…

On Gab, I got even more interaction and traction than on Twitter…!

Honestly I want to leave Lemmy - I think there’s so much censorship that it isn’t that worth it, and now with not being able to post consistently I just feel like lol… whatever.

Of course this is absolutely terrible for you and all the labor that you have invested in this proejct and I do not want to just up and leave a community that I appreciate and admire but I have already thought that I spend way too much time posting on the internet…

I kind of just wish we were on Nostr, all secure, not dealing with DDoS or any other shenanigans, and all the folks who didn’t like it could block us as individuals…

Frankly, after all this…

After Elon purchases Twitter and allows any speech I want to make there… and after Gab has proven to be so reliable and has improved its infrastructure… I think I have less reasons to be part of these projects, at least on this level.

Absolutely love you guys but this does coincide with me coming to terms with my own issues of how much time I spend screaming into the abyss.

Great information there - really wish that there were more objective sources researching this, but they will not even touch these topics.

They are verboten.

The fundamental issue is that these folks think you’re din and that you need to be policed and controlled or you’ll become a threat.

I honestly believe that this is part of the dechristianization of society. No longer is there a belief in the inherent dignity of each person and their right to choose.