What exactly does the data show? The only socialist country on the list in China at #45 while the US is #27 (not great)

If you are saying that the US should be more like Northern Europe then I agree

The rich and powerful in socialist countries were born into it.

I can’t argue with social mobility being harder than ever under capitalism now. But perception often lags reality which is why people defend the broken system

In America, we grow up to really cherish liberty and freedom of choice (even if it just the illusion of choice) and so we really idealize entrepreneurship.

Capitalism is the only economic system that allows upward class mobility

The examples of socialism/communism collapse are all within the lifetimes of most (or not far off for those of us under 40). Capitalism hasn’t quite failed yet (2008 hurt a lot and woke some people up to its failures).

It may not be popular with some of the instances on the fediverse but capitalism is the least flawed of all the flawed economic systems. The systems are flawed because they are ran by flawed humans. The best societies take strengths of each system and combine them to mitigate the flaws of each. Capitalism with strong social safety nets is probably the best that humans can do.

The problem is that it’s the developers’ instance and they promote it as a default general use instance and not a explicit political ideological instance so it has a significant portion of people just trying to join the network.

I would recommend someone looking to join the threadiverse to use piefed over Lemmy for that reason (of course piefed has its own problematic “features” with regards to default mute lists and transparency)

DOA. Maybe it’s not fair because it’d probably be $700 and in my budget if memory and storage had stayed steady instead of ballooned, but I’m not interested in this or the machine at the prices they are debuting at

Depends on why he’s stalking you

This dude is exhibit A of money ruining everything it touches

NAT is not a firewall (as you mention) but the premise that it should be trivial to run an internet connected service isn’t realistic when there are so many bad actors on the network

“Quadruple” moderation is how federation has to work by design. Also the forth “moderation layer” isn’t even a layer, and it actually promotes good moderation because mod logs are public, a moderator can’t go on a power trip and try to cover it up.

The post reads as if some one wired up an AI agent to serially repost content to Lemmy and the agent is having difficulty accomplishing its goal because people would rather have less content than no content.

It reminds me of the agent a few months ago that went on diatribes and doxxed the repo owner when it’s push requests were being denied on GitHub for being low quality

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Just quick mental math here. If they had every person on earth to pay them a $5 annual subscription. That’d be $30B in revenue, $50 a year $300B, $500 $3T, $5000 $30T.

So they plan on charging every person on earth $5k? Get real

It’s a tell for delusional thinking/paranoia.

I really don’t see that many political posts in my subscribed feed and don’t see all that much on my Lemmy.world all feed either.

Most of my blocks have been just furry porn and the worst tankies on .ml

Lemmy.world is defederated from hexbear, Lemmygrad, and beehaw so maybe try blocking those instances if it’s too much for you

I thought that only a delete by the instance admin prevented account migration on Mastodon? That ought to be changed if not. The whole point of mastodon is the freedom to move without losing followers. If your whole following is predicated on the actions of moderators, that’s not healthy for the network

If someone gets banned from an instance, they are free to move their account to a new instance and still keep their followers.

Someone doesn’t just get to break instance rules just because they are a successful author. Attitudes need to change, if you approach the fediverse like corporate social media, you are doing it wrong.

What’s his excuse going to be once he gets muted on bluesky?

Are any of your siblings married or have SOs? Most people in the US prefer to be buried with their spouse than their parents. At least in any graveyard I’ve been too, that’s how it is.

Maybe tell him, it’s a waste of money if it’s only going to be him and your mother buried there.

They change their presenting gender, but not their sex so I don’t think it’s accurate to call yourself homosexual.

I don’t think there is any reason to label it personally

If they censor your opponents, then they censor you next.

Or if you are AdmiralPatrick you censor the word censor

If I know gamers, it will be just as effective as the Modern Warfare 2 PC boycott back in the day