I like this. It saves resources. And I think we should all start adapting to it.

Unfortunately, I cannot eat at Five Guy’s or Chick-Fil-A because I am allergic to peanuts and they use peanut oil.

They are putting the community in danger by banning masks.

I’ll play devil’s advocate: one benefit I could see to Reddit’s karma system is that it can quickly filter out spam or alt accounts from more serious communities.

Also new users please be aware that there’s this bug that causes commenting to sometimes fail completely and get stuck on loading.

I just looked it up and… lemmy has blocked Beehaw??

What’s so sad and ironic is that actual shopping malls had charm and character before the internet accelerated their decline and caused many to close.

What’s even more sad and ironic is that shopping malls themselves caused the same thing with small businesses.

I know Reddit itself overtook Digg, but that was before our current unprecedented levels of internet corporatism and monopolies.

I remember the pork thing, and also reading that infographic about how it’s hypocritical to refrain from eating dogs and cats because those animals are smart, but to eat pigs and octopuses anyway despite their similar levels of intelligence. Things like these are what eventually set me on the path of embracing veganism.

Garbage in, garbage out.

I appreciate the alternative opinion and am glad you offered it.

Another user mentioned “communities following communities” which I think could serve as a viable middle ground.

Elon’s acquisition of Twitter serves as an insightful case study of how a corporate CEO can turn what used to be a diverse, tolerant, and bountiful community of netizens with no home for hate speech and misinformation into a sad capitalist bloodbath.

Please take note, Huffman. And please take note, the internet in general.

In my experience, the people ranting about “free speech” the loudest are the most flagrant violators of the “my right to move my arms ends at your nose” maxim.

Think these “fractured” distributed communities are the new normal we need to embrace moving forward. It seems like we’ve been conditioned to think in terms of corporations and monopolies for too long, and maybe, just maybe, a more “splintered” approach could work better.

Why does everything need to fit in one uniform or under one roof? Humanity is diverse, and we have diverse experiences.

You know, it’s so funny (though obviously not in an enjoyable way per se) how those folks are so selective and picky about freedom. Like freedom is OK when it’s the freedom to enter a supermarket without a mask, but it’s not OK when it’s the freedom to express your gender. And as in this example, when it comes to corporate masters…

Don’t you just love capitalism? And don’t you just loooooove capitalists? It’s honestly frightening how reminiscent it is to the way the fascists took power in 1930s Germany.

And by the way, I’m noticing a parallel with how much they not only embrace conservative evangelical Christendom, but also act like it’s the epitome of freedom and liberty - the American Dream, if you will. If you attend one of the US’s most notorious fundie schools, you’re not allowed to stay up late, mingle with the opposite gender too much, attend dances, or be pretty much anything other than cishet (and implicitly, cishet white male). The irony of how said school is named “LIBERTY” University never seems to die on me.

Not just fewer kids. But fewer conservatives too.

Gosh, I love it here.