/c/newusers would be glad to partner up

It happened sometimes, but it was easier to filter those people out. Now those people have become the norm. Tinder absolutely is to blame for this.

Tinder ruined dating. It’s made interactions very transactional.

Several (attempted) murderers have owned copies of The Catcher in the Rye.

Ragebait like noahgettheboat, idiotsincars, publicfreakout. It’s the Jerry Springer of the 2020’s.

A lot of places in the US have (had?) small, weekly, free newspapers that are actually pretty good. They get by by being full of ads, often the kinds of ads more family-friendly outlets wouldn’t publish.

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How’s Toxic Crusader? I never got a chance to play it.

“Magazine” implies little if any input from readers (letters to the editor being the exception). It doesn’t sound very interactive.

That’s why I’m asking about this. What am I missing here that’s supposed to be making it difficult?

This can be alleviated a bit. If one person searches for an other-instance community by URL, it will become available for all other users through a normal search. So over time this becomes less of an issue, particularly if someone takes out some time to seed a bunch of these for their instance.

The Chicago Boys’ role in Chile’s Pinochet dictatorship really puts the lie to the whole “freedom” angle of neoliberalism. Allying with a guy who rounded up thousands of dissidents and summarily executed them shows their freedom is only for the select few.

Right-wing libertarians (this is another term with two very different meanings) are neoliberal absolutists. Center-right and center-left politicians usually have to compromise with other sets of ideals. Marijuana decriminalization and legalization is one area where right-wing politicians typically preference the social conservative side over the neoliberal/libertarian side. For a center-left example look at the Affordable Care Act. From the beginning Obama was never going to favor a true nationalized health care plan. He offered compromises within the existing framework like state exchanges.

• nuclear fusion power
• male birth control
• Metroid Prime 4
• native accessibility features for Reddit

From what I’ve seen they’re not so much trending as new.

The lesson from GeoCities, MySpace, Yahoo Groups, etc. and now Reddit is that you can’t depend on a large corporation to host your content indefinitely.

I tried to look up Tumblr’s present and past Alexa rankings, but it turns out that Alexa was closed last year.

My hope is that federation will be a good solution to these issues. Users can choose a home instance based on the types of content they do or don’t want to see. Instances with conflicting focuses or policies can defederate from one another.

My hope is that this is a shift back to a more decentralized internet.

They’ve officially branched out to Lemmy: !debatereligion@lemmy.world