My point was that needing more people is the root issue. So while I didn’t explicitly make your point, I do agree.

That’s fair. But I think that’s kind of what I’m doing by combating the trolls. “Some of these people spout bullshit, but they get called out by the community”.

Depends on how you engage. If you recognize a troll, don’t fall for the sealioning. Just call them names and make fun of them until they run away.

Yeah, but it’s important to refute their bullshit if we want the fediverse to get better.

Subscribed! Great catchall community.

You’ve convinced me to try mbin. I had a kbin account and I really liked it, but federation with lemmy was soooo slow.

I see em alllll the time. But I don’t block anyone, ever.

I guess that’s a fair point, but I’d rather shoot for what’s good instead of settle for “better than terrible”.

One problem is we get people from ml posting on .world and other sane instances.

Small talk is important. It leads to big talk.

I got shadowbanned from reddit before even making a single post.

I’ve said it before, I like reddit users but I hate reddit the company.

I got shadowbanned from reddit before even making a single post. I can read but not interact. Fuckers.

We should all defederate from .ml. That would be a huge step. We need to excise these extremists in order for the community to grow.

It’s not just about the communities. We push communities a lot, and we do need more communities. But fundamentally we need a lot more PEOPLE.

If you call that rape, you need therapy and medication and have no business being in any position of authority. Disgusting. That whole thread is sad and disgusting. You should be ashamed of yourself for the damage you do to real sexual assault survivors by trivializing their experience.

“My team’s boots taste great!”

Authoritarianism bad mmmmkay?

Fuck you, I’m in California don’t lump us in with that shit.

God I hope so, but Lemmy the Fediverse is weirdly anti-porn and anti-sex.

Edit: the whole thing

Browser master race😎

Me too, but mainly because there’s no active volcanoes near me

We did have a massive dry-season lighting storm out of nowhere once which sparked a wall of fire surrounding my city, burning over 8000 square km and blotting out the sun.

In 2020.

Definitely felt like the end of the world.

Also set up one of the greatest reddit exchanges I’ve ever seen

Commenter 1: these fires were sparked by 10,000 lightning strikes over the course of a day during hot, dry weather

Commenter 2: PG&E [our electric utility, known for both high prices and sparking wildfires] execs breathing a sigh of relief for this one

Commenter 3: I dunno, pretty suspicious. Has anyone ever seen PG&E execs and 10,000 lightning strikes in the same room?

Commenter 4: one can dream