awww, hope things get better soon.

I really hope the new growing instances chill on defederation and let all the different instances coexist. We don't need right wing echo chambers or left wing echo chambers.

I'd say it depends whether they're bad people or not. Sort of like if someone's fat. You don't brutally make fun of someone just because they're fat or ugly or whatever, you make fun of someone because they deserve it (and being fat or ugly or trans alone doesn't mean they deserve it). If someone is truly terrible, all bets are off.

The west is falling.

Giving the state the ability to jail people for hurt feelings is the exact same as blasphemy laws. It's 0 steps from one to the other, just a matter of which religion you're protecting.

I see a lot of people claiming that they need to live in some super Metro City just to advance their career. Frankly, it usually isn't true. First of all, most new grads moving to the big city are going to be one of a billion people available and so good luck with that. Going to a place with needs but a much smaller talent pool is more likely to result in you getting a job then a place with needs and a massive talent pool.

Then there's the fact that you'd be building your career in a place with an absolutely ungodly cost of living. Let's say that you do have a successful career. What's the point? You'll be in the top 1% of income, and barely making rent.

It's like Twitter users. They get all huffy and puffy but take away their Twitter for a week and they're all like "I'll suck your dick for an angry tweet!"

I'm surprised anyone still thinks he's a "free speech absolutist". He's mildly better than the current batch, but obviously not what he said he was. Typical for Elon Musk.

As I recall, the data shows that with no intervention, an overwhelming majority of kids who question their gender during puberty end up as their birth gender. Like 75-85%.

Any clinical intervention needs to do better than that to even be considered neutral.

I keep hearing about enough meth to kill every man woman and child on earth being moved around. What are they doing with all this meth? Keith Richards can't be sniffing it all.

For real, what the Democrats just did is cross the Rubicon. They can't unring the bell they've rolled.

Beehaw looks like one of those instances that just blocks everyone.

Whoever this is, they're right that as long as idiot admins block everything to keep their hugbox intact, there will be no threaded fediverse.