I was trying to point out the hypocrisy of branding your instance to be about privacy and security when tankie-glorified regimes don’t respect that at all, and they’re instead mildly pushing people in that direction. Why not use something from the EFF pages on those topics? Nice strawman, though.

Joined Lemmy.ml because it was supposed to be a security, privacy and FOSS focused community

Yep that’s the line the developers put up there to lure people in. It’s mildly disingenuous at best. Having to copy a line from a document titled “The Principles of Communism” just to sign up should’ve tipped you off that something was a bit weird.

Join an instance that has more lax federation standards and subscribe to the ml communities you care about, or get comfortable with defederation and people from other instances discarding your opinions. It’s a choice you need to make.

Oops, I’ve got a citation for you.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-prism-secure-ciphers

I know the response will be what you already said in a previous comment about companies saying “trust us bro” so I’ll take the L on this one.

This is such a Lemmy take, good god.

“Cloudflare has been around for over a decade and doesn’t do anything nefarious with my data and have never shown any intention of doing so… but, consider this for a moment… what if they DID?”

Ah yes, let’s link up a college town with a bunch of drunk kids with a complete lack of inhibition and a similar perceived lack of consequences. It will surely work great.

Because this isn’t even close to the main sub discussing video games.

Why are you using r/videogames as an example to make this claim?

There are at least two more subs that are wildly more popular and have much more activity and substantial posts and commenting.

• videogames - 293k subscribers
• Games - 3.3m subscribers
• gaming - 40m subscribers

I am subbed to both of those last two and didn’t even know the first one existed because it’s offshoot trash.

You’re right. Forgot where I was. Apologies.

Foreign operative detected. Get some sleep, comrade.

What’s your plan that makes the endgame not genocidal? Remember to make it fit reality.

He can’t do it because Congress is too divided because you didn’t fucking vote.

The traction she got in 2016 is the reason we’re having this conversation.

The Green Party and the Libertarian Party are how we got Trump the first time around. The stakes are too high.

If Korean culture places dogs on the list of eaten animals and it’s done in as human and sanitary condition as possible for farming the animals, then it’s not my place to try and stop them.

What if I told you that dog slaughter is commonly done at the height of adrenaline, which intently means violence, due to the belief that it changes the flavor of the meat? Because that’s part of the practice. There’s nothing humane about it.

It’s the truth, though. The whole “One China” policy is the only reason the PRC and the USA have any sort of diplomacy at all.

As of right now, nobody in a position of power is holding them accountable, and sadly, I doubt anyone will.

This. The whole circlejerk about how much better Lemmy is and how people are so glad they left reddit is getting really old, really fast. Meanwhile, any interesting post that would be normally spur fervent and meaningful discussion on reddit has maybe a dozen comments on Lemmy, most of them low effort. Heck, this exact same article on reddit’s r/technology has 10x more comments and way more total engagement.

The spam and toxicity here are the same as on reddit with a different tone. Lemmy is just another echo chamber with a different coat of paint, and the only differences are a lack of ads and way less people and diversity to interact with.

Replace “reddit” with any free service. Welcome to the Internet.

And before you “ackshually Lemmy” me, someone is paying for it. Perhaps even you, if you’ve donated to your home instance.