One thing about the pre-Internet times I don’t hear much about is how much more centralised our media were and how, as a result, people or ideas on the fringe of society didn’t get much attention. That includes for instance how the strange ideas about vaccines or ethnic groups now spread much easier than they did before the Internet, but also how trans* people and other marginalised groups find it much easier to find and support each other and be a united front against oppression.

In summary, I don’t thing that what has been termed “the great awokening”, nor the organised opposition against it, could have taken place before the Internet. At least not at this scale.

The tweet wasn’t easily available on nitter (it wasn’t being highlighted).

It just so happened to be the canonical source for this piece of information. And it wasn’t being run by an antisemite at the time the linked tweet was being written.

Exactly. The good kind of failure.

Hyperloop was always a project to sabotage high-speed rail. Good thing it failed.

I alternate

I have a dad joke, but it’s yo momma.

This is your brain on don’t.

“Beige shirts”

Apparently this is what makes someone turn neutral.

Hey, at least the number of fingers on the visible hand check out.

Nah, must’ve been thing

One idea to prevent tags being spammed would be to have them be moderated as well. Thoughts?

Yes: it prevents things like death threats mods have been known to receive on the centralised Lemmy precursor.

With instances already disappearing (eg. vlemmy), content is being lost. Are you considering a lemmy archive?

In my opinion this runs counter to the idea of federation

The rest of the internet runs counter to the idea of federation, yet Lemmy must work with it.

You mean like lmmy.to?

I posted a script to do just that a while ago.

Like lmmy.to?

This isn’t easy to do yourself: thing is, the way you identified yourself as being “you”, an asymmetric cryptographic key pair associated with your account, got deleted when you removed your account.

If your posts and comments don’t contain any personally identifiable information (that is: no-one can tell it was you who made them) I’d just let it be. Otherwise this is going to be difficult.