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There’s no point and the meaning you have to make yourself.

nihil novum sub sole

Yes, if I realized later it detracted from the discussion.

I read a book. It’s quiet, it’s restful, it often helps me get back to sleep but even if it doesn’t it’s still relaxing and worthwhile.

They’re reactionaries, and deeply regressive.

For me, it’s more like:

My social battery has been dead for a while and I can’t moderate my behavior enough to get new people to put up with my bullshit.

You’re subbing the wrong munis, cousin. I find it very vibrant here compared to most of social media, including blogs.

Or the patterns I notice in mythological stories across cultures.

In a Joseph Campbell kinda way, or a “every culture has a flood myth” kinda way?

slrpnk.net has an AI intercept called Anubis, fwiw

You saw the whole paragraph where I talked about how lemmy is not a democracy, right? And literally cited this as one if the reasons why?

Like I get that you’re probably responding to multiple subthreads right now, but it only takes a few seconds to scroll up.

It’s called “voting with your feet”. Being free to leave is power. Means a hell of a lot more than up- and down-doots.

Lemmy is inherently democratic. If you don’t like a muni, or an instance, you go to another one. Without centralization dictatorship is impossible.

That said, it’s not democracy, either: It’s a federation of interdependent polities, each with their own laws and administrators. Which is good, because it allows for rapid response to spam, inappropriate content, and verbal violence.

And if the admins or moderators overreach, well, back to the first paragraph: we’ve got open borders, go homestead your own community on another instance. You literally cannot be silenced here.

Depends on the dictator, depends on the democracy. Ideally neither, but democracies are usually less awful than dictatorships.

camel

I am not arguing for surveillance

just parroting the talking point of those who are?

beans

Doesn’t really keep my bike where I expect it to be, though, does it? So what does all that violation of human rights actually buy us?

1880, right after the Great Fire

Ha! The police don’t pursue crimes against cyclists.

Find a nice squat, I suppose. Then get to work on securing a new legal identity.