I was reading that as a W instead of VK, but someone linked to it elsewhere in the comment section.

They were so fun and over the top.

Yeah, too many rules stifle engagement.

Google 1984

Just tried to reply to you with the image, but it wouldn’t show up. I wonder if something is buggy.

It’s a psychological consequence of polarization, which occurs when you have too many people in a social group agreeing with each other.

Groupthink elevates extreme opinions.

Unfortunately I think that only works from your instance’s perspective. The majority of lemmy can still see the CIA oppressing you!

Yes, this is reasonable.

This is why federated social media is important.

You’re thinking of their competitor, Hole Foods.

Yeah, this artist draws for the New Yorker. Not sure if this is one that made it into an issue or not though.

Even before the insane number of bots that are on reddit today, I believe that subreddit was one of the main ways for astroturf accounts to gain karma quickly. They knew that everyone was just there to look at happy things and would upvote heavily.

This is current problem in society that we don’t tolerate different opinion.

Exactly this. When online platforms become too homogeneous, any deviation from the typical opinions that are shared seems like a terrible, inexcusable offense that someone must do something about - thus, reinforcing the bubble.

We need to be able to disagree with each other and still get along.

Since most people are talking about the sign-up barriers, I’ll mention culture and reputation.

I love Lemmy and Mastodon, but whenever I’ve seen the fediverse brought up elsewhere, someone inevitably shuts down any curiosity by suggesting that it’s a political echo-chamber. I don’t think that’s accurate for all of it, but if that reputation is out there, we probably need to make an effort to show that there’s a broader appeal. If the average person is expecting the fediverse to be the left-wing equivalent of something like “Truth Social”, I could understand the reluctance to adopt it.

I don’t know if it can transpose into the London very easily, but I might be wrong.

There’s a bishop 500m away with a sniper too.

Or maybe social anxiety?

Unless you’re suggesting that this man was involved in that situation, there’s room to feel sympathy for both murder victims. I know I do.

This man was a teacher and coach for 16 years who only recently became a police officer, and now he’s gone. If your first reaction to this news isn’t sadness, then I don’t know what to tell you.

A lot of people can’t see past their hate.