getting your door kicked in by a gang of cops about to shoot you to death tends to wake a person up

what misinformation?

the cruelty is the point

because of course they are

I’m really not experiencing that— because there isn’t The Algorithm feeding you Content™, lemmy is more reliant on you subscribing to specific communities and for them to be active. Personally, I’m subscribed to a lot of communities, but, likewise, I get a lot of active content. Im able to, in a satisfactory way, replicate the experience that I had on reddit— minus 99.9% of the toxicity and hostility, of course.

You may simply find that it’s a mater of fine-tuning your experience here, although the platform itself is still improving. I remember Reddit in its early days, and it, too, took time to improve.

i came here to ask this. really-- what does it take to fire this a-hole?

wizardry!

"Demand for COVID-19 Vaccines Surge Amongst Malaria Outbreak"

"Zero Malaria Cases Reported After Desantis Bans Malaria Testing"

he's always been a class act

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I was... so upset when I read that. just dismayed, really. I can assure you, unequivocally, that the app will continue being developed as a Lemmy app accessible to everyone, just as David first envisioned.