You all deserve this and worse. No reason to complain about it. This is what everybody wanted.

So structurally I don't have an answer other than I know that what reddit became is a cancer. Structurally lemmy should find ways to counter commercialization

. One way is to avoid boxes. Communities should be more random and chaotic.

I also would push that mods should take a back seat and give back control to communities to upvote and downvotes content they do not want to see.

Recreate what was fun about the internet before the facebook's and Instagram came. It should be pro community but hostile to capitalization.

That's the problem. You don't know. To me it is obvious. But to you everything is fine so why change it. Lemmy shouldn't be a reddit like alternative.

I see this place as one of the last spaces for leftist. If this fails it's kind of over for the left.

But let me ask, are you still on reddit? If you left, what made you leave.

Well this is where you normally would protest until they did their job. Except some one convinced everybody to blow their load with no kings 24 protest-a-thon

This is just an observation and my opinion. My point is that this the past 10 years we've commercialized digital spaces for selling off to marketers and advertisers that it is now ingrained in how we create new spaces. Regardless if it is consciously or unconsciously. Lemmy is still new, but the behavior and rules and actions were recreated here.

The goal is to box everything. Everything in its box. Tightly controlled and and categorized. This way the space is ready to be sold. It sucks the air out of places. It leaves no room to build momentum or originality. But there's very safe.

I came to lemmy thinking it would be a space for old school pre corporate internet users. A place where people wanted to create something that was primarily leftist who wanted to work towards what we once had. Instead it was the opposite of that.

Lemmy seems like a place where people just want to recreate corporate spaces. People here don't want to change anything instead they want to solidify the stuff that already doesn't work. As long as you can sell these communities to advertisers then they're happy as can be.

Stop. It could have been. But it isn't. Your phrasing it as "it was never going to be" is lazy. It could have definitely been better.

Instead lemmy seems to want to be the parts of reddit where everything is highlight moderated. Every topic is put into a tight box that sucks the oxygen out quickly. Something about beans and moths

They should demand to only speak with democrats and or go the other way and say they'll only speak to president Stephen Miller

Let this be a reminder to never turn away from piracy. It needs to constantly be in the background and if any company gets like they always do, then it comes back out. But if we let the knowledge fade away then it's impossible to rebuild it.

Moderators have destroyed the Internet. I would rather have to deal with the idiots online than a moderator.

They need to stop doing this type of thing. Maybe it's time they show up with their own armed security and force their way in. I don't know. Something.

Democrat leaders showing up and getting arrested or sent away is not a good look. It's like instilling learned obedience. They need to actually do something instead of showing up knowing they're going to get punched in the face just so they can highlight how mean the Republicans are. If they are showing up to inspect then they need the legal knowledge and have the power to see it through.

The Republicans backed by legal minds at groups like heritage foundation are leveraging the law. Do these Democrats not have their own legal teams and groups researching how to get things done?

It's leaving me feeling like this is all theater

I just saw another video of Theo Von clearly struggling with his support of Trump. I’ve seen so many others in that same position. On one hand, yeah, it’s easy to call them idiots for not seeing it sooner. But on the other, I get it. You go from being a comedian to suddenly part of this powerful inner circle, and that kind of validation is intoxicating, especially for someone with addiction issues who’s always chasing a high.

What frustrates me is how we, especially on the left, tend to fumble these moments. Instead of recognizing that some of these people might be waking up, we rush to humiliate them. We waste the opportunity to build something better just so we can rub their faces in it and get our own little high.

That’s something that really pisses me off about the left: the way we seize the worst possible opportunities and completely ignore the critical ones. Right now, yeah, some MAGA influencers are doubling down. But others? They're starting to crack. And instead of isolating them even more, maybe we should be thinking about how to help them speak about their shift in perspective.