Don’t forget: they also banned /r/cth so that it would look less partisan when they banned /r/TheDonald.

I mean, I will think it’s funny when Berhaw collapses due to a struggle session leading to a circular firing squad. I’ll even laugh. But I don’t have the time or energy to contribute to it.

Or it means this random guy spent way too much time on Reddit.

Yep, if people were reading this through hexbear, they wouldn’t even be able to down vote you. Now they just have to do it through their startrek.website accounts.

Hexbear is one of the oldest Lemmy instances after Lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml. It was created back when Lemmy didn’t even have federation, so it makes zero sense to say it was set up to spread propaganda; there was nowhere for it to spread.

This is the best bit I’ve seen today.

It’s the Rumsfeld doctrine.

I actually mostly agree with you, especially in the context of Mastodon. Medium sized instances blocking other medium sized instances make the fediverse a more diverse place and make what server you’re on a meaningful choice. But this is more like mastodon.social blocking kolektiva.social in terms of dynamics. The instance sizes make it not as healthy.

Hey, landlords and billionaires are a protected class!

Nah, NATO and Russia can both be bad. Of course, I remember back when liberals used to criticize Dubya for “with us or against us”.

M-x hanoi

If you want to be free to post bigotry as long as you use polite-sounding language and write long posts, Reddit and HN will be glad to have you.

It’s not alt accounts; you just wandered into the wrong bar to go picking fights with communists and trans people.

I totally realize most people are going to disagree with me here but I feel compelled to say that closing the sub for a joke wasn’t a very kind thing to do. We have seen TONS of posts from vulnerable populations talking about how the sub is a source of support and humor in a dark time. Irony and dirtbagism aside, taking away that support without warning was not okay.

You can say I’m being silly, or humorless or reactionary. Whatever. I love the sub and I love this community. But sometimes I come home after dealing with ableism and our nightmare reality all day, and this sub is one of many things that make me feel better. It wasn’t a good feeling to find the sub closed for the sake of irony. Maybe that’s laughable or pathetic. But for me, it’s true.