You’re not going to hurt my feelings by using words improperly lol

We’re talking about astroturfing, so yes it is quite literally the difference.

You’re not guaranteed a place where your opinions are the only ones expressed, ever in life.

TikTok is significantly larger and more worth it then lemmy

I do in fact disagree with you, yes. I am not, however, paid for it

Assuming it is picked up and dropped, the fediverse is completely unchanged. That’s my point.

User adoption here is also “basically zero.”

Lemmy is a rounding error in population versus larger sites. It’s a walled garden.

You cannot weaken the fediverse more than the near-total lack of adoption that already exists.

Tell that to the astroturfers simping for FB/Threads…

No one is astroturfing lemmy. People who disagree with you are not paid actors. They just disagree with you.

Right. The really early oughts, when trolling was still a real thing, were so radically different that it’s hard to explain to people these days

Hell way back in the day, 4chan was one of my go-to websites, before the joking and trolling on /b/ really wasn’t joking and trolling any more.

It’s pretty standard 4chan-NEET fare, for anyone who is wondering. Racism, homophobia, xenophobia, trad wives, and quasi-pro-nazi shit.

Not worth your time to check out. Small community of sad nerds.

IDDQD is a cheat for the original Doom, as a random fun-fact. God mode, iirc.

I’ve seen fewer and fewer commies and more people making fun of commies, so it seems like it’s headed the right direction

This has nothing to do with price ceilings on food being a universally bad decision.

for example through strategic price controls on energy, food, and other key inputs

I don’t know why anyone ever takes Jacobin seriously at this point.

The solution to rising food costs is not, in fact, to exacerbate the problem by giving producers a strong incentive to not produce food.

Capital I and lowercase l look alike.

It’s a play on that joke.

I’ve already been called a bot, twice, for what I thought were non-controversial, if unpopular, opinions.

I’d prefer not to be on the receiving end of a witch hunt, which I’m afraid a dedicated community may trend toward.

All commies are either authoritarians or are living in a fantasy world

Yeah that must be it.

If China wants to see how much of my TikTok is split between chubby goth girls and Taylor swift, they are more than welcome to that. If they want to know I mostly browse TikTok on my toilet, in the evening, they are more than welcome to that too.

Not exactly a national security issue.

I don’t see how data collection is a privacy and not secrecy issue by his definition.