they aren’t, except perhaps as a counterexample of some dubious sort

people need to be on top of this shit to ban it with extreme prejudice

I spent some of my formative years in public housing. It was definitely a bit more sketchy than the privately owned homes across the street but all in all it was a fantastic way for me to get my feet under me as a student and young adult. That’s exactly what scores of young and also not so young people desperately need right now

public housing doesn’t require tax money. It is often facilitated by it, yes, but don’t act as if the rent is necessarily sponsored by the government just because public housing isn’t designed to extract the maximum amount of money from the renters. There’s plenty to criticize about public housing without resorting to falsehoods

If not for landlords who would you rent from?

public housing is a thing, you know

an outrage!

blacklisting is better though if you like to see things outside of your bubble

Hopefully we’ve not just crossed the activity threshold for people to stick around and shitpost but also for people to figure it’s worth posting some quality stuff here

it will matter though if a significant amount of users / communities is on their instances, if that happens and people then decide to defederate, that means the resulting community will be much smaller. Perhaps even so much smaller that it will eventually become a ghost town. It wouldn’t be the first time something like that happens!

given that we know Meta is not to be trusted at all, it stands to reason to never allow them to grow big enough inside the fediverse that the aforementioned scenario could happen

If Meta creates its own proprietary version of the fediverse, it doesn’t really change a thing

anytime Meta touches anything, they turn it into shit, haven’t you learned that by now?

But if someone else would like to see this content, why not give them such option?

because given half a chance, Meta will crush anything not-Meta

I know people are afraid that doing so will ruin the “secret club” vibe going on here

no that’s trivializing the risk that Meta poses to the fediverse. They won’t just ruin the “secret club” vibe, they’ll destroy the fediverse entirely. They are the existential threat that the fediverse faces right now, if we fail to defend ourselves against it then that’s it, it’s gone, we’ll have to start over again

Using the website as PWA right now, the layout works well for me and there’s no bugs to speak of

be the change you want to see, subscribe to those communities and be active in them