balderdash9

I don't understand. If a mod from memes.world bans me from a meme community, I can still comment on memes.world from another instance? Or are you saying just go to another community on another instance that has the same kind of content? Because if it's the latter then Lemmy's userbase number problem comes into play. Even popular subjects only have like one or two big communities.

Kinda feels like the site isn't developing much at all tbh. I know mods have been asking for more tools for a while now

better mods?

Fair enough

This is a reach. Borderline cringe.

Does anyone have this meme template?

This is a completely disingenuous response that I keep hearing. Yes, it being an election year intensifies the problem. But Lemmy's intolerance to criticism of anything left-wing pre-dates 2024. Go back a year ago and look at the posts on [email protected] . Same shit different day.

The fact that everyone is paying attention to politics right now actually makes it a great time to call the democrats on their shit in the hopes that they will at least promise to make more foundational changes. But that's not going to happen: we continue to settle for the status quo.

I've gotten back into recreational reading. Started by reading very easy material at a designated time (young adult literature and manga before dinner). Also got into the book review side of YouTube for inspiration of what to read next. The former practice built up the habit and the latter gave motivation to read some of the great works out there. Just finished War and Peace and I'm now going tearing through my science fiction backlog.

Well said. It's a problem that we should all be able to at least recognize, but I think people are too focused on their team winning. Trump madness intensified the problem, but this has been developing for quite some time now.

This is a great comment and I agree with everything you said. At the risk of sounding contradictory, let me state that I'm not arguing against voting for democrats. Sure, my hopes for the democratic party continues to dwindle as I get older, but the cost of an afternoon to cast a ballot isn't much to ask for. And (I feel like I have to say this on Lemmy) the Republican party is a non-starter. So we both agree on those points.

My issue is with the obvious bias in political posts or political memes (see: literally all of [email protected]). Lemmy has decided on a simple formula: pro-democrat post=upvote, anti-republican post=upvote, everything else=downvote. Doesn't matter if the article linked is any good or if the meme is funny. This community is completely unable to acknowledge the flaws of the democratic party because that hurts "our team" and somehow makes you a republican.