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This is so true, this was the peak!

I tell my 4 year old this all the time.

Sounds like you desire Absolute Superman.

This about face is very synchronized. I wonder what is going on behind the scenes.

Do they even run candidates outside presidential elections?

Man made horrors within my comprehension.

This is incredible.

Yeah, the only big issue with replacing Comms with Tags is that Communities can be extremely tailored to a very specific niche thanks to the silo effect and having attached mods. This only works when the network effect is powerful, like with Reddit, where you have millions of users, though. I don’t see Tags really allowing for that level of community building ultimately.

Simply adding Tags (global tags and local community tags) would go a long way in condensing the number of communities, which raises the level of engagement of communities.

What makes this difficult is a few things in my experience.

1. Comms are silos with no real intersectionality. Cross posting doesn’t really do the trick because it creates a whole new post with a new score.
2. Lemmy lacks a tagging system to allow for posts to be delineated within a comm.
3. 1 + 2 incentivizes more comms to offer delineation, at the expense of subscriber fatigue. Too many comms to brows and pick from, leading to low traction in most comms outside of large broad stroke comms like News.
4. You cannot move a post from one comm to another.

Ideally, you would create as few comms as needed covering the broadest strokes possible, and delineate them with tags, creating a hierarchy of comms and tags.

News could embody all types of content, for example.

News > Sports
News > Politics
News > USA > Politics

Writing > Fake News
Writing > World Building

Gaming > Table Top
Gaming > Video Game

Theory > Marxism
Theory > Anarchism 

Praxis > Unions
Praxis > Mutual Aid
Praxis > Direct Action

General > Slop
General > Gossip

Posts should be allowed to have any number of tags, and honestly, I don’t see why there should be much difference between a tag and a comm… There should be tags that are site wide, like NSFW, which would be a tag that is configured to blur its contents, or marked as a “content warning” tag.

Despite decades of evidence that fluoride prevents cavities, the agency said the best way to keep kids’ teeth strong is to stop eating so much sugar.

Fuck off.

Uhg I just learned what a “Passport Bro” is the other day. Its sex tourism. They call it a “movement”. It’s gross.

I have had conversations within my friends group where more then one person says or agrees with this statement “If there is a new global conflict I’ll be rooting for America, because America has been good to me.”

It’s not only an acknowledgment that their position in life is afforded to them by the work of the empire but also them projecting the notion that “our adversaries are so much worse.”

It’s clear that they understand that American imperialism is bad and it’s the only way they maintain their material conditions. To stand against the empire is to attack ones own well being. That’s how they see it.

When the only take on Gaza, from one of them, is “let them fight” it’s because the alternative, Palestinian liberation, comes with it further delegitimation of the America Empire, weakening it’s global position, and thus impacting their material conditions.

It’s not lost on any of them and the levels of apathy are generally high. Accusations of brainwashing are not uncommon. Their willingness perform self critique is nonexistent.

Obviously this is anecdotal but I can’t help but see this display being performed within my own circles.