It’s not really lacking anything important though.

Piefed’s features are why its community is how it is - an echo chamber that encourages dogpiling, unfair blocks, and bans.

Those are in no way the same thing. Lemmy having community descriptions that individual mods and admins can lie in is not the same as Piefed having automated “hey everyone, block and ban these users preemptively!” messages or banning everything that’s not on one side of politics.

Again so it hopefully gets through this time - Lemmy, the software, has zero ideological biases or authoritarian behaviour built in. Piefed does. You might be a far more rational and unbiased person than the Lemmy devs, but your software isn’t.

The software is open and has zero political or ideological leaning is what that person and I mean.

Yours, on the other hand, is not, and does. I’m sure I’m tagged by default on Piefed already as “low quality” or something of the sort, purely because people downvote me because I’m not in the echo chamber of allowed opinions. Over the last few days I’ve had like 300 downvotes to about 15 upvotes just on about 3 comments in the one topic, where my comments are 100% factually, undeniably, demonstrably, correct - but people don’t like it because they think it’s “pro Apple”, and the echo chamber says they have to hate Apple.

That would make Piefed put a giant target on my head, wouldn’t it? Basically telling everyone “block this guy and ban him from your communities”. Lemmy doesn’t do that.

You also have a curated-by-you list of banned sources, which includes basically everything anyone left of centre would call “right wing”, which in reality is anything that isn’t left wing biased. Lemmy doesn’t.

Yet even with lemmys people being like that, their software is free from bias and authoritarian-style features that are made to stifle free speech and to encourage an ideological echo chamber, unlike Piefed.

Piefed is ideologically driven by the creator, and encourages pre-emptive banning and blocking users who don’t just participate in echo chamber behaviour.

Lemmys devs might be ideologically captured too, but their software isn’t, so it’s the better option.

It did nothing of the sort for the universal income thing. In every country where they started printing money to hand out, inflation skyrocketed and everyone is still feeling those effects today, and likely will forever. Debt for those countries absolutely exploded.

I want a true universal income trial, long term, where all of the necessary tax changes are made as well. Covid didn’t do that. If anything Covid made people think a universal income will never work.

Throwing money around has never been a problem for the government. Doing it properly without negative consequences is the thing they never seem to be able to understand.

Many bartenders have degrees, usually useless ones like AOCs.

If you fully agree with her on any of those then yeh it probably is.

Where is your average bartender a dumb useless-degree-having woman who thinks she’s super intelligent? Try any bar around a university in any city.

She’s not asking questions to learn though, she’s asking questions to try and catch people doing the wrong thing in these senate hearing sessions or whatever they’re called. She then frequently gets made to look like an idiot because she’s trying to ask “gotcha” questions without realising that her questions make no sense and/or are based on her incorrect understanding.

https://snugfam.com/top-25-aoc-dumbest-quotes-that-went-viral-and-sparked-endless-debates/

This was literally the first result for “AOC dumb quotes”. There are hundreds of other results.

She has repeatedly shown she is not an intelligent person. Most politicians aren’t. She was chosen by a Democrat PAC as a candidate to be pushed, she wasn’t an up and coming politician who got there on the back of her hard work and intelligence.

If you think everyone that has degrees is intelligent you clearly haven’t spent much time with many people who have degrees.

Not to mention that degrees in international relations and economics are fluff degrees. May as well be an arts degree.

I bet the Republican politicians you think are idiots have degrees.

Common sense? She’s as intelligent as your average bartender, which is what she was when she was picked by the DNC to be pushed up the flagpole.

She’s as dumb as a doornail. She routinely makes a fool of herself when she’s asking people questions, showing she doesn’t have the faintest clue what she’s talking about.

Political violence, basically. Violence done in the name of politics.

Clearly and obviously talking about biological parents and kids.

And sms limits are from the old days. I have no idea where would have sms limits, unless it’s a third world/developing country.

Where in the world even has plans like that anymore? You must be in the third world?

I absolutely do. You obviously have done some terrible things while drunk so you cope by shirking ownership

Not being able to remember what you did doesn’t mean that you lost control of your actions. When you “blackout” you don’t enter a like blackout state where you lose control from then on - you just don’t remember periods of time.

You decided to do everything you do while you were drunk. You will have less inhibitions and more impulsive, but you still make the decision and are responsible for it.