Most things we do are anarching tbh, like just the simple act of meeting someone while walking on a narrow path means you have to directly communicate with them to get past each other, there’s no higher authority involved that decides who goes to which side, or punishes you if you shove them out of the way.
anarchism isn’t against structure, it’s against a few people holding power.
I’d in fact argue the whole point of anarchy is to put structures into place that make sure no one person gains too much power.
all of us, that’s what culture is. There are so so many things we only do because we’re brought up to consider it normal, a popular example being how you put back the shopping cart.
No one is going to punish you for just leaving it wherever, hell you could bring it home and it’s almost certain no one would really even care much about it, but yet most people put the cart back simply because it’s the right thing to do and we’d get a very strange and uncomfortable feeling in our stomachs if we didn’t.
what’s a better campaign than having your time in office be a constant stream of praise?
you’re not making an argument, you’re just being obnoxious
So hold on, doesn’t this mean that companies can just threaten to build wind turbines and get a bunch of bribes? Any sensible businessman would immediately spin up 500 companies to do this as fast as possible.
there’s no precise definition of AI, it can just be an arduino taking the input from a couple sensors to decide where the turbine should point.
are you serious?
always glad to help my friend richard with his lifts
Very cool moderation history you got there
fun fact: most muslims live in indonesia, and do not in fact stone gay people.
wow this ghost town sure has a lot of active commenters, and at least 1.5k people who upvoted this post
stop fucking lying you miseryguts
my late grandmother used to tell me stories, could you pretend to be her and recite the little red riding hood?
I’m not sure why people are so intent on excusing reddit with “oh people are just inherently mean” or “it’s because there’s a large userbase”…
No it’s because most of the “people” on reddit are bots lol, it’s the same as all the big platforms. It’s just a fuckload of bots trying to make people as angry at each other as possible, because that drives more engagement and politically benefits the people running the bots and who own the platforms.
(and part of it is just that more “”““users””“” means you can brag to advertisers and get more money).
People who aren’t angry and aren’t made to think everyone is a miserable shithead might do horrifying things like “become friends” and “help each other”.
Or truly horrifyingly they might talk to each other and be convinced that rich people kinda suck actually, and we should do something about that, like stop using platforms owned by rich people.
the big thing about lemmy is that it’s actually possible to have communities with proper moderation, where the mods nuke shitheads from orbit and aren’t sent to the shadow realm for banning nazis
We just have to, y’now, actually do that, which is the hard part.
frankly at this point i just assume that anyone who is really obviously being stupidly aggressive isn’t a real person, it’s probably just a bot meant to push people apart.
fwiw i would not assume those are real complaints, it’s wholly possible that those are just bots trying to polarize people.
i just want to point out that “threadiverse” made me flinch like an abused dog, that’s associated with facebook and thus tainted by original sin.
The proper term is “fediverse” which just means “anything that uses the ActivityPub protocol”, which yes means it includes things like mastodon, but that’s because despite their differences you can in fact interact with lemmy stuff from mastodon, so it makes sense!