Real talk - lemmy’s mod tools blow, and the only way to combat this shit is if more people volunteer to help keep an eye on the report inbox.

So if you see a community that is struggling to address reports in a timely way, they’ll likely appreciate anyone that offers to help mod.

Maybe I’m missing something, but I thought you could only upvote / downvote posts. Comments were just a thread, and whoever commented first was at the top.

Hence why a lot of our early shitposting was just commenting “first” as soon as an interesting post when live.

I should’ve clarified.

It had post voting, but no comment voting.

My migration was primarily driven by threading, voting, and ads.

1. forums (community topics) >
2. slashdot (community topics + threads) >
3. digg / reddit (community topics + threads + comment voting) >
4. Lemmy (community topics + threads + comment voting - ads)

Obama was right. Once people lived with the ACA, they wouldn’t want to go back. The GOP knows that now, so now they’re going to pretend that they fixed it.

And that’s a symptom of media and social media echo chambers.

Our policy was that no one with a marijuana conviction for mere possession could do any (jail time) at all,” said Paul Henderson, who led narcotics prosecutions for several years under Harris. Defendants arrested for the lowest-level possession would typically be referred to drug treatment programs instead of being charged, and weightier charges for marijuana sales would routinely be pleaded down to less serious ones, he said.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/09/11/kamala-harris-prosecuting-marijuana-cases/

John Oliver definitely had a point when he said hospice care is super long in the US. Carter has been is hospice for nearly 2 years.

As someone who works in data privacy, I don’t think the DS crazy ever died down. It’s bigger and more complex than ever. People just got tired of saying “big data” at Silicon Valley bars.

Trump flying in with his gold plane and a roll of Bounty.