Isn't the vast majority donations from regular folks contrary to (most) Republicans? I know Trump gets money left and right but I don't think it's technically going to the party/his campaign...

I shouldn't need a third party to solve that AND it doesn't solve the issue that indexing is done by instance meaning that we can't search by adding "Lemmy" to our search like we do with Reddit...

Again, that's registrations for a population that doesn't turn out, let's wait and see, but if you look at the % of support for Israel called on age and the % of voters by age, it's clear that there's a shit ton more Israel supporters that are reliable voters.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/20/politics/polling-democrats-divided-israel-palestine/index.html

69% disapproval amongst those under 35 that don't turn out to vote vs 77% approval amongst those over 65 that do turn out to vote. And again, no matter how much you cater to them and how convenient you make it to vote, people under 35 just don't bother voting!

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/voter-turnout-rate-by-age-usa

https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=res&dir=rec/eval/pes2021/evt&document=p5&lang=e

Also the 100 Republicans vs 42k Palestinians is a false equivalency, those Palestinians don't have voting right in the USA.

Eh... They actually do materialize though...

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/20/nx-s1-5081167/republicans-for-harris-coalitions-have-launched-in-several-swing-states

And they're reliable voters and there's a lot of center right Democrats to lose that are reliable voters and the left has three choices anyway, not voting and letting Republicans win, voting Republican, voting Democrats.

You might not like it, that's the system the US is stuck with.

Again, I'm not in the USA, I have no say in the matter, I just understand political strategy which seems like an issue with most left wing electors (because it goes against left with ideology and principles).

Hosts could choose to host NSFW content or not, right now they have the exact same issue anyway so the current situation is no better...

Because, again, they have more votes to gain there than on the left where it's mostly younger people that won't turn out to vote either way.

They registered, they have yet to vote.

You're allowed to look at examples from outside the US to form an opinion you know?

That's why you make the backend available to all to develop a front end, but there's a default option just called Lemmy that helps solve the indexing and getting people started issue. If the Lemmy default option becomes shit the data is still available and something else becomes the default option.

A bit like Jerboa is the official app, but everyone can develop an alternative... Get rid of the instances and make all content available no matter where you sign up from and let the users curate their feed, you get rid of the admins completely, only moderators continue to exist.

Thing is, even in places where there are parties that cater to the younger electors, they don't come out to vote. Where I live 18-35 are under 50% with 65+ close to 80%, that's with guaranteed 4h off work to vote and a left wing party that truly is left wing with younger candidates and other options all over the spectrum.

Not all places only have two options but even with more choices young people don't care about elections.

In the US Republican and Democrat (with a capital letter) aren't used to talk about political leanings, it's ok to call the Democrats by their name while also keeping in mind that they're mostly conservatives by international standards, it makes it much easier to understand what you're talking about than "Republican-lites".

At least Sanders and the likes don't care much for the establishment so they do come out and say things that go against what the Democrats platform is. They're much more like the Cheney (Dick and Liz) that announced they wouldn't vote for Trump than they are like Haley that doesn't have the guts to actually say she lost to a sociopath.

Even if it's indexed, there's no single website to search for so even if I add "Lemmy" to help, it won't look for content where Lemmy isn't mentioned.

The mistake that was made was making the decentralization something that affects the front end. If the backend was decentralized and the front end was a single default website with people being able to create alternatives (but everyone being guaranteed access to all the content), that wouldn't be an issue. We could tell new users "Sign up on Lemmy.com and if you decide you don't like the UI just choose an alternative and use the same credentials to sign in." No one would know you're using a different UI, all content would be searchable by adding site:lemmy.com to your query.

Exactly and for the same reason Lemmy won't become as big as it has the potential to become. "Join Lemmy!" "How?" "Go to one of hundreds of websites and join and you'll have access to the Lemmy content the admin decided you could have access to... Oh and people logging in from those other sites might not have access to the content on your site so you might not be able to interact with a big chunk of users unless it's on a website that is connected to both your site and the site your site isn't connected to so choose the site you create your account on wisely! Makes sense?"

Also, even if you find results through searching, it sucks that it probably brings you to an instance that isn't yours so you have to figure out a way to open the link from your own instance in order to post in the discussion... That is, if you actually can from the instance you're signing in from!