Pretty much this.

I was asked to help mod a new community, and things were going pretty well for a year or so, but then the sub owner and the other mods gradually disappeared until it was just me and another guy left.

Well, turns out they were moderating/owning 30+ subs on average. We both quit that day.

I just can't understand what kind of ego boost they get out of being useless cunts in 30 places. How can such little power be so tantalizing to some people?

freedom fighters vs terrorists
Media really had a field day with these over the last 20 years.

Bold of you to assume they even went to business school.
All the big wigs I've met were "self-made millionaires" -meaning assholes that used, manipulated and fucked over enough people to reach their current positions.

Also, tax evasion.

It's infuriatingly stupid. It makes me read the same sentence 2-3 times before I understand what they're trying to say.

We have a well established and clear distinction between 'streaming service' and 'streamer', why fuck with it?

What's more, it's double stupid because now both 'streamer' and 'streaming service' means "a company" AND we don't have a word for individuals streaming on the web.

Can you imagine the sheer weight of cognitive dissonance they would experience if it their mind wasn't slathered with industrial-grade denial?

The article actually provides it in feedom units.

That is an area nearly as large as Argentina or the combined areas of Texas, California, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado.

*gestures vaguely at everything*

The good news is that we are on the verge of building something that we own on Lemmy, where corporations won’t be able to fuck with us as much.

Yeah, about that...
Let's see what happens when Meta decides to federate Threads with the rest of us.

I really hope you're right because I love this place right now. It's much smaller than other platforms but there's enough content for hours of browsing and the community is leagues above the rest of the internet in terms of quality of discourse.

Outside of the fedi, I don't remember the last time I saw opposing views coexist in the same thread without one being brigaded.

It's really messed up how the world can be reduced to binary opinions.

By definition, liberals think more freely and are willing to entertain new ideas. With that of course comes that some of those ideas turn out to be counter productive or straight up bad. Ideally, this is when real liberals acknowledge this and shift to something else.

Conservatives on the other hand see this as a sign of weakness and misguidedness, so they take a stance rooted in what they "know" to be true. When that knowledge turns out to be false, they can't simply pivot because that would make them the same as liberals.

Not to mention, sticking to your guns is so much easier than admitting you were wrong and starting from zero again.

I agree that the “it’s too late to do anything” mentality is just as bad as doing nothing, but at the same time I recognize that the scientific consensus is more and more leaning towards "it really is too late to do anything" in the short term at least.

Certain gears have been set in motion that we truly cannot stop, but there are also other things that we can prevent if we act now.

I just don't know where the line between the two lies.

The next 50 years or so are set in stone, of that I'm certain.
But after that, who knows whether the changes we make today will affect the climate in a meaningful way. One can only hope.

The sad part is, no matter how bad things will get, the same people will keep denying climate change. Even as their shoes melt into the pavement.

Looking at the past, I don't have any hope for meaningful change.
Just last year or so we've had people on their literal death beads denying corona is real.

Interesting, I've never seen that. The opposite happens quite often, though; the question is the same as mine and there's 5 other people in the comments also not finding an answer.

Maybe I'm just Googling for too many obscure missing .dll files and such.