Lol the way the article talks about this particular verse - "In a literal sense this verse seems to describe surviving a gunshot to the head..."

This dude knew all the way back in 2020

Humanity always seems to learn the wrong lessons from historical events, doesn't it? Hurt people hurt people, I guess...

It wasn't always, and it's not explicitly a trans sub, but yeah it's definitely been very trans-oriented since well before we migrated here from reddit

I use Kagi too - they have a feature I haven't seen before where you can basically optimize your own SEO. You can uprank or downrank any given website to varying degrees based on how much of that site you want to see in your future search results (I use this a lot for game wikis that have since migrated off of Fandom etc, but the stale Fandom page always shows up first in google search).

They're also working on a feature to warn you which articles are paywalled directly from the search result, which I will use the hell out of.

They also have something they call Lenses, which are essentially search profiles that emphasize certain types of results (programming lens upranks stackoverflow, github, and API docs for instance).

All in all I've been extremely pleased with the quality of the product and the directions they're exploring in. And being able to easily chat up the devs in discord doesn't hurt either.

I don't understand this comment. What harm has nihilism caused that is worth protesting?

The joke is literally just "everyone hates dentist appointments, therefore a dentist could use it as punishment for his son". I really don't think the overtones were meant to go deeper than that.

This one's interesting, because it hails from a time when there was more of a cultural underpinning to the term - companies had a cultural obligation to at least keep up a facade of taking care of their customers, and calling customers guests was explicitly meant to convey a sense of safety and comfort.

It has the exact opposite effect now, because the customer's interests are often in direct opposition to those of the company. The company thinks it owns you, and no longer cares what you think about it.

This internet version of centrism that everyone hates on is bizarre to me, for the reasons you say - the "only commit half a genocide" type of centrism. Are there people who really strike a middle ground on every issue on principle?

I always understood centrism as "I hold enough opinions from both parties that I don't align with either one", which honestly fits me pretty well. I still have strong opinions on individual issues though...

I really hope that the existing Lemmy instances can handle all the new users

I think this could be a pretty good system, but it would require a far more robust moderation framework than we have right now, as well as a lot of thought. I'm just brainstorming here, but I think at a minimum we would need:

• An elegant appeal system for when bad calls are made, maybe even run the appeals back through the same moderation loop as regular reports (with a rate limit to prevent abuse)
• A way to (democratically?) remove people with a history of opinionated or incorrect moderation decisions from the system
• A better modlog, allowing complete transparency rather than "mod banned this user"
• A distribution engine for moderation that does not allow users to pick and choose what they moderate, to avoid the issue pointed out by @[email protected]
• A way to prevent the same few terminally-online user(s) from moderating constantly, to the point that the whole instance slowly warps to their preferences
• Perhaps a method of giving accounts with strong reputations more weight in mod decisions? This one's definitely arguable, but I can imagine a future where people create bots or alts to auto-approve their rule-breaking posts

And thus the cycle begins anew.