It’s valuable for .ml to have duplicates since certain instances and numerous individuals are defederated from them. There are also people who are trying to diversify the fediverse by moving communities off .world. Big, opinionated communities like the different news communities are going to spawn new versions as people disagree with mod decisions or the background culture and feel they can’t have the conversations they want.

Some splitting is inevitable, imo, and healthy, though whether it’s good in this or that particular case is a useful conversation to have. Merging communities is also useful, but only when it makes sense (one is barely moderated or barely used, or people have defederated from an instance one is on because of spam, etc.)

I think it’s a case by case basis type situation.

I did get jumpscared by the Weiner name. He was such a disappointment.

https://en.cibercuba.com/noticias/2025-01-18-u1-e43231-s27061-nid295740-3-habana-cantaran-gala-oficial-inaugural-hispana

is this the actual group?

i know most of ao3’s budget goes to server costs. they get by with volunteer labor and donations, but they mostly host text. i genuinely have no idea what a sustainable model would look like for the fediverse, that doesn’t just treat volunteers like disposable rags we toss when they get inevitable burnout.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/119-2025/h158 scrollin through looking to see how my state’s reps voted

maybe someone will put it up here

mbin has an “abandoned” tab when you search communities. does lemmy have something like that?

I don’t particularly care about the downvoting, but I do prefer bidirectional blocking when possible. Obviously a public profile is still visible, but if someone blocked had to make a new account to interact with you, that’d be nice.

That’s just a preference. Whatever the consensus is, I’ll be fine with it. The most important thing is that it’s clear and known how it works. Someone with a stalker should quickly be able to get how things work to decide if they want to be on here.

I’m not attempting to guilt anyone. I apologize if it seemed that way.

This was mostly notice to myself to avoid these comment sections, so I’d see my comment in my profile and remember not to click certain articles. If someone describes the pain in detail they wish on him and it’s relevant to my uncle’s illness, i will imagine my uncle experiencing that pain. i just will, and i see no need to train myself out of it. there’s no value in that, for me. I like reading news comments, so I’ll often just click an article I see with them without thinking.

It’s none of my business what you post.

Thank you

I have a relative with the same cancer so it’s going to be rough hearing people celebrate the pain he’s in. probably should just avoid comments for a bit.

I found:

For support, please visit our matrix channel at: #fedia.io:melroy.org

I’ve had luck communicating with the kbin.earth admin on matrix

lots of reasons - early indoctrination, for one. but there are also benefits for women like this.

women who buy in are given a lot of power - over other women, minorities, children. they’re also told that they’ll be protected from the harm they see happening to other women (that they and the men in their lives participate in creating). i recall a recovering white supremacist woman who believed the white men around her wanted to protect good white women and girls until she was at an event and witnessed a bunch of guys raping a girl. she understood the lie, then.

so, for the same reason as the men. fear and control. and for public figures like this, money and power. women are as painfully human as men are, so over the years i’ve come to accept that the only reason more women aren’t shitheads politically in the way conservative men are is because the harm from being a shithead hits them in more direct ways, like not being able to get appropriate healthcare.

anyway, that’s my rambling answer.

When I first read this I thought “lie and cheat” was trump giving advice or like his motto or something

Trump won the 2024 election on the promise of “the largest deportation operation in American history”, but few anticipated a crackdown on documented immigrants, including visa and green card holders and citizens who have the status by birth or naturalisation, or tourists.

Plenty of people anticipated this. Who’s easier to deport when you want to get rid of a big number quickly? Someone living under the radar? Or someone who’s right on file and complies with orders to come in? And if there’s no due process, you can say they committed any crime you want to justify it. It’s not like morality or honesty would stop anyone involved in the process.

He doesn’t need to if no one holds him accountable. He should need to, legally, but, in the current environment, he doesn’t.

Forumverse, I guess.

(Though I’m always in favor of silly word combos, there aren’t many good ones. I like Piebin, but how do you get lemmy in there? Plebin? No thanks.)

Ever think about how many children’s lives this guy could save if he was capable of figuring out he was wrong and telling people? A lot of people wouldn’t follow him, but some would.

https://www.specialolympics.org/stories/impact/why-the-r-word-is-the-r-slur

https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/11/what-has-jk-rowling-said-about-transgender-people-trans-views-tweets/