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Cake day: April 17th, 2019

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  • The core function of lemmy, is following communities, either built around a topic, region, or anything else.

    The core function of mastodon, is following people.

    The only way to make microblogging tolerable, IMO is to follow “topic-based” accounts. I might be interested in what a person thinks about a topic, but I’m not interested in what food they ate that day.

    There’s also the issue of overwhelming feeds: not everyone can be a celebrity, and there’s a limit to the number of people we can hold in our heads and follow, before our entire day is wrecked. I can’t use most microblogging because its just too overwhelming, and I don’t care about celebrities outside of a few writers or academics.





  • The US has the highest prison population in the world, both per capita and by total numbers, along with a draconian legal system that locks people up for decades for minor crimes. They also literally do have immigrant prison camps currently holding ~30k people, many of whom have committed no crimes except for “not having papers”.

    The US absolutely does dissappear many people.