Your arrogance is beyond words, personally attacking the devs that created and tirelessly maintain the very platform you're using to write this garbage comment.
Go use reddit, it will align with your worldview much better since it is run by corporations that sell your data for profit, making use of their god given right to "personal freedom" as defined by the CIA, and don't allow anything left of Mussolini on their platform.
It's so dystopian that I grew up knowing most of the famous brand logos but didn't know where to place most countries on the map until I was old enough to care
First off, political "extremism" is a very flexible term. For some, it's extremism to support a system that leaves people dying of hunger and treatable diseases while a tiny class becomes rich beyond belief and at the same time funding wars and bombings all over the globe for profits. For others, extremism is wanting to materially overturn the former, and not just on words or the imaginary marketplace of ideas.
You can block the political communities if that's not your thing, but creating a nice capitalist neoliberal bubble that never challenges any world perceptions is not the goal of most instances here, unlike Reddit.
The sign up process is a small extra difficulty, but it's also part of the reason why you're not interacting with bot farms instead of people like you do on any big platform.
Not before revolution. As long as capitalists are still in charge, renewable energy is still used as a commodity and sold to us proles as expensive as before the transition, and with added cost even for the "transition costs", I say this from experience where I live.
But of course, after revolution renewable energy is the only way to go, not only to save the planet and ourselves, but also because it eliminates a massive need of labor and resources that would be required to sustain an oil / mineral powered economy.
today I was tasked with breaking rocks with a pickaxe with my feet chained, but you can be damn sure I looked professional and really upstanding while doing it, that's gonna show em
but instead you’re coming to Lemmy to the echo chamber of hate on proton which won’t help
You call it an echo chamber, others call it having some standards on how much your software should be taking advantage of you instead of the other way around.
The American people as a whole are not the ones to blame for their capitalist dictators doing imperialism. You can and absolutely should shame all of the individual fascists that support even a little of what's going on, Republican or not, but there are so many people who are against this and are also victims within this capital of global imperialism, either by being driven to poverty despite there being enough resources for everyone to thrive, either by literally being hunted in the streets by state goons.
You should instead be giving inspiration to the American people so that they unite, organize and resist, to liberate both themselves and also the rest of the world from their own rulers.
I agree that federation is the central feature of Lemmy, besides it being libre software, however the term "federation" is something that already requires a newcomer to open up a search engine at best or get scared by the unknown and leave at worst.
It should exist, but in very layman's terms, something like:
"A social platform for independent online communities of all topics, owned by people and not corporations, all in one place"
Mastodon also does a pretty good job on their main page, it's easily understandable by anyone, and scrolling down gives you a much better picture of what it really does if you are interested enough to learn.
In the instance list, the link to https://lemmyverse.net/communities seems broken right now, it only works if you remove the /communities path and then navigate to communities from the UI itself (it seems to be their own bug, it also happens if you go to the communities tab and refresh the page). Maybe the link could change to point to https://lemmyverse.net/ instead.
I believe something as simple as moderated user registration along with their automated filtering goes a long way to combat this.
The automated filtering can help remove the spam by recognizing forms filled with random bullshit, or detect input that has been copy pasted multiple times from other registrations, and a human moderator can then have a more manageable amount of registrations to go through and manually accept.
This as well as the email confirmation after the acceptance should already be a big obstacle for massive bot farms. It's still very much possible for all those agencies that do it professionally and massively with state funding, but at least it would be much more time consuming and expensive for them to do so.
As great as the Fediverse and Lemmy in particular are, I'd honestly prefer if this place kept being niche. Not that I don't want more people to enjoy online freedom away from corporate owned social media, but I fear that a surge of people migrating to Lemmy would cause the capitalists to turn their gaze over here and find ways to attack it or hijack it. The Fediverse does have its own defenses against these practices, it being completely open source and decentralized being the most important one, but it still wouldn't be a good thing to have their attention and consent manufacturing bot farms etc. entering here for example
Same, and even if I wanted to install a dishwasher for my rented place, there's no water supply to connect it to so it would take some very serious work to be done
Despite the US being the most propagandized people in the history of humanity, I think the cracks are beginning to show regarding any status quo politics for everyone to see. People have lost trust in the established parties both "left" and right, having been betrayed by them every single time, and now the situation seems to be getting so serious it can't be ignored.
Seeing Mamdani be elected and celebrated by the people while at the same time the paid media from both parties have been smearing him and sounding alarm bells of a "scary communist danger", shows that the propaganda is no longer working as before. This is not to say that Mamdani will definitely stay true to socialism, personally I believe he can't even if he wanted to, but it does give the impression that the people are finally realizing that they have common class interests, and they can only win by fighting against capitalists and not bending to their whim every time and hoping to get a big piece of their crumbs.