You will find that very often the scams, advice, self-help, doctrine, etc that draw these populations have one thing in common: if whatever it is doesn’t work, it is because you are doing it wrong, not because the guidance is bad. That’s why conservatives will defend the tax rates of people who have 5 orders of magnitude more wealth than they do - they believe that it is their own fault they aren’t rich, and that anyone can become rich if they just try hard enough. It is why religious conservatives will still attack birth control in the face of their own kids having unwanted pregnancies. It is why natural medicine people will defend their practices even after it sends them to the hospital. They are more willing to believe that they themselves are at fault than the principles they believe in.

The Protestant Work Ethic equated Christian values with material success.

I think having a 300 year life span would tend to select for darker skin and possibly other traits that would better survive 300 years of exposure - enough to distinguish it from any existing ethnicity.

It is fairly common among Catholics. I’ve known some fairly progressive Catholics who are Republicans because abortion. Now, that isn’t to say that a good number haven’t bought into the divisive rhetoric and gone full maga, but that’s not where they started.

It is a wedge issue that has locked a portion of the population who are single issue voters into being Republicans despite literally all their other beliefs. That is basically what all the non-financial planks of the Republican platform have in common.

Call me when you get past the “first step” where Reddit controlled NFTs somehow make communities independent from Reddit.

People of the United States. Some take exception to calling them Americans when the entire continent is named “North America”

Someone mentioned there is a bug in the Hot algorithm that - if I remember correctly- judges hot based on the average upvotes for the community, so the first post of any new community is always hot.

This is a pet peeve of mine as well.

Long ago I noticed that on Star Trek, nobody wanted to tell the captain what was going on over the comms, they wanted the captain to stop what they were doing and go to a different part of the ship / station. I always eyerolled at the absurdity of the staff having so little respect for the captain’s time.

Then it started happening to me. I’m not a captain, my time isn’t that important, but have a little respect for what I’m currently engaged in? maybe?

Lemmy won, because Lemmy users numbered in the hundreds before the fiasco. The software is now growing by leaps and bounds.

Reddit may have won the battle, but not the war, and certainly not without casualties.

Lemmy died. Nothing to see here.

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I used to use the chart from AdFontes - I preferred its granularity, but they have gone to a login wall. I don’t need more accounts and tracking.

I almost listed CBC, but most USians would consider CBC to have a liberal bias. Then again, many USians think math has a liberal bias.

Do you want information or rage bait?

For information, go to AP and Reuters. Maybe the BBC. That’s what’s left. Everything else is “entertainment “.

I think what you are seeing is a small number of users making a large number of posts to certain communities in a short time. Lemmy isn’t large enough to have an organic flow of content from different people, given that most users are lurkers.

Are you logged in to the instance that hosts the sub? There is a known bug that some stuff doesn’t work for remote mods.

Yes, but google is paying for the newsfeed. You don’t have to pay to access the fediverse.

My recollection is that access to Usenet requires a paid feed. Anyone can spin up a Lemmy server if they are willing to deal with the administrative hassle.

They can and do. Every sub has a unique name.

The complaint is that there isn’t a single entity who gets to decide which sub is the authoritative sub for a topic. Which is a feature, not a bug.

Communities will coalesce around certain subs that work, and they will rise up over the alternatives. We’re just in ego-land-grab mode right now.