Does this look like group?

You would apologize for using Reddit, as an exercise in attempting an apology. Just to see if you can even do that. Everyone knows Reddit is not your fault. That’s not the point.

As an exercise.

I think you mean Sid Meier’s Railroad Tycoon. ;-)

Confusing headline. Nestlé is still called “Nestlé”. They sold the plant in 2021, I guess that is what is meant by “formerly Nestlé”.

I know the rhetorical point you are making, but prisons are not free housing. In Ontario, they are terrifyingly outdated, under regulated, unsupervised hellholes.

There’s more than just that. There is hatred of the poor, which exists in every class. A phenomenon we’re all very familiar with but which does not even have a name. It’s always politically advantageous to attack the poor, and it rarely wins elections to attack poverty.

So that’s “no, not really.” At least, that’s my understanding, also.

…Do we?

Just perfectly on-brand.

Solutions don’t get people elected; problems do. Manufacture problems and blame your opponents for them.

You should. You’d like it.

I think there’s an “R” in it.

You used the word pride several times. We should be teaching shame. What we did was shameful, but necessary. Yes, all those examples you give are things I consider glorification. We could show respect and gratitude without glorification. And especially without specifically targeting children with these ideas and not allowing for important counterpoints. That’s propaganda. It sounds as though you are saying, “There’s glorification, but for reasons I agree with, so it’s okay.”

I agree with everything you just said (with some assumptions). What you did not say that was necessary for your comment to be relevant, and isn’t true is: “Glorification of war never happens at Remembrance Day ceremonies in Canada.” It absolutely does.

There are at least three viable commercial microblogging sites right now. So you already have all these problems, without even considering the Fediverse. The Fediverse is the SOLUTION to these problems, not the cause.

Hint: https://mastodon.social/

You have to pick a microblogging service. What’s the difference? Truth Social is just a mastodon instance, but it’s commercial and it has marketing. That’s all that’s “missing” from any other fediverse instance, and thank fucking god.

It’s the raison d’etre. Saying “don’t federate” is like saying “don’t put images and rich hyperlinking on the WWW, just make it like Gopher.” If you don’t want to federate, don’t. But saying that it was a bad move for ActivityPub is just nonsensical.

There are reasons that they have spent thousands or tens of thousands of working hours to make uptake as easy as possible. Those reasons are not in your interests. It is such a small price to pay. It is a necessary feature of ANY distributed service. The irony of complaining about it from your niche little Lemmy instance.

Look at it this way. You still had to pick an instance!! You just picked an instance that cannot talk to any other instances. If you were not so (forgive me but I guess it’s the term we’re using for lack of a better one) stupid, you would have realized that you had just had a meaningful choice taken from you, and made for someone else’s benefit instead of yours.

Throughout our entire global culture, convenience is killing us. I happen to believe free and healthy public forums outside of capitalist exploitation is of vital importance. I think this is a place our governments have abdicated responsibility to their citizens, and the Fediverse is the next best thing to public infrastructure. It’s so worth it when everything you need to know can be expressed in a one page FAQ that fits on your phone’s screen.