Goodyear is a tire brand.

You have to lick your fingers after handling them like it’s cheeto dust.

I literally just threw up. I feel better now though.

Pigeons were invented by Big Carwash.

The amount of power they have over the direction of Lemmy comes from the percentage of Lemmy users they have not the total user count.

When I was testing different browsers for personal use I was personally put off by the gamified crypto stuff when I just wanted a browser.

Do you not have an issue with the way America uses drone strikes or do you see a secret panel that I don’t see that excused other atrocities?

I think it’s society if architects played minecraft.

You can federated with the boyfriend.

I completely understand why people would want a tighter instance. I started using Reddit significantly less awhile ago because a good chunk of the content and comments were either misinformed, malicious, or both. I’m hopeful that large instances can foster friendlier and healthier cultures, but right now I’m seeing so many people willing to make excuses for assholes and blaming the people that don’t want to deal with those assholes.

The platform allows for people to curate their instances into smaller communities if that is what they are after. They found the platform and for some reason people are mad at them for doing it. Their goal is to create a small safe and welcoming place. To do so they will inherently have a smaller community and that’s okay.

They are curating their instance in a particular way which is the very thing that the fediverse and lemmy allows for. Some people are butthurt that they aren’t included.

The slightly more detailed explanation is that there has been a big increase in bots and trolls and due to a lack of moderation tools they opted for defederating with instances that conflicted with their goal. That goal seems to be an easy going and tolerant community. By nature this goal means that it will be a smaller community and for some reason that has angered people.