I like how our society places so much responsibility on private companies to manage communities, really what could go wrong. Just institutionally protected employees that are nothing more than power tripping Reddit mods because Reddit hired a decent amount of them and put them in high positions, solidifying the toxic moderator culture they already had.

I've seen the admins go on really petty vendettas against people for just mentioning them in threads, shadow banning them for the dumbest reasons. Just know your ban doesn't mean you failed in any way, this company is just morally bankrupt, as are many other companies like it in several industries.

While there's certainly a lack of content (and by extension diverse voices) compared to Reddit here, there's definitely less corporate manipulation. It's a nice palate cleanser of that gross astroturfing fiefdom.

A lot of this is reductionist and kind of generalizing. Really depends on what we're talking about. There are ways to punish companies and hit them where it hurts, money, for instance. There are ways to lobby Congress. I'm just saying there's a framework for being strategic about these things, and distilling it down to violent uprising is just lacking any nuance any of these types of conversations actually deserve.

How is wanting to avoid civil war "mainstream"? I mean sure, go and promote revolution from the comfort of your climate controlled box with modern amenities, detached from the horrors of war. The feds have tanks.

Diplomacy, conflict resolution, etc. Not really motivated to fight against the tide of lemmy people sipping koolaid. But if you step outside the echo chamber, it's mostly common sense.

Yeah, that was 200 years ago. We have better ways to handle things now.

Very recent history shows Republican senators are almost entirely to blame.

That's still a violent thing to wish on people.

Violence generally doesn't get what you want out of the system.

These were my old accounts, they are forcing a password change, probably in hopes of me clicking their referral links and self-identifying my current IP with my old accounts. Shady behavior in any case.