I like Lemmy/Piefed/Mbin/threadiverse because it is smaller in size. You get to know the prolific posters, and the non-bot ones will often respond to comments.

You don’t feel lost in a sea of 1000 comments for any particular thread.

If you run or post regularly in a small niche community, then there’s a chance a couple people will interact with it regularly.

Oh and the decentralization means that if your home server’s offline the other community (sublemmies more or less) will still work.

The jerks on this site are pretty easy to find, report and block to quiet down your feed.

Not gonna watch this but can Mark please take “Daddy” to the seniors’ home already, and keep him there?

This guy disregards the lives of women, non-binary, Indigenous, people from foreigners, people that don’t believe the same thing as him…

Then he is shocked when his life gets disregarded?

Get angry, but not irrationally.

Give the Carney government and MPs grace by telling them about what change you want to see.

I still have some faith that Carney is smarter than most politicians, that if there is a popular push for more progressive reforms, he would go along with it.

If opposition is limited to “I’m angry that you canceled the DST! I’m angry that you passed Bill 5!” that can be passed off as too vague of a criticism and doesn’t really suggest a suitable alternative direction. Carney did a bunch of right wing stuff because they were confident they would get overwhelming house support, he would have something concrete to show for his first two months in this term. The NDP are kind of disarray and the party apparatus lost touch with local, grassroots campaigns that got people to support them. Even former NDP MP Charlie Angus would say as much.

“I can tell you in hindsight, watching what it takes to deal with a disaster like this, my vote would probably be different now.”

How many short tons of cure do we need to spend for Texas to invest in a mere ounce of protection?

Strictly based on where the jagged points are and where the strokes end, I would say the word written was uůẃnwu.

This is a September 2017 editorial article, yet:

It’s strange that we’re at the point where this needs to be said: a black politician is not necessarily the best politician to promote black interests, and a female politician will not necessarily serve women’s interests better than a man would. Race produces a set of lived experiences that inform our political perspective, but identity cannot be used as a mitigating factor for political shortcomings.

And

But writing off Clinton’s leftist critics as necessarily motivated by gender bias was sexist in itself.

Are a couple things that still are pervasive as then among the Democrat party and some of the left, after eight whole years.

Like racism, misogyny, transphobia and other xenophobia come out like a river of sludge from the conservative right wing, and Democrats pick and choose little bits of this bigotry to float in their messaging to write off their critics, as if they were going fishing in this sludge.

I think every bit of thought people put into their purchasing choices is a good thing.

If you can find suitable Canadian replacements to American products, and products from American owned or funded businesses, without going broke, all the power to you. But don’t think that if you haven’t been able to change all of it that you failed. Each person doing what the can adds up. Encourage people to do it to whatever level they can, suggest Canadian alternatives you use or become aware of.

Unlike a conservative political campaign, Pride is not measured by how much money gets poured in from corporate sponsors.

Yes indeed! 😄

You might be thinking of shareholders.

Here, it means getting input from everyone involved, which does include game publisher corporations and their lobbyists but also includes technical experts like developers and also includes consumers and consumer rights advocates like Ross.

The signature gathering period concludes at the end of this month, then signatures are validated over a period of three months, then consultation happens between stakeholders in the months after that, and then eventually a rule is developed.

Go Councillor! Go Fediverse!

Good reporters only talk about how Trump is such a gweat wittle pwesident.

Good catch, seems like an oversight.

Even if I would agree with your principles, this kind of comment is what is tiring for moderators to deal with at scale.

Now it is past 1.3M!

Meh, I see it as Carney as throwing the provinces a bone and an “attaboy” for collaborating. Costs him nothing to do.

Hey Republicans, to fix this issue, build a bunch of wind turbine power generators to blow the smoke away.

At this point, it should be clear that mirroring the US’s stance won’t get Canada any benefits anymore. So we should just drop the appeasement and speak for world order instead of for genocide.