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If meta joined, the users that make most fediverse content now will see their engagement drop.

That’s where you lose me again.
Why would the engagement drop if a ton more users could consume your content.

It’s not like the ratio of content creators to lurkers is any better on meta apps than here.

Btw thank you for the good faith discussion, I don’t think that would have happened at the old place.

I know that you have put more thought into this topic than I did and you just might be right.

But dude that wallmart analogy misses the point by a mile.
Wallmart kills the small stores by simply undercutting them, this has nothing to do with what meta might do.

And you didn’t really argue my point that people like you and I could and probably would consume meta content if it was federated.
But why would anyone that is part of the fediverse right now jump ship if meta came and went away again?

I damn sure will never create another meta account or use any meta app. Would you?

I understand all those points.

I just don’t quite see how that would kill the fediverse.
After all wouldn’t we be exactly where we are now if meta disconnected again?

It’s not like you and I would suddenly start using threads if it started federating.

So I have no idea about guns but would you say there is no legislative way to end the fact that the USA is the only first world country with a mass shooting like every other day?

Again I am not arguing for or against any one particular measure or ban.
I don’t know anything about high cap mags or whatever.
But I do know that other countries seem to show a correlation between stricter gun laws and less fatalities by gun.

Or is it your 2nd amendment that stands in the way of effective legislative measures?

It just seems like a problem that should be so easy to solve and as a European it just seems strange that you guys seem to be completely unable to even make improvements.

the same way we know that ‘T’ is for ‘Tuesday’ and ‘Th’ is for ‘Thursday.’

As a non native speaker I have to admit I actually didn’t know that.
But in German you also use two letters for all the weekdays.
Mo, Di, Mi, Do, Fr, Sa, So.

But it is a popular riddle for children to ask M, D, M, D, what comes next?

That’s what happens if you let Russia and Saudi Arabia get away with it without any real consequence.

That is a de facto state of war between NATO and Russia.

Repeating this doesn’t make it any more true.
Which Russian politician would throw away his new reign for an attack on NATO which might mean WW3, but which definitely will mean the total and utter destruction of Russia as a nation.

And what does that have to do with arresting a war criminal?

It is a false narrative that doing anything against russian aggression automatically means WW3.

And this false narrative is deliberately spread by pro russian channels so that Russia gets challenged as little as possible.

Putin is a war criminal and should be arrested, if Russia then chooses to go to war (which I doubt) they will see how it serves them.

Why should any NATO country (beside maybe Turkey) not immediately arrest him?

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And meanwhile France on average buys electricity from Germany because the German shit works (including the renewables) and the French nuclear plants are more often off than on.

Talk about reliable energy…
And there is always sun or wind somewhere.

That would be the end of the free press.

But yeah a wet dream for politicians.

No endgame, just survive one day at a time.

Generally I agree, but one of the things that was actually pretty cool about reddit were the smaller niche subs.
Some of them though were just too niche and small and thus pretty dead even with Reddits huge userbase.

And while I am pretty optimistic in general, I am a bit afraid that it will be harder to find active communities for niche interests if Lemmys userbase were to stay the current size.

But hey let’s stay positive and active here and spread the word and we can grow into the perfect size, which doesn’t necessarily need to be reddit-behemoth size.