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Can the internet ever be fun again?

  • there's the indieweb movement, smaller sites trying to have fun, like neocities

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    the mods have gone psycho over at reddit

  • lots of [removed] and [deleted] and way too many sub rules

    it's hard to know if just going to lemmy or trying to improve reddit are better strategies (or some other reddit alternative)

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  • scarred for life, but you just focus on other things

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    Top 200 Defederated instances from the Fediverse (May 2024)

  • I was going to guess racially based comments about crime in detroit idk

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    self-defence deez nuts

  • indeed, 'tis poison for body and mind...

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    Why AI is going to be a shitshow.

  • mistake is relying on bing's servers?

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    Adobe’s ‘Ethical’ Firefly AI Was Trained on Midjourney Images

  • the problem is "intellectual property" existing at all, just get rid of it entirely and make everything public domain

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    Reddit is so toxic

  • also too much: [deleted] [removed]

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    Fireworks should be banned on the 4th of July in America

  • there are some alternatives popping up like drone light shows (which can do some interesting displays fireworks can't?) and if they got popular enough maybe people wouldn't feel a need for fireworks as much

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    DebateLibertarianism: Present Your Arguments For or Against?

    Libertarianism or classical liberalism (these are slightly different perhaps but overlap) had a lot of popularity until sometime over the last decade it seems, when "left" and "right" seem to have become more impatient and seem to want more "authoritarian" implementations of the worlds they want to see.

    At the same time perhaps "freedom" may be more popular than ever, I haven't been monitoring it as closely.

    From what I remember on the right, there were big losses with the Ron Paul / Rand Paul / Libertarian Presidential candidates which may explain some of the loss of momentum. Ron Paul's 2012 campaign was basically sabotaged from what I remember; Rand Paul couldn't compete for the GOP presidential nomination with Trump; Some of the Libertarian Party's candidates like Gary Johnson were saying blatantly anti-libertarian things, showing a lack of an understanding of libertarian philosophy.

    The left seemed to just support authoritarianism against Trump (for example, the left used to be more anti-war but since Trump became anti-war, the left seems to be more supportive of interventionist foreign policy as a result), and I'm not sure what drove other support for authoritarian measures (growing poverty? Anyone have insight?).

    So anyway, do you like "freedom" and are you for "libertarianism" or against it or have some arguments in either direction?

    What are your thoughts on the topic?

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