• the urinal shitter (exactly what it sounds like, he was never caught)
• a notable/well-liked student athlete was suffering from depression and sadly took his own life
• the cool young teacher ended up being a pedo and his victim was a 15 y/o girl he was tutoring
• someone called in violent threats to interfere with notable school events (sports games, tests, etc.); this happened multiple times and then we never heard about it again, nobody in my circle ever heard anything about who it was

It’s not quite “A tasty fish.” yet, so I look at it and think “I should try cooking this.”

This is Musk’s oldest child, she chose the name Vivian when she came out and despite being genetically related to Musk actually seems like a pretty cool person. She went through some legal procedure to remove herself from his family, and IIRC basically walked away from all of that generational wealth because severing connections with an abusive father was worth more to her.

Sure, to an extent. ActivityPub is an independent protocol not controlled by lemmy or any lemmy devs, so there’s a layer of protection there. This is also a trick that can only be pulled once, because any other instances would likely defederate in response and ML would render itself irreparably untrustworthy. I don’t mean to downplay your concerns as they are valid, but I also don’t think it’s an existential threat.

I don’t agree with the “hiding the problem” notion because different instances are independently operated, and defederation is the by-design way to “fix” malignant instances (see the LW defed of hexbear and lemmygrad for exactly this kind of behavior).

As for the whole system not being safe, I’d also disagree on that point as the entire lemmy server code is licensed under a copyleft license which allows anyone with a copy of the code to modify and distribute it. Ergo, hard forking lemmy is possible. Based on the github page, over 800 individuals already have forks of the server code. Any one of them, group of them, or some other individuals entirely, could pick up lemmy development and run with it if need be.

As you say OP, the solution here is to use the fediverse model as intended and use different instances/communities. It sucks because it fragments the community, but that’s the way it is. I’ve long held the opinion that I’m grateful to the lemmy developers for building this whole thing that we all get to enjoy, but their approach to administering an instance is reprehensible and actively damaging to the relatively free and open exchange of ideas that should happen on the fediverse.

“Sign’s done, boss”

I like how the watermelons have a whole 10K more likes. Let’s go watermelons!

Yeah… I would unironically rock those jeans.

I heard that left Borts was a little bit too interested in WWII history…

To further dehumanize it for not buying enough pizza of course. /s

From the director of Jijanic.

Jrailblazers.

Site’s finished boss!

Osvaldo12 is the 🐐

My retired parents live with me. I went ahead and put a PiHole on our home wifi. A day later my mother was literally complaining that she couldn’t click on ads on facebook. I told her those are ads and they track her and she says “well everyone likes to use the internet how they like to use it… can you put it back the old way? I want to look at these shoes”. Can’t fucking win.