Americans being shocked at European protest actually being protests will never not be funny. For some reason Americans will change their profile pic for a day and think they’re making a statement while Europeans will only recognize an event as a protest when something is literally burning or destroyed

Somehow the complexity of using Lemmy compared to other social media sites and the decentralized nature of it has really gotten rid of the trollfarms and bot spam to a pretty good extent. I realize now that Reddit has such an insane amount of bad-faith actors that cause the site to be so toxic, same with all other mainstream social media.

It’s insane to me that somehow free speech has been successfully twisted into a dog whistle to basically just spread disinformation, actively call for extermination of minority groups and openly attack and threaten other people. That shit is not free speech those are malicious actions - and they should absolutely not be tolerated under some vague guise of free speech.

lol they are giving warnings to people who upvote posts that they deem questionable. Literal thought crime police :D