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They'd get banned for spam.

I feel like Lemmy also has a problem with corporate troll farms.

Reddit is far worse though with bots and establishment troll farm shill accounts.

I agree with the sentiment, but it doesn't hold up in reality.

Having any sort of engagement with rightoids results in your feed getting filled with Nazi shit.

This is not in any way a "threat to public safety" but it's still a cringe decision.

The inability to block users actually makes moderation even more necessary and makes it harder to allow "free speech."

That's why I feel like there should be both systems. Possibly public and private healthcare, but with the additional requirement that everyone has to have health insurance. Otherwise there's going to be too much of a problem with young people not getting insurance and not paying in. You'll also have NEETs and neckbeards who work 12 hour weeks and aren't paying anything in to the system.

There are a lot of things that they have to do, and they have to do them right with extremely little tolerance for error.

The Web has become the de facto method of accessing the internet for almost everything. Most people think of it as the internet.

A lot of people do critical stuff through web browsers, so if something on a website breaks because of the browser, it's a huge problem.

The only things that I can fill it up with are video games and video recordings. Hoarding downloaded files can also build up over time.

I have mixed feelings. "Because I said so" can get compliance in high school, but that's mostly it. It's not going to be that effective. At the same time, a lot of this overly permissive parenting seems like a reaction by people who are upset about being told no as kids and that will lead to problems, especially once they get into places that don't care about constantly trying to have a debate back and fourth.

The "critical mass of users" is the essential part. People want to participate where there are already other people.

A lot of the old forum applications still exist. A lot of old school forums are actually still around. The problem with old school forums compared to Reddit or Lemmy is that it's just so much easier to get people to join a subreddit or a Lemmy community. If someone discovers a subreddit, all they need to do is go there and start posting. Creating a new account usually isn't that hard but it's still a considerable hurdle for someone who is considering joining.

Old school forums are simply too decentralized. It's a lot easier to get reddit.com to come up in search results then it is for some relatively obscure forum.

I'm going to try setting up an instance but one issue with it that I see is that instance owners will be the only permitted uploaders for most instances since storage and bandwidth is a huge issue when it comes to video hosting platforms.

Odysee is is one of the few alternative platforms with a decent left wing audience. The only other majority progressive platforms are Mastodon and Lemmy, though Lemmy has a lot of neo-progressive tankies and angry conservative tankies.