Good article, I’ve been wondering why people are calling it populism…

Is this not all kinda well-known information?

The guns didn’t make them suicidal, but they provide a very easy way to be impulsive.

I’m vaguely suicidal a good chunk of the time. I don’t want to be anywhere near a gun.

I love peanut butter, especially the plain 'ol natural stuff, but I’d never put it on crêpes, unless it was peanut butter that had a little bit of sugar in it or something.

This is a complete misunderstanding of what Lemmy and the Fediverse more generally is. It’s quite literally impossible, by design to keep anyone out globally. That’s the whole point. There’s no centralized server where someone can decide “Oh, we’re just gonna prevent this person’s physical hardware from spinning up a Lemmy server and connecting it to the internet”.

If there were, it’d be like Twitter, or Reddit, or all of the other centralized sites where moderation seems cool until you disagree with their choices in what they do or don’t moderate. Beehaw can moderate things how they please. You could moderate things however you please by spinning up your own little instance and just using it as an account hosting instance. Once again, by design.

Right? If media articles on stuff like this were all correct, literally everything but distilled water causes cancer, seemingly.

Well, by just searching topics in the search bar you can typically find instances related to the search. You need to click the “chain” icon rather than the “federated star” icon to view the post “from your instance” and stay on your personal account.