So is social media, and the openness of free societies to internal (the rich owning the media) and external (foreign adversaries) tampering. Spreading misinformation, eroding trust in institutions and truth itself, poisons like that.

Many democracies are crumbling this way. We yet have to find an effective antidote.

Regardless of the voting system, there still is a worryingly large portion of voters who were corrupted to serve other’s interests. And that is true to all (?) countries. That not just any two democracies fall first, but GB and US, kind of shows us that it could be anyone.

So while it is easy to look down on the fallen, or feel ashamed to be that - we’re helpless in this together. Hate to end like that.

There is so much in this direction. For a fraction of the budget, you could obliterate both the Russian army and economy, without losing any soldiers. What an opportunity, what a deal. Unless you’re owned by Russia, of course.

why bother reporting?

Here are some of the many ways this could be answered:

• To exercise this core freedom, to not lose it. What comes out of it is a much less important question. The day news outlets remain silent about wrongdoings because they believe nobody cares anyways is going to be one of the darkest days towards the death of democracy.
• Separation of powers means the Press is not the Legislative, which is not the Judicative. The question seems to assume they were all one, or since the Press lacks the means of the other two, it’s mission would be kind of futile. But since these powers are separated, it is irrelevant to the Press wether and what legal actions follow (aside from being stories worth covering in themselves). It’s simply not the job of reporting to carry out arrests, and the lack of arrests, even when necessary, does not devalue the reporting. Maybe even on the contrary: It’s probably of much more value to society to report about things which aren’t already dealt with.
• It is totally relatable to feel powerless, maybe even getting accustomed to things going south. But I think we should be extra careful how these sentiments are communicated. A necessary prelude to that darkest day from above, is when outlets still report, but are met with nothing but indifferent “water is wet”, “can’t do anything so why care at all?” comments.

Weigh on Earth or on Moon?

Makes me happy to hear this important feature is about to become reality! <3

Because religion evolved to thrive in us.

It’s like a parasite, and our mind is the host. It competes with other mind-parasites like other religions, or even scientific ideas. They compete for explanatory niches, for feeling relevant and important, and maybe most of all for attention.

Religions evolved traits which support their survival. Because all the other variants which didn’t have these beneficial traits went extinct.

Like religions who have the idea of being super-important, and that it’s necessary to spread your belief to others, are ‘somehow’ more spread out than religions who don’t convey that need.

This thread is a nice collection of traits and techniques which religions have collected to support their survival.

This perspective is based on what Dawkins called memetics. It’s funny that this idea is reciprocally just another mind-parasite, which attempted to replicate in this comment.

Not sure if social media in general has failed. That particular point can be solved at the community level.

Create or join a community which by it’s guidelines restricts posting paywalled or otherwise bad content. Which explicitly encourages posting “liberated” content. Have moderation. Problem solved. Moderators will remove all which you dislike. All that remains is the solution you want.

Many Lemmy users wish their niche communities would become more populated. For goals like that, the reputation of the platform is important. I also don’t want to get into defensive debates when revealing to someone that I use Lemmy.

Please try to form coherent sentences so I don’t have to guess what you might have meant. Or don’t. After all, it’s you who wants something here.

im talking about the 7 downvotes i have

i didn’t get 7 negative replies

Sounds as if you think you should get a reply for each vote.

Is that an attitude of expectation? No one is obliged to explain their voting behavior to you.

We can suggest to voters to also leave a comment, explaining how that would lead to an overall more pleasant experience. But you cannot demand replies.

I can imagine some of the downvotes of this comment come from this attitude, which can seem entitled and inappropriate.

Started smoking cigarettes.

Good idea! Checked and found: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3042

Add a “disable inbox replies” option of posts and comments #3042

You can support the issue by leaving a thumbs up or a comment.

Copy thread url, paste it into an incognoto mode browser that’s not logged into the instance.

I think you get the same result using the colorful button, which each post and comment has:

Adding more questions to get a better picture:

• Are the posts on lemmy.ml or on other instances?
• Are the hidden comments made by people from lemmy.ml or other instances?
• Does the situation change over time, e.g. on older posts you see all comments but on new posts you don’t?

Ah, thank you.

No, grouping by tag is currently not supported.

The feature request pops up frequently, and there are corresponding open issues on GitHub.

I would also like to have this. I’m not sure how soon if ever it gets implemented.

I understand this is not your intent, but the question might help clarify your intent:

Why don’t you visit a specific community which is dedicated to your keyword of interest? How would that be different from what you want?

there’s something in our consciousness that gives you identity and defines who you are

Identity, personality, soul … I feel these terms are somewhat synonymous, if we exclude the spiritual connation, which I’d like to.

why you perceive the flow of time and the sequence of events that happens to a specific person (you).

Not sure what that means or wether that question makes sense. As I see it, all the above mentioned synonyms emerge from the brain doing it’s thing. A human brain working under normal condition creates a ‘you perceive the flow’.

I think a system like that would be perfectly fine here too. You don’t really need to bring all your posts over to a new profile, they’ll still be there and accessible on your old one if you need them.

Unless the old instance goes offline forever. Your posts and comments would still exist on remote instances, but the user profile they point to is no longer accessible.

Yes, copying subscriptions is probably the most important step, but ultimately I hope to see the ability to move everything, including history and notifications to old stuff.

you will likely need to work on it yourself, or find someone who can.

This is the feature in question:

Moving user profile to a new instance #1985: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1985