Isn’t Mint a version of Ubuntu?

So it would be effective at preventing your site from being used as training data.

Not surprising. I had to remove my credit card information from Amazon because I kept getting automatically signed up for Prime without my consent.

Because you think you have a full monopoly and everyone has no option but to put up with it.

if others click the downvote button on my posts/comments, nothing happens at all as far as I know.

I think it shares the downvotes within that instance (possibly with other instances that allow downvoting) so anyone else viewing the post from the same instance as the user who downvoted will still see it and their browser will use that when sorting the posts.

Sometimes I miss old forums where content was brought back up by simply posting within the topic

That’s how forums on Steam work and it makes them almost useless. The only posts you see are the rage bait from people farming Steam points from ‘Clown’ awards. Any meaningful post doesn’t get the same engagement as people trying to ‘slam the trolls into submission’ (FFS, how do people still not know you don’t feed the trolls?) so it gets pushed under all the bullshit.

Lemmy’s system is good because there is no account wide total, so it really doesn’t matter if one of your posts gets a lot of upvotes and another gets a lot of downvotes, it just means one was good and other wasn’t.

… And then you get people who really want some kind of account wide total for some reason so they go to websites that total up the number of times a user has given upvotes and downvotes…

Because “everyone else is doing the same thing” isn’t a form of dismissing the problem and burying your head in the sand.

US exceptionalism once again.

“We’re not shit, everyone is shit! But we’re better at being shit than everyone else!”

Okay then.

Capitalism is a shit system, but it took ~200 years to corrupt to this point because the power is more distributed (at first).

The US is reaching the average lifespan of an Empire. Capitalism has not been particularly good at preventing collapse, it has been about average.

Americans: haha “France surrenders”

Also Americans: “I can’t stop buying from Amazon, other people still are! The mildest of inconveniences is too much effort on my part to resist fascism! Can’t you do it for me?”

the peak of the massive recession Trump has set up to happen next year.

The recession is already happening, Trump just cancelled the reports to hide it. It will become more obvious once corporations report less profits than anticipated over the holiday season.

As usual in America, nothing will done until it starts hurting the Corpos.

being a single issue voter is entirely justifiable when he single issue is a fucking genocide.

Not when all the alternative was “more fucking genocide with a side of fascism”