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I've presented you with the proof that early Reddit was populated with large numbers of sockpuppet accounts by the owners, creating whole cloth communities to draw in users, which is not something that is happening on Lemmy.

The entire reason the Digg mass exodus was viable was people leaving Digg found these "preexisting" Reddit communities and felt more comfortable joining in.

Lemmy doesn't have that socketpuppet population to springboard with, so growth is slower and unpopulated communities are not falsely full of fake users.

Shenanigans.

Yes Lemmy is smaller and doesn't have instantly fully formed communities. Reddit has been around for almost 2 decades. Lemmy is newer, smaller, and actively fights the sorts of shenanigans that Reddit initially used to get big.

If you want more niche activity, make posts and interact with posts. Lemmy is user driven- that means you. It isn't a giant megasite where you can just expect to be a passive receiver of endless content.

"Guns guns guns" Brrrrrrr

Anime waifu weirdos turn out to be weirdos. More at 11.

Are you having a stroke?

This is a Senator firing an opening salvo with a vague threat of government action.

Warner also warned, somewhat ominously, that if Valve does not adopt industry-standard moderation practices—whatever that means—it will "face more intense scrutiny from the federal government for its complicity in allowing hate groups to congregate and engage in activities that undoubtedly puts Americans at risk."

Nothing has been done with government force, yet. Maybe he will drop it, maybe he won't, but at the moment I'm responding to a Senator floating the idea of using government power to wade into Steam forums.

I don't think anything good can come of the government deciding to crack down on Steam moderation in order to "save the children".

The current situation of Steam having a toxic forum community in places is better than whatever happens with "scrutiny".

If I may put on a tinfoil hat for a moment, this recent push to get Steam labeled as an extremist den that needs to be dealt with feels like yet another attack originating from competitors.

Wow this push against Valve kind of popped up quickly and suddenly didn't it?

Wow. And Paper Moon is legitimately one of my favorite episodes that doesn't get a lot of fanfare. Replacing Nog for Wesley mentally is something I can not conceive of in that.

Admiral Janeway, please calm down.

It's a rubber gun anyway. There is a seam the goes continuously through the top of the barrel, front sight post, and top rail.