Fair enough, I guess that wasn’t the issue. Most user’s comments getting more upvotes than their posts is kind of normal, though, even if I’m not quite sure why. Lemmy has worked the same for me so far.
How did you determine that you were shadowbanned from Reddit, anyway?
So I got an idea, did you ever write comments or did you go straight to making posts? I think that might make a big difference; my main reddit interaction was always writing comments, not making posts.
That doesn’t necessarily refute any of your points about Reddit not being welcoming to new users, but at least it’s an explanation for why I never encountered the issues you had even though I never actively tried to avoid anything.
“grandfathered in” makes it sound like I’ve been using my account since 2010 or something. I made a new account every couple of years and never encountered an issue, though I always avoided the really popular subs.
I didn’t experience that when I still used reddit; I think this was already a thing to some extent, but it was very dependent on the specific subs (could be that non-English subs were just more lenient about this in general). Maybe there has been a policy change that made this more widespread? I didn’t get the impression that the admins actually care about bot accounts that pretend to be people as long as they’re not too obvious from the common user’s perspective (same as any other commercial social media site), but reddit is a popular target for web scrapers, and AI scrapers have been a plague recently that directly impacts a site’s ability to function without providing any benefit whatsoever.
I don’t think a knife is going to make your cooking worse.
I like pineapple pizza (as long as the pineapple pieces aren’t too big), but that burger sounds annoying. Not saying the flavors don’t combine well, but the amount of toppings makes it sound way too tall unless the slices are razor thin.
Merz is left of Biden on some big issues, like being in favour of universal health care, and supporting unions and workers rights.
That’s debatable. Merz clearly wants to weaken worker’s rights and unions, and he doesn’t exactly want to expand access to health services, either (the German health sector is quite troubled in many ways and the anti-immigration policies really don’t help). His public stance on those issues is limited because of somewhat more progressive forces in his party and the established state of things in Germany, if he had free reign he would act quite differently.
I think you linked the wrong article.
Where are they planning to source their fissile materials from?
I said that they’re copying many far right policies, not that they are far right themselves.
If you honestly believe that there’s anything progressive about Labour under Keir Starmer or the German SPD, I got a bridge to sell.
I’d like to add that Rima Hassan is a member of the EU parliament. I didn’t know that. I’d ask why our countries are allied with such a state, but it’s clear that quite a few national government members in the EU would love it if Hassan spent the rest of her term in an Israeli prison (or worse).
FYI, it’s Merz, not März.
I disagree with that. Specifically for immigration, a Democrats-led USA is much more immigration-friendly (at least in places where MAGAs are not the majority) than Germany (and probably many if not most other EU-countries) ever was, both in terms of policy and in terms of how welcoming the population is.
Do you really believe that someone like Friedrich Merz, who is pretty much the norm for EU government leaders at this point, is more progressive than a Joe Biden or Kamala Harris? The guy literally got elected with an anti-immigration campaign.
Depends on how long I’m inside, how dark the store is and how much of a fuck I give on a given day. I do think that most people think it’s rude/douchey/etc., but I’m not convinced that I should care about that kind of moralizing of etiquette (though I do care, to various degrees, what people think of me).
It’s somewhat harder to see inside with sunglasses, but I, too, wear prescription glasses so it’s a bit of a hassle to change to normal glasses.
Easier said than done, most of europe is currently governed by the far right (or ‘conservative’ and ‘social democratic’ parties that copy a lot of the far right’s policies). US citizens will generally have an easier time immigrating than e.g. Syrian citizens, but the anti-immigration policies still hurt everyone.
Europe is also Russia, though. Surely, they can at least tell the difference between EU and Russia?
Logically, retiring boomers shouldn’t make jobs disappear, though, they should just make unemployment go down. It’s not like people suddenly don’t need goods and services anymore once they turn 65 or whatever’s the local retirement age.
Yeah, could he have screamed “I hate latino immigrants and I want to get rid of them as inhumanely as possible” any louder?
IME it’s very easy to get 1k kharma through commenting if you do it regularly. It’s practically guaranteed unless you’re actively trying to get downvoted or are only commenting in subs with extremely low engagement.