Part of the reason is internet commentators are so mean to each other, and many of us users don’t want to be judged by someone? (Although extreme echo chamber is also a bad thing)

I reflected on the the whole thing after hearing opinions from both sides of users. I now realise I don’t care as much anymore which may be a good thing.

True, “Karma” doesn’t mean much unless you can refine “Karma” statistics, e.g. upvote/ downvote ratio, “karma” trend against time graphs, last 30 days net “Karma”, filter “Karma” statistics specific to community/instance.

Still, you can’t stop someone from selling a 5 million “Karma Points” account to trolls, so I disagree with showing “Karma” like Reddit.

If I were Prigozhin, I wouldn’t return to Russia after the war. I wouldn’t even eat or drink anything in which might have even the slightest chance of having radioactive material.

I’m ok with the Lemmy plain designs.

Hats off to @[email protected] and @[email protected] !

Thank you for this valuable information.

From empirical evidence we learned that no way in socialism we can enjoy this kind of freedom of expression.

I wish you all the best.

And with the exodus of users from Reddit to Lemmy which created a significant decentralised online community, we just witnessed history where human beings achieved the next level of freedom of expression free from manipulation by powerful individuals

Isn’t “have” either an auxiliary verb or verb and “of” a preposition?

Are these acceptable? If yes, why? If not, why not?

• I of heard that story before.

• Diane of already gone.

• John ofn’t phoned, of he?

• I ofn’t visited London before.

• Of you seen Roz?

• Of she been invited?

• They still ofn’t of any news when I spoke to them yesterday.

I don’t know man, Oxford Dictionary (click Grammar Point to expand) says that https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/have_2

A common mistake is to write ‘could of’ instead of could have or could’ve

I could of told you that.

I could’ve told you that.

The reason for the mistake is that the pronunciation of ’ve is the same as that of of when it is not stressed. This is a common error but it is definitely considered wrong in standard English.

Thanks for the info about French and Spanish governing bodies. TIL

I know right, I know people make careless grammatical mistakes all the time, including me, which is completely fine but people outright thought that “should of” is correct and use it all the time starts to get annoying

Thank you @[email protected]

Partly it’s really a social experiment, it may work, it may not work, at least for me, so far so good. I hope to see decentralisation thrive. If it doesn’t that means the market decided that it doesn’t work, then let it be.

bots are actually ok if they are not trolls, some are good bots lol

Thanks for the info

How about we create c/RantUnderAuthoritarianRegime