Which really begs the question why a whole new platform is needed instead of simply implementing these features on Lemmy.

Technical reasons aside, there’s value in having a variety of platforms, so not all features are gated behind the decisions of the Lemmy maintainers.

What makes you think “handle the processing of people as they complete the immigration process” had to include anti-immigration police?

I get the feeling you don’t disagree with the parent commenter at all.

Leverage was/is a pretty ridiculous show sometimes (it’s basically just Ocean’s Five as a series), but I still enjoyed it far more than Dexter

My childhood included my mother owning furniture that was decorative, but that we were not allowed to use.

Some was just because children are messy, but some was because the furniture was just old and couldn’t handle abuse from people sitting too hard or putting stress on unexpected angles.

That’s what this makes me think of

I want my washing machine to notify my phone when a cycle completes… But maybe not quite that much

The whole Lemmy approach to downvotes is nonsensical. They say “learn to curate your feed” when you downvote, yet upvotes are never called vote manipulation.

If you don’t like downvotes, then run your communities on an instance that doesn’t use them. Otherwise, accept the vote score. It’s not like it’s even used by half the sorting methods.

Maybe I’m misunderstanding how grooming techniques work, but nothing about that chest looks waxed to me at all. It looks drawn on, heavily airbrushed, and it’s all out of proportion.

And the hairy chest looks far more attractive

How many bloods should a healthy man have?

This wasn’t even the first John Redcorn they’ve lost. Seems like there’s been tragedy through the show’s entire run

There are lots of vehicles in this book. I grew up on this book (Hello, Goldbug!)

A woodchuck is not a vehicle. It’s not a car or truck (even if she is a thing that goes). I will die on this hill.

But the paper said you shouldn’t

San Dimas high school football RULES!

These days, it’s Alan Tudyk for me. For movies and tv shows.

He has been in some of the most bizarre and ridiculous concepts, but he still always makes them a delight to watch, even as a supporting character.

I haven’t been disappointed yet, even if it’s bound to happen eventually.

I remember old Bibleman. He was a tiny bit past my time. TBN was a big part of my very Christian upbringing

Eh, giving out a downvote isn’t a stressor, nor it’s it necessarily personal. It’s not even an indicator that the content should be removed, just that a user doesn’t think it’s helpful/fun/or contributing to the discussion

It’s bare minimum feedback where blocking is not. And honestly, we should encourage more of it, rather than encourage people to create their echo chambers (within an already somewhat echo chambery platform)

If anything is personally stressful, it’s stressing over an anonymous user’s opinion that has very little context to it. Downvotes don’t even hide or reduce visibility of your comments or posts in most of the sorting methods.

Green > Libertarian

No one disagrees, but…

Do people tell it their name a lot? Even when asking for help with something personalized (like a resume) I still tend to react my name and edit it in myself after.

… Is this just me?

This is already a thing that happens currently. Some admins/moderators don’t like being downvoted and ban people for “vote manipulation” because they vote on things in their feed.

It is leading to exactly that, where people are worried that using the voting system as intended will lead to exclusion from participation in some communities.

If you can set up a jury of their peers to convict them, then you’re on the right track.

The main moral argument against it would be lack of due process. While that should involve the courts, morally or ethically it probably doesn’t have to.

Anya could talk to me about anything and I would listen