If it's really only that few people I wish the mods/admins were just slightly more ban-happy
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Terrence Tao has an interesting blog post that's somewhat related (and is basically a bell curve meme).
I also saw one that talks about Garfield topping Furiosa
Isn't fren one of those words used by 4chan as a dogwhistle? Feels a bit icky when talking about WW2 Japan
Lemmy.ml bans the word
At least on Lemmy, defederating is also a way of banning all the instance's users from your communities. If you're constantly banning one instance's users and their admins seem fine with it, there's really no other way.
If you're defederating a lot, most of it will be tiny instances you got from some blocklists, so I don't know if this really says much
Culturally I'd also put that part of Russia closer to the Slavic countries than to any fully Asian country.
Factory farming is extremely cost-efficient, so I don't think the free market would give you anything else regardless of how many people there are. Laws and environment tax would.
It's crazy that so many circuses still have clowns
I'm not a 6am person in daily life, but on vacations waking up early just feels natural