While I knew some of this, I will happily say I did not know it all. Thank you for taking the time to do this level of info dump.

Honestly. I have no idea. They generally all do the same basic thing. Get one that has features you like at a price you can live with.

Aw. I did not realize Bukele was also authoritarian. That was the missing part.

Thanks!

It takes 5 mins to install and a few weeks to get comfortable using it. Then you wonder how you ever lived without it.

I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not following every nuance about the deportations - but can someone point me in the direction to understand why El Salvador? Why there?

There is a Cascadia Independence movement but it’s not widely talked about.

I mean. Imo that’s only fair. Sure they are getting one of the world’s larger economics (WA state + Portland), they are also getting Montana, Idaho, and a good chunk of the Dakota’s…

Hell. Don’t take the whole thing. Just move the boarder to the 45th parallel as opposed to the 49th.

And you might never. But lemmynsfw is a porn instance whereas .ml is not. Hence different goals for moderation.

Kinda. We have a bunch of small instances each with its own set of rules/norms. Lemmy.ml for example is not going to take a very different approach to moderation then lemmynsfw…

I’ve found there are two types of “leaders”. One are the people you describe, the others are knowledgeable staff who somehow ended up in management at one point and realized they had to stay less the idiots take over.

One also calls themselves “thought leaders” while the other group is still working at 8pm.