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I don't like this idea as currently phrased, but if a question box popped up asking the user who just joined if they wanted a notification triggered upon each new post, that could be good?

Most communities that I have done this for I later un-do. Very few communities are both supremely interesting for me to want this yet also have low enough traffic to make it not overwhelming. (High ironically, this very community is one of them though:-).

Note that this would introduce confusion when users automatically get notifications for some communities but not for others.

In general it might be better to somehow highlight for new joiners of the platform the fact that a notification can be triggered on or off for most anything - posts, comments (including those from other people), communities, and users. So maybe like the icon wiggles once an hour for the first week or two of using the platform. Not that it's a priority to do such, but I mean something like this may be preferable than automatically signing someone up to a community without their explicit consent.

"B-b-but my side virtuous (in all ways, and can do no wrong), while their side ignoramus (everything they do is because they are poopy-heads)!"

I wish I could add /s here but a good half the population on earth seems to hold to this as an invariant position, solidarity in the face of all obstacles, i.e. the Nazi bar effect.

Case in point: who doesn't love it when a religious institution offers food and shelter and medical care to the needy, or counsels people to forgive, laying down their burdens and seek therapy to thereby travel lighter through the world? It is the diddling kids part that for some strange reason (/s on this one) people tend to get upset?

Since we were talking about Zionism here, I will mention that Deuteronomy 13:5 (in the Torah, part of the Old Testament for Christian and Muslim and offshoot religious branches such as Mormonism) provides an EXTREMELY stern warning about those who would misuse their authority to lead people astray.

TLDR: intolerance paradox - if you tolerate the intolerant, it corrupts the entire system, giving it a bad reputation when people see the worst excesses and extrapolate that to infer the properties of the whole. e.g. Reddit is fascist, hence we did not stay and put up with it but rather moved here.

(Alt-)"Left" != Left, and in fact shares far more in common with Right (aka: fascism).

There is a lot of misinformation surrounding that though. For one thing, Lemmy.ml is not defederated by default. Hexbear is, but only if the admin chooses that, hence it is not a "hard-coded setting", as anyone who knows how an if() statement works would realize. The statements I saw had more lies (whether intentional or otherwise) than truth about them.

Which is why I personally blocked the entire Lemmy.ml instance - it's not worth my time sifting through all the huge piles upon piles of disinformation to find tiny little nuggets of truth: I am not that desperate for content.

I like this, so this is my headcannon now. 🤪

Hrm... so you went with an edit after all... 🤔😂

No no no no no, you misunderstand.

It is funny because it is sexual assault, not just because it is porn. 🍆🍑

I won't do it!!

(Bc I've already blocked them:-P)

I use Mac btw (more to the point, I use whatever you do not use).

Yes, you got me: by "hidden rules" I obviously meant the very highly visible, non-hidden ones, placed where nobody can miss them at the top of the page.

You aren't wrong - she does look like she is on the toilet! :-P