CerebralHawks

Looked into this, it looks awesome. Plex is meeting my needs and I own a Plex Pass, but if I didn’t, I’d probably be running this. The server works on Macs, too. Not all of them do.

Unnecessary. It adds compatibility with another service. I looked into it a few weeks ago. I forget the details, but I looked into this and thought, oh I’ll never need that. The $5.99 gives you all the features you need for all devices.

Sounds like you set up your comm poorly and you really don’t want people to interact with you on it. That’s fine — you should learn how to set up your comm properly so you’re not butting heads with people who disagree with you. And maybe, if you don’t run the instance, discuss with those who run the instance if they’re fine with you squatting on the name ‘politics’ and not letting others interact with it. They might be fine with it, they might want you to call it something else so politics can be actively discussed in that comm.

Voting is kinda dumb on Lemmy and I think it’s only there because it was on Reddit. Voting doesn’t give future posts weight, and if you run the comm, downvotes shouldn’t affect your ability to post there anyway, and I don’t think it would on Reddit, either. But on Reddit, a lot of downvotes can hinder your posting. Lemmy doesn’t do that. So personally I hide them, and only upvote helpful/kind posts, and only downvote exceptionally rude ones. And I don’t care how others vote on mine or on anyone else’s. I sort by chronological. You could have 50,000 downvotes and I’d still see your post in order by time. (I doubt you have that many.)

Trolls are an inevitability. But how they affect you is largely your choice. Stoicism goes a long way online. I’m not saying don’t care, I’m just saying give the words (and votes) of others the emotional weight it deserves: next to none. Don’t let it affect your day.

So, it’s like Nintendo, but the console is twice as expensive? Yeah, no.

For one, it sounds like he did you a favour if his idols are Trump and Musk.

Two, everyone’s allowed on Lemmy. Someone supports paedophilia and war crimes, you could just block them. In this case it looks like the trash took itself out.

Also, there is/was a MAGA instance. Almost everyone immediately defederated from it. Just like how Truth Social (Trump’s social network) is based on Mastodon, but most Mastodon instances defederated from it (or Truth Social was altered to not federate; I’m not sure).

John McCain was a POW and he may have served honourably in the US military, but he wasn’t some paragon of virtue. Wasn’t he a big part of the Birther movement (the ones who tried to push the idea that Barack Obama was not a bona fide American citizen because his father was born in Kenya and some suggested he was as well)?

If we’re going back some years, we could use the Republicans’ own words and call them the party of Lincoln, though every Republican who voted for Abraham Lincoln likely would have voted for Barack Obama, and more recently, against Donald Trump. The Republicans were the progressive party back then and the Democrats (under whom the Klan was founded) were the conservative party. Conservatives today like to remind people of that, but they don’t like it when we point out that the two parties swapped ideals and platforms long before any of us were born.