Since I guess everything is political these days, I’ll identify as extremely liberal but without a home in US politics.

Mainly, there’s so much misinformation out there that people in society have trouble even organizing into coherent political groupings. So I’d rather not talk about politics but instead focus on information and education. Nothing else matters until the bedrock of fact is buttressed.

But… people are always going to be wrong on the internet, as the saying goes.

So: Old man yells at clouds is a famous joke from The Simpsons, and it probably fairly describes what we do when venting on social media.

Just speaking into the void, since I figure it’s an exercise in futility to conduct discussions on these platforms.

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  • @astroturds

    If you’re interested in a little more behind the scenes info on how this works, (and since I want to make a test post to see how it shows up in Lemmy):

    Since there’s no central clearinghouse for content in the distributed Fediverse, each instance broadcasts its users’ new posts, but only to other instances that need to see that content, generally because they host at least one user interested in it.

    So you’ll see times when your instance won’t have received any older content before its first user followed the remote account. After that, the remote instance knows to start sending content to your instance, to that user really, but then your instance knows about the content.

    In other words, your instance begins its subscription to the remote account by having any user begin to follow it.

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