Extortion, more like

Ban anything with FDA approval.

That is literally what it is :D

Gandhi. Seriously. Sleeping habits aside, dude was pro-apartheid.

They could just pay their fucking taxes so we can have trains

You don’t have super powers, you’re not having a “spiritual crisis,” you have ADHD and you’re losing your shit. See a doctor. Medicine is good.

That’s it. That would basically rewrite the last 18 years of my life (not that it’s been bad, but I lost out on doing cool stuff in my 20s to figuring out I had, and how to deal with, my mental illness)

GET OUT OF MY HEAD

Not enough people consider the origin of these words, trying to use them divorced from the thing that actually makes it a pejorative. Growing up, “gay” was another one people tried to use as an insult “non-homophobically”

It’s poisonous for a reason

“healthy unemployment rate”

proportional

Maybe they just don’t have the actual numbers you’d expect from their outsized presence in the discourse, when they’re not being protected, or facilitated, or actively promoted by engagement algorithms or the individuals who own the other platforms.

(I’m pretty sure this is the case, but I’m too lazy to get sources just this minute)

Yes!

some specific instance should have its own “charter” that it uses to make those decisions with, sure whatever

This one, yes.

Good question, something for folks writing the charter (whoever they might be) to take into consideration, and hash out.

Off the top of my head, there are types of for-profit orgs, like B Corps, that could be included. There are non-profit orgs, like religious institutions, that could be excluded.

(Edit: point is that it’s something for more and better minds to sort out, and adjust over time)

I’m very anti one charter - my intention here is to propose the idea of charters as a way for communities to sort of balance each other out, solve each other’s problems and avoid reinventing each other’s wheels.

Well-thought-out policies will be copied and forked by other new instances, and that will create consensus communities of instances that are at least on the same page when it comes to how a site is supposed to work.

Yeah, pretty much this, but with some mechanism - literally at an icon level - to indicate to users (lemmings, lemurs, lemurians?), who aren’t necessarily keyed into inter-instance politics, and just want to see their memes, that “this instance follows the No-Nazis charter, which I like, and the rest of the charter members agree. Cool.”