Exactly. They smeared all Bernie supporters, regardless of gender, ethnicity, or anything, as “Bernie Bros”.

So do I. I see voting/electoral reform as the only hope of change short of a literal revolution.

I never thought they would. They would have to be forced to do it by voter initiatives/referenda, like has happened in various cities and states so far, usually with resistance by one or both parties.

I can understand the sentiment. The problem as I see it is that the political duopoly in the US has a complete death grip on the electoral system. One of the very few ways that that can be loosened is via alternative voting methods like ranked-choice, approval, star voting, etc. That’s why if I spend any energy in politics in the future it will be to push these alternatives.

Yeah, that’s how I do it too. Although some instances don’t seem to block it, you would have to find out which, and that may be difficult to find.

From a politician’s standpoint, it would be scorched earth. Think about it from his perspective: what would that have accomplished? It certainly wouldn’t have ended the DNC as previous DNC email scandals hadn’t. It would have made his fans even more loyal, but would have pissed the rest of the democratic party apparatus. He would have said goodbye to any and all opportunities for being in committees and any cooperation from establishment democrats from then on, possibly have had an intense primary challenge afterward. A lot of libs still blame him for Hillary losing to Trump, even though he didn’t do anything questionable. It was all lose no gain from his perspective.

I agree he’s not president material, but because he’s too old to win now (even though he’s still sharper than either Biden or Trump when they won their elections).

I totally understand why they would do it. I don’t understand why or how they block the NSFW instances without them appearing in the list of blocked instances.

lemmynsfw appears to be blocked secretly on lemm.ee. It’s not listed under blocked instances there, but I can’t see any posts from lemmynsfw there either. There must be some other mechanism that’s available besides blocking instances in the open.

I hear you, but Bernie was in what, his mid-70s, and had pretty much always played by the book as far as I know. Even though I was somewhat disappointed in him after having not only given money but also canvassed for him, several times, I didn’t really expect him to go scorched-earth.

Weird. Then either our instances are secretly blocking it, not through defederation, or there’s some other mysterious technical reason for it.

But also think that the rule of Lemmy is that all algorithms end at porn.

Huh? I don’t see any porn, regardless of what sort I choose. Ah, that’s because there’s a checkbox in your settings to let you choose whether to see NSFW posts or not. I guess turning that off works really well.

Right, I’m aware of the general history and not debating any of it. What I meant was the democrat establishment back-stabbed his campaign both times, but it sounded like you were blaming him for it.

Bernie stopped running for president after the DNC told him to.

What do you mean by this?

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Most definitely. I’m getting pretty sick and tired of the constant complaining about those Lemmy instances.

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You have really good insights about this, and it’s a great question. I wish it weren’t buried 5 levels deep in this thread, where few people may see it. Maybe you could write it up as a top level post on the Fediverse community?

I agree that the Facebook format is fine. The real problem with them is the algorithms. Oh, and all the data harvesting, advertising, and now bots pretending to be real people? I guess everything else about Facebook is terrible except the format!

Unfortunately, I don’t know. I read that mobile apps for it are few and far between? There may only be one or no app for Friendica on each platform. I think I also read that there are a couple of apps in beta at the moment?

I heard that it was one of the earliest Fediverse projects. It just hadn’t surged in popularity like Mastodon and Lemmy had after the Twitter and Reddit exodus.