Wow! I skimmed through the article and legitimately thought it was an onion article until I read your comment.

I’ve been watching a couple debates involving Trump supporters. They all do some version of this. “I like his policies” “ok, can you name a policy of his you approve of” they can never come up with any. In almost any other scenario this would be funny. It’s hopeless.

Lemmy, reddit is more active and has more content but Lemmy will get there. The front page is awful now. It’s full of ads and suggested crap. I subscribed to things for a reason. I liked seeing posts I cared about. This shoving content down my throat approach curiously made me get off the site sooner.

The black Panthers tried that. Not saying it shouldn’t be done again but let’s learn from what happened to them.