The worst bills in Congress are usually overwhelmingly supported by both parties.

It’s a possible distinction to make, the main problem is that the article in the OP didn’t make that distinction.

Again, how do you define “social media”?

I grew up on IRC as well as web forums and found those social interactions very fun overall, not dissimilar from IRL social interactions.

OK, what’s the definition of “social media” for that purpose then?

I tend to be unsympathetic in general to ideas that anyone (including young people) needs to be “protected” from their own decisions.

So teens who don’t fit in well in the IRL spaces that are available to them should have 0 ways to have social interactions?

If teen me hadn’t had the internet, I would have 0 joyful memories whatsoever of my teen years. Anyone sympathizing with the ideas in the OP is in my mind purely evil and oppressive, I have no other words to describe this.

There’s a helpful timeline on the right here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokémon_(video_game_series)#Development

Shouldn’t be very hard to figure out from looking at a list of Pokémon games. RGBY = Red, Green, Blue, Yellow; GSC = Gold, Silver, Crystal; RSE = Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald; DPPt = Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, etc. etc.

It’s somewhat more comparable to DMCA takedowns I think.

Antau longa tempo (antau ol la fediverso ekzistis) mi estis tre aktiva en la forumo de lernu.net - nun mi demandas min, chu eble ghiaj administristoj pretus konekti tiun forumon al la fediverso? Eble iu, kiu legas tion chi, ankorau havas manieron kontakti ilin pri tiu ideo. Ghi certe estus bona por ilia forumo, por la fediverso, por Esperanto.

Chu vi konas aktivan Esperanto-komunumon en la fediverso? Mi abonas !esperanto@sopuli.xyz kaj !esperanto@lemm.ee kaj !esperanto@lemmy.world kaj apenau iam ajn iu afishas ion ajn en iu ajn el ili. :/

There are several links in the article. Otherwise that is what we have web search engines for.

What is the stereotype about dbzero? Out of the loop on that.

I hardly ever check how old anyone’s account is. I try to be nice to everyone regardless of who they are, and discuss issues rather than posters.

I used to read RSS feeds from Thunderbird a long time ago, but that required me to set them up again on every reinstallation and every device, so I eventually stopped doing that.

Nowadays I read RSS feeds on Mastodon. There’s a service https://rss-parrot.net/ that converts any RSS feed into a fediverse account, so you get RSS feed updates into your feed along with everything else you follow there. Of course it would be even better if blogs and news sites just posted directly on the fediverse, but not all of them do.

Most things are in German, but if something isn’t translated to German yet or I can’t be bothered to change it from English, it doesn’t bother me much to use it in English either.

I only comment when I feel I am adding something to the conversation that nobody else has added. On many contentious topics, nearly everything that can be said has already been said by someone, so I usually don’t comment on them.

I only downvote when something is blatantly factually false or posted in bad faith (i.e. obviously trolling and I can’t think of a good-faith reason why someone would post this).

If I merely disagree with something, I write an answer explaining why, or if there already is one that I agree with, I upvote that.

Some people might still be subscribed to it, so you will reach an audience. I never check whether moderators are active before posting.

My understanding is instance admins can change moderators, so depends on the instance the community is hosted on.