Biden’s office announced his illness Sunday afternoon.

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    4 hours ago

    This comment section shows that even on decentralized, less mainstream platforms there’s a lot of people behaving similarly to what would be called bots on Reddit. Come on, guys, we can do better than this.

    We can acknowledge Joe Biden’s crimes and failures without cheering his sickness and wishing him a painful death. Same with Donald Trump and all the other scummy politicians.

    We can also disagree about various policies, issues or parties while treating each other with respect and an open mind, instead of degrading all discussion to ‘communism vs capitalism’ or ‘democracy vs fascism’ arguments.

    I know it can be difficult to remain civil towards government officials who are essentially criminals, and anyone who supports or seems to support them in any capacity. However, I personally think we should try.

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      Technically the decentralized network is MORE susceptible to bots than a centralized network who can pool resources and maintain a sitewide blacklist.

      What it is less susceptible is actions made by asshole owners.

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        What it is less susceptible is actions made by asshole owners.

        Yet .ml is still a thing.

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          Indeed, and luckily many instances have been boycotting them altogether and until they started panhandling the official channels two weeks ago they almost lost so much funding they were ready to give up.

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          What’s the .ml thing about? I’ve read something, but don’t understand the situation completely.

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      I have not checked out Reddit but are you telling me that Reddit is more based than lemmy.world? Maybe it is time to move back.

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        Never Fuck it never… I’ll just stop using any type of platform like this who cares at the end of the day. When I’m working on computers though, I need quality information. You know That’s what I’m afraid of.

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      I’m also okay with a permanent coma where you can visit him and piss in his mouth.

      He is a genocidal criminal vile person, responsible for the death of THOUSANDS of children. My sympathy is over a long time ago.