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    1 month ago

    Hasan has his place, to me he is the left-wing Joe Rogan, someone who has decent appeal with terminally online people and more broadly among people disillusioned or bored with regular news.

    The right-wing online ecosystem is more than just one monolithic faction. Be they MAGA loonies, religious fundies, techbro simps, economic acolytes, etc. etc. That variously align and lead into one another.

    Hopefully people here can understand the concept of solidarity, you don’t have to love or hate him, just allow him to cultivate the audience and then discuss the differences with his followers where you think he can improve. I found out one of my close friends watched Hasan a lot, which was shocking to me since he hasn’t come off to me as a person with particularly strong political views. I find him annoying to listen to for long periods of time, but it’s a bro-coded way of teaching people empathy so I think he’s worth having around.



  • I do enjoy live musical theatre, but it is quite expensive, and smaller local productions for whatever reason I haven’t been motivated enough to go to. I think the last musical theatre I saw was Mozart’s The Magic Flute at the New York Met Opera House, in January 2025. The time before that was Hamilton at the Princess of Wales Theatre in June 2023.

    So anyways due to cost, I’ll settle for watching the latest musical movie at the cinema like Wicked for Good.











  • Biggest for me is no promoted garbage. Second is that I can have more indepth conversations than on Reddit. Your replies can get seen if you post on “Hot” even if they’re not cheesy one-liners. Quality of discussion is far better than my last few years of using Reddit full time (until 2023).

    Once in a while I glance at the Reddit website and there’s just so much short form video on the front page that it’s so annoying to know what’s going on.

    Of course the more popular discussion topics (USA, tech, politics) are largely going to be the same as Reddit.

    One advantage of this model is that moderation is more tailored to the instance topics of interest, without losing too much of the wider sphere. So .world can handle most of the popular general topics, but mander can handle moderation of topics from a more scientific lens, .dbzer0 can handle the intricacies around copyright law, .blahaj zone vehemently protects users right to call themselves whatever they wish, so on and so forth. With Reddit, if the site admins don’t like something you do, you get shut down no matter whether the community there accepts it or not. Here, if that happens and is unpopular, people can leave and go to another domain without leaving the federated network. Another is that servers hosted in countries outside the USA (feddit.de, lemmy.ca etc.) don’t necessarily have to follow USA law, while Reddit does.