Technology

Welcome! Some people have gripes with dot world for being the biggest, etc. but generally you'll be fine.

You can always search for communities here as well. .

There's many apps and frontends and too. Some are preincluded into lemmy.world. If you like old reddit try old lemmy for example.

You can certainly be censored on Lemmy, depending on your instance. But you can also easily go to another instance and still talk to everybody you used to talk to on the old instance.

Same thing with propaganda. Your instance can remove it from their hosted communities, or allow it. And you can go to an instance that feels good.

Does this lead to echo chambers? Probably.

Better you dont

Gore is probably gross medical pictures. Matrix is a chat room program.

As to an answers beyond simply getting-armed-and-fostering-healthy-gun-culture-and-education-among-us:

"Practicing mutual aid is the surest means for giving each other and to all the greatest safety, the best guarantee of existence and progress, bodily, intellectually and morally."

That's Kropotkin

And then Modern Libs even observe, more verbosely:

"The structures of our state economies are going to matter in terms of protecting democracies, and by that I mean if you look at economies that were based in the kind of small producer economies like New England was vs states like the South and the American West that were always built on the idea of very high capital using extractive methods to get resources out of the land either cotton or mining or oil or water or agri business, those economies always depend on a few people with a lot of money, and then a whole bunch of people who are poor and doing the work for those Rich guys -- and that I'm not sure is compatible in terms of governance without addressing the reality that you know if people have more of a foothold in their own communities, they are then more likely to support the kinds of legislation that Community [Education, Healthcare, ..] and that may be the future of democracy, if not a national democracy"

Heather Cox Richardson, professor of American history On The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart on Trump’s Win and What’s Next https://youtu.be/D7cKOaBdFWo?t=2139 (time-stamped)

If a Conservative wants me dead, they’re going to have to work and sweat for it. I’m not doing the heavy lifting for them (A Quote I agree with)

Our resulting interactions may seem chaotic and illegible to authority, but it is through that seeming chaos that vastly complex, horizontal, and resilient practices of learning, cooperation, and reciprocity have historically arisen.

By Andrewism https://youtu.be/qkN_nQPpeSU

MASKING REALLY HELPS; Covid, RSV, Flu is a greater threat to marginalized communities. Can't do organizing without prioritizing precautions.

Show up for your neighbors. The rest will come.