Nothing is more retarded than leftists pretending their shitty ideologies aren’t directly responsible for the deaths of tens of millions. The left ≠ everything good and the right ≠ everything evil. This type of absolutist thinking stems from mind numbing ignorance that leads to genocide. When you’re unable to process different perspectives or handle criticism, then you’re a lost cause.

Decentralization isn’t left wing or right wing, that’s just a moronic analysis. Decentralization has a wide appeal but unless it gets simplified and standardized it will never become adopted by the mainstream. Places like Lemmy which are littered with gatekeepers like you doom this place to forever being a niche. If this place ever hopes of rivaling reddit, it needs to appeal to more than political extremists and tech nerds

Lmao just how far left do you have to be to find Reddit of all places to be right wing? Reddit is one of the most infamous left wing echo chamber. They’re not evil enough to be Marxists but calling them right wing is just straight up inaccurate.

Yes. Because polls are always 100% accurate, right?

Yes, they are. They show trends in the general public. Denying the data only hurts your own cause.

No. It isn’t. Knock off this defeatist attitude.

Is that a threat?

There are few things the developers could do. For example, they could make the platform easier to use. Many people don’t even reach this place because they’re not that tech savvy or simple don’t care enough to figure it out. It’s much easier for them to just create an account and get started on Reddit or elsewhere. This leaves extremists with nowhere else to go and tech bros… which are the two groups that dominate this place. The process of getting on board and finding instances/communities needs to be easier. There needs to be something like centralized site/app that is easily accessible and shows all the different instances and communities in one place.

Funny enough, this is the same exact reason why Reddit sucks. Those same idiots who made that platform insufferable have migrated here and made this already insufferable place even more insufferable.

Out of privacy/tech bros and far left extremists, there’s nothing else on this site. This place doesn’t appeal to the general public because there’s nothing here for them.

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This is why Lemmy will never be anything more than tiny a niche platform. It’s a place for the far left by the far left. There’s nothing here in place for anybody else. I don’t just mean politics wise, I mean everything. There’s nothing for fandoms, shows, movies, sports, or anything really. You have to be privacy/tech nerd or some left wing extremist to really enjoy this place more than Reddit. Since the portion of the population that this platform is trying to appeal to is extremely small, this platform will always be small. There’s little to not attempts by the devs or the community to make this place appeal to everybody else.

It just signals that this platform is flawed to the point where it’s bleeding to death. Keep in mind, a bigger userbase = more active community = better platform.

Lemmy is a niche place. Unless you’re far left politically or you’re big on privacy like I am, there’s no real appeal to this place. The average Joe would much rather use Reddit despite its flaws. There’s nothing here for fandoms or sports or movies/shows or anything really. Outside of a few toxic political communities, some privacy/piracy/tech communities, and a bunch of mediocre meme communities… this site is as good as dead.

According to the polls, this is a losing battle.

Maybe not this particular picture, but China does make plenty of propaganda that makes America look badass.

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Unless you live in some extremely closed off bubble, it is common knowledge at this point that China is going through the worst demographic collapse in human history. It is unprecedented in both scale and speed. The signs of the demographic collapse started all the way back in the 1980s with the one child policy and it has been becoming clearer and clearer what’s to come for China every year.

There are a few indisputable facts that even the CCP admits:

1. China has a gender of imbalance where there are about 30 million more men than women.

2. China has the lowest birth rates in the world and it is continuously dropping.

3. China’s population is officially shrinking, and that includes its workforce

4. It is one of the fastest aging countries in the world

5. China has virtually no immigration

China’s economic model which relies continuous growth from cheap labor. With less people and rising standards of living, that means people want to get paid more, and they do, Chinese workers several times more now than before which means they’re losing the competitive edge that made the rise possible to begin with. This coupled with rising debt due to overspending on infrastructure and an increasingly stressed welfare system, the signs are all pointing to an inevitable collapse.

As the old get older, they stop contributing to the economy, they stop paying taxes, they start costing the in pensions and healthcare costs. This is normally fine if there are a lot of young people to take over, but with an inverted population pyramid there aren’t any young people left. The ones that are there have to keep the whole system in place. They are over worked, over taxed, and stressed. Young people in China are so burnt out that the country is having a massive problem with them quiet quitting.

Countries like Germany and Sweden managing to get by due to immigration, countries like Japan and Italy are managing to get by taking on ever increasing debt. China is not wealthy and not an attractive destination for immigrants. Even if it were, there aren’t enough immigrants to fill the void. China is truly past the point of no return.

By 2030, China is going to have more retirees than workers. Do you even begin to comprehend what kind of consequences that would have? This isn’t even into account how the Chinese government literally admitted that they overcounted their population by around 100 million since 1980, which means that all of the problems that I’ve stated so far are even worse than we thought and China’s population most likely peaked a decade ago. We are witnessing China’s final decade as an economic power in its current form.

This isn’t something that happens overnight, and you claiming that the fact that it isn’t means that it’s fake isn’t the gotcha you think it is because it’s not going to change the reality.

This is nonsense. American infrastructure is held back by outdated regulations, not by the free market. If anything the free market is a big asset in infrastructure development and this is proven in the US, the other capitalist democracies, and even in China.

What is this supposed to prove? It’s no secret that China has abysmal building standards. Between the poor construction materials, the negligence of safety standards, and the lack of any meaningful oversight China has a lot of questionable structures that collapse at any moment. Trying to pretend that America is worse in this regard or that China does have massive issues with their building practices is just stupid.

You’re being downvoted by idiots. Russia is literally invading a country is making mobilization calls every other month while China is aggressively expanding its military with the explicit intent of invading Taiwan.

That doesn’t fit the narrative. Consume the propaganda. China good, America bad!

imagine being dumb enough to be a Marxist in the 21st century.