This video explains it quite well:

Minority Rule: First Past the Post Voting by CP Grey.

The system isn’t designed to be a two-party system, but no matter how many parties there actually are are (in the US, there are actually more than a dozen active parties), FPTP voting inevitably results in only 2 being viable.

This will not change unless a different voting method is implemented.

Yep. And this bug exists in both scenarios.

Wait, really?

That’s terrible design. I know I’m a mod and can take action. That’s the point of being a mod. Flagging all comments is superfluous and misleading.

I thought something was wrong with my community.

e: Instead of a shield (which to me means ‘fellow mod’) I’d colour the edit ellipsis green or something. This makes me think the commenter is a mod.

It helps to know it’s only on my end, thanks! I was worried anyone could mod my community. Thanks for your input! I’ll put it in as a UI bug. Cheers!

Awesome, thanks for letting me know you don’t see everyone as mods. That helps me.

Yes, that one. Here’s what i see:

I’m using Voyager on iOS.

And I don’t see those flags on posts outside my community, anywhere on Lemmy.

e: if you’re not seeing it, it’s likely a bug in Voyager. Thanks for letting me know! I’ll post in in the Voyager community. <3

Oh, that’s all? Followed.

e: thank you.

I’m confused, then. Do I bridge it from Bluesky?

I clicked your link but it didn’t make sense from my end.

Apparently I need to make a new account; it’s been a loooooong time *warning, Reddit link).

I’ll make a new mastadon account and link it here.

Omg I thought this was the onion. Fuck.

Fuck everything about this.

Donate here (I think, check for yourself ):

https://www.maah.org/donate-collections

https://thegivingblock.com/resources/charities-for-black-history-month/

https://www.charitywatch.org/top-rated-charities

Shit, sign me up. I could definitely use some amusement.

Few things scare you like thinking you’ve lost one of the most expensive and fragile things you use nearly 24/7. And even fewer can make you feel like a complete idiot to realise you’re already holding it. Such a crazy crosswire of feelings.

I’m not saying ‘words have meaning.’

I’m saying we create meaning and we should not just give in to the fascists’ definitions.

They do not define us.

Just to drive this point home for the quiet listeners at the back of the house, I’ve had very long conversations with conservatives (I’m in a red area) who actually get more distrustful the more you relate to them. I’ve been told to my face that nobody cares that much about other people, and I was clearly only pretending to in order to make them listen to me. That it was obvious, because nobody cares that much. That empathy can only be manipulative, and is never real.

It took me years to understand this isn’t a contradiction, but that since they can’t imagine caring that much, I must be fake.

My whole outlook changed once I realised that. It’s insane, but many people literally can’t envision caring, and they think you’re fake and just want recognition for doing so.

Several of these surveys take on a different meaning once you realise there are fundamentally different perspectives like this.

e: and this is one of the biggest divides with conservatives. Simple word choice will not bridge this gap.

It’s not. I have a Mastadon account (made it nearly a year before BlueSky). It was work. I have to curate it and the interface is awful. BlueSky was easy.

To be clear, I barely use BlueSky, either. I’m almost exclusively on Lemmy. But these platforms need to get their UX ducks in order, and I say that as someone who has adapted to tech and UX since the late 80s.

I barely have the energy for social media in the first place. Mastadon feels like work.

Oh is that what that noise was? I thought it was from when I nearly strangled myself with my headphone cable in standing, since I’ve apparently forgot how reality works today.

I’ve no idea what’s gone wrong, but someone else suggested weed. I wasn’t on it, but perhaps I should be.

No weed. Just pure unfiltered ignorance.

Most of your peers don’t have that reaction. They should~ but they don’t. Ask them to name a king not from a Disney movie and report back. *edit: ask them to name the king independence was fought over. I’ll bet many can’t, and I’ll bet none can give you the actual reasons (other than vague concepts like ‘freedon’ or ‘taxation’).

I’m with you. Let’s stop fighting each other and figure this out.

That’s a big problem that switching from ‘oligarch’ to ‘king’ won’t solve. Using different words is a very simplistic answer, when what we’re fighting here is not a language barrier but a wide cultural one.

The real issue is complex and multifaceted: conservatives have been highly propagandised through increasingly insulated media bubbles to the point that now there’s very little that can penetrate them, and switching up a few words will not get them to listen. They’ve been taught to be distrustful of facts and reality, and to believe that compassion is weakness.

I don’t know how to fix this, but watering down our language will not help. That’s been tried many times, and it always backfires.