Just speculating here, but I think the economic situation becoming much more difficult for many people might be a factor. When it’s hard finding a decent job even after studying something “good”, spending years of your life and possibly lots of money on a degree with no immediate economic benefits might seem like quite a ridiculous luxury.

Political division, erosion of democracy and the continuous movement towards fascism.

As I wrote on another comment, you didn’t DM me either, but permabanned me over 2 votes. Your ban message “Don’t want you in the community” also didn’t give any indication that you assumed I was part of a coordinated brigading attack. Instead, it very much read to me like you were just annoyed at having been downvoted.

Yeah. I can see why admins might need to see the votes, at least which instance they’re from, if there are actual large-scale brigading attacks. But I don’t think mods really need to see them.

As you can see by my replies here, I’m not here to insult the mod at all. I have replied to all their comments in a civil manner. I don’t condone people coming here just to insult them, but wanted to have a discussion about modding practices. This is the second time I’ve been banned for downvoting a mod and neither of them contacted me beforehand, just dished out a permaban. I just think that’s a silly and unproductive thing to do. It’s a bit frustrating when I’m trying to be friendly to everyone and then still get randomly banned for frigging downvotes.

Subscriptions don’t always federate fast or correctly. (You can find many people with the same issue here) For many communities it still shows “Subscribe pending” for me, despite getting the content in my subscribe feed. No, I hadn’t participated yet - the community is barely 2 weeks old.

Vote brigading (Wiki) is coordinated vote manipulation. I wasn’t sent to that thread by anyone (I was subscribed to the community) and I wasn’t coordinating with anyone to downvote you either. I have no idea who else voted on your comments and whether or not they were brigading. But just because you’re getting a ton of downvotes doesn’t mean you’re getting brigaded, it could just be that you posted something many people disagree with (heck, seemingly everyone in this case). So no, I absolutely didn’t participate in any brigading.

Fair. I didn’t see that original post where they’ve made the accusation, so I admit it could have been shitty enough to warrant a ban. But there’s that and then there’s getting banned for 2 downvotes.

That’s the original meaning of a blog. I guess platforms like Tumblr and Wordpress would qualify and can still be used for that. But the way they’re actually used by most users has shifted quite a bit from their original intention. On the fediverse, something like friendica or even mastodon could work.

For the kinds of gene therapy we currently have, it wouldn’t make that much of a difference for society, but could have a positive effect for people affected by conditions that can be treated with it. Although as I understand it, those treatments are far from perfect and do frequently have adverse effects as well.

If we’re talking the sci-fi kind of gene therapy that could stop aging, make people more intelligent etc, that would be an entirely different story. It would have massive societal ramifications and I think especially under capitalism, they wouldn’t be good. It would increase inequality by massive amounts and basically turn the rich elites into their own, genetically-superior species.

House you gain money

*Horse. Don’t think she’ll gain money with it, unless it’ll become like a price-winning race horse or something.

Also consider the child’s life and future. Will they have a realistic chance of leading a good adult life? With how the world is going it’s something I feel quite uncertain about, which is one reason why I personally won’t have kids.

Coyotes are only a thing in the Americas, I’m pretty sure.

Yeah, I could do without it. When it’s really empty, it can be nice to go 180 for a bit, but more often than not, it causes the kind of problems you mentioned.

Now those wouldn’t actually be exciting to me as a German, that’s the type of bus I rode to school on. :)

I’m currently one week into a two week period where all of the CEOs and project managers of my company are simultaneously on vacation. It’s wonderful, just coding without being bothered.

The lack of a speed limit on our highways. Some people come here just to drive on a boring frigging highway.

Bonus question to anyone who visited the UK - was there anything that fascinated you but I’d be taking for granted?

Double decker buses maybe. I found them pretty cool compared to the boring buses we usually have here.

Edit: Also, urban foxes. I saw foxes maybe three times in my life before going to London, where they’re basically seen as a nuisance.

I guess not everyone’s traffic is being deemed unusual/suspicious. There are many deciding factors that cloudflare could use to differentiate from “normal” traffic, such as location, browser, OS, VPN usage etc.

No, it’s the website you linked (yarn.co) that uses cloudflare protection (against bots, DDoS attacks etc). When it detects any traffic it deems unusual, it shows a captcha that the visitor needs to click before being able to view the image. It can’t display a captcha when you’ve embedded the image into a Lemmy post though, so the image just won’t load at all in that case.

Probably because of the cloudflare layer. It shows me a captcha when I click on the link to your image, so it makes sense that embedding wouldn’t work correctly.