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Lemmy.ml isn’t widely defederated to my knowledge.


I feel like your comment of (2) contradicts (3) to some degree. I agree the wider culture of lemmy is progressive/left, but that at least indirectly contradicts the prominence of racist content that you claim exists.


It’s not at all. A lot of modern TV is actually sci-fi/fantasy/dystopian that has nothing to do with specifically orientating itself around “wealthy people”. At least that is what I watch.


“Name me any popular media that centres around a husband/wife or boyfriend/girlfriend dynamic, where the man isn’t a moron…”
I don’t know. I don’t watch that type of show personally. I honestly couldn’t comment. I know that it’s a trope, I also know that it’s a dated trope and that shows like that aren’t made that much these days. It’s a 90s/00s media trope.
Aside from distressingly rare well-written examples of healthy relationships such as Babylon 5, the “foolish husband, responsible wife” trope is almost everywhere. It even figures prominently in a majority of advertising that features couples interacting with each other.
Oh no, not advertising! Woe is me!
I will never understand this obsession and crying about how random couples are depicted in 30 second advertisement clips. I live with adblock so I genuinely never see any of this. It’s honestly such a laughable thing to cry about.
As for TV, since you’ve bought up Babylon 5 let me cycle through shows I’ve seen on the matter where this dichotomy is not true in regards to man-woman relationships: Turk and Carla in Scrubs, Jack and Anne Bonny in Black Sails, Flint and Miranda in Black Sails, John Silver and Madi in Black Sails, John and Aeryn in Farscape, Holden and Naomi in The Expanse, Ed Baldwin and Karen in For All Mankind, James and Cassandra in 12 Monkeys, Rick/Michonne in TWD, The relationship between the leads in Twisted Metal, The relationship between the older couple in Night Sky (unfortunately cancelled). It’s even true in the poorly-written Witcher (Geralt and Yennefer). Now are many of these setups strictly “husband and wife”? No. I don’t watch shows focused around those themes generally. But these are equal relationship setups where the man is not depicted as an idiot, and the woman not a genius.


Name me a single TV show where the man isn’t a moron, and where the woman is not the only functional adult in the relationship, and I could likely show you 100 shows where the man is portrayed as a moron and where the woman is the only functional adult.
You appear to be characterising all TV shows as being family sitcoms with the “dumb husband” and “smart wife” dichotomy. You do realise this isn’t the only formula on TV, and is even less common than it’s ever been in terms of being made right?


To be fair, people don’t undo their default upvote on their posts because of self-esteem, it’s just not noticing. You are right that a more authentic system though would simply not have any default upvotes, and additionally - not allow the OP to upvote their own posts/comments.


Pretty sure that Donald J. Musk is a Russian Z astroturfer banned from half of Lemmy with multiple accounts under different aliases.


Yes, multiple times. Or downvotes most things at least.
Piefed has a bunch of tools Lemmy doesn’t have: Flairs, Hashtags, Custom Feeds (Private and Public), Scheduled Posts, Combined comment sections for crossposts, Emote Reactions, Events, Polls
Nowhere on the threadiverse is large enough to support that level of interaction, unfortunately.
You can help by using [email protected] though.