Part of the user base issue is the same with most “alternative social media”. A not-insignificant amount of the users will be here because their behavior got them banned from or wasn’t tolerated in other spaces.

If you don’t want to hear people complain about leftism, there’s always hexbear and beehaw. Why you would complain about it from an instance that tries not to defed anything when there are dedicated leftist spaces is beyond me.

At this point I think a lot of people, OP included, would tolerate plenty more noise as long as it isn’t “everything sucks and you should be mad about it!”

Yeah, signal is better than noise, but the signal itself becomes noise when it’s all so damn much doom and gloom and aggression and frustration and generally negative emotions. It’s not healthy to constantly drink from the fire hose of “this is everything wrong with everything”

And as an aside, I find that the quality of conversation around a lot of the political “signal” has been slipping too.

Yep. Love my wife, but I’ve learned that certain snacks transcend the “leave some for other people” rule. Either keep my own stash or get too much for anyone to finish in one sitting.

More sweetly, I can buy her her own “stash” so there’s enough for both of us.

jfc, could they make it any more fucking ominous?

Plus, the whole “you can easily disable it by puncturing the lung-analog air tank in its torso with a weapon or projectile” and “the horns are to slow it down moving through doorways” bits. What exactly are you trying to design against again because that sounds like a creature, or at the very least something autonomous, not a remote operated robot.

This is a comic by beetlemoses.

OP believes that leaving in the comic name or artist’s signature is “advertising”.

https://lemmus.org/post/21226925

They have been caught repeatedly removing them through cropping and other means.