It sounds like it’s breaking the fourth wall. Narrators can do it.

Define Asian. I live in “Asia” and have never seen this.

Your final statement is very true, however there is a reason that Fox News had to defend themselves by claiming they are entertainment. Anyone who believes that Fox News does not have more logical fallacies than most other news really needs to assess their own cognitive biases. I can see logical fallacies on topics I agree with and they piss me off more because I believe that they throw discredit on the perspective that can be argued on it’s own merits.

I taught my daughters the usual logical fallacies from a young age. While doing that I learned that while occasionally, they appear in pristine form (looking at you, Slippery Slope and No True Scotsman), usually, they come rather nuanced, often clustered together, and difficult to identify.

A great way to get good at them is watch Fox News and identify them as they come. You can watch other networks and find them, but for a constant stream, Fox is a goldmine.

What?

I live in Japan. I could wave money around begging for a copyright owner to take it, but they refuse to take it and I can’t access the content.

Good counter metaphor. When Audible disappears my book, and I can’t do anything about it, that is theft.

When corporations write the laws, the laws help corporation.

No, I’m thinking of times when they knowingly put something cheap, but toxic in products and a bunch of people die. It’s mass murder and they treat it like that. In the US, if an individual kills ten people and a corporation kills ten people, the punishment will be very different.

If China’s capitalists cause death, they put them to death. If they commit fraud, the punishment is somewhat related to the crime. China has a lot to criticize, but they get some things right.

Pretty sure this is sarcasm, but it is not wrong, so also not sure.

I’d use cloth or you may leave bits.

Does this apply to hamburger too?

It’s good. It has the pre-Digg.com migration vibe that early Reddit had. Niche communities are hard to get started, but that’s to be expected.

Lots of positivity.

That could be different. Lemmy is not corporate owned.

Lemmy, yes. Mastodon, no. I could make no sense of mastodon and found nothing of interest.

If all they’re shooting is bad jokes, I’m in.

Thanks. I unsubbed and subscribed again with no change. It appears that I can participate directly, but content doesn’t show up on my feed. Same with a bunch more communities.

I mod a 21 thousand member sub on Reddit and opened a similar one here. I put several relevant posts to get things started and let people on the sub know we are here with a tutorial on how to sign up and explanation on why it is good to have an alternate.

I now have about 20 members, a few coming each day. However no one has posted or replied at all.

Another community I created has a similar result.

I know there is a threshold of activity that stimulates more activity, but so far its not happening. I’ve started many active subreddits, including one in the 1% with half a million subscribers. I’m not new to community building. I’m honestly concerned.

I want to encourage everyone to post and comment in the little communities you have joined. You will be contributing to this whole project when you do.

The first I tried was Lemmy.ml. I applied and didn’t hear back. So I joined Lemmy.world and registered immediately.