I don’t get what the problem is? Anyone can elaborate.

I heard Beehaw defederated from Lemmy.world among others, but recently I have been seeing content from beehaw communities and users. Did they re-federate? If so, why? And if not, why am seeing updates from their servers again?

I vaguely recall reading that they expressed support for trans people and now conservatives are boycotting. Just wondering what exactly they did and why enough people cared so much as to stop buying it.

Why is everyone talking about some married couple traveling around upset about money? How does race factor into it? One of them is named Harry right? Did they have to change the rules about who gets to be queen because of this?

Was this a thing on the other side as well? What does it mean! Am I too old?

Something something happening is Moscow?

I keep running into comments where users are arguing for avoiding Lemmy, claiming that Lemmy supports authoritarian governments, supports the CCP, sides with Russia in their invasion of Ukraine, denies genocides committed by nominal communist governments, and other similar political claims. I know there are communist instances and whatnot, but I'm well aware that identifying as a communist doesn't mean that someone wants a dictatorial government or denies genocides. - Can we figure this out and have any supporting evidence either way to end the rumors? - Is there any evidence that Lemmy is advocating against democracy, pro dictatorships, denying and/or advocating for genocides? - Is there evidence that using Lemmy supports genocidal aspiring dictators and their accomplices? - Even if there is one instance that advocates for atrocities, genocides, dictatorships, and clearly false revisions of history, what does that have to do with the Lemmy as a system? Can't those instances just be defederated? To be 100% clear, I am not a communist, aspiring dictator, or support genocides. I also do not believe that communism = dictatorships and the end of human rights. I believe in democracy, equitable distribution or power, individual human rights and freedoms. If I had to define a personal political identity, I would mostly fall under the term *anarchist* and do not advocate for violence against innocent people despite their political viewpoints (except Nazis because they're not innocent. Fuck Nazis).

I'm almost always out of the loop and depend on people asking about loop things that Im not aware of to get back in. Can y'all start asking more about current events, pls?

I am very confused and disturbed 😳


Also, what’s activitypub and mastodon? What do they have to do with threads?

What’s with all the downvotes? Saw a few threads get blasted, and a de-federation post - did I miss the drama?

Woke up to Ohio (replacing beans)? Whatup Lemmy!?

It all of a sudden became TERRIBLE and now I can't find anything? When did this happen? Why did this happen?

This doesn't seem to be an app setting but something lemmy.word is filtering. What's the point of hiding but not blocking, and why this filter at all? I heard Lemmy modding is "open", so is there some way to track and see why something like this is done? Edit: see comments, it was actually an app setting but not something I changed/applied myself.

I've seen headlines about actors/actresses protesting about stuff. The same goes for other creative talent in the entertainment industry. What's going on there? What are their demands? What fueled these protests all of a sudden?

Posts referencing some things happening or not happening in small towns are all over lemmy & mastodon, sometimes with a picture of some country singer (?) with a cowboy hat (but never with a name do I can't just google what's going on). Apparently it has something to do with threatening violence?

Is Musk competing with Zuck for the worst branding ever?

I am hesitant to Google because of all the absolute garbage that will come up, I don't want to sift through. Can anyone give me a little sparks notes on the shit he stands for? What has everyone whipped up into a frenzy?

Title says it all I actually browsed reddit for the first time in months and their news is still better then ours and it kind of pissed me off.

What changes are they making, and how to prevent them affecting users? Also, does Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin, or a VPN with ad-blocking and anti-tracking prevent the new data collection through Chrome?

I don't use TikTok at all, but I do watch compilation videos on YouTube sometimes. Lately there are some clips of livestreams of people doing really repetitive movements and phrases. What's up with that?

I've seen so much stuff on what it means and how it affects people but I can't find anything on the reason behind why anyone wants to shut down the government

What's this line attached to many instances where people refer to someone's girlfriend who you wouldn't know because she goes to a different college?

I see news posts about the CEO being fired, all the staff threatening to leave, then the CEO being rehired and the board being fired. What the heck is this all about??

As the title says, who is Henry Kissinger? I read this from Wikipedia: "Kissinger pioneered the policy of détente with the Soviet Union, orchestrated an opening of relations with China, engaged in what became known as shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East to end the Yom Kippur War, and negotiated the Paris Peace Accords, which ended American involvement in the Vietnam War. He has also been associated with controversial policies, such as the U.S. bombing of Cambodia during the Vietnam War, U.S. involvement in the 1973 Chilean military coup, a "green light" to Argentina's military junta for their Dirty War, and U.S. support for Pakistan during the Bangladesh Liberation War despite a genocide being perpetrated by Pakistan." It sounds like he was a bad guy, but I know there's more to the story than that with the collective hate I see for him here on Lemmy.

I don’t see news on the gov backing out, and the protest isn’t escalating further either. No more action almost always mean gov wins So what’s going on with the protest now?

Sorry, living under a rock recently. Can someone ELI5 this for me? Thanks !

I saw a video pop up in my recommends in which someone [goes off on him](https://youtu.be/FDLkRJoEuS8?si=1P9bdtBbfqcmU89V) and now I'm interested. mamamax infirmux.

Honestly I don't know if it's something Lemmy-only, but I see many post titles ending with the world *rule* for no apparent reason