Depends what you use it for, there's some great servers for a lot of things. I don't really care about platforms and basically use them all. Certain people really hate Discord but the alternatives don't have many interesting things on them, and the people who use them aren't a very diverse group. Checking all the right FOSS and feature boxes is nice but it's not what actually makes a platform good to use.
"10 degrees to the left in good times, 10 degrees to the right when it affects them personally."
Was also the most popular alcoholic beverage drank in the US until the import of German culture, which brought beer. Beer isn't seen as German so much in the US partly because of what the world wars did to the German identity.
An LMM modeled after the average redditor sounds like the most condescending thing ever.
Problem I have with calling this a feudal arrangement is a lot of serfs actually had family rights to their land/means of production under land tenure agreements. It's more the notion of private ownership of land and production that has led to these private technology increasingly mediating more of our lives. I've seen the concept of technofeudalism used in good ways but the overall thing is capitalism and they are more elements of feudal type arrangement within that.
That was the only reason to use the site lol other paid options are way better. All userbenchmarks was good for was giving you a rough idea that your hardware was performing as it was expected to.
An individual vote only has meaningful significance in a few specific locations. If you aren't doing anything to materially impact votes in those locations, emphasizing your individual vote as significant online is more about self-affirming and displaying your allegiance among others who agree with you.
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