To be fair, mathematics also uses single-character variable names

I wonder if a news community with a "no mentioning the US" rule would work. Not out of any hate, just as something arbitrary like "don't use the letter E".

It's hosted in Finland, by a German company, and has Dutch admins. Was that your point?

Edit: bonus, the Lemmy devs get paid from a Dutch grant and the ones whose nationality I know are not from the US

... the average Westerner also has access to the internet? At most, maybe it excludes those who don't speak English

Tons of people speak English as a second language, on the internet

Democratic socialism (DemSoc) is a specific term (not to be confused with SocDem). Unless your point was that DemSoc is a bad term?

Ah good, they found a woman to blame

I think it's less applying their morals to the cat and more not wanting to support the meat industry. That said, yeah just don't have a cat. I expect many vegans aren't too big on the concept of pet ownership anyway.

Anecdotally, the communities I'm interested in are getting more active in a way that seems sustainable (as opposed to last year, when it was a always a single person posting some, getting no responses, and leaving). I'm pretty positive about the state of Lemmy and the wider threadiverse.

The best part is that Cox and Zucker didn't give it the name Cox-Zucker machine themselves, because you're not supposed to name things after yourself. A third person, Schwartz, caught the joke and gave it the name.

I don't really expect 4channers to have reasonable opinions on moderation, the whole reason it's the way it is is because of lax moderation

Taking a fixed percentage of the profits/revenue is reasonable. Taking a fixed amount of money for every install is insane.