Is lemmy.ca a community? Or is it just a grouping of communities?
Is lemmy.ca the community or is it all of federated lemmyverse that’s the community?
I would lean towards all of lemmy being the community, since a users likely lean towards browsing all rather than local. I know the regular users I interact with are global, not just our users. They all contribute to the sense of community in a larger sense than just our instance.
Given the community feeling is maybe not specific to an instance, does every /c/ needs to contribute to that specific instances sense of community?
Unfortunately yes. The last episode of the season was ok IIRC, but the rest were just garbage. It was really disappointing after being so excited they were back.
I’ll post a longer reply later when I have time, but I agree with you.
I don’t think his posts are Russian troll farm style, they’re just not anti russian. I personally am strongly anti censorship, and would rather people engage in discussion instead of just being “ban this community cause I don’t agree with them”. If that’s the way someone feels, they can block at the account level. I don’t want lemmy.ca to turn into yet another echo chamber, we all win when diverse ideas and opinions come together.
Sidebar rules are something we’re talking about now as a result of this, I think the “no misinfornation” rule is a good idea but I worry about how difficult it may be to implement.
I didn’t see any misinformation in the geopolitics community when I looked, but if I missed something then please feel free to flag it to me.
Bonus fact: Fiat, apparently, didn’t learn its lesson from the 1994 stalker note debacle — at least not immediately, or, perhaps, not internationally. In 2016, Fiat Argentina gave new car owners “a car manual which refers to women as ‘co-pilots’ and men as ‘alpha males’” while also “featur[ing] comments on women’s legs and the length of their skirts,” according to the BBC.