49% of voters, about a 3rd of eligible voters

It’s tribalism plus brainwashing. They believe the right way to show empathy to the in-group is to attack anyone in the out-group. Driven by zero-sum thinking and beliefs around “natural social hierarchy” being necessary.

When I open search, select explore instance, open a forum on the instance, then open a post, I can’t back out of the post, because the app freezes and then crashes

Way ahead of you, our reddit forum mentions the difference in every single place we can put a custom text, definitely intending to do the same here

Yup and iPhones use a patented codec (HEVC) by default. No care for compatibility.

Kinda - the dev team was external and had already started the project when Twitter offered funding for an open protocol based version of Twitter, and selected the current team to do it (so Jack could avoid moderation duties, lol)

Absolutely not you dimwit.

I run a security related subreddit (cryptography). A false sense of security from wrong answers can literally kill

In legal terms it is (with the obvious exceptions for impersonation, defamation, etc)

But in private forums? Mods can be however strict they want

Tell me where fiction is illegal to publish

Tell me where scientists are prosecuted for having got a theory wrong

Tell me where meteorologists routinely are prosecuted

I already mentioned the obvious exceptions (lying to cause certain types of harm) but few western countries allow penalties for anything outside those exceptions