Yes I am. I know reddit has a very american bias, which can piss some redditors off sometimes.

I don’t really care about the size overall. What I care about is whether my friends are on it or not. That’s why Facebook is great, because you can literally find anyone and everyone (for the most part). Looking for that person you knew back in high school, or a cousin? They are likely on there. Want to find musicians? There are lots of groups in your area that people go to very often to find other musicians. Want to find people to play D&D? Join a d&d meetup group for your area.

Nothing about a federated site precludes any of that from being possible. It may make it somewhat more tricky, since searching between instances can be a bit wonky, but it is very doable. I think the fact that different instances can connect between each other makes things seem bigger than they actually are. You can be on a one person instance, but still be able to connect with everyone else on the entire fediverse. So overall, size is generally irrelevant, other than building a network effect, which I think is very important for any social media site to succeed.

It almost seems like it is too flexible. Like, it pulls in posts from all over, which is interesting and cool. But do people join a site like Facebook to see random posts from everywhere, or do they join it to see posts from their friends?

Lemmy is good because it is a closed ecosystem. It doesn’t take in posts from every site on the fediverse. That’s not to say that it should not be an option on Friendica, but it should definitely not be the default view. Which is definitely a part of what also drives people away when they try it, I think. They don’t know how to connect with their friends, and just end up connecting with lots of random people. The fact that “list in directory” is checked no by default doesn’t help either. It seems like it almost tries to make it hard to connect with people you know.

I do agree with that assessment. I feel like it almost just needs to be rebuilt from the ground up, with that specific focus in mind. A new site all together might be the best way to go.

To hardline zionists, any mention of acknowledgement of the Palestinian people is anti-israel. He is definitely supportive of Israel overall, but Trump was more supportive overall, and won the hasidic vote by an overwhelming majority.

Biden also received 0 votes in 2020 in these same precincts. See my comment for more details on the explanation. I do not know about the other data, but this one is a nothing burger, unfortunately.

Hijacking the top comment to mention (as posted in more detail below) that this actually has a very logical explanation. In short, Biden also got 0 votes in some precincts, which was a total flip from 2016 where Clinton won by large margins. The difference? The community is 100% Hasidic, and community leaders met with Clinton during her Senate race while Bill was president. During this time, there were community members being indicted for a fraudulent Hasidic school. The community voted for Clinton for Senate, and shortly after Bill commuted the sentences of these community members. I.e., very possibly a quid pro quo. So that community in particular supports Clinton for this very specific reason, when Trump was still a relatively unknown quantity, and then flips to support Trump for his very aggressive support of Israel during his first term. I despise Trump, and would love him locked up, but these are cherry picked numbers that prove nothing.

So I am very much a numbers and data guy. If there are anomalies, I am very happy to acknowledge them. I am also disgusted by Trump and how he is destroying the country, and voted for Kamala in 2024.

With those caveats out of the way, this whole article and lawsuit is cherry picked bullshit. The precincts in question (yes precincts, not counties as the article states), were extremely red in 2020 as well. Some precincts had 0 votes for Biden. Yet these were not questioned back then. Why? Because Biden won the larger election, so who cares? Why are these alleged anomalies not relevant in 2020, but suddenly relevant now? Bare in mind, these were precincts that went strongly for Clinton in 2016, and did a full reversal in 2020.

What was the difference between the two election cycles exactly? The village is 100% Hasidic. Clinton was viewed as pro Israel, and Biden as anti-israel. That is the explanation. This lawsuit will be dismissed, I am certain of it. As much as I would love to see Trump arrested and thrown in jail for something like this, the evidence is not there to support it.

You can check these numbers out yourself by checking the New York times detailed election map for each election year and searching for Ramapo, NY.

I do not think that is accurate. I know plenty of non-tech people using reddit for a variety of things. Everything from music to personal advice to fashion, interior decorating, and food. It is far from a tech only forum. Very few people I know use tiktok. Instagram is definitely used mostly by normies, I will give you that.

Where have I said that I want them to turn into a full mega corp? All I am hoping for is enough success to be useful for people. Like Mastodon and Lemmy are already. Like blue sky is.