So what’s up with denying entry to that French scientist who was only in the US for a conference because of his posts criticizing Trump on the internet? North Korea seen as the model for how they want to shape US

No worries, by the way I found out you can filter posts by keyword just not on the default Lemmy interface but in some apps such as: Voyager, Connect, Sync, Summit, Mlem, Boost, Eternity, Thunder, Arctic and on web interfaces Tesseract and Voyager. Lemmy.world has m.lemmy.world where you might be able to use Lemmy with keyword filters

If you go to PieFed afaik you can filter posts by keywords and you even get asked if you want to see no posfs related to him or Muskolini, no need to troll downvote posts

Well, I didn’t say it is in this case but could be. Also you never know if the person has Histrionic Personality Disorder (HPD) or how someone copes with such negative experiences that could affect their memory of it, a lot of factors could be at play but good on you for clearing up it was just a misunderstanding of what you said, your first reaction (and how it was paraphrased) seemed to imply you meant to minimize the aggresors faulf hence why my reaction was that and probably those downvoting it

fair advices and I agree on not engaging but I’d not blame it on someone for being themselves, you and I could think of it at a similar situation maybe because of overcautiousness but some people even if they experience bad experience with some they still won’t just start being like that too out of nowhere and I don’t blame them, shaming why the victim were being themselves only seem to minimize the fault of the aggressors imo

He still is, no such thing as in he was, also I thought he went crazy too but the more often you check back chronogically what they did things makes more sense, people were saying Trump was more sane before sharing the time he said Dems had a better economy when in government but you can still find videos of him spewing nonsense, his government cabinet response to the leak to the atlantic? feels the same as in when AOC was questioning Zuckerberg on Cambridge Analytica

people also assumed Zuckerberg wasn’t as shit as Elon but he has been proving everyone wrong, he just needs to do the salute now, none of them “went crazy” they just had good PRs and somethings went under the radar

PR damage control doing some work atm probably for Musk too

Ghouls dont fall out of windows

is that really what you think went wrong? whats wrong with you seriously

Sometimes it’s needed for other needs too, in my experience some will just blurt how complicated is to move or they will move but sometimes forget to open it to check for messages since they’d only be using it to talk to you instead of switching entirely to another platform like you did, some people are fine with the cost of isolating themselves to not worry of those who won’t put effort to contact you through your privacy-wise better alternative you are using but some will eventually burn out and give in to partially going back to said terrible platforms like Discord, it’s all about threat model. I find it easier to convince people from Discord to use Matrix but people using WhatsApp? Oh well, those you hardly will manage to convince them all for you to just quit it. How I see is in the end we are all different with different needs, some people will just happily comply with your request becauss they proudly will support you switching elsewhere for a reasonable and good reason but some will try and stop, and some will just keep insisting for you not to leave (then if you leave even if they’re insisting you not to, who would be at fault then? they’d be begging you to stay and most of the time these people are usually the ones who still hasn’t awakened to the dangers of privacy invasive platforms and just shrug it off, so they are not leaving because they don’t care about you, they just don’t get at all why you are doing it and find it pointless - which helps when you try to inform them in a long period of time about such things, but who does that all the time when trying others to switch? some find out about these issues and just want to snap into the better privacy-wise alternative asap)

FYI my reply isn’t some defending talking points not to switch but to explain from different perspectives why some just won’t bother