I have a bad habit of being condescending myself, I appreciate the reminder.

Some time back I saw a blog post where the author was making the claim that the only possible way to deprogram someone who had been radicalized starts with compassion. Real, honest compassion for the person; which can be hard with the hateful ideals that are spread so freely these days! But he is right. Without compassion, whoever you are trying to communicate with has no honest reason to listen.

Anyway, thank you again for sharing your perspective!

Oh for sure!

It doesn’t take very many who participate in bad faith, though, before information hygiene, as you put it, starts going by the wayside.

But, my apologies if it sounded like I was trying to hijack your message; was not my intent! Whether it’s bad actors or just people giving in to emotional reactions instead of reasoning out the argument, it is for sure important to be careful of misinformation. I’m sure a distressing amount is spread quite unintentionally.

I think it was a couple of years ago, I made a reply on a thread where people were accusing the average Reddit user of being a bot or a shill (rightly so) - anyway, my position was that Lemmy is already being infected by similar.

Oh man did people get salty; but I swear it’s only been getting worse.

I manually disabled all link types for the YouTube app, then went to the settings for NewPipe and enabled all supported link types to open there instead. That way I can use YouTube for the occasional video that fails to open in NewPipe, but clicking on a link will open NewPipe by default. It’s tedious, but so worth it.

I’m pretty certain push notifications have been shown to be grossly insecure actually…

So, once somebody figures out how to easily bypass this, that’ll work in my favor in the end I hope.

Still no justification for this money to be funneled to felon musk.