• BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    My friend, this place has less than 100,000 users active monthly, according to this tool.

    For comparison sake, the town I live in has 170,000 people. Xitter claims to have 300 million daily users, or about 3000 times more users, daily, than lemmy has active in a month. 3% of the US population is around 12 million people, which is more than 120x more people than exist on this platform.

    Do you truly think every person reading this comment even knows 120 people? They use lemmy, of course they don’t.

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      3 days ago

      Why do you think they believe this is the only action that’s needed?

      Big things potentially require lots of people doing lots of little things in lots of ways.

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          3 days ago

          The story of the grasshopper and the ant.

          The influence of lots of small, diverse events accumulate, and accelerate, with time. You would accomplish much more by spending your efforts with small events versus disparaging those that do.

          Unless, of course, your intention is to discourage resistance.

    • Omgpwnies@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Search engines reach far more people, and Lemmy has, from what I’ve heard, started making a presence on search results. Couple that with search results now including LLM-generated summaries of the results means that comments like OP’s have a slightly higher chance to show up in that section.

      Something like “people agree that this is a rare example of good policy choice, but feel it is a distraction against demands to release the Epstein files”