People from the countries we colonized find it really easy to come here legally. I don’t have exact figures, but I’m sure most are Moroccan or from other African countries.

Edit: I am Spanish, in case the context wasn’t clear.

If those numbers were so simple, Caracas would have streets paved with gold. It would be the Qatar of the Caribbean. That oil is there, but much of it is not accessible/profitable to extract

I feel sorry for anyone who has to go for work; I imagine tourists will choose another place to go.

If you think the presence of other groups would have changed that, you don’t understand how the algorithms of commercial social networks work. Twitter is actively promoting far-right content, and believing that occupying that space will change it is absurd; it only legitimizes it through institutional accounts.

It’s as if in the 1930s the communist party had actively participated in radio stations or newspapers affiliated with the Nazi party.

That kind of irrational fear of being left out is what keeps Musk as one of the richest and most powerful men in the world.

If all European politicians moved to mastodon, they would drag a bunch of journalists and media behind them. On Twitter, only four insignificant influencers and far-right spammers would remain; all serious debate would shift immediately.

I understand why you consider this problematic and I agree that, being such a massive platform, it worsens society as a whole. I also believe that the best thing you can do as an individual is to stop creating content on a platform like this, don’t participate; make your comments and contributions here or on another site where you feel comfortable and that they treat you like a human being and not like a lemon to be squeezed.

When you create content, contributions, or comments, you add value to the platform. One single contribution might not generate much, but if more and more people leave, Reddit will become less and less useful while the rest win

This guy was going to put a man on Mars by 2015 and make the hyperloop the next big thing; with the latter, he prevented investment in trains in the USA. After hearing this, I can only recommend that you join a union; you’re going to need it.

I think you can block the entire instance, not community by community or user by user.

You can block it for yourself if that works for you. You don’t have to limit other people’s options.

The rest of the world: oh my god