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I believe you are mistaken, as that one is actually Transformation, since it fundamentally and irreversibly alters the properties of the recipient substance!:-)

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PieFed has some interesting thoughts along these lines.

I actively expect to never see such a thing in Lemmy though.

Bold to presume that we would want to survive it.

Fwiw Musk says that he wants to leave Earth and go to Mars, which is great news for the rest of us:-).

Yes there is that. It's a tricky one too bc likely if you were to ask the kid, they would consent to whatever the family says to do. On the other hand, it's definitely not "informed consent".

Then again, I choose not to become thought police, so long as the parents themselves give informed consent. The alternative would be to take the child away from their parents, which is also a bad outcome.

Like I said, it's "tricky".

Unpopular opinion: I actually respect this. It's a personal decision not put upon anyone else, has nothing to do with political mis/disinformation, and is entirely consistent with the rest of their beliefs.

I don't have to agree with them to respect how they choose to live their lives. Especially if they will keep their kids in seclusion if displaying symptoms and wear masks themselves when coming into town.

Maybe they'll die, but that's not my call to make, nor can I force them to live my way (nor do I want to).

Lemmy.ml enacts censorship in this manner as well

I was talking about censorship in general, but you might be right specifically about Luigi mentions on those instances, I would not know.

There are whole entire communities dedicated to discussion of this effect - e.g. !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works.

Your example removed comment is fair, although done by a community mod rather than as the OP article here suggests done without the Reddit sub mods even being able to see the comments prior to removal. Then again, Lemmy.World is rather authoritian on the spectrum. You can always move your account to some other instance that you prefer better btw, like lemmy.dbzer0.com if you want a more anarchist experience or slrpnk.net for communism.

The beauty of Lemmy is not that we are a so-called "free speech platform" - bc we are definitely NOT that! - but rather that we can easily shift over to somewhere else if need be, even spin up our very own instance (that one takes resources, time, and technical knowledge).

For example, I've given up on most of the largest communities on Lemmy.world, most of the time, and subscribe rather to smaller versions elsewhere.

They've already been caught doing that - well, not for disinformation spreading but for engagement appearance, around the time Reddit was doing its IPO so needed to hike its stats to give to advertisers as quickly as possible. While entire posts, comment for comment, though with different usernames but the identical responses to the identical questions, and then deeper responses to those, and so forth.

So they don't need the appearance of older accounts - they can manufacturer whatever they need, from scratch already. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if they created "10 year old" accounts at will.

Apparently saying [some stuff] is now against the rules too even though they never told us

Lemmy.ml enacts censorship in this manner as well, as too does Midwest.social. But there are so very many other instances that do not, making the former easy to avoid while being able to engage with a ton of content:-).

What if the USA decides to side with Russia against Germany?

I stared at this title for so very long...

Stuff happens, but don't change it now - if we got to have that experience, everyone can do it too!? 😀