Ulrich

Good work!

Photos are hosted on your local instance. Looks like your instance admin is @ticoombs@reddthat.com

Can you elaborate on “automated radio show”?

That’s weird, it returns a bunch of different instances for me:

Try the search function?

This is why I use email aliases.

You’re literally in denial of the definition of words.

No. You are.

If you don’t acknowledge that he’s a scumbag while you give him an expression of approval then it makes it seem you approve of the person overall.

It may “seem” that way to you if you’re not objective but it doesn’t make it true.

That’s not a crazy expectation

It actually is a crazy and ridiculous expectation.

He did not “praise Trump”, he praised a single appointment that he made. This is the kind of tribal toxic bullshit that stifles any sort of progress. If Trump does something right (not that he did), you need to be allowed to say that without being accused of being a nazi or someone claiming that you “endorsed” him.

when I say he endorsed Trump, I am saying that he supported or approved something he did

Then you are misinformed about what it means to endorse someone. Or just intentionally twisting the definition to allow for ragebait. Contexts and learning what words are used in them is kind of important. Maybe you ought to learn that sometime.

I don’t give a flying fuck if Trump ever made some recipe

They didn’t ask if you cared about a recipe. You’re tossing aside the point of their comment and getting on your pedestal to rant.

I really hate beating this dead horse, but it’s saying Hitler actually did make some good art pieces, so we should ignore the fact that he was the executor of a grand scale war

Saying “Hitler made good art pieces” would also not be an endorsement.

Proton CEO endorsed Trump

This is a blatant lie. That never happened.

OP doesn’t always respond either. Good news is there are lots of other people who can see your comments and reply to them.

What is it that you think drives engagement when a human posts a link vs. a bot?

A bot that posts links to external content isn’t driving engagement or fostering discussion, it’s just sending people to other sites.

Every post on Lemmy has a comments section, even the ones with external links…

Browsing All and seeing post after post of links with no discussions is just depressing

You can be the change you want to see in the world.

Okay I was being hyperbolic. The vast majority of Lemmy is links.

The linked content itself drives engagement.

The point of posting it on Lemmy is to surface interesting content via community votes and foster discussion.

That’s like, all of Lemmy. What are you expecting?