YearOfTheCommieDesktop [they/them]

health insurance companies are some of the most evil things on the planet, and its a fucking stiff competition.

Could be very very good shit. Shame I’m not using android anymore

you wouldn’t want to force names to be unique, but offering it as a suggestion, the same way similar posts pop up below when you are creating a post with a similar title/URL, that could be useful!

Also, the deepest faith you can have in a political ideology is when you don’t recognize you have one.

This is a powerful truth. Some of the most critical actors in maintaining the status quo are the mass of people who are convinced it is the neutral, natural way of the world and not informed by politics at all.

Yeah this. No association is implied just by using open source software. You don’t have to agree with Richard Stallman to use GNU utils, nor linus torvalds to use linux, it doesn’t make you suspect politically, it’s just software.

If you don’t wanna be associated with communists then don’t use a communist instance (hexbear, lemmygrad), that’s fine. even if they don’t make their own instance they can pick and choose their associations. Frankly, being associated with reddit is far worse than being associated with commies.

I think the ama is over? But I like this idea! Not sure of the implementation headaches, but it seems a lot more feasible than the other proposals I’ve heard, most of which involve making community names globally unique