I would be concerned about the privacy implications, but imo it is ok to do if it makes you feel better and isn’t causing problems in your life. Seems kind of similar to something like writing fanfiction or keeping a diary, only you have a tool to help prompt what you write.

Why? Wouldn’t it be harder to get enough votes to win general elections as third parties than to win primaries?

I remember when I was in my early 20s in my first apartment, they were doing work on the gas lines and a maintenance person had to come in and reset the pilot light on the water heater and lightly chastised me for having a bunch of stuff stored to either side of it in its little closet due to safety concerns. I was too embarrassed to admit it but I had concluded that was just some metal junk someone had left taking up space in my closet, no idea it was the thing making my hot water work. I had even discussed this with my girlfriend at the time, who also came to the same conclusion about it, just some large metal junk inexplicably taking up most of the space of a small apartment closet.

If reddit implodes there’s not really any likelihood that refugees will seek out lemmy.

Why not? Isn’t that the reason for the influxes of users that have happened so far?

To me it would be worth it for Lemmy to get somewhat Eternal September’d if it meant Reddit being destroyed/replaced with something that isn’t a company.

It would only succeed in filtering really low effort bots anyway, because it’s really easy to programmatically check if you are shadowbanned. Someone who is trying to ban evade professionally is going to be way better equipped to figure it out than normal users.

Obviously, but the phrasing implies general support for gun control laws overall, and that isn’t close to what the survey was about. You can’t just launder the fact of support for the most popular one into support for the whole class of laws if that one is an outlier.

It’s a big stretch to say “wants more gun control laws” entirely based on support for background checks. Technically accurate but misleading.