You can show up in any country on a tourist visa then work in restaurants, try and enroll in school or figure out how to kick it til you get residency. It is not impossible, That’s how everyone in my family (around 45 people) moved from Iran to the US and Europe over the past 40 years

Who cares? Lemmy is literally beta software and it isn’t corporate growth driven social media. Also it doesn’t have to replace anything. I use a lot of apps. I use both Lemmy and Reddit and always have. I have Instagram too, I also use both Twitter and Mastodon. I have Signal, Snapchat, Linkedin and Nextdoor.I like Lemmy, it is different than Reddit and that is fine. I like it better and have my own server.

Sorry Fritz, you’re a Nazi lol

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Seems like a you problem. My cooking community is doing well.

Net splits are definitely a thing on IRC lol

The idea that it can be or should be a drop in reddit replacement for people who want to scroll an app while they take a shit. The most fun on Lemmy I have is with my community for vegan cooking that is self contained for the most part and something I couldn’t ever get off the ground for years on reddit. I think each community should be essentially hosted on its own instance with other instances being for user accounts and identity that can access the community. The front page of my instance would just be my single on topic community.

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I take solace in the fact your life is probably so terrible you have to hurdle insults at refugees to make your pitiful friendless life slightly more tolerable and that you will die alone. Eat shit.

Fuck you. You ignorant mother fucker. I can’t go back because my entire home town was erased from earth and when my parents brought me to the US, I am now not allowed to leave. I do not have a passport, I am only allowed to travel for work, and in order to get one I would have to pay a lot of money and swear allegiance to a place I hate living in then be definitely stuck here for the rest of my life where I will never be able to qualify for entry to another country or return to Iran when the conditions there improve. This doesn’t absolve me of taxes of course, I was forced to pay for the destruction of my Iraqi brothers, I was forced to pay for the destruction of my Afghani brothers and all I can do here is watch from a golden prison while you stupid fucks say kind words with the forked tongue of a serpent.

Iran is that way because you made it that way. The US overthrew the democracy in Iran and installed a king who spent all the nations wealth on weapons that were never used and then rotted in the desert while people starved and were killed by SAVAK. When students overthrew the government the power vacuum led to Islamic fundamentalists, which the US created as their agents against “godless” soviets, came in and instituted those conditions. It is YOUR FAULT that LGTBTQ people are harassed, Its YOUR FAULT that woman are treated the way they are there. You insult Iran for something YOU did you ignorant fuck. This is why I hate you. This is why you are my enemy.

I am from Iran and I can never go back. I am a refugee of the Iran Iraq war. You definitely are my enemy and I will never be your friend or accept your friendship. I hate you and everything you represent. خانه‌ام را نابود کردی و اهمیتی نمی‌دهی.

Americans are all delusional and I can’t wait for your idiotic election to be over so you can shut the fuck up about it as you lose all your rights and fuck up the rest of the world no matter who is the leader of the shit hole country. Death to America.

Not reddit as a whole, it is individual moderators with the automod. My small community has a pinned lemmy link that is visible and the posts to the sub are restricted.

I’m doing my part with weed memes

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