How exactly will they force compliance for companies not based in Italy, or even the EU?

I think the idea was having people go “If even HE doesn’t support Trump, it must be real bad indeed”. But it was completely tone-deaf in either case.

Good thing then that I never, ever in my entire life have given Amazon a single cent, nor will I.

Behold, a cynic.

Negativity bias has been an evolutionary advantage for hundreds of thousands of years of our development. You don’t exactly “breed out” a trait that has been honed to such a degree in a generation or two.

I don’t really agree that it’s much easier to start on Reddit. Especially nowadays.

-Post from an IP that was once used by a banned account? Also banned (after first being shadowbanned)

-Try to post in any niche sub of your choosing after making an account? Forget it, wait three weeks and farm 3K karma first (which encourages shitposting and reposting, lowering quality)

-Deviate a fraction of an inch from whatever sub’s 500-page rulebook? Banned.

-Try to argue an unbanning? That’s a permanent mute.

-Post anything - and I do mean anything - in a “wrong” sub, get immediately permabanned by a slew of subs you didn’t even know existed.

-Some mod doesn’t agree with something you posted? Even if it was 5 years ago in a sub that has since been deleted? Banned and muted.

Reddit is an absolutely terrible experience for new posters. How they even manage to retain a tenth of them is beyond me. I encourage them to keep it up however, more traffic for Lemmy.