Freedom of the press is explicitly called out in the first ammendment:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
My instance runs great... I've got it on NVME drives and a system with 64GB of RAM. When I was hosting it on Digital Ocean, I often ran into performance issues with RAM (I think I just had 2GB). Since the switch it's been rock solid.
How is it "destroying the town" when the measure explicitly returns redistricting control to the independent commission in 2031? It's temporary by design to address the moment we are in.
Have you personally asked the IT department about this? I would be concerned that they were told "no" by IT, so they are asking you to do it behind their back.
These people wouldn't be eligible to vote until they achieved citizenship, so maybe they are figuring that the optics of following through might be mobilizing for the existing voter base.
It's 100% about being on topic. It's especially important when most people see the content in the context of a mixed feed where they might upvote a news story that they like without noticing which community it was posted in.
To quote: "War is not uplifting. Fascism is not uplifting. Pollution is not uplifting. Murder is not uplifting. Famine is not uplifting. Bigotry is not uplifting. Genocide in particular is not uplifting."
Any of those things ENDING is uplifting news, but celebrating because a despot stubbed his toe is not uplifting.
Also, I don't think "catharsis" and "schadenfreude" are interchangeable. When people talk about schadenfreude they are specifically talking about feeling good because something bad happened. Catharsis is a much broader term that would likely be too restrictive for this type of community.
It loads fine for me, and apparently for 72 other people. If there are rules about what domains are acceptable, that information should be posted on the sidebar. Until then, votes will have to be a sufficient measure of what the community thinks about it.
Luna - Diljit Dosanjh