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I disagree with this. Definitely there are many examples of organised religion being perfect case studies of the adage that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. But there are also many ways that religious communities support each other and their wider communities, outside just providing a doctrinal "granule of truth".

Sikhism I think is most famous for this, and I feel like at least where I live whenever something bad happens in the background on the news I see Sikh communities mobilising to render assistance.

Similarly, the denomination I was brought up in (church of christ) has always been oriented, both in theory and practice, around doing community work first and debating doctrine a fairly distant second (also, each church of christ congregation is an independent entity, which I think has probably contributed to it being able to maintain its strong community-first focus over time).

Re: the specific argument about a coverup being impossible, there have been plenty of people over the years with claims like this. The idea that this guy is talking about what "a friend of a friend" said is also a very ungenerous and inaccurate claim, given the Grush's established credentials.

Otherwise, I agree it's hard to believe, but I don't think this guy has actually "debunked" it as he claims in his hashtag. The options are that he's lying or crazy, and he doesn't seem crazy, and if he's lying he's going to jail. The most plausible explanation for it not being true is that it's part of some complex psy-op, but that also is a fairly outlandish theory (albeit not as difficult to accept on its face).

To be fair I don't think it's that he's not ending of a "legitimate businessman", I think that's the way that all large corporations are and if anything he's learned too well how to think like CEO.

But yeah otherwise I agree with you.

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I really like that raising the rates for columns and reviews are part of their stretch goals. Thanks for posting. :)

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Sure, but maybe every instance doesn't have to be tightly federated. There will be some instances where broad federation is their guiding principle, and some instances like Beehaw where their guiding principle is creating and maintaining a particular atmosphere.

Hrm actually, it seems like now you can do it without a third party app -- https://www.makeuseof.com/run-two-copies-of-app-android/

I mean, you can create two accounts. I have my Beehaw account as well as my startrek.website account, for example. I use them both for different things, and they both have different vibes. I quite like it tbh.

Thank you. :)

Based on this post, it seems like the mods were responding specifically to having a lot of issues with regard to users from that specific instance. I feel like there are likely plenty of smaller &/or more niche instances with open registration who don't attract users looking specifically to troll Beehaw.

In Android you can use an app to clone apps so you can sign in to different accounts, maybe something like that exists for iOS also? I appreciate the frustration wrt not being able to see a fair amount of content, however I do think it's a temporary issue -- as you say Mlem is already working on that.