While I generally agree, I think people are getting too hung up on the fact that the missing crew are all wealthy - that's not really the point.
It's a fascinating story because we are dealing with a potential (albeit at this stage incredibly unlikely) deep-sea rescue of the sort that has never been attempted before, at depths that only a handful of craft are capable of even reaching, and we know that time is quickly running out.
Then you have the angle that the company that runs the expeditions is alleged to have ignored early safety warnings about the vessel's ability to reach the extreme depths as advertized, combined with the CEO's application of the "move fast and break things" technocratic mentality to deep sea exploration.
Even if the occupants of the submersible were regular joes, or even (at the risk of sounding crass) refugees, it would still be a attention-grabbing news item.
The problem is that the vast majority of users just lurk, a minority just comment, and maybe less than one in a hundred actually submit content.
Take yourself as an example - it's great you've been actively commenting but you haven't actually submitted anything for people to engage with yet. And therein lies the problem.
At this early growth stage, Lemmy/Kbin need as much content as possible so that new users see the value in joining. If that means that mods have to take stuff from Reddit and submit it here, then so be it.
Can I ask which values you changed to alter the colors for the instance name on each post and the community links down the side? I've had a look through Lemmy's default CSS but there's so much stuff in there, I can't be bothered to go through and figure out which values are which
Again, the removal of the community doesn't appear to have anything to do with the content of said community.
The most likely explanation is that members of that community went over to lemmy.world and broke the server rules, which lead to their community being censured there.
If you're looking for a debunking on a specific idea, claim, or theory then there's !debunkthis@lemmy.world.
!Skeptic is more for general discussion.
As moderator of both, I'm going to be encouraging open mindedness as much as possible, because as @WowSuchInternetz said, critical thinking goes both ways.
As long as people are civil to each other, it's all gravy.
What seems to have happened is that the admin from lemmy.world removed that community from lemmy.world due to rule violations. You can see this in the public modlog.
People shouldn't be jumping to conclusions since we don't know the specifics.
While I generally agree, I think people are getting too hung up on the fact that the missing crew are all wealthy - that's not really the point.
It's a fascinating story because we are dealing with a potential (albeit at this stage incredibly unlikely) deep-sea rescue of the sort that has never been attempted before, at depths that only a handful of craft are capable of even reaching, and we know that time is quickly running out.
Then you have the angle that the company that runs the expeditions is alleged to have ignored early safety warnings about the vessel's ability to reach the extreme depths as advertized, combined with the CEO's application of the "move fast and break things" technocratic mentality to deep sea exploration.
Even if the occupants of the submersible were regular joes, or even (at the risk of sounding crass) refugees, it would still be a attention-grabbing news item.