Out of the loop

I have noticed posts and comments mocking posts which have a mild curse word crossed out or ‘censored’ in some way. Yes, it was here before, but now I feel it increased. This post was my final straw: https://lemmy.world/post/34998482

Have a look, you'll see what I mean. They seem to think the site is dead or dying.

Saw people talking in comments at several places now, expressing animosity towards them to say the least, always presented as something that everyone seems to know about.

Why are so many companies updating their privacy policy lately, I noticed many companies including reddit and some games I play updating their privacy policies? Why is that, is it just a coincidence or something big happened?

I've seen people posting tweets from public figures talking about alligators, seen other people joking about alligators. It appears to me that the issue is political, not environmental, but I don't fully get the picture.

I'm finding it hard to find concise info on what's been going on in/around Iran. Can anyone throw a brief timeline of events for me? Pretty pretty please?

Why are we doing them? What did I miss?

For instance: https://lemmy.ca/comment/16835886

Disclaimer: I'm not American, I don't live in the US

Its been a while but I always wondered why the us decided to Lift the ban?

I've seen a couple posts in the top in the last 6 hours feed, and it seems like people are really up in arms about this functional programming stuff. Not really sure what it even is.

He expressed that a shutdown will favor Trump and Musk, so sounds reasonable?

With PewDiePie switching to Linux, I've seen more and more post with him and they often get locked.

I almost hate to ask this since it's come up so much already, but what's with the Dragon Rider drama? Like what's going on

We have new members because of people fleeing, I'm seeing communities being archived, and just generally more than the regular Reddit being Reddit.

Seriously, what’s the significance of the word? There are many teens in my neighborhood, as well as me having a teenage sister, who laugh hysterically at the word.

I am a self proclaimed wiki-phile, I always donated when I could. It was kind of like going to the library without the fresh book smell.

I've heard Reddit is setting themselves up for another major fumble and that it relates to how much Spez is a fanboy of Elon Musk.

There's the whole TikTok thing, talk about EV cars, and now DeepSeek. I know I've heard my own stuff too, but I want to see what other people are hearing and seeing?

In one case, the same spot in the Gulf of Mexico was labelled "Reclaimed People's Climate Mao Museum".

I saw a meme about something of fake frames, but i don't know what happened.

I'm sure some political talk will be unavoidable but I'd like to keep this dry and to the point if we could.

Title says it all. I see a lot of chatter, but what's going on?

I see literally nothing but memes and tweet screenshots. An overview of what happened would really help fill me in

Seen a lot of memes about it, no idea what's going on.

Is the word Halloween not acceptable anymore?

I saw the apology statement and the original tweet but I'm genuinely confused about what people are mad about?

How likely or close are we to another pandemic? What would be the most likely government responses?

What happened in the vegan community?

I keep seeing him but can't figure out his role in the memes. Is it random like the orb thing?