They are “journalism vegans”. They are choosing to abstain from actual journalism for clickbaiting, herd mentality, and personal lack of skill reasons.

tildes.net is still around, lel

thanks for passing that along. I could tell something was up by looking at this:

https://grafana.lem.rocks/d/bdid38k9p0t1cf/federation-health-single-instance-overview?orgId=1&var-instance=slrpnk.net&var-remote_instance=lemmy.world