Funny, I came here to make the exact same analogy. I totally agree - a mature kid and an immature adult have a lot of overlap.
Mastadon is to Twitter as Lemmy is to Reddit. So you don't really follow topics, but you can follow people if you want (I never have) and you can join communities on the topics you're interested in. Some of the things you've mentioned, like Linux, are very popular/prolific here.
My advice is to set your browsing by All (and whichever of the other one makes sense to you; I usually do New, but sometimes one of the Top ones), then when you see something posted in a community that you're interested in, instead of clicking on the post, click on the community name. In the sidebar, you can subscribe to the community. After you've been doing that a while, if you want you can change your browsing to Subscribed.
There's also a Lemmy Explorer, and you can set it to Communities at the top and find the ones that are the most active or are on the subjects you're looking for.
Having your posts seen is mostly a matter of posting to active communities with engaging topics.
Welcome and good luck!
So these people were not only depraved, they were idiots, too? Did they decide that their home Internet was too slow for their illegal content, so they'd do it at work? Crazy.
Apparently the people who have to review flagged items on social media, including law enforcement, really do suffer emotional issues. Like having to watch horrific child porn or torture videos. I get that someone has to do it, but I just couldn't subject myself to that.
Are you saying that she's a bot or a troll?
I always liked this one. And I always get this one in my head whenever I encounter any of the words.
Not my favorite one, but I really liked Kliban. Very surreal sometimes.
It isn't. We really do have a two party system. Voting for a third party that's closer to your ideology just takes a vote away from the major party candidate that's the closest to it. We have several examples in the past where a third party candidate cost an election for the closest major party candidate, and zero examples where a third party candidate came close to winning. Roosevelt came by far the closest when he ran independent in 1912 and got 27% (which is why Wilson win).
I'm not sure I've seen that one, but it does seem to have the same vibe.
I think you responded to the wrong comment
Exactly right. They might consider it initially, but then they'd realize that they got an increase in support from the MAGA base and they'd lean into it.