Only if you compare 3 roads to 1 track. If you’re arguing about which costs more then it doesn’t make sense to include the cost of the whole 3 lanes as all that traffic doesn’t need to go by rail.

or "/r/dontdeadopeninside

because it’s a fake sign designed to be read wrong.

IDK, I think brigading / vote manipulation has more of an impact than most realise.

Yeah you’re right. It’s not a binary choice between echo chamber and non-echo chamber. It’s just an open community where trolling antisocial behaviour is discouraged. If admins of an instance are encouraging antisocial behaviour then the only solution is to defederate.

The blocking instances thing won’t necessarily solve this problem.

You might be able to block posts from an instance but not comments or votes.

You’re right of course, but it’s still something that the fediverse is trying to figure out.

Maybe not so small?

I never encountered these math symbols but for loops are like step 3 in any programming language after variables and conditionals