The self-selection of Lemmy vs Reddit users is an inherently stratifying medium. Lemmy is also distinctly left-leaning in a way that Reddit is not.
Having experienced several waves of Reddit absorbing Facebook exoduses, and the subsequent worsening of experience, I can only infer the same pattern will exist in Reddit slop migrating to Lemmy.
If anything, I'd prefer that entire crowd return to Facebook to bloviate their opinions and Boomerisms ad naseum.
Which is a long way to say that Google exists as a prime failure of the government's onus to regulate businesses. Google should never have been allowed to creep its tentacles into so many facets of life.
Just as with most technology, the Feds have been turning a blind eye, and pocketing cash while tech robber barons privatized existence.
Start sometime around 2008 when the US went into overdrive to punish the most vulnerable for Wall St's unending, unrestrained greed. Then you'll additionally benefit from 14 years of open-purse monetary policy, as the Fed handed out cash like Halloween candy. Then get yo self some sweet sweet Covid relief.
You reached the right conclusion, but muddied your own waters.
Texas would invade to steal and subjugate. Texan "leaders" wants slaves and resources and New Mexico, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana are right on the doorstep.
"Okay, but how can we monetize those feelings to harmonize with our end-state goals?"