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Cake day: August 16th, 2023

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    1. There probably are some right-wing instances, but I’m guessing they all got defederated for… reasons…

    2. Conservatives already have their own platforms e.g. truth social, twitter, 4chan, others

    3. The very format of Lemmy is more egalitarian. For example, it gives an enormous amount of power to individual users to filter out unwanted content, and decentralizes content moderation over a variety of instances. This doesn’t appeal to some right-wing ideologues who seem to value more hierarchical, centralized systems. Basically, Lemmy is more democratic (or has the potential to be more democratic) than other platforms.


  • Based on a quick google search, the jury is out on whether artificial sweeteners affect blood sugar and insulin at all.

    A study from the National Library of Medicine says they do but cites no source and the study itself isn’t reaaly about that; it does demonstrate that diabetics that drink artificial sweeteners have higher insulin resistance, but is that a causal relationship? If so, which is causing which?

    The mayo clinic says straight up that artificial sweeteners don’t affect blood sugar at all.

    There is a response to release insulin purely on tasting something sweet that’s been demonstrated in some mammals using artificial sweeteners, but nobody’s been able to consistently reproduce it in humans.

    So… Eh? If there’s any kind of scientific consensus on this it isn’t clear to the layperson. Maybe I’ll start measuring my blood sugar before and after having a coke zero just to see for myself.