New account but I've been using burner accounts and lurking since the sub got banned. I've been seeing all the standard liberal brainworms again for the first time since 
and everytime it's an account from another federation. I was tepidly against federation at first but this has been entertaining, like the old days of 
people who wandered into the sub.
I gotta imagine this will only last another week before everyone defederates us, but let's enjoy it for now.
I was thinking earlier about how powerful it makes us that we can't see downvotes, like we could be in a thread getting -50 on every comment and just keep chugging away without a care. This makes it even better.
Removing downvotes has been a blessing in several ways.
It also helps that like 20 people jump in with
and shit, so downvoting it all is annoying and time consuming for anyone who wants to.