Sorry if it came across like I was implying that you should have commented there first – that was definitely not my intention! I actually considered making a post on my instance about it too, because I know some people primarily browse local stuff and would likely miss a post from another instance.

I just wanted to let you know it wasn’t just you and maybe encourage you to comment there, too, in the hope that more of us mentioning in each post that we’re having this problem might help lead to clues and a fix. 🙂

I just moments ago commented about this on another post – it’s not just you and not just lemmy.ml

Strangely enough, this has been happening to me when visiting hexbear.net through Firefox. (I haven’t tried other instances or browsers.) It hasn’t annoyed me enough (yet!) to look into it, but since you mentioned it, I wanted to chime in and say it’s not just you.

Edit: I saw this last night as I was falling asleep and didn’t reply then, and when I went looking for the post this morning to respond, I found one by another user on another instance with the same problem.

Since I returned from my visit, I have been trying to place my experiences there into a larger context. The reality on the ground is so devastating, and the future appears so bleak, that I have allowed myself to indulge in some counter-factual history and to entertain some hopeful speculations about a different future. I ask myself, what would have happened had the newly created state of Israel fulfilled its commitment to enact a constitution based on its Declaration of Independence? That same declaration which stated that Israel “will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel; it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture; it will safeguard the Holy Places of all religions; and it will be faithful to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations”.

this was a devastating read

wouldn’t it be simpler, easier, and less expensive to just do socialism