For example, what should be shown when you subscribe to a video hosting service through a Lemmy instance? An aggregated list of thumbnails? A list of videos? What is a video hosting service to a link aggregator.
While I agree with the general premise, this is actually something a link aggregator would handle well. Translating, say, a YouTube video to a Reddit or Lemmy post is just title to title, video as the link, description as the text, replies as comments. Despite being shown very differently and used for different purposes, they're about as similar on the backend as any two formats. Converting Tweets to Reddit posts and vice-versa is more difficult.
You can select multiple languages in the box. The "Undetermined" option is for all posts without a language set. Most people do not set a language on their posts. So unselecting it will hide most posts from you.
This might be desirable if you, say, only speak French and don't want your feed clogged up with unmarked English-language posts. But it also means that if someone made a post in French but forgot to tag it, you won't see that post either.
If you're, say, bilingual English/Spanish, you would probably want Undetermined, English, and Spanish selected in the box.
I think things are more nuanced in China than most people give credit for. The difference between the market system in China versus the market system in the United States is that in China, Business is subordinate to the Party, while in America, the Parties are subordinate to Business.
Communist Party leaders don't need campaign donations from billionaires to win elections, and every business of substantial size has party officials stationed in their offices to check for compliance with State mandates. The same way Americans are taught the value of Liberal Democracy in schools by default, in China, children are given Marxist literature and treat Socialism as an obvious moral good. America is a cynical country, and because of this, we view all other countries with the same cynicism. China is not a cynical country. Chinese people actually believe in their government, and in Socialism. And Communist Party officials are people; most are middle-class (much less oligarchic than the millionaire-stuffed American Congress) and believe generally in Socialist ideals. Just like how in America bureaucrats need to believe that they are "doing the right thing" for the preservation of Liberal Democracy, in China, Chinese bureaucrats believe they are building Socialism. Ultimately, this belief is the only important thing; as long as the Chinese people do not become cynical, the Socialism is real. What Westerners on the internet think of it does not matter a bit.
You only need to look at how China deals with the super-rich. Despite only having a couple hundred of them, China has executed dozens of billionaires; further dozens have been murdered, committed suicide, or jailed. I can only find data from 2011 (72 dead, no data for prisoners), but they haven't stopped, and I would be willing to bet the number is well over 100 by today. If Billionaires were truly in charge in China, don't you think they would object to the government executing and imprisoning them?
Ultimately, while they deserve it, high inheritance taxes on the Petite Bourgeoisie are not the goal; it's very high inheritance taxes on the super-rich. If a man with a billion dollars dies, 950 million (if not more) should go to the government.
Some leftists believe in complete police abolition, but unless they're an Anarchist or something (and not to be taken seriously) the goal is the re-foundation of a more ethical police system. Burn it down and rebuild it from the ground up, with some important stipulations:
De-militarization. Police do not need armored vehicles, or "riot gear" for that matter.
Liberalization. Police should be required to go through a values test to weed out those with fascistic tendencies.
Mandatory local recruitment. Police need to actually live in the neighborhoods they police. Just owning/renting some property there is not enough.
Dependent funding. Police should not get to keep income from fines and seizures, so they are not incentivized to give out as many fines and confiscate as much property as possible.
Sub-National Monarchies are really common outside the Western world, especially in Africa. Many pre-colonial Kingdoms still exist, have borders and monarchs and subjects, they just aren't sovereign nations. The Sokoto Caliphate is a big example.
I joined Hexbear 3 years ago (day 1) and Lemmygrad about a year ago. But I could never really "get into" it back then because that was before federation. Since the Reddit Exodus Lemmy has become more of a Reddit replacement for me since there's enough "dumb content" for me to consume on my breaks at work.
I work in the meat department and you cannot imagine how often I get someone from a different part of the store bringing me something (like a pet bringing me a present) like "Oh yeah I found this 10 lb. pork butt behind the cheezits" or "This tenderloin fell behind the register and we only noticed it because it started to smell" (real stories)
One of the best parts of this - especially if the trend continues - is that it makes the "Extinguish" part of a possible "Embrace, Expand, Extinguish" attack by Meta's Threads more difficult.
Cutting off access to a bunch of tiny self-hosted private instances won't even ping on their radar. But cutting off federation with official government platforms? That's different.
Most (Many? It's a lot) European countries have official state religions. The Church of England, Church of Scotland, the Lutheran Churches of Scandinavia.
In Germany, if you are associated with a religion, tithes are taken directly out of your paycheck like taxes.
Keep in mind one of the biggest parts of Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is funding Charter Schools (a type of private school). The foundation is so large they functionally set the curriculum in our school system (since schools that don't follow their curriculum don't get funding).
It's not about charity, it's about privatization and control.
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While I agree with the general premise, this is actually something a link aggregator would handle well. Translating, say, a YouTube video to a Reddit or Lemmy post is just title to title, video as the link, description as the text, replies as comments. Despite being shown very differently and used for different purposes, they're about as similar on the backend as any two formats. Converting Tweets to Reddit posts and vice-versa is more difficult.