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Drewfro66 @ Drewfro66 @lemmygrad.ml Posts 2Comments 245Joined 3 yr. ago
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I think this, especially the second issue, is something the Fediverse (Lemmy in particular) will have to work through at some point.
If Reddit bans a subreddit on a controversial subject, it's banned, it's gone. But if a Lemmy instance defederates with another instance for hosting controversial content, you just find another instance that doesn't.
I think the real issue is with federation in general and the creation of bubbles: there is a certain subset of users who just want full federation and full visibility, including sites that host lolicon, fascism, and other problematic content. Even if they aren't, say, fascists themselves, but just free-speech absolutists. The issue is that any instance that doesn't defederate with, say, Fascist instances, is tainted, either by association ("this instance refused to defederate from fascist instances, so we're defederating from them too") or because problem users are attracted to it ("people in our comment sections from this instance have been defending fascism, so we're defederating to keep them out").
And there really isn't a good solution to the issue, aside from hosting your own tiny client-only server.
the chinese might not have destroyed our democracy for corporate interests, but they are the ones who kill people for thinking different, and are the ones who invade other countries because of "reasons",
The People's Republic of China has never invaded a foreign country in it's history, with the exception of Vietnam, and minor participation in anti-terror operations - alongside NATO - in Mali and Somalia.
The idea of China as a territorially expansionist, politically interventionist power is a myth. These are both directly against Chinese foreign policy; what their foreign policy actually is in writing and practice is to build trust and economic codependency with the de facto governments of anyone who will have them.
My mom loved this game back in the day. She tried to get back into it recently but sort of bounced off. If there's any game that deserves a sequel, it's Puzzle Pirates.
It fulfills a niche that few other games (none that I know about) fills, an MMO where the primary gameplay isn't an RPG but a series of puzzle games; where most importantly, you can specialize, only needing to play the puzzles you enjoy (unless you're captaining your own ship solo, in which case you need to be able to at least adequately perform all of the puzzles necessary for keeping a ship afloat).
I think it's wonderful for giving an audience used to shitty Facebook match-3 games a more involved and social experience of what games can be.
You don't have to qualify your opinion that Threads should be defederated by bringing up the lolicon instance. They are two completely separate instances and the questions to defederate from either are completely separate.
Burggit, Exploding-Heads, and Threads each have their own reasons for defederation (lolicon, nazism, corporate influence) and it doesn't make any sense to bring up one when discussing the other.
I think the best we can hope for in the long-term is an email-like adoption.
Individuals self-hosting major servers on donation money is not sustainable. This sucks for the people for whom this is "what Lemmy is", but it's the truth. There will come a time when Lemmy-at-large gets so big that Lemmy.world has to close (or de-federate), as users and content will outgrow voluntary revenue.
What we can hope for is that Lemmy is not taken over by one huge corporate instance, but instead 3-4 competing, inter-federated corporate instances. A Meta instance, a Google instance, and a Bytedance instance, for example. In addition to these, smaller (non-social-media) companies and institutions (game companies, universities, political organizations, etc.) would run their own Lemmy instances for the benefit of their members and users.
Lemmy is an internet protocol, like Email. Just like anyone can start their own email server, anyone can start their own Lemmy "Instance".
An "Instance" is a website. It is wholly controlled by the people who run (or rent) the servers. "Lemmygrad.ml" is an instance. So is "Lemmy.world" and "Lemmy.ml"
Instances have Communities, which are like subreddits. But Instances can also "Federate" with each other, so you can see and comment on posts from your home instance on federated instances. This is why, when you're browsing Lemmygrad's front page with browsing set to "All" (instead of "Local" or "Subscribed"), you'll see posts from "asklemmy@lemmy.ml" or "Fediverse@lemmy.world".
The developers of the Lemmy protocol are Marxists. They run their own instance, lemmy.ml, but it is not an explicitly ideological instance like lemmygrad.ml. There is a Nazi instance, exploding-heads. Most major instances do not federate with them, except the shitty "free speech" ones. There is no way to prevent Nazis from using Lemmy, because no-one owns Lemmy. It would be like trying to prevent Nazis from using Email.
Lemmygrad federates with most instances, except porn instances and fascist instances. Many instances choose not to federate with Lemmygrad due to "Tankie" hysteria.
As funny as it seems to say, I feel that "Conservativism" is unfairly maligned. Most of the bad things about what is called "Conservativism" are not really parts of Conservativism at all but are ideologies associated with Conservativism - "Rugged Individualism", Neoliberalism in general, religious fundamentalism.
We'll probably disagree on this point (and that's okay), but you can look at China. China is a very conservative country, with strong cultural values regarding family, social conformism, and civic nationalism. It is Conservativism without Capitalism, Individualism, or Religion.
As I've gotten older I find myself being more of a conservative in the true definition of the term: a preference for slow and steady change, caution towards new ideas, and some amount of reverence for tradition.
The issue is that the Republican party is not a Conservative Party. Joe Biden is a Conservative. The Republican party is a party for Reaction and Neoliberalism.
Turned the screen upside down with the keyboard shortcut (whatever it is)
A friend of mine just opened up the Spanish teacher's tower while she was out of the room and stole her RAM. He was in IT and was the student assigned to try and fix it too, which was hilarious.