Kichae @ Kichae @lemmy.ca

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You should understand the rules of the places you are posting to, yes.

This is why "let's pretend this is centralized social media and ignore the fact that we're all on different websites" is a bad idea, actually. You don't get to parachute into someone else's house and expect the rules of your own home apply.

Carney has a reputation for being a Keynesian, as far as I know, which means we should hope to see a new wave of federal investment in infrastructure and a topping up of social programs. The wave of painting him as "every CEO's best buddy" seems really weird in that context, because the CEO's mantra since Regan has been "austerity and tax cuts".

Like, yes, he's not going to overthrow the system, but maybe Loretto should spend more time talking smack about the NDP's choices in the last eight years rather than complaining that the party of the system isn't radical enough to upend it.

I'm so tired of the leftist obsession with the Liberals, and how our constant attempts to be "right" do more to empower the far right at the expense of the centre than they do to bolster the left in any meaningful way.

It's like the whole movement is built on being a wet blanket.

Hey b'y! How she goin'? Originally from Sydney Forks, currently living in Halifax. Welcome to Lemmy!

It totally depends on how many people one needs in a community, and how much content they're posting to feel served, doesn't it?

The persistent FOMO that has floated around Lemmy for the past two years has not been a positive for the space.

It's not "instance tribalism", it's making sure the website you're using isn't just some dumb terminal, and preventing the network from collapsing down to "lemmy.world and some empty tributes".

It's creating a space that is resilient to network splits, and accepting the fact that, at some point down the road, network splits will happen.

It's seeing the fediverse through a "Local+" lens, and encouraging people to treat their local site as meaningful. And rejecting the illusion that this is centralized social media.

Look for what you want on other sites. But there's no reason to look off-site first, if what serves you is already hosted locally.

Welcome, new neighbours!

While checking out this wacky new space, I'd like to emcourage everyone to check out the Local tab, either at the top of your feed, or in your app menu. That's where yoi'll find posts from "communitues" (Lemmy's "subreddits") that are hosted on lemm.ee!

A lot of communities are on different sites, and are ported (tarriff free!) for your enjoyment, but as with most things, it seems, the most sustainable way forward is to support Local!

One thing that many people new to Lemmy and the wider "fediverse" (because it's not just people on Lemmy-based websites that you'll find posting in the communities here, surprisingly enough) struggle with is that each website on the network has its own "name space", meaning that each community name can be used on each site. So, you can have, say, !pottery@lemmy.ca, !pottery@lemm.ee, and !pottery@lemmy.world. People often fret over "having to follow all of them", and wanting ways to collapse them into a single forum. And for a really niche topic, that might make sense (the thing to do, though, is just pick the one that best serves you and don't worry about what's going on on the other side of the fence). But for bigger topics, this "splintering" is often a godsend, since we can all have real discussions about the topic in smaller spaces. And, of course, !politics is going to just be meanibgfully different on .ca vs .ee vs .world.

If you look to local first, it becomes much easier to stop worrying and love the bomb distributed network.

There are solutions for the far arctic that aren't high density mesh networks polluting low earth orbit.

It's very similar to RSS in concept, just two way!

We do not need a constellation. We do not need more space junk.

We need fibre everywhere.

If you follow a community (or a user, if you're using something that allows following user accounts, which Lemmy does not) on a remote website, that website will send the website you're using a copy of all future content they post, and your website will include it in your feeds (as well as in the sites's 'global' feed). It doesn't really matter what software those other sites are running, so long as they A) use ActivityPub, B) have federation turned on, and C) have not blacklisted the website you're using.

It's like following a Twitter user or a Reddit subreddit from Facebook. And it highlights that that's a thing they all could have done, if they all wanted to work together to make it happen.

They didn't. Fedvierse developers do.

So, there are different types of... the jargon term is "actors", but you can think of them as, like, accounts. Each user has an 'actor' associated with it, and each 'actor' has an inbox. But there are also group actors, which are not individuals, but more like a system or bot account. Group actors just "boost" (reblog/re-shaere/etc.) content that is sent to them.

You can follow other actors, both on your own website, as well as on other sites. When you follow a remote account, your host site will request the remote site send all future content posted or "boosted" by that account to your host website, and then your host website will add it to your feed.

Different software allows different kinds of requests. Mastodon makes no distinction between user or group accounts, and let you follow all of them. Lemmy, though, uses group actors for its communities, and only allows users to follow groups. This means that Mastodon users can see Lemmy discussions, and contribute to them, but Lemmy users cannot follow Mastodon users or interact with their posts unless they've been boosted by a group actor.

Other software has other abilities. nodeBB lets group actors follow other group actors, which has the potential for mutual group synchronization. mbin has both a Reddit-like interface as well as a separate microblog feed, separating out group and user content. Hubzilla (and I think Friendica?) allows accounts to have multiple actors, letting you manage multiple 'personas' from a single login. And they all speak the same language, which means they can accept content from all the others.

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Heya, neighbour!

I've had to get a criminal background check for most jobs I've ever had, a check that my employer gets to see before they decicde to hire me.

Only seems fair that people running for office have something similar.

It's a familiar enough looking place, with some good discussions. But what's super cool - at least to me - is that "Lemmy" isn't just Lemmy. There are people here using websites running all sorts of engines. Mbin is a different reddit-like platform that cross-communicates with Lemmy. Friendica is a Facebook-like engine that can talk with Lemmy. NodeBB is a traditional forum. Mastodon, Misskey, and Akkoma are Twitter-like platforms that can show up here, too.

It's a mesh network, with each node having different strengths and weaknesses, different UIs and UXes, and different rules and goals.

It's both familiar, and also something totally different, both at the same time.

Welcome to the wilderness!

Well, Reddit endorses fascists, so I think it makes perfect sense already, really.

"Don't hurt my friends"

That's the point. Opposition bills in the US are often put forth to force members of the majority party to publicly vote against it, so that there is public record of their position on things.

It's an easy system to game, too, since it's trivially easy to include a poisoned pill in the bill that will push the members to reject it.

Anyone in the system is a servant of the billionaires, and that is most of us. The masters tools and all that. I don't know about you, but I'm not living a life of subsistence farming in some forgotten plot of land with no meaningful interaction with the outside world.

But that doesn't mean servants can't or won't look out for other servants.

Hasn't Trump already said this? This isn't the press sec saying anything Orange Mussolini hasn't already been explicit about. It's one of their talking points.

Canada: Has a supply management system for dairy, is careful not to overproduce, exports next to nothing.

USA: Subsidises dairy overproduction, can't sell close to what it makes, and desperately wants to dump its product on foreign markets.

Who is this supposed to hurt?

The thing is, should people have the right for their voice to be louder than others, and to participate with more force, just because they have more money?