And if I as a user want to join a service that does not feature nazi content at all, I should have that option as well.
I don't want to have to handle this shit on my own: I want admins and mods to do it for me. If I'm not happy with their work I'll leave for another instance. But if I have to block the Nazis myself I would consider that a huge problem and probably wouldn't use the service at all.
I mean, Netanyahu has built a successful platform on fear, but he struggled like hell to gain a majority now, and his genocide does not seem to be popular at all with the Israeli voter. I don't think he would have received many votes had they known it would end up like this.
The Germans never gave the NSDAP a majority, and the whole genocide thing probably wasn't that clear to the voters either. The main thing putting Hitler in power was arguably the weak leadership of the German center right, not the electoral success of his platform.
I can't think of a single genocide where people actively voted for it in a direct way and it won a majority. Contemporary Israel is the closest example I can think of. Netanyahu showed his true colours long ago, and the Israeli voter - much like the American Trump supporter - really should have known better.
Of all the random things people downvote, I find this to be the most fascinating.
Not only are you correct, but you're so obviously correct as well. There's the old Jewish joke with "two Jews, three opinions" - that certainly holds true for leftists as well. Even more than the bootlickers I'm getting tired of the people who are so goddamn sure they've figured it all out.
Let's not forget that US/Israeli relations were at an all-time low during Biden's presidency because he didn't want anything to do with Netanyahu.
Not saying the US response to all this hasn't sucked, but I'm pretty confident any other president the US has had the last 50 years would have been worse.
It's not your president. It's your country. You allowed this to happen over decades, not months or even years.
And in a race where the other candidate is firmly pro genocide... Yeah, I struggle to interpret this shit in good faith. Kindly fuck off.
I guess there's this American sense of capitalism as an ideological commitment to letting the forces of the marketplace run wild, and that once you regulate the markets it's not capitalism any more. That's laissez-faire though - there are other forms of capitalism as well. In the broadest sense capitalism basically boils down to having a market economy, which a lot of leftists are in favour of.
Lenin was a scholar and developed his own take on Marxism, which has its own understanding of the communist society. Marx wrote very little about what a communist society would look like, but he had an understanding of history as moving towards an end: The classes will fight, over time the result of this fight will lead to them approaching each other, and at the end of this struggle we will reach a classless society. This classless society is the communist society in a traditional Marxist sense.
Lenin figured he'd make a shortcut to get there: Never mind thousands of years of class struggle, let's just put in place a powerful ruling class imposing communism on everyone, designing a classless society from the top down. Which is a bit counter-intuitive, but the Leninist part of Marxism-Leninism basically boils down to trying to figure out what that could look like.
So then you get the Soviet Union, very much founded on the ideas of Marxism-Leninism. Today people who identify as Marxist-Leninist tend to not be the sharpest tools in the shed: Despite insisting that they have studied the texts carefully, a brief interaction with them reveals that they have never read neither Marx nor Lenin. What it boils down to, rather than anything theoretical, is either a longing for some imaginary version of the Soviet Union or a unshakable commitment to lick Putin's ass.
The Soviet Union of course never did become a classless society, so you could argue that the greatest achievement of Marxism-Leninism was to destroy the traditional meaning of communism in a Marxist sense.
Which is still mind blowing in its own right. What's incredible in the end is not so much the process of sound recording as the nature of reality itself.
For this part of the equation I find it useful to think of two tin cans with a string between them, which is a perfectly capable microphone/loudspeaker set-up.
Everything is just vibrations; vibrations are just waves. Vinyl records make a physical copy of the sound wave. As the needle drags across it at the correct speed it starts vibrating, reproducing the sound that went into the groove in the first place.
Sound files are more tricky: Basically you need to measure the wave as it goes up and down, store it into a file, and then have a computer convert it back into vibrations with the help of a loudspeaker. The more times you measure the sound wave per second, the better quality your recording will be.
As we know that sounds are waves, it's not so hard to imagine a text file containing sound. Below is a very simple wave form represented with numbers:
You cannot comment on Beehaw communities as they defederated from Lemmy.world. You can see that here: https://beehaw.org/instances
The fact that they are defederated means that no traffic is being sent between lemmy.world and beehaw: Users of one website are invisible to those on the other.
Beehaw defederated from lemmy.world as they struggled to keep up with the high number of users, not all of them good actors. As creating a friendly space is the top priority of Beehaw, they chose to prioritize friendliness over activity.
Nice overview but I'm not sure I completely agree with you on everything.
If I want to make a community, is there a reason I would choose one lemmy over another?
There's absolutely good reason to choose instances wisely when making a community. Some instances defederate from others, and you want to make your community somewhere where you agree with the moderation policy. Also, it might be easier to immediately reach people on a larger instance.
If you create your community on lemmy.ml, you might not reach everyone because some people and instances have blocked .ml due to different philosophies. If you make it on Beehaw, you'll reach fewer people as they have a higher moderation standard than most, which could of course also be good for your community. Lemmy.world is more neutral in their moderation policy, but I'm sure there are pros and cons there as well.
I like it when there are specific instances for specific niches, as it gives the community control over who to federate with. But of course, that's not always possible.
If I report a comment, is my report private?
They're not public at least. Few things on the Internet are truly private.
Part of me wants to say keep trying, but of course there's the risk that you'll lose out on content as other users block .ml or instances defederate. So there are good reasons not to stick around on an instance where one disagrees with the moderation philosophy.
Then again, there are still enough reasonable people over there that most people wouldn't want to defederate. :)
I never spent much time on Twitter or on Reddit - I have an old Reddit account, but it has 15 karma or something like that. Likewise I have a very old Twitter account, but I never posted anything to it nor did I use it to follow people. I just never had any interest.
For some reason, the social web sucks me in in the same way PhpBB forums did when I was in my early teens. Not quite as bad of course, but it's still striking.
Other than Mastodon and this place, I read news and sometimes tinker with my personal website. I rarely struggle to waste time if I want to.
Also there's a bunch of copyrighted material being uploaded. If everything uploaded was available from every instance, hosting a peertube instance would be a great way to get sued probably.
The same exact people will whine about how Bluesky should have been using ActivityPub in one second, and bitch about how they don't want their content bridged over there in the next. It's almost as if they haven't thought this through.
Of course anyone is free to join an instance that blocks the bridge - that's part of the beauty of the whole system.
And if I as a user want to join a service that does not feature nazi content at all, I should have that option as well.
I don't want to have to handle this shit on my own: I want admins and mods to do it for me. If I'm not happy with their work I'll leave for another instance. But if I have to block the Nazis myself I would consider that a huge problem and probably wouldn't use the service at all.