Leraje @ leraje @lemmy.blahaj.zone

This account is now backup only. I have moved to https://piefed.blahaj.zone

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How was that an ad? What exactly did you think was being advertised?

And some of us quite like tutorials as they tend explain not just what to do but why it's being done.

The only way to live with this level of privacy evasion is to accept the reality of it

OK, Zuck.

I wouldn't have an issue with this either - within reason. But I suspect making an instance a de facto business from which an admin draws a wage would raise so many issues about a whole raft of things it probably wouldn't be worth it.

Oh, OK. Thanks for the heads up. I'll just block him then.

Well, Mastodon has been around since 2016 IIRC which is nearly 8 years and it's still growing and expanding. There's no reason to suppose Lemmy will be any different.

A large part of the issue of sustainability is intent. Meta, Twitter, Microsoft, Google etc are profit driven. By that standard, no fediverse software is sustainable because for-profits only care about continual growth leading to continual profit.

Lemmy is open source. No one who develops it or hosts an instance really cares about it being financially profitable so there's not that motivation. The motivation is more akin to doing something positive for people and at the same time, indulge in a hobby/interest they have. If the people who benefit from it (you and me, the users) recognise that benefit I would hope they donate to its development and the instance they're on. This in turn enables the users who can't afford to donate to still be able to participate in a system where profit is not King.

So sustainability in the fediverse really means 'can I afford to keep doing something I enjoy doing?' As long as they can, it's sustainable.

I literally said it in my previous comment - Martyr's.

Here's a map from the BBC, the area 'Wadi Gaza' is one of the areas the IDF told Palestinian's to flee to - Dr Matar's hospital (Martyr's) is in that area.

Yeah, just look at the areas the IDF told people to flee to and you'll see Marat's hospital is there.

Tell Palestinians to flee to certain areas? Yeah. NPR reported it, BBC reported it, CBS reported it, Al-Jazeera reported it, CNN reported it.

The BBC quote Dr Ebrahem Matar, a heart specialist in the intensive care unit at the Aqsa Martyrs' hospital - the only medical centre in the middle area of the Gaza Strip.

"Dr Matar said there was only one operating room and limited number of staff.

"'It is catastrophic and it is difficult. We see patients deteriorate due to the continuous pain and the continuous resistant infections.

"The hospital is in one of the areas the Israeli army has told Palestinians to flee to.'"

EDIT: It looks like this is a different hospital Dr Matar was talking about. I'll update my other comment too.

Until a reliable, independent news agency verifies it, any claim from either side should be viewed as misleading. It's also worth noting that it's not just Hamas denying this, it's also the facility itself. Here's part of a report from one of the BBC correspondents in Gaza:

"Israel has accused Hamas of having a command and control centre underneath Shifa - which the group denies.

I have been to the hospital hundreds of time - I was born there, my son was born there, in the last two months of my mum's life, she was inside the kidney dialysis centre and I used to visit her every day.

It is very hard to verify what is underneath. With my eyes, I haven't seen any military capability inside the hospital buildings."

Lastly, consider the fact that this hospital is in one of the places the IDF instructed Palestinians to flee to . Are we now saying that the IDF were purposefully trying to place Palestinians in danger by telling them to go to a location where they knew Hamas operated from?

Source, time logged 08:14

EDIT: I was referring to the wrong hospital - see my comment below for details.

@feditips@mstdn.social (enter that into your search box on Mastodon) has an excellent and curated collection of tips, resources, groups and people to suggest to you to get started.

Ask them when you can install the bug on their phoneline, open their mail and remove their bathroom door.

It's difficult to keep an accurate track but as far as I can tell you've had accounts banned by .world, hexbear, .blahaj.zone (and lemm.ee?). They all seem to follow a pattern of saying something bad enough to get banned, moving to a new instance, complain on the new instance about the old instance, get into a fight with the new instances members, get banned again. And all the while begging for the attention to stop.

If that's at all an accurate summation, I'd say you need to rein in your desire for attention.

I ain't saying you're wrong or your points are invalid, but bear in mind that Lemmy is a very young piece of software. It will evolve to cope with these kind of issues and if the lead devs don't step up, then - as was seen in the near-recent CSAM attacks - the community will and develop it's own set of tools/plug-ins.

All social media type software goes through a kind of perpetual arms-race with bad actors and whilst it's not impossible, it's often very difficult to anticipate what method the next lot of bad actors will chose to attack the lemmyverse with.

I have quite a lot of faith, but I think the majority of my faith is that whilst you're right that abuses can happen because some people are cunts, there seems to be a groundswell of willingness to react to that possibility and tackle it.

The relatively recent CSAM attack on .world Communities is a prime example of that. Code was written and systems put into place (not by the lead developers it has to be said but by @db0 and others) to tackle that threat.

Yep, I see that too.

"Your info won't be used for ads"

But we'll still be tracking everything you do and selling that on to everyone who wants it.

The kind where, when they can no longer win at the ballot box, they don't abandon their beliefs, they abandon democracy.

Why are you asking americans ?

Well, call me old fashioned but as my friend is a fan of American bourbon, I thought asking American's what American bourbon they recommended might be the best idea.