neutron @ neutron @thelemmy.club

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It could work with fully recognized sovereign countries, but not with HK. Problem with words like patriotic or nationalist in this context is that it brings the issue of HK's political status, especially within China.

In an ideal scenario, a Hongkonger should be able to preserve their cantonese and foster local HK culture whether accepting or not the city's status as SAR of PRC, but that "China one big family" ship sailed a long time ago.

So we need to play with words. HK local culture preservationist? Sounds to long. Anti-assimilationist could be used but in limited context, like HK-ers protesting against a public policy favoring mandarin.

Sixteen times the details

Better late than never.

Hope the indexed instances don't get taken down years down the road, or have some sort of independent archive to consult later.

What about Yunohost? Its made for newbies getting into selfhosting and has Jitsi support.

On top of that, being a minority alone can be a huge disadvantage.

I always wondered if "using X app instead of Google as search engine should be interpreted as sign of generalized computer illiteracy (not being able to distinguish between two different contexts/products) or a product of our own doing (convergence between desktop and mobile, interfaces harder to visually differenciate between apps and its functions).

Either way we have a long way ahead.

Let's not romanticize the old web too much. It had its problems too:

• Half-done html pages with under_construction.gif or cliparts copypasted from Word. Some went through multiple editors like Frontpage and Dreamweaver which ended up producing spaghetti HTML.
• Autoplaying midi from songs probably from Limp Bizkit, Metallica, Blink 182, etc. Did I mention that MIDI volumes count as separate from normal 'Media' volumes, and were often cranked to the MAX?
• It was a time when HTML/CSS/JS would chaotically intertwine with proprietary plugins like Flash and ActiveX. "Best viewed from Internet Explorer at 800x600" was a thing. Readability? Accessibility? Forget about it.
• You paid by minute on dial-up connection until ADSL appeared. Good luck trying to download that tenchi_muyo_hentai.jpg.

Aren't you worried about ransomwares though?

Helped my parents get treatment for $old_people_health_complications. I used my phone for contact. I had barely started using that number in particular.

Next week I received a call asking if I wanted to "reserve a place in the town cemetery in case of the unfortunate" (it wasn't in the US, words might be different).

It wasn't me, it was my parents, and the fuckers tried to manipulate potentially grieving people.

Not everyone plays games or has time for it.

It was mainly a moderation tools issue that led BH defederate from LW and SIJW, so I don't think this changes anything.

I'd rather have a text-only instance with no media at all. Can this be done?

Does that disable image saving and processing for one's instance?

Mankind Divided had a very abrupt cliffhanger. Adam needs a proper closure to his story.

What do you teach btw?

Average week except for blood test results. The doc said I start taking care of my health now, or risk heart attack at 40 among other health complications. I need to do some more tests and see other specialities... start taking caring of stuff I haven't for years.

I really need to move my ass. Both figuratively and literally.

Sure you can visit the target instance's website, but then you have to manually copy and paste !community@target.instance.

Just pull a Capcom and name it World Wide Web 3 ~ Internet Federation ~ ActivityPub Edition Advanced Super ULTRA

It's not easy to see the list of all communities in an instance you don't have an account. If I login and federate as user@example.com, I can see all the local communities inside example.com, but not others like lemmy.world. I don't mean individual posts or an individual community, I mean list of all instance communities. I think this is one of high priority issues to be patched.