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Senators and Deputies elected on the far-right POT party in the Romanian parliament are quitting the party en-masse. POT's parliamentary groups are about to be dissoluted

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DOCUMENT The US DOJ published proof of acceptance of the 1.5 million euro lobbying contract under the signature of AUR vice president Marius Lulea / AUR denied that there was any signed contract and n

  • @remington was about time. Thankfully, no one died despite the far right triad's efforts (AUR, SOS and POT parties) to slow things down. Fuck Russian aggression and Putler in particular.

  • Hello from Friendica.

    How do you feel the platform performs compared to corporate ones?

    As a user, I think it still has some way to go to reach parity with Facebook, and some features likely could be impossible to implement as they require tracking and gathering user data en-masse (imo). But it still got a thing or two in its sleeves, and those things also keep me here too, besides the federation, freedom and privacy ones.

    For example, I just discovered I can send my posts on email as well to whatever person I want, which makes the whole thing highly usable even if people aren't there.

    There are some bugs that might put people off, and Friendica as a platform might seem to have a higher learning curve too (I really got into it after watching some videos on yt), but this is with all the Fediverse platforms I guess? idk

    How do you feel moderation is handled?

    I never did moderation for it.

    Do you believe the people of Beehaw (admins, moderators and users) could do a better job? If so, then why?

    I don't know tbh 😁

    I think UI wise, as being an alternative to Facebook, Friendica is possibly the best Fediverse platform out there, not only are the features and the capabilities (text formatting pretty much everywhere, a calendar with events, RSS feeds straight into your main feed, plugin options etc.), but it just makes it easier to tell if a post that I'm seeing is a top-level or just a comment, if it's from a group or just posted by a person etc.

    My advice would be to try it and see what it is up to. The admin of lemmy.world (and also mastodon.world) also set up an instance on friendica.world, and it quickly became pretty much the no. 1 Friendica instance. 😁

    Plus, the devs of the platform are very open to suggestions and provide very comprehensive reasons if they reject a certain feature request.

  • @mesamunefire The latest find, highly underrated, is @flwwhtrbt (also posting under @PerfectDark on !steamdeck@sopuli.xyz) posts about the latest gaming stuff on Linux and in general. Highly informative imo and not overwhelming with posts.

    Then I get my memes from @nonfedimemes and @memes.pixelfed. I also liked @DarthPutinKGB, but it now it appears to have stopped posting.

    There's also my page called @cheamaminerii where I post infrequent updates about the health condition of Romania's 1st president, Ion Iliescu, charged for crimes against humanity (currently mostly posting about the fact that he's alive - which is what trăiește means).

    There's also @FoxNews which posts the latest news about foxes. Highly recommended if you want to stay up to date in this regard.

    For serious news, some of the journalists I recommend following are @timkmak @kevinrothrock @w7voa @anneapplebaum plus other big publications, which have enabled federation via their Flipboard account, like @BBCNews or which they have an actual Mastodon presence like @theintercept @arstechnica or @Bellingcat

    Other creators that I like are @silentbeauties (posting about vintage movies and actors), @Astrobenny (Italian NASA astronaut, posting about all things space) or @notjustbikes (yes, the real one).

    Last but not least, there are some bots that reply to you with some various stuff if you tag them:

  • I'm using them as Christmas tree decorations, but you can use them in multiple ways. You can hang them by a string, you can spray paint them and/or put them in a terrarium, etc.

  • It was unreliable on my potato computer and with the speeds of back then for me, but I remember that pretty much all of my friends used it. I had to use my mum's computer to join in lol.

  • Well, you can easily tell if an envelope has been tampered with. For email, on the other hand, it's more difficult for the average folk. And again, Gmail is also sharing information with the government (okay, it's mostly the US government, but still).

    Imo, we need more providers like Proton, Tuta, Mailbox dot org etc. and probably more education into how one could protect their data and so on.

  • I think they do provide torrents for the stuff they have available to download already. So we know what to do wink!

  • Having the government provide email as a public communication service sounds good in theory. However, this could also pose a privacy risk if your government turns rogue and authoritarian. If it is possible to also have this communication E2E encrypted in a way that is as frictionless as possible (no, PGP is not really that frictionless unless it's built in), it would be great. However, we all know what is the general take of governments regarding E2E encryption, so I think I'll pass this one.

  • sigh I was woried

    Jokes aside, I am quite afraid though.

  • Damn, only the 2nd? There's room for improvement /s

  • @jaggedcircle You don't install a Bluesky instance, rather you host your own PDS, or your own web client, or the feed part. It's all a mess and the latter has very high system requirements for one to self-host from what I understood. Basically, it's impossible if you're not a company with the willing and the money to do it.

    If decentralization actually happens on Bluesky, it will be more confusing for the average person than with something like Mastodon.

    @remington

  • @remington Gee, I wonder which nazi politician is on that list again. Place your bids before you dig in! 😁

  • @knokelmaat Happy birthday! 🥳 I'm also trying to make the most out of it. Yesterday I just got my salary and I ate a nice juicy burger in a restaurant I planned to go to for a long time. Was delicious!

  • @PerfectDark Nonsense is my cup of tea when I get bored, so it's a perfect fit for me, haha.

    Friendica is also cool, do check it out when you can. Once you'll get the hang of it, you'll love it 😁

  • @PerfectDark This is a fantastic series of posts. Highly informative and really fun to read and follow through. Your Mastodon also seems like a hidden gem, with lots of cool stuff. Just gave you a follow from Friendica 😁

    Keep it up! 👍

  • Elon Musk was caught on the street and beaten to death...

    <details class="spoiler"><summary>Reveal/hide</summary>...In Minecraft</details>

  • @remington All I hope for the world after this is to get its shit together and form some world trade system with as little US as possible in it (no offense to you or anyone living in the US); or that the next presidents will realize what shitshow this makes

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