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At least on mine, there's an "About" link on the bottom left side on the web interface, click that and scroll to the bottom where you'll get a list of blocked servers, then just uncollapse that and ctrl+f for "threads.net".

Can this be explained by the fact that the Internet already has satisfactory answers to more and more questions, so there is less need to actively ask new ones?

I mean in the 2000s a European political party made up of anti-immigration parties did fall apart because it turned out an international alliance of nationalist parties doesn't always work that well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity,_Tradition,_Sovereignty

But nowadays they work together quite well because they see the main enemy as being Islam.

Nobody in Austria, least of all Kickl (the leader of a historically pan-German party) has serious ambitions to annex any part of Hungary, and I think in Hungary too the irredentist movements are more interested in places where there are still significant numbers of ethnic Hungarians (e.g. southern Slovakia) and not so much Burgenland or any other part of Austria; so that is the problem with that idea.

John Perry Barlow was right with his declaration of the independence of cyberspace.

Governments of the world, get out of the Internet.

That was a lot funnier on reddit where there could be only one community called "superbowl" and it was about superb owls. Here on the fediverse, "superbowl" on other instances can still be communities about the Super Bowl.

I strongly agree with the point made in the linked article that censorship is when a sender wants to send something, the receiver wants to receive it, but a third party (government, social media platform, whoever) keeps them from doing so.

If I want to see "weird little ideas of rightwing weirdos" (or of leftwing weirdos or any others), I should be allowed to. If I don't, I shouldn't have to.

Personally I follow slightly more than 100 accounts plus less than 10 hashtags and feel I'm already getting plenty of things into my feed, nowadays I tend to unfollow things that post too many irrelevant things more than I follow new ones.

Lemmy has a karma system? Where?

(It's a troll post anyway, isn't it.)

I mean in principle this is just a matter of moderation being different from censorship.

But really, an "algorithm tweak"? I am still wondering when or why who decided that we needed to have "algorithms" that someone could "tweak" on the Internet at all. The first kind of "social media" I ever used was web forums where the entire "algorithm" was thread bumping, and even if you insist that we need to have the structure of a microblog: Mastodon does fine without an "algorithm" beyond reverse-chronological sorting.

it's so easy to host an ActivityPub server oneself, there's really no excuse for a government agency not to be doing that instead of relying on ex-Twitter

YouTube's content moderation policies forbid "content praising or justifying violent acts carried out by violent extremist, criminal, or terrorist organizations."

well so since Luigi Mangione isn't an organization, sounds like that isn't covered by these "content moderation policies"? Right?

Obligatory reading:

• https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/hey-elon-let-me-help-you-speed-run-the-content-moderation-learning-curve/
• https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/moderation-is-different-from-censorship

Some even brew beer from it. (I tried it on an AIDA cruise ship, it doesn't taste any different from any other beer.)

Can confirm that sorting by new comments makes it appear a lot more active. There's a reason why old forums' only sorting method was thread bumping.

Spaghetti is perfect for carbonara, most other sauces not so much.

anything teenagers actually want to do and enjoy doing is self-harm, haven't you gotten the memo that adults know in 100% of all cases what's good for them a lot better than they themselves do

(To any reader unironically agreeing with the above paragraph, I suggest reading this webcomic.)

But the real question is, if it becomes independent, will it finally have data?

Most people live at least somewhere near a city that doesn't usually get radically different weather than where they do live.

You can register on an instance with a backend that combines the microblogging fediverse and the threadiverse (afaik: mbin, piefed, friendica), then you can both microblog and post to communities.

Yeah discuss.tchncs.de has been serving me well so far too. I don't really know how it compares to other instances because I haven't had a previous account elsewhere.