Little more than four years from now, the insurrectionist crowd will be chanting “hang JD Vance”. And JD Vance will chant along.
Not ideologically pure.
Little more than four years from now, the insurrectionist crowd will be chanting “hang JD Vance”. And JD Vance will chant along.
Does anyone know if he has given any sign of life the last few months?
I think you missed the joke.
(Also, regarding trees on Easter island, it’s a popular theory, but if I remember correctly it has been a bit debunked in recent years)
Of course for the region, it is an escalation of the conflict and it’s problematic as fuck.
But for the international community sitting around with their heads up their ass waiting too decide whether or not they should condemn Netanyahu, he has been committing a genocide undisturbed for almost a fucking year now. It’s the one thing we all agreed we would not allow to happen again. Pretending any fear of escalation or anything at all has any moral bearing at anything at this point is just bullshit, and any politician serving pathetic non-answers mumbling about a “fear of escalation” at this point while refusing to publicly oppose Netanyahu should receive a standing invitation to join him in the Hague.
But of course, I’m not saying Israel’s actions in Lebanon don’t matter. I’m just saying people who change their mind at this point should take the opportunity to reconsider how okay they are with massacring civilian populations.
The whole point of genocide is that it is inexcusable. There’s just no condition under which it can be justified.
It bothers me when people pretend Lebanon was Israel crossing some line in the sand. They’ve been carrying out a genocide for almost a year now. If suddenly bombing another civilian population is the point in which you are willing to accept that it’s problematic, chances are we’re not going to get along very well.
Of course, better late than never. But it bothers me.
I get where he’s coming from. As a childless dog man you’re bound to gets bit of a cold sweat when your fascist party starts going after the childless cat ladies.
Sure, for now it’s women that they hate. But he knows he’s next.
They’d get busy: The creator of Phanphy also maintains a list of github repos named after Pokemon.
That’s great!
It’s a nice user interface, made by @[email protected], and loved by a lot of people.
If you don’t want to trust people with your account details that’s fine - then using a third party app is probably not for you, unless you’re willing to either trust people or dig into the source code.
If you have Mastodon you can just try it?
It’s a Mastodon client. It has many neat features. I like it on desktop because it’s easy to navigate with my keyboard. It’s also great on phone. Overall pleasant, Mastodon users should try it out. But I feel like describing it at length is not really productive - it’s a user interface.
I’d say pretty much all of those are worth a look!
Personally I’m curious how Bonfire and the Open Science Network will develop. Bandwagon also seems to have a lot of potential.
Would be curious to hear if anyone have tried using Quiblr! It’s not really for me I think, but it does look like an interesting service.
Questionable conservativism
Is there any other kind.
Vance once admitted that working class Americans benefit from Democrat policies
Not saying it, but admitting it. They all know it; you’re just not supposed to admit it. Lol.
The EU at least is still sticking around, which is cool.
I have to say I’m a believer in slow growth here. It wouldn’t be good if one Mastodon server completely dominated; neither would it be good if Mastodon as a software was the only viable alternative. Right now we’re in a great spot where a bunch of different solutions are being developed.
I think this development is healthy, and it be depends on slower more organic growth. And it might not be a linear process, but eventually I believe activitypub integration will be as obvious as having an RSS feed. Doesn’t matter much if it takes a while to get there.
On that note it would be good if governments didn’t just sometimes use Mastodon, but rather integrate activitypub into their actual web sites.
I just mentioned them because they’re microblog sites, so in theory they do the exact same thing as Mastodon. The number of Mastodon users doesn’t matter; the number of people on Fediverse platforms compatible with Mastodon matters.
So Lemmy users are not very helpful, but Mbin users maybe more so. Or Friendica.
The point is just that the number of Mastodon users is, in theory, irrelevant, as you don’t just communicate with Mastodon users. Maybe misskey was a bad example, I don’t know anything about it.
FediDB reports that the Mastodon active user count is on the decline the last year, from more than. 1.2 million to 820k thousand. The number seems to maybe stabilize a little, but it appears as a slow decline when studying the last year.
Then again, this is following from a huge bump of new users with the twitter exodus. It’s natural that not all will stick around, so a decline in active user now is not so surprising. It does indicate a lack of ability to move the momentum, but it’s an open source project with very limited funding, not a venture capital startup. It’s not here for explosive growth.
Furthermore, the number of Mastodon users is not a perfect measure. If it was matched by a huge number of users on gotosocial or misskey, it wouldn’t really matter. The Swiss should maybe have waited for Threads to federate both ways before deciding to leave on account of limited interactions.
Anyway, they’re not entirely wrong to say Mastodon is on the decline. But they’re not entirely right either.
Then again, the only person in these comments actually using lemmy.world seemed pretty happy with his experience.
It would be nice if people had an easier way of knowing the level of moderation before joining a server. One idea could be for services like Fediverser could include an indicator of moderation level - for example “relaxed” if few instances are defederated, “moderate” if moderation is more active, and “strict” for more restrictive communities. Data from Fediseer might be useful in this regard.
That way the people fleeing Reddit because of censorship would know where to go, and the rest of us wouldn’t have to be bothered by them unless we really wanted to.
The biggest problem, I guess, is that it’s a lot of work, and I certainly don’t have the time nor skill-set required. So people will just have to read their instance rules. :)
Simple! According to this thread, it is:
It doesn’t even need to make sense on a conceptual level!
It’s accessibility, and it’s also sovereignty.
Another way of rephrasing this decision is “we have decided to stop publishing information on our official website, as we receive more interaction on X”. Which is pretty questionable.
The Fediverse is not one thing. It’s a bunch of different sites that are interconnected. You can join a site that has strict moderation, or you can join one that has no moderation at all.
Personally, I’m not here because I think moderation on Instagram and X is too active. Rather to the contrary.
Probably more realistic, I was just working out of the premise that history would repeat itself.