NodeBB-ActivityPub Bridge Test Instance

I'm not talking about me. I'm talking about people who can't manage the difference. I love Lemmy to death because it's free of the mouth breathers.

But not supporting Russia is the same as not opposing US imperialism, which is the same as supporting US imperialism. Think about it lol. And yeah, there are communities dedicated to spreading "rumors, propaganda, cherry picking" and creating prejudice. There is very little difference between the fascist lies told by MAGA and the US imperialist lies told by the MSM. You think just because Russia manipulates people, the US isn't doing the same? Because one side is bad, the other is good? That the left is somehow immune? It's become increasingly hard to figure out the truth of what is happening in the world, but people crave a pure certainty. That's how the fascists won, by reshaping how the liberals perceive the world. And the neoliberals love the good vs evil narrative. What matters is tactics and strategy. A multipolar world is better for any socialist project. Multiple independent sources of information, even if tainted, are better than a single perspective shaped by mainstream media. There are only 3 international newspapers in the world, and they've long been captured. That's why I'm specifically looking for a server that doesn't block those pesky radicals and dissenters.

Yes, the social democrats wanted a liberal parliamentary democracy, not a Soviet stay with dictatorship of the proletariat. The communists tried a communist revolution and they lost. The alternative would have been a civil war, maybe even a breakup of Germany. Most people wanted stability and get back to their lives after WW1. The communists continuously avoided moderation and compromise with the social democrats. They fought against the Weimar Republic actively. Many were accelerationists, who thought the rise of the Nazis would be to their benefit in the end.

I'm seriously sick and tired of this ridiculous outrage over something that very obviously is an insult to Nazis. Everyone here knows that the comic artist doesn't give a shit about penis size. It's simply an insult to someone who does give a shit, namely assholes who live the toxic masculinity lifestyle, something inherently far-right.

Oh I see what you are saying - PieFed would only count the downvotes from it, or some other PieFed or "trusted" instance, but it cannot stop Lemmy ones from giving downvotes, yes that makes total sense. So long as it controls the sorting feature as well as the displayed total though, that is fine with me. It is an excellent point that PieFed communities work best when interacted with from a PieFed instance, and with reduced functionality via a Lemmy one. This has become increasingly true as so many new features have gotten added recently - like polls and flairs (user and post) - and will continue to do so as more gets added (like perhaps emoji reactions?:-P).

I received an activity with this ID:https://community.nodebb.org/post/100125#activity/create/1719328808532#activity/announce/1719328833687It has two #-signs. I think it is not a valid URI: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986#section-3.5A fragment identifier component is indicated by the presence of a number sign ("#") character and terminated by the end of the URI.

Unfortunately I think the rage aspect is likewise biological, it being one of the most basal of all human desires. It often pops up as someone pursues pleasure and having satisfied those desires, next turns to the even more basal ones below that (e.g. video). Which makes sense evolutionarily bc those apes that do it are more likely to survive than e.g. complete pacifists. That said, algorithms that specifically tap into that aspect of our animalistic desires feed forward that cycle, encouraging an ever-increasing amount, just like echo chambers decrease the allowable diversity of opinions (yes even here: just try saying that you like Windows and watch what happens, or that you enjoy driving a car, or eating meat, or in certain corners of Lemmy that you don't support Russia, China, or North Korea hard enough), and both of those combine to form the modern social media experience. So, as with anything having a biological basis, I doubt that it will ever truly go away entirely, yet I do believe that it can be managed.

Blocking .ml and grad are huge contributors to a quiet Fediverse experience.

Sure, how many twenties we talking though

Oh I'm not even just talking about TVs. I'm talking about headphones too. I've had perfectly good headphones of decent quality that have experienced this issue with movies in particular. Everything else is fine. Games, videos, music all sound great, but some movies are just balanced so poorly. It's a shared computer space so it's not really the place for one person to have a whole sound system just to watch poorly balanced movies.

Mbin uses /m/

It is not. Those are, roughly, what those words mean. I could use more precise ones, but this isn't a serious philosophical discussion with serious people so the effort would be wasted. Substitute whichever words you prefer, there's a difference between an individual's personal belief in a higher power, and the institution which exploits that belief to oppress. Half-baked semantic objections do not make you clever. Engage with the content of the argument.

Thank you for your kind words:-)

I gave element / matrix a try recently. It's a very different use case, as (AFAICT) it does not support multi-channel rooms (or whatever you call it). The closest analogue would be WhatsApp / Telegram / Signal. Also, multi device login is wonky as hell, took me 20 mins of repeated attempts to get it working.

That was the main point of my presentation at #Fedicon2025, that:1. We need a real payment infrastructure here on the Fediverse.2. We need to do it well, to avoid the (numerous) sins of the past.3. I'm doing that right now, PLEASE HELP ME OMG.I can't wait until the videos are up, then I can just link to that presentation a thousand times, because I laid out my entire life's purpose in it.@mro @gregalotl @julian @reiver

Another man of class I see. Would you care for a glass of sherry in my reading room? Or perhaps a cold Keystone in my living room? Either way, you are most welcome.

Luckily here on Lemmy is a whole different story

One last ban to add to my list before I export and go looking for a new home. What an honor.

omega Honestly, I don't think the basics of federation are that big of a problem for people. The idea is simple enough, it's just that it's kind of unthinkable for most folks in the current internet paradigm. "Imagine if you could follow stuff on Twitter, and talk to Twitter users, from Facebook". That captures the whole promise. The whole idea. And it's aided by the fact that Facebook and Twitter are so very obviously different things. Different companies. Different websites. Different apps. Different services. They look different, they're labelled different, their apps are different, etc. And it would be understandable that if they did communicate between them, that there might be some rough edges. Now look at mastodon.social, mstdn.social, and mstdn.ca. They look the same. Try lemmy.ml, lemm.ee, and startrek.website. They look the same. The fediverse has adopted "make every website look like a dumb terminal" as a design aesthetic, and "the website you use doesn't matter" as a recruitment philosophy. And it just doesn't work.

Instead of acting like an entitled brat, why don't you go start your own instance. Shouldn't be too hard, just some little technical know how and few bucks a month. Should be a small price to pay to escape venture capitalists. If you can't handle it then too bad, just tough it out.