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i’ve been using Qwant when i search news

DON’T

it’s not perfect, but i’ve just been gathering interesting links into my org roam notebook

we could do something crazy like create new IPs

thank you

was this… not how it worked before?

the conflation existed before .world even existed. it’s the general sentiment i see across mastodon starting around 3 years ago that lemmy, not just lemmy.ml, is a tankie cesspit.

just one thing… the threadiverse is not the fediverse. the vast majority of the fediverse rs dominated by microblogging systems like mastodon and misskey. whether or not the fediverse gains more popular traction will have very little to do with lemmy. it’s very early days for the threadiverse and piefed or mbin could still make waves

your best bet is to consider another instance that directly opposes lemmy.ml’s moderation style (though i don’t know who defederates from it): slrpnk.net, lemmy.blahaj.zone, or db0 (i forget their full domain).

if you want to go a step further you could also switch to mbin or piefed. personally i find they’re less far along than lemmy which is why i’m on a lemmy instance instead of an mbin instance, but also the death of your friend is a pretty strong motivator. you want to do right by and honor your friend’s memory. x also grapple with my Ukrainain friends, both still present and forever lost, and ponder if what i do helps them or hinders them. you’ll find your way

This is a scenario where a single node VPN would reduce, not increase OP’s security stance. You do have to worry about NK hackers breaching your services because they’re all exposed through the single node VPN server. Same attack surface, less knowledge needed to hit the target with the payload.

VPNs are not a panacea by any stretch of the imagination. they are good for certain use cases but from OP’s description they would do next to nothing

getting traction for a fork is never that simple. as of now there is not the kind of consensus that you look for at fork time that leadership needs to change. but the groundswell is growing

Simply not true. “Tankie” is NOT the same as “Pinko” or “Commie.” There are 2 major strains of communist political thought. There’s authoritarian communism and anarchocommunism. Anarchocommunists are Marxist, authoritarian communists are Marxist-Leninist (or bolshevik, or Stalinist). I DO agree with you that the major views of Marxists on Lemmy are in line with the views of various communist parties worldwide, but I DO NOT agree that these communist parties that people like you are aligned with are either the totality of communist thought, or representative of how all communists think. When a communist like me calls a communist like you a tankie, it’s because when I look at the history of authoritarian communism, I notice a pattern of suffering and stratification amongst the populace. The USSR exploited labor and was, ultimately, a capitalist nationalist imperialist colonial state.

And before you go saying I support liberalism, I do not. There is not a binary between USSR style communism and American style capitalism. When you get down to it, they are in effect means to the same end. A system of enriching a central cabal of power authority at the cost of the average global citizen.

So in summary. “Tankie” is not a label that right wingers apply to discredit leftist thought. It’s a label left wingers use to discredit right wing thought masquerading as left wing thought.

That’s actually impossible. Politics is a question of systems engineering. Programming is a question of systems engineering. Creating propaganda is a matter of creating and disseminating information in a particular way. Coding is a matter of creating and disseminating information in a particular way. A person’s outlook will always influence the programs they design, the platforms they build, and the algorithms they tune.

that being the case, why was he appointed from the start, and given that this is the type of person 47 wants when there’s no oversight, why did the dems vote to confirm any of his cabinet picks.

man that’s so sad. how far the amazonians who scared the romans shitless have fallen when even eastern european women are trad-wifin’ it. and what’s sad is that the way she gave up her dignity is she was convinced since birth by people who were convinced since birth that she had no dignity in the first place. it’s possible to cherish your children and to take joy in home tasks without treating it like its your only value

ESPN talking head who says shitty things about interesting people. hates that a japanese man is the face of major league baseball

hopefully someday people understand that hamas is not palestine and being in favor of israel not committing genocide is not being pro-hamas. also, israel has long since shown that this is not about hamas, but rather about ethnic cleansing.

on the whole, palestinians just want what we all want: to be free, and to know that their next meal is secure.

also the pinkertons

United States format is very different from the european format and often the apple maps algorithm makes some boneheaded assuptions to translate from a US address to something OSM understands. i contribute, too, but the next time i have an example of apple maps fucking up… i’ll have already forgot this convo happened, but i’ll try