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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We gonna fight⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Heh, don’t let that fool you, they still infight like crazy despite that. Examples include the hilarious collapse of the NJP, the assassination of Rockwell (leader of the American Nazi Party) and labeling every existing neo-Nazi group “feds” because they’re inevitably embarrassing and scandal-filled.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How I view others in social media⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The video title is probably “Punchline”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK if you have a library card or are a student, there's a free streaming service called Kanopy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Highly recc Anna’s Archive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can you tell 23 subgenres of equally shitty growls and screams apart, but not see the most Metal basics?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A father tells their child: “Remember son, women are VIXENS! They’re orchestrating the fall of man with the entrancing power of their satanic bosoms!”, the surprised child murmurs “wrow”. Ten years later, they’re casually telling a band interviewer that “Needless to say it was the most metal thing I’d ever heard in my life”; they’ve grown up, now presenting as a trans woman wearing a goth outfit and a guitar. By the way, because it’s a comic, the characters are both ravens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Thoughts on the Fosstodon Drama | Kev Quirk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like high quality communities, which cannot maintain quality without staff, and which would probably struggle to maintain any funding.

  One example of a community I became a moderator for was one which often had trolls occasionally show up and post obviously malicious content, and commercial ad spam. Due to timezone differences, these often took hours to be deleted.

  So it wasn’t about morality, righteousness, money or power. It was about me wanting to develop a community I cared about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Thoughts on the Fosstodon Drama | Kev Quirk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on the community. Larger general purpose communities tend towards that, the people who acknowledge you are typically people disputing a ban or who took it personally. On the other hand, for a Lemmy example, look at the admin Ada (and similar examples) who have reasons to regularly communicate their decisions and achievements and are clearly in line with their general community’s values – their community won’t have as many people crying about censorship because the community doesn’t pretend that they will tolerate bigotry.

  Mods who just delete garbage posts (sometimes called “janitors” on other platforms) are typically faceless thankless volunteers, or abusive personalities powertripping. It’s a tough job, and someone has to put their hand up for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another Wikipedia Admin Caught Making PR Edits⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I realized my reply was a bit silly so I retracted it, I’m guessing I was a bit late and you’d already replied.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LinkedIn’s cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you’re ‘not committed to winning’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A STRANGE GAME
  
  THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS NOT TO PLAY
  

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is content like this banned on .ml for being "political"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It looks like lemmy.ml didn’t remove it, but their staff are certainly anti-ICE, plenty of posts there for weeks full of outcry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is content like this banned on .ml for being "political"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t see evidence that it’s banned. I’m on .ml and can see it just fine. It would be in the modlog if it were banned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Tesla protesters are planning their “biggest day of action” yet, aiming for 500 demonstrations at Tesla showrooms across the world on March 29th..."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for checking, it’s refreshing to see that attitude and care online.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Tesla protesters are planning their “biggest day of action” yet, aiming for 500 demonstrations at Tesla showrooms across the world on March 29th..."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, right. I’m not familiar enough with US law to realize.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Tesla protesters are planning their “biggest day of action” yet, aiming for 500 demonstrations at Tesla showrooms across the world on March 29th..."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It has to be organized for one.

  I disagree. Consider racist mass shootings by lone perpetrators. It’s clearly an act attempting to incite terror and tension, many of them make it clear in their manifestos that they’re trying to spark a ‘race war’. But it’s not organized, beyond being the result of stochastic terrorism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I believe that the "Nicole" images being sent to Threadiverse users may be intending to deanonymize accounts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  GOOD LUCK WITH THAT IM BEHIND SEVEN PROXIES

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, after using Lemmy for 1.5 Years. You are telling I am not even allowed to use Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah thanks.

  YPTB

  What’s this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Post promoting lemm.ee hits 67,000 views and 1000 upvotes in 3 hours.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  True, although it looks like a pun so I wouldn’t assume it’s someone registering their local TLD.

  • .ml is Mali, but I’m confident the .ml instances aren’t hosted in Mali.
  • One can still register .su (Soviet Union TLD)

  I can’t find their terms and conditions, but they do mention the GDPR plus their choice of 16+ instead of 18+ for age restriction makes me suspect it’s somewhere European.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Post promoting lemm.ee hits 67,000 views and 1000 upvotes in 3 hours.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect it wouldn’t matter if you posted it once or posted it a hundred times. Lemmy is a rival service, and plenty of people have been banned for mentioning it before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, after using Lemmy for 1.5 Years. You are telling I am not even allowed to use Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe the most an admin can do is block you from their own instance (e.g. lemmy.world banning you from lemmy.world communities), they don’t own your account on lemm.ee so they can’t ban you, and lemm.ee has no reason to ban you.

  Tagging @fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: That nazis Don't Actually Believe in Free Speech⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course, it’s better to refer to them as Fascists – that’s the more accurate term that fully refers to both of those groups

  Yes, you’re right, although on the other hand Nazism and classical fascism are also pretty different despite some surface level similarities. Even the fascist movements at the time struggled to figure out a unified position on racism/anti-semitism, corporatism and state structure.

  If you want a few kicks, read what ᴉuᴉʅossnW thought of Hitler before he was pressured into saying nice things closer to WWII. My favorites are “silly little monkey” and “A mad little clown”. He was surely regretting their alliance long before he was hanged.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: That nazis Don't Actually Believe in Free Speech⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t punch someone just cause they are wearing a Nazi outfit and think it is legal to do so… You may end up paying their medical bills & restitution.

  It’s not legal, and I don’t know which judges are more lenient about this kind of thing. But if one can do it without being caught or attacked, like the two people who punched Richard Spenser, then it is an effective way to counter the rise of Nazism. Legality only matters if it’s enforceable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: That nazis Don't Actually Believe in Free Speech⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  True. We should instead just use one bullet each and be done with them, no point in copying their atrocities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: That nazis Don't Actually Believe in Free Speech⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Search: goebbels death -> Goebbels Wikipedia article:

  In the mid-afternoon of 30 April, Hitler shot himself. […] On the evening of 1 May, Goebbels arranged for an SS dentist, Helmut Kunz, to inject his six children with morphine so that when they were unconscious, an ampule of a cyanide compound could be then crushed in each of their mouths. […] At around 20:30, Goebbels and [wife] Magda left the bunker and walked up to the garden of the Chancellery, where they killed themselves. There are several different accounts of this event. [I’ve omitted contradictory claims of how they died and were treated after by SS soldiers] The corpses were then doused with petrol, but they were only partially burned and not buried.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: That nazis Don't Actually Believe in Free Speech⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes.

  Fascist ideologies, like Nazism, are explicitly anti-liberalist. They don’t believe in the very concept of liberties. They explicitly write down on paper why they believe democracy and freedom is a failure. So, when you see one pulling the free speech card, they’re simply trying to appeal to your beliefs, or society’s beliefs, to give themselves a platform. It’s inherently insincere, they’re mocking you.

  Nazis have to act like this. History has shown us, without doubt, how repulsive their plans are both in theory and in practice, so until they have power, they cannot show their true colors. They can’t just be honest and play “might is right” yet because communities would just do the right thing and violently extinguish their movement (including, but not limited to, punching them on sight). So they must hide behind society’s privileges, the rights and freedoms of liberalism. They can enjoy police protection at protests to save them from the people they work to have killed, they can sue people for collecting intelligence on them and getting them fired, they can just point out liberalist hypocracy if their freedoms are violated, but listen to leaks and how they organize behind closed doors to know that’s simply opportunistic cowardice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking leeches⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The complaint is that they’re a leech on society, and proud of it.

  It doesn’t matter if a practice is ancient and common. So is organized crime. Being old and normalized doesn’t imply it has value.

  There is absolutely huge moral and ethical, and pragmatic, issues with hoarding essential resources, such as housing. Homelessness is a growing problem, and these people are gladly treating it as a money-making scheme. Society would be better if they had productive jobs instead. As a collective, landlords are responsible for systematic preventable homelessness and death. Most moral frameworks consider that very bad!

  The middle class? As far as I’m concerned, the two important classes are the worker class and the owner class, and the leeches can’t survive without the host. If there are people tricked into thinking they’re a middle class above us, they’d better figure out that they’re a thousand times closer to us than to them, hopefully before our collective desperation turns to violence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fedi 4chan?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ie. topic boards with ephemeral linear message threads This is a general forum format, but you might mean chan imageboards specifically. There have been federated imageboards for a while, but they’re very niche and experimental and I don’t see the value. The two examples I’ve heard of are NNTPchan (2015-present, NNTP protocol) and Fchannel (ActivityPub protocol).

  There’s the related imageboard webring, but there’s no actual federated interaction between the boards, it’s effectively just cross-advertising to allow easier discovery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Funkwhale Wants to Filter Out Far-Right Music⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t get too depressed about it, it would just be another niche bit of alt-tech if it were anything other than completely neutral. I can’t think of a case when an anti-left fork of a software was memorable as a self-hostable tool. The closest I can think of is Gab, which hardly qualifies, nor does it hold a torch to Mastodon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Funkwhale Wants to Filter Out Far-Right Music⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, the entire idea is contrary to rms’ FOSS goals

  Perhaps, and I don’t see how that’s a problem. Saint IGNUcius isn’t the divine dictator of FOSS. The original Funkwhale announcement’s author makes it clear at the end that they don’t hold freedom-as-an-end-goal (liberalism) as their ideology.

  LARP

  Not LA nor RP, my friend.

  As you hinted, a determined admin can disable the blocklist, it probably isn’t too technical to patch, but this makes a clear statement, which if you’ve seen any right-leaning tech forums, has a real impact on them (see their discussions on Firefox and Rust, or better yet, don’t).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Funkwhale Wants to Filter Out Far-Right Music⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  [from the original announcement]

  If you are a liberal or if you want to have fun, have a look at “Aamer Rahman: Is it really ok to punch nazis?” :)

  haha, nice. And this makes the Funkwhale announcement author’s position clear: combating fascism is more important than defending lofty ideals, like their liberties. They treat Funkwhale as a community, not merely a tool.

  Some of the points Sean brings up may be reasonable critiques, I don’t know enough about music tagging to know how easy or hard MusicBrainz is to use, and there is also the question about what if a formerly RW artist reforms (many, many have deradicalized or left the movement, fun fact: this is an important source of antifascist intel). I know about a dozen artists who, as teenagers, were in edgy right-wing circles and echoed that in their works, and are now very far away from that and regretful, but if they hadn’t taken up new aliases, they’d probably be lumped in with their unwelcome past works. So I do see merit in the complaint about that project lead failing to implement a way to handle special cases.

  With all that said, I’m definitely in support of this move. I just hope they implement and improve it well - that will make or break it.

  ---

  This reminds me of Mastodon (like Sean mentioned in the article) and Lemmy. I’m not experienced with Mastodon, but I am aware of how they reacted to Gab (formerly a Mastodon instance, before getting bullied by almost everyone), and how most of Lemmy divorced Wolfballs (run by a US-Libertarian, think 🧊🍑 + antivax, but soon populated by white supremacists and neo-nazis; eventually shut down, among other reasons, when the admin realized the Nazis on their instance weren’t just pretending for a laugh and that many were commercial bots. Probably didn’t help that their admin had a non-white partner and jewish friends) and exploding-heads.

  These are examples when a FOSS tool takes a community stance, rather than an idealistic liberalist freedom-above-all stance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo, where did the blatant Nazism suddenly come from?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  On one hand, yes, these people are pathetic and have little idea what the symbols they’re playing with truly mean beyond white supremacy. And yes, it is useful (and fun) to mock farcists.

  On the other hand, some of these people are (literally) astronomically rich, in bed with leaders of one of the most powerful military forces ever to exist, and the others are those supported by these rich haute-booj oligarchs (just like the original Blackshirts and Brownsharts were supported by landowners and maginates). A Nazi salute, understood with respect to history and the powerplay of today, is personal to many people. If it’s a teenage edgelord fucking around to get a reaction, sure, dismiss them or let them ‘find out’, but Musk and Bannon are people with huge influence over politicians and mass media. Elon Musk, for example, literally owns a pervasive media platform. They can start sizable rallies gathering both the batshit unhinged and the ideologically driven, armed and hungry.

  So if you’re someone who the Nazis would have sent to the extermination camps (and there are many, many groups that were, basically most of humanity), then that salute is someone with state power declaring they want you dead. I wouldn’t call it insulting as much as a credible death threat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anonymous: Trump is making America weaker and we’ll exploit it - News Cafe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, you are correct. I assumed the person you replied to was talking about the whole Middle East region and didn’t think twice for posting.