PugJesus
@PugJesus@lemmy.world
Alt of PugJesus for ensuring Fediverse compatibility and shit
- Comment on A rant on left-wing online infighting 2 weeks ago:
I have an overwhelmingly negative view of Newsom, and let me tell you: most of the people shitting themselves in fury over Newsom on here are the kind of people who celebrate their ‘principled’ advocacy of nonvoting in order to allow literal fascists to murder American minorities. They do not want to express approval of any good policy from ‘the Dems’, because that would weaken their argument that no one in the current system is capable of doing anything to improve anyone’s life, which justifies their total abstention and visceral hatred for participation in ‘electoral’ politics.
And on the side of the spectrum I’m calling left to left-centre, we seem to let the fewer things we disagree with get in the way of the many more things we would agree with each other.
The problem is the same issue that leads to right-unity, but in reverse.
Most people do not make political allegiances based on policy opinions.
The right doesn’t agree on anything, despite how it appears to many who are unfamiliar with right-wing discourse. But they define themselves as a community, largely defined in objection to modernity.
The left defines itself as many communities, and what ends up being important is not policy, but in-groups and out-groups. It doesn’t matter what policy would help the working class, or minorities, or establish a more just or even more left-friendly situation going forward. What matters is the in-group being opposed to the out-group.
There are people on here who literally and openly decry ‘turbolibs’ as worse than literal Nazis. There are many who equate liberals with literal fascists (and they would spare not an instant reminding you that Bernie Sanders is a liberal).
They don’t care about the people they claim to champion. They don’t have actual policy concerns, though they might express opinions on policy in the abstract. All they care about is in-group and out-group.
- Comment on A rant on left-wing online infighting 2 weeks ago:
Are you really living in a democracy when only one of two parties can ever win, and both are 100% commited to neoliberal economics? Nothing is gonna get better in the long run under a system that is designed to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. No war but class war.
I’m so glad nothing has improved since 1789 in your eyes. As we all know, minorities and the actual working class, as people don’t actually matter; only being able to beat your chest about how ‘pure’ you are over championing the abstract demographic at the expense of the actual living human beings who make up these classes matters.
- Comment on Ernest is alive 2 weeks ago:
Oh, thank goodness! I always wondered what happened. I wish him the best!
- Comment on New Comm at !Lotrmemes@Piefed.social after the Dbzer0 admins banned me! 3 months ago:
Oh damn, that’s a fantastic feature! Thank you for telling me!
- Comment on New Comm at !Lotrmemes@Piefed.social after the Dbzer0 admins banned me! 3 months ago:
The reason for leaving the other comm is what differentiates the two - you’re absolutely right that I failed to describe it though, I keep forgetting that acronyms are not always instantly recognizable lol. Fixed.
- Comment on New Comm at !Lotrmemes@Piefed.social after the Dbzer0 admins banned me! 3 months ago:
I mean, Piefed is still part of the Fediverse. It’s not like I’m going to disappear. My comms and user profile are just going to be hosted on another instance, bit by bit.
There’s also a block function even on Lemmy you can use, though I’m given to understand that the block function is much better on Piefed.
- Comment on New Comm at !Lotrmemes@Piefed.social after the Dbzer0 admins banned me! 3 months ago:
Yeah, Piefed isn’t being developed by genocide deniers, so I feel much more comfortable with it.
- Comment on New Comm at !Lotrmemes@Piefed.social after the Dbzer0 admins banned me! 3 months ago:
You banned me from unrelated community for pointing out you are spreading Israeli propaganda,
Again, if that was the reason, putting aside the fact that your own source disproved you, why would I pick one comm at random to ban you from?
Again, take out your anger on something other than anti-fascist posting next time.
- Comment on New Comm at !Lotrmemes@Piefed.social after the Dbzer0 admins banned me! 3 months ago:
You mean you were spreading Israeli propaganda and get upset to the point of banning me when it has been pointed out to you, sweetie 🤣
I literally quoted the links in your own source, which you apparently hadn’t read, and your ban was handed out because you immediately went and downvoted a bunch of anti-fascist posts without any other rhyme or reason.
If I was banning you purely for responding to my comment, why would I ban you from tankiejerk, specifically, when I mod a dozen other fucking comms?
Maybe take our your anger at having your own source read to disprove you on targets other than anti-fascist posting next time.
- Comment on New Comm at !Lotrmemes@Piefed.social after the Dbzer0 admins banned me! 3 months ago:
That you?
Yep, not that I can respond to any of the accusations due to being banned! I guess maybe you should’ve thought about not denying sexual assault and then going into an anti-fascist comm to downvote a bunch of posts immediately after being called out for it!
Rich for you to complain about being banned 🤣
I mean, I didn’t deny sexual assault verified by the UN, but I guess “downvoting someone” is a bigger crime in your eyes.
- Submitted 3 months ago to newcommunities@lemmy.world | 23 comments
- Comment on PieFed.World is now open 4 months ago:
Faus
- Comment on Wafrn: a tumblr clone that federates with fedi and now also has opt in native bluesky 4 months ago:
The Foxblob emojis are fantastic
- Comment on Wafrn: a tumblr clone that federates with fedi and now also has opt in native bluesky 4 months ago:
Fantastic idea! I miss Tumblr terribly ever since the Great Porn Ban of 2018, even though I never even reblogged or followed ‘adult’ blogs. I just wanted to reblog holsum and funny fanart, but fuck giving into puritan corpo censorship.
What’s the moderation policy on genocide denial and the like? I hate having to ask this, but having heard too many people deny the Holodomor on here, I feel it necessary to make the inquiry.
For that matter, more generally, are you prepared, in terms of moderation structure, for the massive amount of legitimately disturbing material that’s going to pass through the site and will need to be removed if the site grows beyond a few hundred users? I would hate to join and then see this crash because of (completely understandable) moderator/admin burnout at the depravity and speed of mankind’s worst elements.
- Submitted 4 months ago to history@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on What's a good instance to be on at the moment? 4 months ago:
.world
Sh.itjust.works
Sopuli.xyz
Lemmy.cafe
- Comment on Were people happier in the past? 5 months ago:
The most powerful kings of ages prior would trade everything to have what you have right now.
One of my favorite stories is of Charlemagne, first Holy Roman Emperor, seeking to revive learning and education at his court (and, by extension, reviving elite learning in effectively all of continental Western Europe).
Thus, one of the most powerful men in the world at the time, learned to write, and only imperfectly even with repeated and dedicated practice, in his fucking 40s or 50s.
We are immensely blessed to live in the modern day, even with all of its very serious and real curses.
- Comment on Were people happier in the past? 5 months ago:
It’s doubtful. Perhaps not as miserable as one might initially suspect from material circumstances, considering that mankind has an immense ability to mentally adjust to our current environment, but the past is filled with material miseries that are hard to simply ‘adjust’ to.
When you read about children died in the first few years since they were born, and their aristocratic parents mourning those lost children for all of their life, it’s hard to imagine that losing five or six children that way is a net gain in happiness, or that it’s something one just ‘adjusts’ to. Perhaps you reach a point where it doesn’t ruin you, but where it’s marginal? No.
Hunger, malnutrition, disease, childhood mortality, broken families, banditry, lawlessness, state oppression that makes modern authoritarian states look merely ‘average’, endemic warfare, fear of the divine, repressive local community cultures…
Modern society is pretty structurally fucked. But past society was even more structurally fucked, and materially fucked in addition.
- Comment on Cutie patootie 6 months ago:
They’re such adorable little genetic dead-ends!
- Comment on Cutie patootie 6 months ago:
[Pug noise]
- Comment on The fediverse has a bullying problem 7 months ago:
Something changed culturally between Usenet and the things that came after.
Me, who only started into online communities in the early 2000s:
- Comment on The fediverse has a bullying problem 7 months ago:
But the extent to which the fediverse seems to like to do this stuff just seems really extreme to me, and a lot of times what it’s based on is just weird petty bullying nonsense.
Not saying that it isn’t a problem, but as someone who’s been Around™ online, this is pretty par-for-the-course stuff.
Ah, to remember the glory days of Livejournal and Tumblr… and don’t get me started back in the days when every fandom had a dozen sites which all hated each other for vague and extremely personal reasons.
- Comment on PieFed supports auto merging threads so you see all the comments in one post 7 months ago:
Nice feature!
- Comment on Actually, it’s about Ethics in Transgenderism 8 months ago:
Everyone involved in this, author included, seems to be batshit insane except for Eris?
- Comment on Actually, it’s about Ethics in Transgenderism 8 months ago:
I’m about halfway through.
I didn’t realize Mastodon was big enough for so much fucking drama.
- Comment on 8 months ago:
In the long run, whitelisting may become the norm for federation instead of blacklisting.
- Comment on 8 months ago:
I was just offered 500$ to be someone’s friend. Of course, I refused - my friendship is worth much more than that!
But it’s… concerning that we’ve got this sudden spike in spam.
- Comment on Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea! 8 months ago:
Crypto doesn’t really solve any of the problems that a payment processor wouldn’t also solve, unfortunately.
- Comment on Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea! 8 months ago:
Real life. The offline world. Grassvile.
- Comment on Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea! 8 months ago:
I know that Federation is exciting, but all these ideas for federated services are really missing the reason why the Fediverse’s current bits are successful - because they have low moral hazard.
When you get into economics and meatspace relationships, moral hazard skyrockets.
