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- Comment on If a hostile country has installed a puppet leader to dismantle your government from the inside and the only thing that would expidite its destruction is a violent revolution how do you combat this? 1 month ago:
She'll be happy to hear that it has worked on numerous occasions throughout history! After the fall of Fascism in Europe, people in many countries got together and created strong welfare states in the post war period. Some were moe successful than others, but even in the ultraconservative UK they managed to create a national health service that hs proven difficult to kill off.
Sadly, I'll have to break to her that the fight never ends. The second you stop fighting for progress, some asshole will pop up and try to instill feudalism again. After a generation or two people tend to forget the ongoing nature of this threat, and it seems we haven't managed to come up with ways to permanently get rid of it, despite our best efforts in the French and American revolutions.
Maybe the time has come to go back to the drawing board, and rethink some of the decisions that were made back then. Jefferson said every generation should have its own constitution. Maybe he was right.
- Comment on If a hostile country has installed a puppet leader to dismantle your government from the inside and the only thing that would expidite its destruction is a violent revolution how do you combat this? 1 month ago:
If your friend is willing to make the effort to combat this, she should get organized. She should find like-minded people, act locally to gain political power, and create a stronghold where the illegitimate government will face resistance. She should base this around ideological lines, rather than willingly subscribing to what experienced members in established political elites in her country are trying to make her say or do. She should write down whether values are and make sure to keep them close at all times, knowing that she just might be successful and that power corrupts.
She should not give up hope, but she should give up the belief that others will change anything for her. She needs recognize that her country is already broken, and she needs to act to be the change.
She needs to recognize that she's not powerless. She can make a difference.
Likewise, she needs to recognize that it's a long and painful process. It needs to start locally, and it might always stay local. But that is fine.
She needs to realize strength is in the community. Building the community of like minded people working for local action is crucial. She'll be disappointed in them at times, but she'll just have to keep going. There's power in community.
At least that's what I think I'd advice her. But I don't know your friend or her situation, obviously.
- Comment on Why can't someone create a public alternative to health insurance in the USA? 1 month ago:
American capitalists are really, really good at cracking down on any civil attempt at unionising and/or improving society at the cost of the ultra rich.
You could recite the extensive history of violence, but honestly the greatest achievement is in the propaganda. Solidarity seems to be commonly understood - by all classes - as having to take the bill for somebody even poorer than yourself, and nobody seems to be comfortable with the idea that they might themselves one day benefit.
Americans can't have good things before they start fighting back. Read up on union history. Organize. Educate. Teach people what solidarity is and what the Battle of Blair Mountain was. Learn what was taken away from you, and help others understand as well. Begin locally.
Either that, or keep watching the fascists take over day by day, as they have been doing for decades.
- Comment on In Pakistan, a Stunning Solar Boom 2 months ago:
Panels purchased in 2024 amount to 17 gigawatts of capacity, enough to raise Pakistan’s total power capacity by a third.
Holy shit.
A third of their total capacity, in only a year of buying Chinese solar panels. This is insane.
It's the kind of change that can redefine societies.
- Comment on A new way to describe the Fediverse and its opposition to Big Tech 2 months ago:
Check out the app permissions for the Mastodon app vs its competitors, and you'll get an idea.
Of course, it's not the Fediverse as such - Threads is still surveillance capitalism, even if it gains full AP support. And 3rd party Mastodon apps can track as much as they want. But the Fediverse makes it possible, by not depending on returns on investments.
- Comment on Hear me out, a Fediverse client that mimics Nintendo's Miiverse 2 months ago:
Twitter was never the town square of the Internet. The Miiverse was.
- Comment on Hear me out, a Fediverse client that mimics Nintendo's Miiverse 2 months ago:
It would be way too cool if the Wii homebrew scene implemented ActivityPub in the original miiverse. I might just dust of my Wii for that.
- Comment on Mastodon's federation consistency is laughably bad. 2 months ago:
I wouldn't be quite so pessimistic. There's a commit for #FetchAllReplies (by @jonny@neuromatch.social, I believe) that seems to be shaping up well, with a seemingly healthy debate going on. Just yesterday @Gargron@mastodon.social posted in agreement that it is a must-fix issue.
They're moving slow, but their reasons for doing so doesn't seem to boil down to an unwillingness to fix it.
- Comment on Choose Your Fighter: Microblogging Edition 2 months ago:
I was surprised to learn how little the domain as user name feature actually means, after setting it up with my bridged account.
The real user names on Bluesky are called DIDs. Different URLs can point to a DID, making your profile discoverable through this URL. By default it'll be username.bsky.app (or username.instance.bsky.brid.gy), but as long as the URL redirects to the DID it could really be anything.
Several such redirects could be active, but you choose one to be the "official" one that shows up on your profile. People don't follow your domain though - when they interact with you, they interact with the account associated with the underlying DID.
It's basically just smokes and mirrors for what is still a very centralized service.
It is still, of course, more decentralized than Twitter, as one can post there through the bridge without having an account. So that's neat. But the whole domain thing is deceiving as hell.
- Comment on Choose Your Fighter: Microblogging Edition 2 months ago:
As a general rule, try to also include a description of who you are on your profile. If you're active people will check in, if you give some sort of description there they are more likely to actually follow you.
Usually when someone follows me I'll check out their profile, if they look interesting I'll follow them back. If their profile is empty I usually won't.
- Comment on Use 'Bridgy Fed' to connect Mastodon and Bluesky 2 months ago:
I post on mastodon and bridge to bluesky. That way I can reach anyone there interested in following me, but I personally don't have to bother with the site at all.
As someone trying to reach an audience, it's pretty much perfect. Each to their own obviously.
- Comment on Use 'Bridgy Fed' to connect Mastodon and Bluesky 2 months ago:
Thanks, very insightful!
Maybe elaborate?
- Comment on What should I bring to far-north Scandinavia? 2 months ago:
Vitamin D supplements. You're not gonna get much sunlight, and you need vitamin D not to get depressed.
The locals are used to seasonal depression. Foreigners tend to have a hard time with it.
- Comment on What should I bring to far-north Scandinavia? 2 months ago:
Layers are key. Noting beats real wool.
Use mittens, not gloves. Gloves suck.
- Comment on Do PhDs HAVE to use Dr? 2 months ago:
I have a PhD, the only time I use my title is when booking tickets for trains or planes with German companies.
I'm a social scientist. Nobody hears the word "doctor" and thinks of a person like me.
- Comment on Want to buy jewlery as a gift for the girlfriend, I know nothing about jewlery, where to start? 2 months ago:
I guess Etsy could be a good place to look. It has gotten annoying in the last few years, but sadly it's still the best place for a lot of people to sell their crafts.
She might enjoy a unique handmade piece by a silversmith there just as much or more as a high-end necklace, and unique hand-made designs can be cheaper than diamonds. Maybe you can even reach out to a silversmith and design something together.
I tried searching for #jewelry on mastodon.social, and @kosmimatis@handmade.social was the first thing to pop up. Of course you probably want to look around more, but their latest post is not necessarily a terrible starting point.
In short, I think it's possible to go about it looking for a silversmith rather than a jewellery store. What it lacks in expensive stones it makes up for by being potentially personal. :)
- Comment on feddit.online will live on as a PieFed instance 3 months ago:
It seems it shut down over Kbin developments. I guess it could have done its users a favour by changing to Mbin, but still... Fair enough. I'm hopeful :)
- Comment on feddit.online will live on as a PieFed instance 3 months ago:
That's great!!
I love PieFed - hopefully this instance will be a success! It's nice to see something other than the flagship. PieFed seems pretty flexible, so it'll be fun to see what another instance makes of it.
I would warmly recommend checking it out!
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 3 months ago:
I guess a large part why I liked them was that I was really only active on one or maximum two, and I was happy just embracing the community there. It was also in my native language rather than in English, which feels excotic in retrospect.
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 3 months ago:
Great post!
I would be curious to know how many people on here have found memories from BBcode-style forums.
Personally I kinda skipped web 2.0 - I had some accounts, sure, but I hardly interacted with anything else than direct messaging. However I used to hang out on phpBB for probably hours every day before Facebook took over, having been lured in by needing help progressing in Pokémon on my GameBoy Advance.
I guess I'm a minority around here in never having used Reddit much. But I'm wondering if we're, in general, a bunch of ageing nerds who are nostalgic to web 1.0, or if we're a more diverse bunch than that. ;)
- Comment on Any peertube based podcasts on the fediverse? 3 months ago:
Floorboard's Dot Social is pretty great: @dot_social@flipboard.video
- Comment on Loops by Pixelfed • Launching in a week 3 months ago:
It's a bit hard to imagine the fediverse crowd being huge on a tiktok-like platform. I think it's an important development, even just as a proof of concept, but it would have to attract an audience from a whole different target audience, and one that might have less patience for technical hiccups.
I think video content is also fundamentally more asymmetrical - from a few influencers to a large number of consumers. Which is probably what the fediverse is heading towards as well, but it's not what it does best at the moment.
I don't think I'm the target audience of this, and I'm not sure it'll be a success. But I think it's a very interesting and important development anyway.
- Comment on What happened to Kbin.Social? 3 months ago:
Does anyone know if he has given any sign of life the last few months?
- Comment on [Opinon] With Gaza in ruins and Lebanon under siege, what defence remains for Israel’s actions? 3 months ago:
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 doesn'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.
- Comment on [Opinon] With Gaza in ruins and Lebanon under siege, what defence remains for Israel’s actions? 3 months ago:
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.
- Comment on Phanpy - A minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client. 3 months ago:
They'd get busy: The creator of Phanphy also maintains a list of github repos named after Pokemon.
- Comment on Phanpy - A minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client. 3 months ago:
That's great!
- Comment on Phanpy - A minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client. 3 months ago:
It's a nice user interface, made by @cheeaun@mastodon.social, 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.
- Comment on Phanpy - A minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client. 3 months ago:
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 its way 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.
- Comment on FediForum September 2024 Demo Videos 3 months ago:
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.