WanderingVentra
@WanderingVentra@lemm.ee
- Comment on Lemm.ee is recruiting new admins! 1 week ago:
Thanks for the explanation!
- Comment on Lemm.ee is recruiting new admins! 1 week ago:
What’s OVH SAS?
I work in software but wouldn’t mind getting better at the administrative side of things myself. It means I probably have to learn Linux better, though.
- Comment on PieFed, a FOSS Feed Aggregator alternative to Lemmy, but faster 2 months ago:
Exactly. I 100% agree with that sentiment.
- Comment on PieFed, a FOSS Feed Aggregator alternative to Lemmy, but faster 2 months ago:
Two of the developers are scary communists. And no, I don’t think software can be right wing or left wing. Maybe if it’s centralized, like X, but the developers of Lemmy can’t interfere with Lemmy servers they don’t admin, and it’s open source (lots of other people contribute to the Lemmy source code at this point and so would be able to spot things added in).
Personally, I think the right way to advertise other competitors on the fediverse isnt to fear monger about the developers, but to say what features they have that might be good. Also, it is nice to have competitors, so also just to advertise based on the availability of alternative options.
- Comment on Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024) Cory Doctorow 2 months ago:
It is kind of weird thay it hasn’t been done yet, but in that thread they posted it sounded like it’s totally possible at the moment.
- Comment on USA | Trump speaks with Putin and advises him not to escalate Ukraine war – report 2 months ago:
Maybe I misinterpreted your comment, but I thought you were saying that Trump basically purposefully leaked the comments to sound tough on Putin, but wasn’t actually planning on following through at all, and instead was planning on actually helping Putin instead but purposefully didn’t leak that part. I compared it to a similar recent situation.
- Comment on USA | Trump speaks with Putin and advises him not to escalate Ukraine war – report 2 months ago:
Reminds me of the leaks of when Biden wanted to sound tough on Netanyahu. Trump just wants to sound tough on Putin for a bit.
- Comment on Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says he and Donald Trump 'see eye to eye' on Iran 2 months ago:
They’re different people arguing different things lol. The truth is there are a lot of people who want to be heard, so they play up Harris not listening to them and losing because of it. The truth is probably more depressing in that it didn’t matter.
- Comment on Microsoft closing Arkane Austin was “stupid”, says founder: recreating “a very special group” like that would be “impossible” 2 months ago:
I still need to play Prey. It’s all on my wishlists on Steam or Gog, but haven’t gotten around to it.
- Comment on Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza 2 months ago:
Oh nice. See, this is the kind of stuff I’ll have to look up lol
- Comment on Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza 2 months ago:
I need a practice laptop to learn Linux with…
- Comment on Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza 2 months ago:
In case people are wondering, this is the mentality that produced Nazis.
- Comment on Croc Legend of the Gobbos remaster will be a GOG exclusive 3 months ago:
This is hilarious. I can’t believe anyone but me remembers this game.
- Comment on Meta’s Israel Policy Chief Tried to Suppress Pro-Palestinian Instagram Posts 3 months ago:
I’m down lol. Unfortunately friends still use it. I just found out about a friend’s birthday this weekend because I don’t use Facebook events. Why don’t people just text anymore? 😩
- Comment on Meta’s Israel Policy Chief Tried to Suppress Pro-Palestinian Instagram Posts 3 months ago:
This is as big a problem as the Tik Tok thing. We have blatant evidence of a foreign country interfering with our biggest social media platform. It needs to be banned, too, or she needs to be fired.
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 3 months ago:
Do you have an example of how they’ve tried to force their hand on other instances? That’s not really a thing they can do…
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 3 months ago:
But communities aren’t really locked to a particular instance. Anyone can start a community that’s a clone from another instance and nothing stops everyone from migrating to that new one. Blaze has already pulled it off multiple times. If everyone doesn’t like the community on ml, then they can go to one made on another instance super easy. You can’t do that on Reddit without adding a 2 on the end or something. That’s the beauty of the fediverse.
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 3 months ago:
Really? I find libs way more interested in rehashing old Cold War arguments. They still reference Stalin and Mao all the time, like you are now, even though they’ve been dead a long time. Communists do advance leftist thought based on the conditions of each country, and usually that requires resisting US imperialism and yes, they of often make a lot of mistakes, but these are criticized or debated in leftist circles, but not usually among the libs, who rehash old, debunked arguments usually.
From what I’ve seen, most MLS support individual liberty but understand it’s curtailing in situations where countries are still the US. The US and the west are still the most powerful empires in the world and they’re still trying to destroy communism and do imperialism. That’s why they support Israel’s genocide. That’s why they keep trying to do coups in Venezuela every election year, why the US still embargos Cuba, why they still are trying to get countries to privatize their natural resources for foreign companies and they destroy the whole country if they don’t (like I’m Iraq or Syria), why they constantly try to yellow scare with China but don’t give a fuck about the wars Saudi Arabia starts with other countries, it’s why we have military bases in almost every country in the world. These things are still happening today, the US didn’t just start becoming good and non-imperialist or pro-communist and no one wants to be like the USSR when it turned into Russia, where everything was sold off to the highest bidder and quality of life fell off a cliff that’s only now just starting to recover again.
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 3 months ago:
When has a capitalist state not been repressive?
Also, communist states are repressive to the bourgeoisie by definition, and this is usually pounced in by capitalist propaganda to demonize their projects as a whole.
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 3 months ago:
Ignoring 99% of what you said
Cowbee pretty clearly replies to everything they said and answered it. They replied that other Marxists say this stuff, which is a claim that needs proof. Cowbee already provided proof for their claims. Basically the only response was that Marxists did believe what he thought they did, which is a baseless claim that needs proof.
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 3 months ago:
Hexbear doesn’t have downvotes either actually. That seems to be the main reason they brigade.
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 3 months ago:
It was removed from it to avoid over centralization on the fediverse. It already has like 80% of users
- Comment on What websites still feel like the old internet? 3 months ago:
Sites that have old forums. There aren’t many anymore, but ones I’ve seen that have been very helpful of late include car sites, a timeshare forum, and the Fantasy Grounds forum (my virtual tabletop of choice).
I’m sure there are others out there, but it’s definitely more rare than it used to be. Is Something Awful still around?
- Comment on The worst feeling of my life:My vacation is ending tomorrow 3 months ago:
Oh ya, I hate that. The utter dread about going back to the grind =(
- Comment on Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ? 3 months ago:
Nope. I participate everywhere in the lemmy fediverse I can and never really had any issues with mods yet, which is surprising as I don’t hesitate to get into political arguments generally. Ive blocked users, but never an instance. I take everything on a community by community and user by user basis.
- Comment on School cell phone bans have hit most states. Not everyone is on board. 3 months ago:
I do have a feeling cell phones have made more kids worse since we were in school. I can actively feel mh attention spam getting worse from the clip nature of news, short form content on the internet, and endless scroll content of sites like Reddit or even here on Lemmy. And I used to be a good student who read constantly, now it’s just basically my phone lol.
- Comment on School cell phone bans have hit most states. Not everyone is on board. 3 months ago:
Seems like a good compromise. The idea of the rule is probably just so they won’t have them out anyway.
- Comment on ISPs tell Supreme Court they don’t want to disconnect users accused of piracy 4 months ago:
Here’s my guess. Piracy provides a competition against the horrible practices of streaming and entertainment companies that doesn’t otherwise exist, forcing them to provide a better service.
Artists are just a single person making art and their service isn’t gobbled up by the capitalist machine and turned into something user unfriendly. They don’t usually make too much money, unlike huge entertainment corporations, either.
When it comes to piracy, individual content creators often don’t care as long as they get money to live. There have been people who work on video games or movies who say they don’t care if others pirate their work as long as others get to see it. But for AI, it copies and changes the work, stripping the art of its original watermark, and it sets itself up to be a replacement of the artist itself. It doesn’t just spread their work without having you pay for it, it replaces the concept of needing an artist altogether, but only by using their labor in the first place without paying them for it.
If piracy let movie studios replace the idea of needing individual content creators, writers, artists actors, etc then people would feel differently I think. As it is now, people don’t care about big studios, they care about the individual. Piracy currently only really harms the former and not the latter. AI is the opposite.
- Comment on US can’t ban TikTok for security reasons while ignoring Temu, other apps, TikTok argues 4 months ago:
There’s no been proof that Tik Tok sends all the data to China or that China manipulates the algorithm. In fact, to appease the US before, they agreed to let Oracle and a purely US subsidiary look at all their code and data and content moderation. Oracle would spot check the data flows and where it goes. Tik Tok would report to Committee on Foreign Investment in the US on everything, even hiring practices. And a 2021 study found Tik Tok didn’t really collect data beyond the norm of other players in the industry, or beyond what it said it did in it’s policy.
All this scaring is literally just because politicians are scared that people in Gaza can use it to report what’s happening to themselves during the genocide, without the blatant censorship of American companies on the issue. [Even Romney admitted that’s the reason.] (www.commondreams.org/news/mitt-romney-tiktok) I don’t actually use Tik Tok and I think it’s algorithms are bad for our ADHD addled brains, but I would also apply that to YouTube shorts and Instagram stories. They should all be regulated, not banned. Hell, we actually could use more foreign companies that aren’t vulnerable to US censorship, not the opposite. This is especially important since reporters aren’t being let in Gaza and the ones who are are killed. And we’ll probably lose it once they finish their restructuring in Project Texas, although sounds like they’ll be banned before they do.
- Comment on NFL Gifs 4 months ago:
Woo!