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- Comment on Iraq, or the “Axis of Resistance” Upset 1 week ago:
I had no clue OrientXXI reported in English?
I’d been reading them in French for years.
- Comment on Nigel Farage distances himself from Elon Musk on Tommy Robinson 2 weeks ago:
You know it’s bad when the worst far right figure in the UK says Musk is too much for him.
That’s the american equivalent of Kanye’s Nazism getting rebuffed by Alex Jones.
- Comment on Is it possible to design a social media app or service that rather than focuses on farming engagement, it tries to promote quality content? 2 weeks ago:
But there are ways to better incentivse it.
Ie. the default lemmy sort “active” takes replies, upvotes, and downvotes as “activity” and promotes posts that get a lot of any of them. This tends to promote controversial content.
If you sort by top, its instead only based on upvotes and the sort promotes less divisive and controversial stuff and more “quality” stuff.
- Comment on Reddit is Dead. Lemmy is Dead. Everything is Dead. 2 weeks ago:
The more we foster a community of sharing the less dead the niches will fill.
The vast majority of lemmy users never post at all which sometimes makes it feel dead. We need more posts. If you’re reading this and haven’t made a post before I challenge you too. If you’re reading this and there is a niche community that doesn’t exist that you miss from reddit, I challenge you to make it here.
- Comment on !balkanika@feddit.bg - a community about Southeast Europe 2 weeks ago:
Last time I saw .bg was RARBG… (Ah the good old days).
- Comment on Do rhymes make sense to deaf people? 2 weeks ago:
Just look it up.
It’s like being blind: a lot of blind people can still see but not well. Or using a wheelchair, a lot of people in wheelchairs can still stand short periods or walk short distances.
ETC
Society oversimplifies these things to be binary, but in reality they are a spectrum.
- Comment on Do rhymes make sense to deaf people? 2 weeks ago:
Huh, as someone who became deaf later in life, and thus still have the “internal monologue”, good question!
- Comment on What's the deal with male loneliness? 2 weeks ago:
Capitalism absolutely contributes to the loneliness crisis. For starters, it glorifies hyper-individualism, making it all about “every person for themselves” rather than fostering a sense of community or collective well-being. Stable, long-term jobs that used to provide social connections are being replaced by gig work and precarious employment, leaving people isolated and too burned out to build meaningful relationships outside work.
On top of that, capitalism pushes this idea that happiness comes from buying things instead of building connections. Social experiences are even commodified now—like dating apps and paid meetups—so relationships feel more like transactions. Cities, designed for profit, don’t help either. You’ve got people crammed into apartments, commuting for hours, and barely interacting with their neighbors. Public spaces that encourage connection are underfunded or replaced with malls and shopping centers.
And then there’s the mental health angle. Capitalism treats loneliness and isolation as individual problems, with solutions like therapy apps and self-help books—profitable industries—rather than addressing the systemic issues that cause them. Even social media, which could foster connection, is driven by algorithms that prioritize engagement over genuine interaction, leaving people feeling more disconnected after hours of scrolling.
At the end of the day, capitalism prioritizes profit over people. It’s no surprise that in a world focused on production, consumption, and competition, we’re all feeling so alone.
- Comment on What's the deal with male loneliness? 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure how usefulness the term “male loneliness” is. There’s a crisis of loneliness in every sex and gender, it’s a side effect of capitalism.
- Comment on How active is Lemmy now? 2 weeks ago:
Same
- Comment on Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own community 2 weeks ago:
Looks interesting. But I don’t see what the point is unless you connect to fediverse or can attract a critical mass to keep it self sustaining.
- Comment on Wind energy jobs are taking off, but so are risks | Workers are pushing for improved training and safety standards to help avoid falls, electrocution and equipment failure 2 weeks ago:
Wind is cheap and green. Least we can do is spend a little extra for safety.
- Comment on LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey 2 weeks ago:
Who did they steal from? How did they steal? I never used them but didn’t they provide coupon codes or smth?
- Comment on Germany hits 62.7% renewables in 2024 energy mix, with solar contributing 14% 2 weeks ago:
Really cool. Thanks for the share. Also quite depressing, most countries (even rich ones who have like triple responsibility) are barely even trying.
- Comment on LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey 2 weeks ago:
Can someone ELI5 what honey was actually doing?
- Comment on Meta's Nick Clegg to step down, will be replaced by well-connected Republican 2 weeks ago:
I still dunno how to make sense of the Lib Dem’s manifesto was further left than labour’s in the last General Election.
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- Comment on Odin - a self-hosted FOSS streaming service. 2 weeks ago:
Whats the main difference with Jellyfin?
- Comment on Has the USA turned into an oligarchy? 2 weeks ago:
if money = power then liberal (democracy) = oligarchy
- Comment on New social experiment 2 weeks ago:
Homework/
- Comment on Day 1 Reddit Refugee 2 weeks ago:
Also for radical leftists who happily criticise Russia and China (anarchists), servers you might enjoy are: lemmy.dbzer0.com and slrpnk.net
- Comment on Apps doing year wrapped gives you a hint on how are you being tracked. There is probably a legal issue there somewhere like data retention. 2 weeks ago:
This app is pretty cool. Just saying this because it let me export my data when I wanted to stop using it. Which is not a common feature in proprietary software so hats off to the devs.
- Comment on Do You Need A VPN? 3 weeks ago:
Does Icloud private relay work good enough for non-illegal activities?
I use something different for torrenting obvs.
- Deaths, lies and cover-ups: the case for a public inquiry into the ‘unthinkable cost’ of DWP’s systemic violencewww.thedepartmentbook.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments
- Comment on Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay 5 weeks ago:
lemmygrad, and lemmy.ml 😭
Learnt this the hard way, my first account was on lemmy.ml
- Comment on Dyk, Bobby? 1 month ago:
- Comment on DOJ says Google must sell Chrome to crack open its search monopoly 1 month ago:
4 $ Final Offer
- Comment on What is the difference between lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works? 1 month ago:
The two main reasons people attack LW is:
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people who criticise it because it is by far the largest instance, and thereby means lemmy is as decentralised as it could be, I think this is a fair point, because it has caused federation issues with for example aussie.zone in the past.
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Tankies who get mad the average lemmy.world user does not share their admiration for China, Russia, North Korea, Stalin, and Mao.
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- Comment on What do you create? 1 month ago:
Philosophical ramblings to justify my existence, which according to capitalism has no value because I don’t have the ability to work.