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- Comment on Post promoting lemm.ee hits 67,000 views and 1000 upvotes in 3 hours. 3 weeks ago:
Duplicate communities are a good thing anyway.
It’s crazy that on Reddit a community can get hijacked by some fucking weirdo who has control of things basically forever.
- Comment on Post promoting lemm.ee hits 67,000 views and 1000 upvotes in 3 hours. 3 weeks ago:
I think you should contact the moderation team. I’d be really curious to hear what they have to say is “excessive” about you informing people of EU-based alternatives to Reddit…
If nothing else it’ll be a good laugh here on fedi.
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 4 weeks ago:
Jesus, this fucking paranoid bitch can barely string a sentence together. He must be neck deep in the techbro CEO k-hole…
Also, as an Irish leftist, he should leave my people out of his delusional and incoherent ranting.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I blocked MutualAid-related tags months ago because there is only so much begging and sob stories that a person can take.
I feel sorry for people who have problems and situations so desperate that they feel the best way to fix them is asking random people on the internet for money, but I just don’t know if I can trust them and I absolutely know I can’t help everyone.
- Comment on Grok 3 roasts Lemmy 1 month ago:
Imagine being the type of person who has conversations with Elon Musk’s computer and trying to roast anybody. Wild.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 month ago:
We take the Pacific and Atlantic coasts first, blockade the gulf and then move inwards with our allies from all sides.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 month ago:
You’re forgetting that there are plenty of people, bases and equipment in blue territory. The neo-confederates will have no access to trade as they will very quickly be cut off from both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts, and you’ve already blown any chance at a alliance with neighboring countries. These dumb fuck Republicans in flyover country have already painted themselves into a corner and they don’t even know it.
Come what may. We will fight, and we have all the infrastructure, money and equipment to win against y’all fat ass redneck farm boys.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 month ago:
Need I remind you how the last civil war went?
The west and the north east will be ready to fight, and we have plenty of military bases, equipment, infrastructure, logistics, money and people to fight with. The neo-confederate rednecks will be cut off from trade in every direction, as we quickly take both coasts and form alliances with neighboring countries. People in Buttfuck, Oklahoma will be eating dust.
All the 400 lb good ol’ boy mall ninja rednecks in the world are not going to be able to face the reality of what will come to them if they fuck with the west coast.
- Comment on Microsoft hypes another generative AI model but doesn't really explain how it'll help [game] developers 1 month ago:
it wont
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 month ago:
None of this is good, and it’s going to cause a lot of big problems across just about everything but, theoretically at least, none of it is unsalvageable.
Remember that elections are run by the states, not the federal government.
So unless you live in one of the most hardcore Trump-sucking red states, you likely will be able to vote in 2026 and 2028, your vote will probably be fairly counted, and you will be able to determine not just the makeup of Congress 2 years from now, but also the types of people that we send to represent our interests and fight back against Trump.
Of course, Trump is wasting no time grabbing power, but it still remains to be seen whether or not Congress and the Supreme Court will surrender their power enough for him to get away with it. As much as the massive cucked-out bitches in Congress and SCOTUS pretend they love Trump, they actually hate his guts and are just as hungry for their own power as he is for his.
Finally there is the possibility of a genuine constitutional crisis in which Trump rejects the concept of shared power by coequal branches of government, in which case the entire constitution is rendered null and void and the USA completely ceases to exist as a federal entity and the union breaks down.
This would probably lead to a civil war, in which case the side that wins is the one that has the best logistics and strategy.
- Comment on Why hasn't the deep state stopped trump? 1 month ago:
Hey man, rule #1, no stupid questions.
It’s right in the name.
- Comment on Luanti (formerly Minetest) v5.11 out now with an in-game settings menu and better server browser 1 month ago:
Good that they changed the name.
- Comment on Frogge 1 month ago:
A block of fresh yeast.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
He’s coming to terms with it, if in a slightly judgemental boomer “this can still be fixed” sort of way.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service 1 month ago:
Look at the date, lmao.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service 1 month ago:
You sound like the type of guy who drives a cybertruck and practices Elons “odd hand gesture” in your bedroom at night.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service 1 month ago:
They fear open source software because it is the only thing that threatens their techfascist hegemony.
This only further proves that we are investing in platforms that are chipping away at them.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The beauty of FOSS though is if someone wants it bad enough, they can implement it themselves.
For sure. I’ve personally contributed to C++ FOSS projects before. There are a few big hurdles between idea and implementation though.
Personally I don’t know enough about web development or the software stack involved in various fediverse projects to be of much help with implementation right now. So the only thing I can really do at this point in time is put the idea out there, whatever little that’s worth.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
So not closed off as in non-federated, just invite only?
Yeah. We’re talking about using invites to onboard people onto servers.
So a barrier like the ones that have applications, but based on something other than fiktering who joins the community? Not only is that counter to the entire point of federation, but invite only approaches only works for closed systems. Nobody is going to wait for an invite when they can just join any server.
Would you rather be invited to an event or fill out an application?
There’s way less friction involved in sharing an invite code.
I also don’t think that closed servers are “counter to the entire point of federation”. Federation is about servers talking to other servers, it has nothing to do with how individual servers grow.
And if people don’t care to wait for an invite to join a specific server, and they’d rather take the initiative to join a different server right away, that’s fine too. They’re still in the fediverse either way.
The topic of sharing invite codes is geared towards the type of people who aren’t going to take that initiative in the first place. We get rid of the need for them to understand how the fediverse works by just giving them a ticket into some specific server. They can take it or leave it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’ve never run a fediverse server of any kind, but do Lemmy, Mastodon and the other big projects already support invite-based registration using codes?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It kind of does matter which instance someone joins, because not everything is federated with everything else.
But that’s not really the point. The point is that potential new users think about joining “Lemmy” only to find a big list of servers that they don’t know anything about, and that scares people away. Giving them an invite removes the need for them to choose anything at all.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Fair enough, but you sound like the type of bitch-made brat who didn’t return back the everlasting gobstopper. Just saying.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
You could.
- Comment on What does Lemmy think of Daniel Supernault or on mastodon? 1 month ago:
Well, I’m not really that interested, to be honest. Sorry/
I just wanted to remind you that you’re not this dude’s manager, and it’s probably not really your place to be worrying about his rate of progress.
If you want him to do something for you, maybe find out some way to pay him, otherwise just sit on your hands and wait for him to do whatever he ends up doing, because pestering people on social media is never going to achieve anything other than getting you blocked. People don’t like being bothered, especially not by random dudes on social media.
If you’re excited about loops (or any other FOSS development), then the best way to express that is just by telling people how excited you are, not trying to grill them like you’re their boss or something.
That’s just my opinion as a FOSS developer of 6+ years.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Come to think of it, even semi-open communities (like the kind that require users to apply to join) could benefit from a user invite code system as an alternate way to get people in without applying.
- Comment on What does Lemmy think of Daniel Supernault or on mastodon? 1 month ago:
I don’t really know who he is, but then again, who are you to be “calling him out” for “making no progress” on anything?
Don’t take that as a personal attack, by the way. I just think you should probably be less invested in trying to manage random strangers on the internet, and instead focus on your own progress with whatever you’re trying to do in life.
If you’re excited about Loops and you want to see this dude make progress faster, you’re not going to achieve that by bugging him about it on social media–that achieves nothing at all.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 1 month ago:
Well, that’s fair enough, I guess.
I think the difference between servers and what it means to be on one server vs another is not exactly obvious. On the other hand, if picking a Mastodon or Lemmy server gives a person choice paralysis, I don’t know how they can pick anything in life without getting choice paralysis.
Like, how do you know which bread to buy? I guess you just arbitrarily pick one and if you like it then just stick with it, and if you don’t then you try something else.
But listen, I’m no stranger to overthinking things, so I guess I do get it, even if it is a bit frustrating as someone who wants people to take the internet back from corporations and oligarchs. Sorry for being a bit overly dismissive. I think it’s just that I’m a bit of an old school guy, and so I mostly just hate the idea that the entire internet needs to be centralized around one website/app/platform and that any small degree of choice or distribution is a bad thing.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 1 month ago:
The fediverse being “endless wars about who is federated” is not really true, is it?
Sure not everyone is federated with everyone else, but legacy social media is federated with nobody at all. Federation is the entire point of the Fediverse, you connect with people you want to connect with and you don’t connect with people you don’t. It’s as simple as that.
Plus, do people really want to be on a single platform with everyone else in the world? Because that’s a big part of what broke the internet in the first place…
99% of users are going to check out when you ask them what server to join.
I’m so sick of this dumb ass argument…
People who complain about “servers” need to tell me what they think “the internet” is. The existence of servers didn’t stop online video games, email or discord/slack from catching on with hundreds of millions of people, so why is it suddenly a problem when it comes to the Fediverse?
Onboarding obviously needs to be better, but I’m going to be totally honest honest here: I don’t think these are legitimate, actionable or useful critiques.
These are merely excuses from people who are addicted to legacy social media and who don’t give a shit that the internet is owned and controlled by a few rich corporations.
- Comment on What are some of the non-technical parts of the fediverse that appeal to you? 1 month ago:
I love the idea of online communities that are run by the people and not by massive tech corporations.
The idea that we had a free and open internet back in the day, only to surrender the entire thing to fascist corpo fuckwads like Musk and Zuckerberg, or hostile authoritarian government pawns like ByteDance, is a perfect example of the tragedy of the commons.
The Fediverse feels like our one and only chance to take the internet back on behalf of all people, all over the world.
- Comment on DeepSeek: how China’s embrace of open-source AI caused a geopolitical earthquake. 1 month ago:
“open source” “AI”