leraje
@leraje@piefed.blahaj.zone
Atheistic satanist - justice, compassion, science.
- Comment on Convinced my organisation to use Mastodon and Bsky. Any userfull tools to automate crossposting? 2 days ago:
Yep, it seems very well put together - I've chatted with the dev briefly and they seem very aware of the fedi side of things and how different services can interoperate.
- Comment on Convinced my organisation to use Mastodon and Bsky. Any userfull tools to automate crossposting? 2 days ago:
Give Fedica a try - they have a very generous free tier which includes both Mastodon and Bluesky.
- Comment on Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit? 3 days ago:
Yes its a swear word. Yes, there is a shrinking population where I am (UK) that still can associate it with its original meaning (but that is different in other places too) but you can apply that weak justification to a lot of other words too. 'Cool' literally means 'not warm' but it has also evolved to incorporate other totally different meanings, which can also vary slightly or a lot depending on geographical colloquial use.
You find it offensive because of your local cultural interpretations. I acknowledge that and respect it, hence why I have said things like 'that word' in my subsequent comments to you. What I'm asking you to consider is that, in places away from your local culture, it doesn't carry that meaning and hasn't for some time. The US is not the entire world.
- Comment on Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit? 3 days ago:
I really don't mind discussing this with you, but please at least make an effort to have your statements make some kind of sense. Just try and envisage the possibility that outside of the US the same or similar words have always had, or have evolved to have, different or alternative meanings. The people where I live who still interpret the word in the same way you insist is the only possible interpretation are of an older generation. Its in pretty common use by all genders in younger generations.
Also, if you ever get around to getting a passport (a document that lets you travel to other countries), you might want to leave Australia, the UK and Ireland in particular out of any travel plans you have.
- Comment on Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit? 3 days ago:
Outside of the US, that meaning fell away and/or changed in some places quite sometime ago. I know it's difficult for a certain type of American to envisage a world outside of their own borders but believe it or not, it does exist and even has different cultural language evolutions.
- Comment on Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit? 3 days ago:
I'm assuming you're American? If so you should be aware that word doesn't carry he same baggage elsewhere in the world.
- Comment on Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit? 3 days ago:
You say: "...prevailing orthodoxy to the dogmatic views of leftism..."
Most on Fediverse say: Just respect difference and don't tolerate intolerance.
By the way, it's OK to swear. Some examples might be: "You seem to be making a ham-fisted attempt to troll people. Stop being a cunt."
- Comment on Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima 6 days ago:
The OSA is nothing to do with kids or parenting and everything to do with further developing surveillance of the UK and controlling what we can access.
I guarantee you, at some point after this will come prohibiting content deemed terrorism such as mentions of the word 'palestine' and 'action' in the same paragraph for example.
Sooner or later we'll have our own pseudo or real great firewall. I expect them to come after VPN use at some point too.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Can confirm the ubo custom filter method works perfectly.
- Comment on heavymetal - Reborn! 1 week ago:
No, it happened in the early 80s so bands like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Budgie, Saxon etc
- Comment on Why do people hate coldplay? 1 week ago:
Hate is too strong a word I think - I nothing them - but they produce the sort of soulless indie/pop ballad that you know will end up in the soundtrack of Hollywood paint-by-numbers romcom that would've gone straight to DVD a decade or so ago. The unending radio play rotation would force the song (and we could be talking about any and all Coldplay songs here) into your brain and then five years later you'd find yourself humming it as you suddenly realised a longe bar version of it is playing in the lift (elevator USians) you're in.
- Comment on Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act 1 week ago:
Not to pour cold water onto any sort of activism but this has zero chance. We all know what the OSA is really for and the kids/terrorism thing is a front for spying on us but the gen population are totally bought into the kids/terrorism thing and there's not a single MP with any sort of political ambition who'll take the chance on looking like they hate kids and support terrorists.
- Comment on WeTransfer updates T&Cs, allows it to use your data to train AI 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Owen Jones: This column does not express support for Palestine Action – here’s why 3 weeks ago:
You might personally think defence trumps all other things - I don't. Its clearly not unimportant (and I never suggested it was) but defence is, we're told, something we use to protect our way of life and our way of life includes not being called a terrorist for doing something which very obviously is not an act of terrorism.
All forms of protest are under a sustained attack in the UK right now and this is just another extension of that. Sabotaging reality to exert control over a populace is obviously a very much worse thing.
- Comment on Growth narratives on the new social networks 3 weeks ago:
My own take on it is that growth is not very important in terms of how a network develops. The only truly successful growth is that which happens completely organically. Worrying about why one service has 'stopped' growing is pointless. Those who are unhappy jump ship - those who remain are likely people who are never going to and/or bots or influencers who aren't interested in being part of a community just finding a way to exploit it.
I would propose so-called 'smaller' networks (such as the fediverse) concentrate on quality not quantity. That has the duel benefit of making the experience for current users even better and makes the network attractive to those who are outside looking in.
- Comment on Owen Jones: This column does not express support for Palestine Action – here’s why 3 weeks ago:
It is now - but yeah my heart bleeds for those poor RAF jets, they're definitely what's important here, not making the word 'terrorist' a meaningless empty word that can be used to justify anything at all.
- Comment on Owen Jones: This column does not express support for Palestine Action – here’s why 3 weeks ago:
They did wrong by breaking into an RAF base though
Hardly a terrorist action though is it? Breaking in to throw around some red paint.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I learnt to speak French by living there for a year or so but I still cannot read it at all beyond short sentences because how a word sounds is different than how it looks.
As for English, I think both learning English and English speakers learning other languages is extra hard because English is such a hodge podge of random bits of other syntaxes and structures. Its a mess of a language in lots of respects making it hard to learn and hard for native speakers to get past the messiness and learn a better structured language.