I’m glad people have correctly realized that the French should be associated with violent anti government riots and not surrendering. That was a meme that needed to die.

It’s not much better in other places. Lots of us rely on being “better than the us” so as it slides, so do we, just a few meters behind.

Politicians need to actually feel concerned about how the people they are hurting will respond. Currently they know there will be nothing more than a few grouchy news articles and upset social media comments.

Timecube, eh? Haven’t seen that in a hot minute. Or maybe four corner rotations of a hot minute.

It’s exhausting seeing all these cringy “we’re going to win with shitposts” things when all we really need is for people to post actual content.

In my opinion we’re already more or less at the “functional” stage. I can browse the place and shitpost and stay entertained for quite a while, with new content coming in while I do it, so that if I’m so inclined I can spend a full day pissing away my time on lemmy. It’s nowhere near Reddit yet, where I could pick any given topic and read almost infinitely on it, but that’s a function both of time and size, and not a reasonable expectation for a brand new platform. As long as the numbers we have now are sustainable they’ll become self-improving in that direction.

It’s a lot more challenging to have that happen with federation, I think. Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be actively vigilant of course, but there are a lot more centers they’d have to seize control of individually.

4 is already fixed in the alpha of jerboa, and the functionality is there but got accidentally hidden in the current version. You have to hold-click in your inbox to see context. These kind of hiccups are normal in a very new foss browser.

Well, this c is specifically for discussion of this instance, and you’re having problems on a different instance. If you’re getting nowhere talking to the mods of that specific community you could try looking for a meta community on that instance to talk about it. Lemmy.world has nothing to do with moderation in a different community on a different instance.

It seems to me you’re probably in almost the wrongest place to ask.

If this stuff really catches on I predict there will be services built around setting up private instances for that purpose.

I mean, they posted an announcement and stickied it to explain why. They also have rules posted in the sidebar. I guess they could also add a copy and pasted comment to each closed thread but is it really necessary?

It seems to me that [email protected] is filling the role described, for the most part.

What would that post have to do with the lemmy.world instance

This is one of the most exhausting parts of being a lefty online. I wish the term “whataboutism” had never entered the common parlance.

Modern Russia is capitalist. Putin represents capitalism just as much or more than Stalin represents communism.

This keeps coming up but like… So? If beehaw users are putting good content up on a sh.itjust.works community, and making good replies and stuff, who cares if I can’t go do the same on their semiprivate instance? I’m just happy to have the user.

Right? I’m liking Lemmy so far but the armchair activist “here’s how we hurt Reddit” fixation is cringe as hell. I’m here to argue with strangers, look at cute animals, and read memes about tabletop games dammit. I’m here because I’m done with Reddit, not because I have some dumb chip on my shoulder and can’t stop thinking about it.

I suspect you’ll find that just in general, any global social media is going to have a lot of people who don’t hold the US in very high esteem. It’s not a Reddit thing.

That sounds like one of those things where you forget about it, then years later realize how fucked up it was.

It’s always nice to hear from someone else that recognizes how similar all this saber rattling is to the buildup to the first iraq war. All of a sudden after years of radio silence, everyone seems to care really deeply about the situation in another country.

Sorting by “new comments” can be a nice one if you’re looking for discussions, I’m finding.