Kind of feels like in 20-30 years time we’ll be claiming its worth fighting for a climate that doesn’t immediately kill us if we go outside for 20 minutes instead of 15.

Or to put it another way, do these scientists not see there’s a difference between living and surviving?

Future Sound of Gilead

“A balm? What are you giving him a balm for? It might bite him.”

So, Patreon then.

I do the same on mobile :) but I think once people do understand federation and why its actually a very good idea they would too - but thats not going to be true of the majority - certainly not before they use a federated service.

If you’re “very open for all kinds of viewpoints” but simultaneously want to not be where left-wing voices are and also think a lot people aren’t left wing then I question the accuracy of your original statement.

I suspect your desire to ‘freely express yourself’ means you want to be a cunt to people in marginalised communities without repercussions.

Weird random mention of CSAM too.

I’m not suggesting its impossible to improve the UX but I a) I think thats going to be an incredibly low priority for the developers and b) I’m not sure what changes can be made to address the essential conflict between the whole point of the fediverse - decentralisation - and a sign up process that essentially hides that without taking away an informed choice.

In reality, its not really that much of a difficult concept to grasp and there are loads of resources like fedi.tips etc to help people. If the communities and content was of a sufficient quality (as oppose to quantity) people would make the fairly minimal effort to understand why the fediverse is the way it is.

And if people don’t or won’t thats really their call.

The vast majority of people want an experience where federation is invisible. Sign up and post/comment. To maintain the benefits of decentralisation and choice, that’s never going to be a truly workable thing.

The vast majority of people don’t want to create or even participate in communities, they just want to lurk, scroll and get their new content fix. Every social media based site I’ve ever been on, federated or centralised has a large group of people complaining about the lack of new content but never take it upon themselves to apply the obvious solution themselves.

These are not necessarily UX issues, these are people issues.

Maybe its time to stop continually worrying about this subject and concentrate on creating great communities? Because if we do that then users will participate organically.

Pericles, Prince of Tyre. Act IV, Scene 1

[Enter pirates]

First Pirate: Hold, villain!

Did you get clearance, Clarence?

It is for UK users too. Quite honestly the most pathetic, embarrassing example of telling on yourself I’ve seen for some time.

History will remember the names of the appeasers.

Of course, in that scenario you have to trust Apple because none of their code is open source and thus can’t be scrutinised.

For those of you not in the UK, or unfamiliar, its important to understand just how intrusive the gvmt are in terms of privacy and how intrusive they want to be. We are world leaders in gvmt led privacy oppression.

EFF article

You’re trying to find a rationale for some thing (xenophobia) that is utterly irrational. Some people are just shit humans.

Why did you put “no its not happening” in quotes as though I said that when I said no such thing?

My first comment was made without the benefit of knowing anything at all about the idea that the election was stolen. I am far from unique in that opinion as it seems even some US citizens were unaware of it. Simply posting assertions which, on the face of it, seem improbable, without any kind of source to provide context to those claims isn’t going to inspire trust. If those links had been posted immediately I and others could’ve read them and had a more informed response.

From the moment I was told about this, my response changed to asking for more information - I said that I was clearly ignorant on the subject and asked to be educated on it.

There is a world of difference between someones views being shot down and someone being totally unaware and asking for sources to learn more.

Its a sad truth that there are a substantial amount of US citizens who seem to think that the entire world must know every intricate detail of the US political and legal system because America is the centre of the world. And then, when the rest of us admit we actually don’t, accusations of gaslighting and invalidation. No ones being gaslit or invalidated - we’re just not exposed or familiar with the same level of detail as you because we don’t live there. If you’re going to make a post essentially asking for the outside world to intervene, a good pace to start is by putting all the information there from the start, not going into a massive sulk because we’re not aware of the details.

So your sister, her friends and your friends have an inside joke about someone. An inside joke that you’re not aware of?

That means the CSAM (its not ‘child porn’ its child abuse) remains on the server, which means the instance owner is legally liable. Don’t know about you but if I was an instance owner I wouldn’t want the shame and legal consequences of leaving CSAM up on a server I control.

I mean, why not go totally targeted? If there are people here who still have reddit accounts then tailor the graphic for the sub you post in. If its an lgbtqia+ sub, suggest Blahaj, if its a tech sub suggest programming.dev, if its a piracy or data hoarder sub db0 etc etc.

Don’t be silly. Where have I denied this is happening? I’ve already said to you I was unaware of what you were talking about and asked you to inform me. Whats all this posturing about? When did Lemmy become a place where anyone has to inform anyone else of what country they do or don’t live in?

You want the outside world to take notice? Maybe a good start would be to help those who are interested but not familiar with the level of detail you are to the knowledge about your country you assume we all already have. By adding context to your original comment you’ve already made it ten times more useful to people like me.

Thank you! We don’t know what the fuck we’re doing half the time - but to be honest, maybe thats a good thing. Super professional presentation does turn me off a bit.