This is a teachable moment for Lemmy users, and Lemmy itself as a whole.
I'm not here to judge anyone's opinions but to clearly state the facts. And the fact is: at least one of the admins of the largest lemmy server considers anti-CCP/Russia sentiment/argument to be harmful and worthy of a ban. That is their decision.
Thus, anyone who disagrees with that, would best move to another server if they wish to discuss those opinions. A worldnews sublemmy on another server such as lemmy.one can be the place where anti-CCP and anti-Russia attitudes are not considered harmful, possibly encouraged at lemmy.one admins and mods' discretion.
This probably will not affect apolitical areas like lemmy.ml/c/pokemon for the most part. However as annoying as this situation is for some, this is why federation is a great thing. Otherwise all of Lemmy would be under rule of admins with these opinions.
A worldnews sublemmy on another server such as lemmy.one can be the place where anti-CCP and anti-Russia attitudes are not considered harmful, possibly encouraged at lemmy.one admins and mods’ discretion.
I know what you are doing, so you can stop pretending to be the yesman and instead stop engaging with me, if this is going to be your way of life. Have a good life.
Now, when I joined, I was somewhat taken aback by the sheer amount of propaganda on Lemmy in general, and the somewhat belligerent attitude of some users.
With the new users it should change to be more centrist and we should see less and less this kind of post as they will get downvoted
God forbid it becomes "centrist." This is not your space; go make your own centrist instance if that's what you want; you have no right to dictate the nature of this one just because you're here. This space was set up by communists to be communist.
Can't wait until Hexbear federates here and libs stop trying to take over.
This space was set up by communists to be communist.
Was it? Seriously question. That wasn't made clear to me when I signed up. I never would have signed up had I read that. I suspect the intensity of your views and those of the owner of this instance differ somewhat.
You would be wrong. Research who owns it, look at their profile picture and you’ll know in an instant lmao. Just head to the github repo and you’ll see.
Wtf ? Keep it cool man. I joined like one year ago, when it was still labeled as a leftist instance. So I'm okay with it being leftist
A community of privacy and FOSS enthusiasts, run by Lemmy’s developers
However, it is not labeled as such in the sidebar anymore. So, I thought it was going to become a more generalist instance. If not, we should recommend beehaw.org
Be respectful, especially when disagreeing. Everyone should feel welcome here.
The thing I find wild here is that this presumably Marxist mod is banning criticism of 2023 Russia and China. Russia in 2023 is straight up fascist and China while with more communist dressing is also a capitalist hellscape - like most of the world.
Yeah, support to Russia makes no sense to me. And comparing NATO expansion with Russian try to expand with the war in Ukraine is a really bad take imo
China while with more communist dressing is also a capitalist hellscape
Well, they did a pretty good job at developing their country and capitalists have way less power than in the US or Europe for example.
If you compare it to India, the difference is flagrant. In 1990, they had a similar GDP per capita ppp (source). Now it is 3 times higher. They also take serious actions against poverty according to world bank (source)
However, the ban are clearly excessive. People should be allowed to denounce what happen in Xinjiang and Tibet
China while with more communist dressing is also a capitalist hellscape - like most of the world.
The Chinese economy is still populated in large proportion by private markets, but that doesn't mean it's the same as the rest of the world. I think it's a pat little excuse to not investigate things further just like how to dumb reactionaries China is just "authoritarian communist". It's like how radlibs will tell you the USSR was antisemitic while the far right both of the time and today will tell you it was controlled by Jews, the real goal isn't to advance a specific thesis but to serve a range of theses to a range of people that pit them against an enemy of western imperialism.
Mid-20s queer trans lesbian here, yet another girl fleeing frantically from Reddit, but glad to have found a space that's such a refreshing contrast from social media nowadays. (A social space? Being social? Imagine that!)
I am an extremely avid gamer (FFXIV being the game of choice for me right now), and a board gamer too, for that matter! I'm also finding myself down an anime/manga hyperfixation right now... and honestly being queer is a bit more of my personality than I might like to admit. Really, I'm hoping to find a sense of community here, and meet some cool folks, especially queer folks, in the process.
honestly i'm not even watching current season stuff right now -- mainly i've been working my way through all the awesome stuff out there that i just hadn't watched til lately. loved watching kill la kill, urusei yatsura's been enjoyable, and revolutionary girl utena is one heckuva ride. (my tastes are pretty eclectic!)
Hello all! I'm in my early 40s, living in the PNW. I've been a bartender most of my adult life, and got a liver transplant not too long ago. I've been spending my time since recovering from nearly dying, going back to school for a career change, and in general being more mindful of how I want to spend my limited time in existence.
Nice! I havent heard of this one. I'll have to install this on my partner's phone. They have an iPhone (I have android). I usually just use the webarchives addon for Firefox mobile to open links in archive.is
I've found 12ft.io to be largely useless in my experience, it doesn't do a shit ton of major outlets because they complained to the website and so it doesn't seem to work
Works only for soft paywalls, like these "read 15 articles for free" ones, if it's a hard paywall like stuff behind a Patreon or something it doesn't help
The only reasons I still have Windows on a drive is for my work but I only boot it up like once a month to update it these days. I use VMware for most of my windows related tasks now so maybe it's time I format that drive and use it for something else.
Same. Our stash of respirator filters at home came in handy. Interesting factoid: KN-95 filters are available for automobile air conditioners as well. I make a point of asking for them at the dealership.
It would be nice to have an option to flag something as "paywall" or "limited paywall" in the UI when creating a post. But I also don't want to clutter up the UI too much, and I don't know if enough users would use the feature to justify adding it.
If it were possible to add flair to posts, that might be a good way of doing it, and meet other user requests related to flair. Not sure how easy it is to add that, but I would definitely use that feature if it were available.
I don't think it's likely to have a UI element, devs are slammed enough as it is and there aren't enough new contributors stepping up (I'm trying, I really am, I just don't know Rust, Psql or Typescript enough).
Much better for there to be a community ruling about it which Beehaw members & contributors abide by
Fortunately, I do know Rust and Postgres, so this may be something I look at. I've got some other stuff that's earlier in the queue, though.
That said, don't feel bad! These are big, complicated technologies and they take time to learn. I just did my first bit of Rust mentoring at work and it is definitely a challenge, even for experienced devs.
Based on what I see via browser, if you mouse over the name, you will see the username (versus the display name). I'm not sure how you'd tell in mobile.
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