Indeed. As much as the changes that have been made and will be made to Reddit over the years are appalling, it's not the fault of the workers in the trenches. They get their directions from on high.
As Reddit's enshittification reaches new heights their attempts to suppress attention for alternatives, like federated Lemmy, has the opposite effect as this Hacker News discussion shows.
And even if it were true, there are other instances. The only reason I'm on lemmy.ml myself is because the one that was recommended to me first was offline when I tried it, I could move somewhere else if this turns out to be true.
Which isn't to say the US isn't blameless in Haiti's current troubles, or to say that modern France is responsible, I'm just not liking that "root problem" description.
Is there a way to shop around for a Lemmy instance based on how many instances are blocking it and how many instances it's blocking? For example, I noticed that the lemmygrad.ml instance is relatively popular, but it seems like a lot of other instances block it. It also blocks a bunch of other instances. So, if there are any...
Be mindlessly propagandistic "communist." The countries they fawn over aren't even particularly communist, they're just authoritarian. Russia in particular is run by capitalist oligarchs.
It's just tiresome and pointless engaging with them.
I'm not speaking about you specifically, I have no idea who you are. I'm talking about lemmygrad in general. Just like the person you were responding to was talking about. He asked "what did lemmygrad.ml do?" And I'm clarifying that.
I'm not basing my statement off of any experience with Marxism-leninism. I'm basing it off of my experience with lemmygrad posters here on Lemmy. For example, this thread about the Tienanmen Square anniversary. I don't particularly care about the specific political ideologies on display.
And I could easily flip the question around to OP. Why would Ukraine blow up their own dam, flooding their own territory and potentially crippling their own nuclear power plant? And making a counteroffensive across the Dnipro river that much harder?
It's not to deprive Crimea of water ahead of the counteroffensive, Crimea's reservoirs are full right now so they've got a year's worth in the tank. That's about the only possible benefit I can think of that Ukraine might have got out of this, and even if it were so it would be a trivial benefit compared to the costs. Crimea's water supply isn't going to make a difference to the actual fight that's about to happen there.
Not across the Dnjepr, I don't think anyone expected a major amphibious assault across the river. But it's more likely the counteroffensive will go deep in Zaporizhzhia, which would let them come around to the dam from "behind". If the Russian front collapses like it did at Kharkiv and Kherson the Ukrainian advance could be substantial.
On the one hand, this is going to cause terrible long-term damage and cost a fortune to repair.
On the other hand, the Russians wouldn't have done this if they thought they were going to be able to hold the occupied territories long-term. So it's kind of a good sign, I guess.
I am guessing this is not a current function within Jerboa; however, is there an easier way of sharing your community list with a second account on a different instance than individually searching for communities?...
This seems to me like it's the most important aspect of making an account portable between instances, I'm hoping that something like this gets implemented in short order.
Indeed, the "they're all a bunch of tankies over there" narrative is one of the more common objections I see to Lemmy when I mention it as a valid Reddit alternative over on Reddit. Bit of a chicken-and-egg problem, mind you - we need non-tankies to balance things out. Here's hoping that there's enough new blood coming in anyway to manage that.
"There are only two positions in the world, mine and an extreme caricature of some awful opposite" is not a particularly useful place to get started on good faith argument.
One of the big instances, Lemmygrad, is basically dedicated to that crowd. If the influx of Reddit refugees doesn't counterbalance them then at some point I'll probably move to an instance that doesn't federate with them.
This site is currently struggling to handle the amount of new users. I have already upgraded the server, but it will go down regardless if half of Reddit tries to join....
Seems like this should be a high priority feature. I did try joining a different instance but at the time only lemmy.ml was functioning and accepting applications. Now that I have subscribed to a bunch of communities starting afresh would be a bit of a hassle.
It's doubly pathetic that Russian officials are charging for this, and that the amount they're charging translates into such a small dollar equivalent.
Your rent would go up $250, which you’d be pissed about but you’d pay because you still have $750 from UBI.
Or, alternately, you'd look around the rental market to find a unit that hadn't arbitrarily gone up in price.
The scenario you describe only works in a very tightly constrained scenario where supply and demand are highly inelastic. In the real world people build new housing when demand rises, so prices don't spiral ever upward. Most of the places where there's currently a housing crisis hare having that problem because they've made bad zoning decisions due to NIMBYism and other such miscalculations.
I'm curious, since one of the first casualties of the Great Reddit API Debacle was Pushshift, whether there's already any sort of equivalent for Lemmy....
Yeah, the negativity I'm seeing over there is kind of baffling. Especially for a group of people who should be much more familiar than most with the importance of backups and redundancy.
It's unfortunate, when I signed up a day or two back I tried several other instances first but they were all down. Or some kind of weird communist thing. So I ended up with lemmy.ml simply because it was there at the time.
I've seen a lot of comments about adding a mechanism to allow user accounts to be migrated from one instance to another, hopefully that'll get added relatively soon and then I'll be able to diffuse out to a smaller instance.
Reddit to lay off about 5% of workforce (www.livemint.com)
Reddit perma-banning account promoting Lemmy has Streisand effect (news.ycombinator.com)
As Reddit's enshittification reaches new heights their attempts to suppress attention for alternatives, like federated Lemmy, has the opposite effect as this Hacker News discussion shows.
As US Considers Reoccupying Haiti, History Shows Occupation is the Root Problem (scheerpost.com)
Finding an instance that blocks least and is least blocked
Is there a way to shop around for a Lemmy instance based on how many instances are blocking it and how many instances it's blocking? For example, I noticed that the lemmygrad.ml instance is relatively popular, but it seems like a lot of other instances block it. It also blocks a bunch of other instances. So, if there are any...
Huge explosions breach the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine (www.economist.com)
Nova Kakhovka dam in Kherson region blown up by Russian forces - Ukraine's military (www.reuters.com)
exporting/importing subbed communities list
I am guessing this is not a current function within Jerboa; however, is there an easier way of sharing your community list with a second account on a different instance than individually searching for communities?...
China tightens access to Tiananmen Square while 32 are detained in Hong Kong (www.npr.org)
lemmy.ml is overloaded, use other instances instead
This site is currently struggling to handle the amount of new users. I have already upgraded the server, but it will go down regardless if half of Reddit tries to join....
Residents in Russia's Belgorod region say authorities are charging 3,000 rubles for evacuation of their children (web.archive.org)
Universal basic income of £1,600 a month to be trialled in two places in England (www.theguardian.com)
Is there a Pushshift equivalent for Lemmy?
I'm curious, since one of the first casualties of the Great Reddit API Debacle was Pushshift, whether there's already any sort of equivalent for Lemmy....
A proposal message to mods, do you want to have a second option besides Reddit, or a place to migrate? Lemmy is suitable. (old.reddit.com)
Also discussed a bit here: https://lemmy.ml/post/1132632
Reddit is Dead, long live.. leddi- lemmy?
It really whips the llama's ass. Post says it all. Foreveralone. Take my upvote. Are we in post-social media yet or what?