PopOfAfrica

@PopOfAfrica@lemmy.one

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PopOfAfrica,

Reminder that a used phone with a nonstock rom is more environmentally conscious.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Some other bloke skipped the first step, which is why the used phone makes sense.

PopOfAfrica,

Thats actually pretty great.

PopOfAfrica,

I think it is worth noting, at least as far as political Compass theory is concerned, that the top and bottom left ends of the spectrum are just as polarized as the right and left end. I personally dont believe communism and authoritarianism is mutually exclusive. Im a libertarian communist. Read as Small government communism.

PopOfAfrica,

No, you can block any community. That does not block every sub community, and it still displays the instances user comments across other communities.

I think only a couple of apps have instance blocking until of is added protocol side by the Lemmy Devs.

PopOfAfrica,

I stand by Lemmy.ones belief in allowing conflicting values. Thats why im here. Hexbear can be as communist as it wants. I too an a communist.

What is not OK is the toxicity of hexbear. It degrades the experience.

PopOfAfrica, (edited )

Keep em coming, let it serve as a monument to the 4Chan like behavior of hexbear.

PopOfAfrica,

What do you mean by where’s the lie? That libertarianism is pedophilia?

Elaborate if I misread

PopOfAfrica, (edited )

Ill just leave my link attached. I think it speaks for itself, and the degradation in the quality of Lemmy as a whole.

Not to be dramatic, because I quite like lemmy.one, but I’m going to have to swap to an instance that has defederated until we are given instance wide blocking. Ill return once its implemented though if we don’t otherwise defederate first.

PopOfAfrica, (edited )

Jonah, I just point this comment to you. Perhaps you disagree, but this isnt a healthy discourse. I know they arent hexbear, but they do speak to what they bring to the table.

PopOfAfrica,

Its ubiquitous for a reason. They have been nothing but trouble since they federated.

I wouldnt even mind defederating them for now and then deleting the blacklist once the instance blocking feature is added.

PopOfAfrica, (edited )

You cut our the part where the commenter equated libertarianism to pedophilia, which as I said, was exemplary of hexbear behavior.

hexbear.net/comment/3885422

Here is another where I was called a Nazi despite my left leaning nature. This isnt a political request. Lemmy.ml is quite pleasant.

Hexbear is just behaving in a toxic manner.

lemmy.one/comment/2652503

You seem to just ignore that these reasonable and measured statements were a response to harassment, of which Ive gotten plenty from hexbear.

Your Image cuts out the interplay of “you all harass me”, proceeded by harassment, and then “this is what Im talking about”

PopOfAfrica,

To be Frank, the testing allegations weren’t what caused the fire. The workplace harassment ones did. This understandably spoke little to that.

PopOfAfrica,

The tankies from hexbear are not real communists. Just right wing trolls.

PopOfAfrica, (edited )

Hexbear is more or less a 4Chan equivalent, sharing the same memes and single image posting behavior. They exist to make left leaning people look bad.

Their supposed communism is equivalent to start an argument online with “as a black man”

Just a bunch of right wing trolls.

Tankies are right wing authoritarians, and don’t believe any of the left wing political they use as a vaneer. Its like how the Nazis were National "Socialists "

Theres a reason they support modern day Russia and China, two notoriously far right nations

PopOfAfrica, (edited )

If we liked capitalism, we’d still using Reddit

PopOfAfrica, (edited )

The trick is the work in academia, where there is always someone smarter than you.

PopOfAfrica,

Closed source enthusiasts sure seem to.

PopOfAfrica,

I would rather not normalize closed source software. Might as well just go back to Reddit.

Do people just not use the YouTube subscription feed?

I consistently hear people on YouTube complain that the subscribe button doesn’t do anything for viewers, now that channel notifications are controlled by the bell. But it does do something: it puts the videos from that channel in your subscription feed, which is readily accessible on all versions of YouTube. So why do people...

PopOfAfrica,

I use an RSS feed. I never miss a video and it always keeps my backlog in tact for me to comb through later.

PopOfAfrica,

Smart people are more risk adverse. It seems like the only way to become mega wealthy is to haphazardly gamble. We only hear about the successes due to survivorship bias.

They really are just lucky bastards.

PopOfAfrica,

You know, you can be a communist without being a tankie.

PopOfAfrica,

Why do we put so much stock into the handful of failed communist experiments but not the capitalistic societies that have turned autocratic?

PopOfAfrica,

I feel like we need an app that costs and optional subscription but donates a portion to the Lemmy instances that it interacts with. Like a big cash pool that gets distributes based on instance traffic up to a certain amount.

PopOfAfrica,

I really think a lot of us are starting to realize how unhealthy reddit was for us. This is just a much more friendly and less overwhelming community.

Hello from Lemmy, btw

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