#Fedilab is getting worse and worse in the last few months. The thread view is totally messed up. You press a comment in your home timeline and you get brought into a thread where it's impossible to find back the comment you actually clicked.
Also, the thread view often has the OP and many comments duplicated somehow.
And just now, the context menu button to share a post etc disappeared and I just can't find a way to share a post to an external app 🤷 what's happening?
#History#Gaza#Palestine#Israel#Genocide: "OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS, I have had lines from a novella by the Russian writer Valeria Narbikova, which I once translated, playing in my head. It’s a novella that is written as though the author were just learning to think, to recognize the world. Two recurrent phrases are: “If there is something, then what’s it like?”—a plea for a reference, a comparison—and another: “Something always precedes that which follows.” When we compare, we are also comparing contexts and histories, and making predictions. This is, of course, part of what makes Holocaust comparisons so fraught: they predict the worst. One important objection I have heard to comparing Gaza to the ghetto: but there are no death marches out of Gaza and no death camps waiting for its inhabitants.
And this is why we compare. To prevent what we know can happen from happening. To make “never again” a political project rather than a magic spell. And if we compare compellingly and bravely, then, in the best case scenario, the comparison is proven wrong."
@stux
Why would you want to block all the people on an entire instance from being able to see the content you are posting publicly? I am not understanding what's all the drama about? Aren't we posting publicly because we want people to see our content? Sure, #Facebook sucks and they shouldn't exist. But their users also just rolled into #threads and 99% of them don't even know about #Mastodon, why would they not be worthy of seeing your content? If anything it could motivate them to join us..
We're putting this enterprise under worker self-management, expropriating the shareholders, and replacing you with an elected coordinator. But cheer up -- we're giving you a pizza party!
Really great explanation of the monetary history and current situation of #Argentina
I have several Argentinian friends and colleagues and I've recently visited and experienced the currency situation firsthand. It's definitely unique and interesting, but mostly very sad for everyone not savvy enough to find solutions and just see their savings and pensions dwindle before their eyes.
Deutschlands neues Gesetz zur Digitalisierung des Gesundheitswesens? Ein Angriff auf das Arztgeheimnis im Interesse des Profits. Sensible Daten ohne Zustimmung - ein rücksichtsloses Vorgehen!
@echo_pbreyer
FYI seems like your post isn't correctly flagged and being German. I think your instance or client should be doing this. It'd be appreciated if you could take a look at that.
#Israel-#Germany / [2023-10-26] ‘We are Germans, and we need to do this,’
Kasem Raad, a 20-year-old apprentice at German media company Axel Springer, was fired after questioning the company's staunchly pro-Israel editorial stance both internally and in a YouTube video.
Raad posted on an internal message board asking why Axel Springer supports Israel. He was reprimanded by managers and told "We are Germans, and we need to do this" regarding the company's Israel policy.
After posting a video disputing parts of the Israeli military's narrative about a recent attack by Hamas, Raad was fired just weeks into his 3-year apprenticeship. The company cited no reason, but he says managers told him it was due to his questioning and video.
His firing came amidst growing repression of critical voices on Israel in Germany. Other Arab and Palestinian journalists have been dismissed, and rights groups caution media companies against targeting such voices.
Axel Springer has a mission statement that supports Israel's right to exist. Raad feels they prioritized this over their other stated principles of freedom and democracy in his termination.
Like with the vitriol over rape victims during the Hamas attack on October 7th, indignation, for some Israeli, is a political tool.
The guy in this clip, claimed to be supporter of #Netanyahu, is shouting at family members of hostages while gesturing a middle finger, saying he couldn’t care less about kibbutz Be’eri, where #Hamas terrorists killed 130 people and kidnapped other.
Anywhere else in the world this would be considered a #hatecrime. In some Western countries he would’ve been arrested.
@grimmy@pidgin@joinjabber That makes sense. I think as long as the channels within that server are accessible by outside accounts, that should be sufficient. Curious to see Pidgin's re-take of Jabber :)
@NumbersCanBeFun
I think it's normal that we want to have a name for the network itself. Like we use Mastodon for microblogging-over-activitypub, I feel a need to have a name for reddit-over-activitypub. I use the word #Lemmy for that.
You can argue that that's wrong. I would probably agree, but without an alternative, I will say that. @wowwoweowza@ALostInquirer@ernest
I end up explaining over and over again that #rustfmt is not good for being applied unconditionally to human-maintained code.
Unlike gofmt-like tools that correct bad formatting, rustfmt forces a canonical form of everything. It replaces all human direction with its own primitive heuristics. It doesn't have common sense, and does not allow to be corrected. This frequently leads to absurdly misformatted code, and pointless changes for the worse.
@kornel
Oh please, please please please, please do write a code formatter for #Rust that isn't evil! Where do I support your work?
Personally, I liked gofmt and felt like I really needed it, but have never felt a need for a formatter since using Rust. And I utterly hate the formatting rustfmt-formatted projects have. It's almost unreadable code that just doesn't make any sense. It truly makes me no longer want to read Rust code.
Every policy and moderation team on social media has had a very difficult few weeks. The volume and the stress have both been high. The constant fear of acting incorrectly to a report has been much more extreme than usual.
"Should I or should I not take action on this report? Am I even informed enough to make that determination? If I take too long educating myself before I act, is that as bad as inaction? Justice deferred?"
And bad actors are adding to the chaos and fanning the flames.
@fulelo
Bottom line: Israelis can go be tourists elsewhere.
Millions of people are being held hostage by Israel in various territories without access to documents to be able to travel in the first place. @glynmoody
I guess it's an #UnpopularOpinion but here goes: Maybe it would be better if #Mastodon simply removes the DM/Private Mentions "feature" altogether. In its current form it's effectively kinda useless. It's insecure, it doesn't feel well integrated, it feels like bolted on but not as a natural part of the experience.
@jwildeboer
Or better integrates click-through links to #Jabber or #Matrix, with for example plugins for integrated Jabber overlay chats. They exist and could be quite easily integrated as a plug-in. @glynmoody
@StillIRise1963
Exactly. I mention this whenever anyone mentions any government supposedly "doing something for the environment". Mostly speaking about #Europe then. It's tens of billions euros per year, that they explicitly decide to still give to these companies.
Then whatever else you're talking about is just bullshit, I'm sorry.
Forgive me, but… (lemmy.ml)
It’s my hope to see unity and cohesion is the Lemmy-verse. Looks like asklemmy@lemmy.ml has over 39k subscribers....