Ignacio

Ignacio, 1 month ago

There’s so much hostility

Same here, to be honest. Except for Beehaw, every other place seems like a no-mod/no-remember-the-human land.

Ignacio, 1 month ago

And some governments, like Germany and The Netherlands.

Ignacio, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

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THIS. Now, next time anyone posts something, think a little bit more about the rest of the world, because we exist too. US is not the only place here.

Ignacio, 1 month ago

It would be wise to put in the post title whether a piece of news applies worldwide or US-wide, because some of us aren't good guessers.

Ignacio, 2 months ago

Block communities spamming gaza / war / techbro

I would agree with you if those communities were/are created to post content about gaza / war / techbro. But in most cases, those communities are generic, about news and technology, so when you block them, you also block other content that is not about gaza / war / techbro.

Ignacio, 2 months ago

Indeed. In my opinion, it's called lemmy.world but it's too US centric to have the .world domain.

Ignacio, 7 months ago

What are you doing, step polyglot?

Ignacio, 7 months ago

It looks like you shared an AMP link. These should load faster, but AMP is controversial because of concerns over privacy and the Open Web.

Maybe check out the canonical page instead: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/26/opinions/oxi-day-the-true-story-of-how-greece-helped-defeat-the-nazis-cosmos/index.html

I'm definitely not a bot.

Ignacio, 7 months ago

It's your fault for installing Gentoo. Now she's configuring FLAGS and compiling LLVM 24 hours per day. And let's not talk about kernel...

Ignacio, 8 months ago

Need a politics-free safe space? It’s called “going for a walk”

Unfortunately, walks don't last forever. Another option is to delete your lemmy/kbin account, because everything in these places is politics or related to politics or turned into politics.

Ignacio, 8 months ago

Tankies are LGTB-phobic? Why am I not surprised?

Ignacio, 8 months ago

I'm not talking about them performing a coup. Although I don't like coups, they're property of nobody but themselves, and eventually democracy will return.

But French troops doing bad stuff, or doing neither bad nor good stuff (that's doing nothing at all), that doesn't mean they should be replaced by another foreign nation troops, being either private or not. If we agree that African nations are sovereign enough to decide their own future, they're also sovereign enough to defend themselves, or to ask for help to neighbouring countries in exchange of nothing. But in the countries we're talking about, they asked for help to another potential colonial nation in exchange of natural resources, that could be manufactured in place, thus creating employment, wealth and other benefits.

Ignacio, 9 months ago

If they're Ukrainians, why the interviewer says "Добрый день", in Russian (notice how the "e" is pronounced "je") instead of "Хороший день" or "Добрий ранок", in Ukrainian (notice how the "e" is pronounced "e")?

Ignacio, 9 months ago

What the hell is happening there? Fucking shit.

Ignacio, 9 months ago

More like they're training mental gymnastics but exercises are really hard.

Ignacio, 9 months ago

I very much dislike that strategy. These are the necessary steps for Ukraine to achieve peace:

1. Stop attacking Crimean bridge.

2. Let Russia repair that bridge.

3. Invite Putin to ride his car on that bridge, so he will be pleased by the successful repair.

4. Burn that bridge to the ground once Putin is on it.

5. Profit.

Ignacio, 9 months ago

Why not both?

Ignacio, 9 months ago

Kbin and Lemmy are better built than Reddit in several ways to handle those behaviours to a certain point:

• Karma: it's hidden on Kbin, and I can't find it on Lemmy. So, there is no pressure to post or comment something. Do you know that feeling on Reddit when you have 500 karma, you write a comment, and later you have 480 karma? That's what I'm talking about.

• Instances with their own rules: every instance has its own administrator(s), and they can set different rules for them and apply them. Some are more tolerant than others, so in the end,your experience depends on what instance your account is. Besides, some instances don't have downvotes, so that's a big plus too.

• People: we all, or the most of us, know how situation was on Reddit, how we struggled to make our experience be positive, with no success. Because we know that, we don't want that situation to replicate on these places. It's difficult sometimes, but we do what we can.

• Defederation: as someone said here, if situation inside an instance is too hard to tackle, to the point that those bad entities harass users on other instances, then defederation is key, until the situation comes back to normal.

And there are other things, like algorithm (or lack of), code open sourced to fork if you wish, etc.

Ignacio, 10 months ago

Can anyone explain to me why being vegan is the new cool, while being vegetarian is equal to eating meat without eating meat? Like, when I'm looking for vegetarian recipes, I only see vegan recipes, no vegetarian ones anywhere.

Ignacio, 11 months ago

Instagram clone

Ignacio, 11 months ago

OK, so... when will he recreate Hitler's fate?

Ignacio, 11 months ago

Same thing over here. It seems that karma being absolutely irrelevant makes us more confident and more prone to participate in discussions and content. That, or maybe the lack of toxicity and vitriol.

Ignacio, 11 months ago

Free speech absolutism, ladies and gentlemen.

Ignacio, 11 months ago

There's obviously a strong leftist culture here

That depends on what instance you create an user on. For example, Lemmygrad.ml and Lemmy.ml are not the same thing, despite both belonging to Lemmy. The issues I see are having a tankie culture, and not having more points of view.

There are less users so less content

That's something we can help with, although it's not so easy. I mean, the users that are already here, we can create more content and interact more with each other, so eventually more users will come. It can be boring and tiring, but it's not impossible.

Federation is a stumbling block for many people

That's something absolutely new for the vast majority of people. I felt myself confused the first time I joined the fediverse too. But after some time, I felt myself less confused. Some clarifications, tutorials and support can do the real trick.

Ignacio, 11 months ago

I don't like politics precisely because of polarization and extremists. My first experience in the fediverse wasn't good either. Russian invasion to Ukraine happened two months before, Elon Musk stated his intentions to buy Twitter, and I joined a random Mastodon instance. Guess what? Tankies supporting and defending Russia and anything related to communism.

Luckily, I discovered that there are a lot of more Mastodon and Lemmy servers, and I'm in those that I can call "home".

It's obvious that I don't want to see far-right or alt-right content while I can. But I don't want to see tankie or far-left content either. Like someone said in this post, discussing with a commie and disagreeing, even being in the left political spectrum, makes you a "fascist" or something similar.