A lot of us come from reddit, so we're naturally inclined to want a reddit-like platform. However, it occurred to me that the reddit format makes little sense for the fediverse....
The ideal format for a fediverse reddit-like would be a cross between twitter and reddit: a website where if you want to post about a cat, you make your post and tag it with the appropriate tags. This could include "cats," "aww," and "cute." This post is automatically aggregated into instantly-generated "cats," "aww," and "cute" communities.
Absolutely not.
I don't know why people are obsessed with recreating reddit, but I think it sucked and it's not a good thing to have this kind of massive, centralized communities, where all posts in the X category go there.
On the contrary I think smaller communities are just as dope as the big ones. Not everyone wants to participate in a big community with threads filled with tens of thousands of comments, some very much enjoy smaller ones where they actually get to interact and bond with a smaller amount of people.
Besides those kind of massive communities recreate one of the biggest problems that reddit had and still has: power-hungry, power-tripping mods. No, thank you. I don't want tankies to usurp leftist communities again, leaving those who oppose them with little to no alternatives.
In order to get a better grasp of Right Sector and Ukrainian Ultra Nationalism, [DylanBurnsTV] went to a Right Sector base to interview a fighter who has been fighting with their paramilitary group since 2014, when Russia invades Ukraine and sponsored separatists in eastern Ukraine....
I don't blame them that much for the downvotes, a lot of people are weary or suspicious when Ukraine's far right topic is addressed.
But not because they want to deny its existence, but because that its existence has been weaponized by Russians as a justification for their invasion, genocide, tortures, rapes and overall warcrimes.
And especially with how some western leftists (Hello Hasan) have treated the issue, or how it was used by tankies, fascists, vatniks and all sorts of such people to attack and diminish Russia's action, it is pretty understandable their reaction.
That being said, Dylan has been on the side of Ukraine since the very beginning, one of the few genuine left-leaning western folks, and this interview is very informative. Looking forward tot he second part.
Twelve police were wounded on Saturday (17 June) in clashes with demonstrators in France's Savoie department where a protest against a high speed rail project in the Alps turned violent, authorities said.
Didn't I answer to your comment here? I swear I remember writing a long-ass comment, I've no idea why its not showing up.
Did you receive a reply, btw?
btw I think I also lost a post in a different thread a few hours ago.
Yeah, I posted another response. Something is definitely up with the instance, but that's to be expected given the situation.
Slightly annoying but not a huge problem at the end of the day, I'm sure it'll get fixed.
Lemme try and recall what I responded.
What is the demand to move from Paris to Turin? Tell me, and tell me it's worth spending 30 billions of € of public money and decades of workforce to dig the largest tunnel in Europe. We have other priorities now.
It's not just a high speed rail between two small random cities. It connects the two biggest countries in all of Europe, and not only that but it acts as a bridge that unites and will unite a high speed rail coming from western to eastern Europe, or rather south-western and south-eastern.
Take a look at the map of high speed rail, where else would you connect Italy and France better than here? There's no other better suited place for it. This is the bridge that connects Spain, France through Italy to Austria, Slovenia, Czechia, Hungary, Romania and the rest of the Balkans.
I don't know about your political views but I personally hold this to be a very large priority for the continent. We can't fight against climate change and reduce our reliance on planes, trucks and cars without high speed train infrastructure.
We are not talking about a bike lane which "is here or is not here", we are talking about a track at 20% usage for 30 years. If the industry was asking for more railway then the usage would be at least 70%. Now it's 20%, the demand is fulfilled.
This past here was the most interesting though because I went and search for how many Romanians travel by train just out of curiosity. And what do you know, 19.6% of Romanians "choose" to go by train, while 74.5 "prefer" to go by car, basically the same numbers as in the Lyon-Turin case.
And I hear the exact same arguments against upgrading our train infrastructure: nobody uses it, there's no demand.
Who in their right mind would choose to pay more, suffer in sweaty, nasty conditions and then take much longer when you can have a more comfortable, faster and often cheaper ride via car or a bus?
Let's take a more concrete example: Romanian tourists going to Greece. That's our favorite destination, we're basically Greece's no.1 tourists, it's a love-love situation.
By train: 30 hours to get there
By car on the other hand its only 14 hours, less than half
The fact that you'll rarely find Romanians taking the train to Greece does not mean and cannot mean that there's no demand for it, that is simply illogical and not how humans work. The demand is simply seen in the number of cars on the road.
You cannot compare it to a bike lane or a bus lane.
And that's explicitly the reason why I compared it to the demand for a bike or a bus lane, because you don't see the demand in the number of people using bikes when there's no bike lanes or the number of people using shitty, awful bus services, instead you see in the number of people who use cars to do pretty much everything.
The reason is simple: they have no other sensible, reasonable choice.
Build it and they will come.
Same thing happened with our trams. Our old trams were awful, noisy, slow and smelly. Not popular at all. None of them were crowded, there was "no demand" to get the way more expensive, fancy, good looking ones. Yet when they did buy them, they instantly became a favorite for people.
International railway is not the future, international railway will be a lluxury, the future is local railway
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Everywhere you need to transport goods, then you need to transfor it with railway instead, because otherwise you will have trucks and pollution
Hold on. Are you an isolationist? Do you want member states in the EU to do less trade with each other and people to travel less inbetween member states?
Yeah, that has zero chance of ever working. Its completely unrealistic, furthermore I'd argue that its a pro-fascist stance simply because by virtue of imposing those kind of restrictions on people and commerce will very likely lead to fascists taking power. I can easily see that happening.
I already said this in another post, but international trade of goods is perfectly fine. in this case there is already a line which is underused, at 20% usage.
For example in this case, the only way to achieve this is either 1) faster rail alternative that's better than transporting via trucks (which you very explicitly do not want) or 2) state force via taxes on trucks/roads/fuel.
The moment you do the second options fascists, nazis, white supremacists and the rest of the filth will undoubtedly surge in the polls.
We've seen what happened with just a immigrant crisis.
This kind of move will not only cartoonishly fail to achieve any of its goals but it'll put fascists in power.
This is a huge luxury and people need to get rid of the idea that traveling far is a given. No, it's not. Not any more. It was, with the profusion of energy, but now it's not any more.
This won't happen, climate change is not the type of thing where people notice its effects relatively immediately. And for that reason they're not going to vote for the ones who wish to install draconian measures and greatly hamper the economy and all that suffering that comes with that.
The European Union is ready to propose a financial aid package of around €50 billion ($55 billion) to support Ukraine as the country embarks on a critical counteroffensive to retake territory lost since Russia’s invasion more than a year ago....
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The russian Orthodox Church said earlier this month a group of Ukrainian prisoners of war of Hungarian origin had been transferred to Budapest.
“All attempts by Ukrainian diplomats over the past few days to establish direct contact with Ukrainian citizens have not been successful,” foreign ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko said in a statement on Facebook.
@EugeneMcParland If the rumors about Hungary using these people for a media stunt to hit at Ukraine and praise Russia/Russian Orthodox Church at true, I expect a strong and violent response from all EU member states as well as the EU itself.
Didn't they say that they wouldn't never do something like this when they were talking about "muh brexit benefits" and that it was all "project fear", or am I misremembering?
It shouldn't be. Folks need to keep in mind that these kind of corporatist scum will quite literally kill however many people they need as long as they'd get away with it, all in the name of profit.
The reason they don't do that is because they're afraid of getting caught.
if the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the poor
For a month the two men could not tell their psychologist what had happened to them, only that it was horrible beyond words. “If there’s hell somewhere, it’s worse than that,” said one....
The Estonian Tennis Association (Eesti Tennise Liit) has adopted new restrictions which will bar funding support to players, coaches and others who play alongside or have any other cooperation with sports personnel from the Russian Federation.
[Discussion] I don't think this format makes a lot of sense for the fediverse
A lot of us come from reddit, so we're naturally inclined to want a reddit-like platform. However, it occurred to me that the reddit format makes little sense for the fediverse....
Andrew Tate indicted and will face trial on rape, human trafficking charges in Romania (www.msn.com)
Lemmy.world officially has 33k users! 3000 users away from becoming the #1 lemmy instance. (lemmy.world)
The user count at the moment of this post stands at 33279 and continues to grow!...
Interviewing Ukraine's Far-Right Soldiers (EDIT: by a left-wing youtuber and no the interviewed is not a Nazi, by a long shot) (www.youtube.com)
In order to get a better grasp of Right Sector and Ukrainian Ultra Nationalism, [DylanBurnsTV] went to a Right Sector base to interview a fighter who has been fighting with their paramilitary group since 2014, when Russia invades Ukraine and sponsored separatists in eastern Ukraine....
Losses of the Russian Military to 20.6.2023 (lemmy.world)
Estonia legalizes same-sex marriage (www.politico.eu)
‘I am proud of Estonia,’ says PM Kaja Kallas.
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A dozen French police wounded in clashes with protesters opposing high speed rail project (www.eureporter.co)
Twelve police were wounded on Saturday (17 June) in clashes with demonstrators in France's Savoie department where a protest against a high speed rail project in the Alps turned violent, authorities said.
Aeronautics: Indian airline IndiGo orders a record 500 Airbus A320s (www.francetvinfo.fr) French
This firm order, with a theoretical catalog price of 50.4 billion euros, was revealed on the first day of the Paris Air Show....
Volodymyr Agranovich, pro-Russian filmmaker from Donetsk says "in 2020 you couldn't say that you were from the DPR" and that "you had to hide" because "people wouldn't work with you", admitting that the majority of Donetsk people were against the DPR (i.imgur.com)
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EU Readies €50 Billion Ukraine Package Ahead of Donor Summit (www.bloomberg.com)
The European Union is ready to propose a financial aid package of around €50 billion ($55 billion) to support Ukraine as the country embarks on a critical counteroffensive to retake territory lost since Russia’s invasion more than a year ago....
FPV kamikaze drone sneaks up on a Russian soldier (i.imgur.com)
UK Government Plans To “Unlock The Power Of Location Data,” Surveil Population Movements (reclaimthenet.org)
California restaurant had fake priest hear workers’ confessions, Labor Department says (www.catholicnewsagency.com)
a Not the Onion moment for sure:...
She thought she was unshockable, then two castrated Ukrainian soldiers arrived (www.thetimes.co.uk)
For a month the two men could not tell their psychologist what had happened to them, only that it was horrible beyond words. “If there’s hell somewhere, it’s worse than that,” said one....
Estonian tennis body bans funding for athletes playing alongside Russians (news.err.ee)
The Estonian Tennis Association (Eesti Tennise Liit) has adopted new restrictions which will bar funding support to players, coaches and others who play alongside or have any other cooperation with sports personnel from the Russian Federation.
French government unveils plan to combat 'overtourism' (www.francetvinfo.fr)
A digital platform will be launched to collect data on tourist flows, as well as a national observatory of major tourist sites....