Think about things from the point of view of someone who has never used Reddit or the fediverse, but you've heard about them both from recent news articles and want to see what they are about....
Also, the Kbin dev expressly stated he isn't ready for a massive migration, and the current influx has caused him no end of stress. We want to keep him around and not drive him insane.
I appreciate the concern, and it seems to me that kbin is no longer just one person ;) Currently, kbin is a team of wonderful people who handle development work, devops, project management, and more. Additionally, Piotr helps me with administering kbin.social. There will be significant changes here soon, things are happening quickly. But to be honest, I wasn't fully prepared for such substantial growth, and it will probably take some time before everything stabilizes. But... this is just the beginning ;) What's important is that the snowball starts rolling, regardless of whether kbin, Lemmy, or Mastodon gains the most users. We all win in this situation.
To each their own but sometimes it's nice to just scroll through comments and see the varied replies instead of just fed the top/earliest on some posts. Imo it increases user engagement.
L'UDC s'est réunie samedi à Küssnacht am Rigi (SZ) pour parler d'immigration et du "chaos de l'asile". Le président Marco Chiesa a dénoncé ce qu'il estime être la responsabiilté de la conseillère fédérale Elisabeth Baume-Schneider et de la gauche. Une initiative pour l'imiter l'immigration sera lancée.
Yeah I agree with you about the trying to help them in their own country, but how?
What can we do to help Ukraine? How do we help all those economical refugees from Africa?
There is no short term solution so meanwhile we might as well accept them here. Where the population is slowly dying and where we need hands to do the dirty work that no Swiss born want to do.
The most recent refugee wave are Ukrainians and supporting their war efforts would probably help a faster return. Bad luck though cause the SVP is very neutraland doesn't want to make Putin angry.
In general it might be a more feasible way to help those people in their countries instead of trying to keep them out...
At least for Ukraine we could allow re-exports of weapons, as many parties wanted.
For Africa and other regions we could - depending on the situation - help with food deliveries, etc. Or we could try to support the local economies.
But you are right that we can't help everyone in their countries of origin and should welcome them in Switzerland. Welcoming them in Switzerland should include help for integration though.
E.g Language courses, chances to work, informations about the culture in Switzerland, maybe something like a godparent or friend from Switzerland.
In schools there should be special classses for the refugees at the beginning to learn the language or a lot of support (not just a few lessons as it sometimes the case).
Sadly those things are not possible if the biggest party is just refusing those people and not helping at all (which in my opinion is a strategy to make refugees look worse).
There are some new features, collapsible comments, magazine sorting, the settings page which has an app icon switcher as well as a couple accessibility options!...
Before I joined the Fediverse, it felt like the Internet was composed of only 4-5 social media sites and a bunch of corporate news articles, with only a couple of old remnant sites that looked out of place like a historic church in a business district. All of a sudden, though, it feels like people are creating lots of new sites....
This Bottle of "Honey" Is Mostly Sugar and Corn Syrup
OC Fediverse won't replace Reddit as long as Lemmy is the main platform being promoted
Think about things from the point of view of someone who has never used Reddit or the fediverse, but you've heard about them both from recent news articles and want to see what they are about....
"chaos de l'asile" "faux réfugiés" "touristes de l'asile" SVP/UDC has gone mental. (www.rts.ch) French
L'UDC s'est réunie samedi à Küssnacht am Rigi (SZ) pour parler d'immigration et du "chaos de l'asile". Le président Marco Chiesa a dénoncé ce qu'il estime être la responsabiilté de la conseillère fédérale Elisabeth Baume-Schneider et de la gauche. Une initiative pour l'imiter l'immigration sera lancée.
Artemis alpha version 0.1.2 just rolled out! (imgur.com)
There are some new features, collapsible comments, magazine sorting, the settings page which has an app icon switcher as well as a couple accessibility options!...
Can we have one day without talking about poop?
I mean, come on guys! I swear if I see one more poop post...
Does anyone feel like the Internet is alive again?
Before I joined the Fediverse, it felt like the Internet was composed of only 4-5 social media sites and a bunch of corporate news articles, with only a couple of old remnant sites that looked out of place like a historic church in a business district. All of a sudden, though, it feels like people are creating lots of new sites....