"Quite literally as bad as the Nazis" is a bit hyperbolic.
Not at all defending their stance at all. It's just that being as bad as the Nazis is a really high bar, and by being that bombastic you risk distancing people who might otherwise be open to your arguments.
I personally don't think the term fascism is applicable either, but that's being pedantic. You don't need to be fascist to be awful - you just need to be awful to be a fascist.
Assuming they are indeed denying or in favour of the Uyghur genocide (i never saw the original post, but I'm assuming it's true), that is really everything anyone should need to know.
It's also important to distinguish between Marxism and Communism.
Communism neither started nor ended with Marx, and Lenin, Trotsky, and Mao are all theorists as well as practitioners. I guess the ml in lemmy.ml might be for marxist leninist.
Communism is inherently more about communitarian ownership, and leninism is basically an excuse why you still need a strongman on top of said communitarianism. Trotsky among others wrote about how the end justifies the means, which did not end well for him when Stalin put it to practice.
I apologize if this has already been covered, but I’ve seen a lot of people talking about a need for a kbin app. While I agree that a native app would be nice to have eventually, I figured that quite a few people probably aren’t aware of how web apps work. I don’t use Android, so I have no idea if there is an equivalent...
If the experience here will be anything like Mastodon, there is going to be a lot of apps very soon. :)
I would be surprised if there weren't at least a couple disgruntled third party Reddit app developers currently looking into developing kbin and/or Lemmy apps.
It's not hypocritical at all. The backlash against Reddit is not primarily about convenience, it's about principles.
Third parties are free to develop apps for the fediverse, and they will always have the right to do so. It might be slightly ironic that there are no apps yet, but not at all hypocritical. :)
I wouldn't use any of the Lemmy instances owned by the developers, but you can criticize the Chinese Communist Party all you want on Lemmy instances not owned by the developers. And it's open source, so if they try to make it worse it will be forked.
Kbin is way too early in development for the kind of attention it's currently receiving. That it is holding up as well as it does is impressive, but it's more than just a little rough around the edges. The delevoper is super impressive, but it's currently one man: I wouldn't blame him at all if he got sick of it and abandoned the project a month from now. At which point it would, of course, need a new maintainer.
Hi there! I've been trying to improve the situation for the past few hours. I managed to disable CF Protection, and as you can see, I'm gradually allowing traffic from the fediverse. There may still be delays in deliveries and posts for some time. If anything is particularly troublesome, please let me know through the contact...
My intuition is that Kbin shouldn't be responsible for running more instances than necessary - ideally, the running, administration, and mainstainance of instances should be left to other people (like Fedia.io). Developing Kbin while running kbin.social (and the polish instances) seems to me to be enough work already. :)
I get that it's a lot of pressure on kbin.social right now, but in the long term I think having only one English language kbin-run instance makes the most sense.
I'm curious - what's the difference between magazines and users when linked to the greater fediverse?
It seems like the link to both would be @name@kbin.social. If somebody creates a user named news, it would therefore be found at @news@kbin.social - which is where the news magazine is found.
Don't these collide? How do we distinguish between the two?
As someone "outside of the community", I don't think I have ever talked to anyone who hates lgbtq+. Granted, I'm a filthy (European) liberal, and it's not the first thing I talk to people about, but still.
If anything, I'm tired of this being a politicized issue - I just wish the small, insecure, socially conservative bigots would crawl back in their hole so that we go back to focus on less obvious issues than "whether sexual minorities should have human rights". It's a stupid question and I don't want to waste any more time on it.
Ich nutze Outlook 365 für Uni - es funktionert nur Online, und ist ganz slecht. Seit 2019 gibt es einer "progressive web app" für Microsoft Teams, aber ich habe es nicht probiert (vor 2019 konnte ich uberhaupt nicht Teams in Linux nutzen, jetzt ist alles in Zoom).
I think in the most part you're right in that it's "cheap" content, but an exemption would be those posting pictures of themselves (be it for fun or for self-promotion). They might be among the ones to suffer the most from Reddit's change of policies, and they have a lot to gain from decentralized networks where they gain ownership over their publications.
I guess more specialized servers might appear at some point, and of course it's up to the owners of each server whether they want to host their content. I do think, however, that the software should be built to empower these people as well, as they might need it more than most.
I think there's also a huge difference between at least four types of explicit content:
Normal content that prudish people would be upset by, like a picture of Michelangelo's David or a news article about a tribe in the Amazonas. I don't think this should even be tagged NSFW. I mean, come on.
Self-posting, which can be well moderated and is generally unproblematic if tagged NSFW (and the creators are consenting adults, obviously).
Generic non-original content, which is more problematic and often stolen from somewhere. This is the tricky gray zone. Some content is fine, other might be problematic both ethically (reposting someone's intimate pictures from for example a closed only fans account) and legally (copyright).
Revenge porn and all the shit that shouldn't ever be on the internet to begin with. This needs to be avoided at all cost, and servers posting it need to be de-federated asap. This is probably the greatest existential threat along with right wing trolls.
I think the first should be allowed on any server. The second and third are fine as long as long as they are well moderated - whether they're up to the task I guess is up to whoever maintains the instance.
This question is especially for people who have joined in the last week. Have you used other fediverse platforms or is this your first time really using one? What do you think of it so far? Are you aware that you can comment on Lemmy posts with a Mastodon account?
I think the "old internet" aspect is for sure one of the coolest things about it.
For me, nothing has ever really topped the feeling of the online forums of 20 years ago, often hosted by small groups of enthusiasts. The fediverse can bring back this smaller version of the internet: a series of islands each with their niche, but this time around connected by bridges making it seamless to travel between them.
Just a tip: If you enter the lemmy url in the search bar, you'll find the same post in kbin. You'll be able to upvote and post comments just as if you were watching it from lemmy.
I just saw an email from Buy Me a Coffee. Not just one. I went in, and I'm truly shocked. Thank you all for the support; I would like to thank each and every one of you individually someday. Honestly, I don't know what to say. The account balance is $350, which will definitely allow me to develop kbin faster or at least not...
The reason they had to move in the first place was because they were threatened by armed groups. It's an all to common story between drug cartels and indigenous people in Colombia.
Hopefully this story helps make the issue more well known - the indigenous communities need all the allies they can get.
It seems to me the divide between Boris and the Tory establishment is more about populism than how far right he leans.
As long as they keep making themselves look like a bunch of incompetent idiots I guess I'm happy - it's just a shame they're doing it from a governing position and are hurting the country in the process.
@ernest - are you able to share the financials of how much it costs to run #kbin?
A group of Reddit mods are considering moving their communities to a Lemmy/Kbin instance but we're wondering how much we'd need to invest to get it up to a reasonable scale.
We crunched the numbers based on Beehaw's transparency report and arrived at Lemmy costing about $0.05/user/month USD but AFAIK there's nowhere to check how much Kbin would cost per user.
@EnglishMobster It's probably a bit too early for an exact calculation, as in Kbin is still earlier development than Lemmy is. That said, the underlying technology is largely the same, and I would be surprised if the cost of operation differed greatly between the two. :)
If you love Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, that may sound like great news. But, even as a big fan of those games, I can’t help feeling like there’s a bit of a void in gaming created by the more traditional Zelda’s absence. Tears of the Kingdom makes some changes to address that, like incorporating dungeons...
I was going to argue that it has been a lot less than 10 years since A Link Between Worlds was released. My god I'm getting older.
That said, I think Links Awakening was a great realise even though it's a remake, and I have no doubt 2D Zelda will be getting more love in the not so distant future. :)
OC Difference between kbin and lemmy?
Why do you use one over the other? Also, what's the deal with Calckey?
For iOS users looking for an app, there is a quick and easy solution
I apologize if this has already been covered, but I’ve seen a lot of people talking about a need for a kbin app. While I agree that a native app would be nice to have eventually, I figured that quite a few people probably aren’t aware of how web apps work. I don’t use Android, so I have no idea if there is an equivalent...
Pssst... any ideas for a domain name for the new instance?
Hi there! I've been trying to improve the situation for the past few hours. I managed to disable CF Protection, and as you can see, I'm gradually allowing traffic from the fediverse. There may still be delays in deliveries and posts for some time. If anything is particularly troublesome, please let me know through the contact...
What should I do in this position? (I'm addicted to reddit) (sopuli.xyz)
why are we so hated outside the community?
Why do people hate us for who we are? I don't get it
Gibt es eine Linux Distro die "einfach nur funktioniert"? German
Mein erster Post! Weiß nicht ob ich hier richtig bin, sagt notfalls einfach Bescheid....
a declaration of war
Blur NSFW/18+ Article Thumbnails
I'm not sure if this is the right place for a discussion, or if I should rather open an issue at Codeberg....
Is Lemmy your first time on the Fediverse?
This question is especially for people who have joined in the last week. Have you used other fediverse platforms or is this your first time really using one? What do you think of it so far? Are you aware that you can comment on Lemmy posts with a Mastodon account?
Hello! Can we normalize a few things?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/36032...
Thank you so much for your support! 😍
I just saw an email from Buy Me a Coffee. Not just one. I went in, and I'm truly shocked. Thank you all for the support; I would like to thank each and every one of you individually someday. Honestly, I don't know what to say. The account balance is $350, which will definitely allow me to develop kbin faster or at least not...
Colombia plane crash: Four children found alive in Amazon after 40 days (www.bbc.com)
It is a "magical day", says the president, as the four siblings are found after 40 days missing.
Boris Johnson standing down from UK parliament (www.abc.net.au)
The Answer To The Zelda Formula Split Is To Make 2D Zeldas Again (www.thegamer.com)
If you love Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, that may sound like great news. But, even as a big fan of those games, I can’t help feeling like there’s a bit of a void in gaming created by the more traditional Zelda’s absence. Tears of the Kingdom makes some changes to address that, like incorporating dungeons...