My last Ubuntu install got destroyed by some package update and I was unable to fix it after hours and hours of futsing within it (I think it was related to graphics drivers, but I can't say 100%). This made me put it aside again since I just don't have time to deal with it and really just wanted something simple and reliable on my laptop. It's annoying because, aside from some games, I can already pretty much do anything I need to do on Linux just fine, but I won't risk issues like that taking down my whole setup.
I think we should always care about mass genocide on specific cultural groups, the world cared about the Holocaust, or is that a “who cares” for that one too?
This is doubly true when a fascist regime is doing everything they can to pretend like it’s not happening.
Just like I care about police brutality, and the mass Graves in Canadian schools, also because local governments are trying somewhat go cover them up. I also care about the genocide that happened in the 1900s in the Congo.
Isn’t it crazy that I can care about human suffering?? Empathy is a wild thing.
Why don’t you move there then? You wouldn’t be able to browse nonsense like this lol. Wouldn’t need to worry about information you don’t like hearing because they would make sure you never hear it through their state controlled internet and media.
If you ever want to leave your insane echo chamber – and I don’t know how the fuck you got into it you deranged lunatic – you should read “Tombstone” by Yang Jisheng. Millions dead from state enforced famine.
Guess why they made an alternative to Reddit… they were banned on it because of their views.
It’s kind of hard for me; I use and like Lemmy, but I can’t / don’t want to comment issues on their GitHub or do a pull request because helping them is just… iffy.
We’ve been in a post-truth era now for a number of years. There’s nothing that can be done. China has over a billion people. If they want propaganda bots to saturate the internet, they got it. Just keep promoting internet safety, critical media thinking skills, and real historical facts.
Funny how we’ve regressed back to a state where you can only believe things you have seen with your own eyes. (And things in books, papers and old-school websites.)
Those devs have also pointed out that the Fediverse and Lemmy make it possible for you to have an instance with the exact opposite position. And there’s nothing they can do about it.
This really isn’t the scandal people want it to be. Except maybe reddit employees?
I get that of course, but a lot of people are going to be put off that the main dev is a genocide denier, there’s no way around that. I’ve seen mastodon posts of activists specifically telling people to not use Lemmy for that reason. In fact it’s equivalent to the attitude I see around here of people saying we need to silence fascists at all costs. They just see it as a scarlet mark on the whole endeavor.
We need a way to answer that while making people aware Lemmy is designed so that it doesn’t matter.
I recognize my post didn’t really convey that. I dunno, I’m not terribly charismatic.
Ok, I’m no longer gonna argue in this thread. It’s filled with either keyboard warriors who haven’t turned their gaze away from the monitor in years, enraged fools or actually malicious provocateurs. I believe I’ve made my points. Peace! ✌️
Honestly I disagree. Being “sold” an idea is just a metaphor we get from the same place as the “marketplace of ideas”, and it’s not accurate. There’s no transaction here, it’s a copy operation. You’re being offered an idea and you can adopt it or not. You don’t have to give anything up for it.
Personally I’m adopting this idea because it gave me a new feeling of how mentally peaceful a post capitalist world would be. You can already get a taste of the difference no advertising makes by going online with an adblocker. The last time youtube broke through my adblocker it was such an intrusive feeling and I put a lot of effort into making sure it wouldn’t happen again.
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