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People here just downvote anything they don’t like even if it’s in its own community

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Depends on the server you’re on. Lemmy found popularity when a group of communists had their subreddit(s)banned

That’s actually part of the reason why the original devs started Lemmy.

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Finally, a competitive YouTube alternative

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I’m heavily interested in Bluesky, so I started !bluesky. However, Lemmy is overall pretty hostile towards Bluesky, and I’m not willing to go back to Reddit for active discussion about it.

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My favorites:

  • Jigsaw Falling into Place
  • Reckoner
  • Bodysnatchers
  • 4 Minute Warning
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It is not well known but there have been numerous scandals which put this trust into question. For example in 2012, a trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation UK used his position to place his PR client on Wikipedia’s front page 17 times within a month. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales made extensive edits to the article about himself, removing mentions of co-founder Larry Sanger. In 2007, a prolific editor who claimed to be a graduate professor and was recruited by Wikipedia staff to the Arbitration Committee was revealed to be a 24-year-old college dropout. These are only a few examples, journalist Helen Buyniski has collected much more information about the the rot in Wikipedia.

I don’t really understand how decentralization would address the trust and legitimacy problems of Wikipedia. I do see value in adding community wikis to Lemmy, however.

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I wouldn’t really compare Bluesky to Mastodon. Ultimately, the Bluesky team still has control over what’s allowed on the app and what’s allowed on the network until third parties launch their own AppViews and relays.

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Lemmy is probably the best fedidiverse project so far and it’s not even close

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Tankies are the reason why Lemmy exists in the first place.

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Meanwhile, the average elected Democrat’s position:

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/6941a8ad-74fd-461a-a0ee-9409a3d8cb3e.png

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I, for one, don’t think we should give our elected officials a free pass just because the other guy would be worse.

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You implicitly said you would still vote for Biden if he “grabbed a gun and started murdering Palestinians in the streets.” I’d consider that to be giving Biden a free pass because although I’ll vote for Biden, I wouldn’t if he started literally murdering people with his own hands, and I don’t think you would either.

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I don’t know why you didn’t say that the first place. Before, you sounded like a deranged asshole.

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The hyperbole isn’t what I care about.

Going up to people who are publicly considering withholding their vote over Biden’s handling of the situation in Gaza, calling them irrational, and demanding they do something they believe is against their morals is “asshole behavior.” It’s almost like you’re saying “the issue you care enough about that your willing to risk a second Trump term doesn’t matter to me.” This behavior is often referred to as “vote-scolding.”

I will probably still vote for Biden, but I understand why other won’t, and I don’t think he should be evaluated only in comparison to Trump.

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Maybe. Meta and Automattic (WordPress.com and Tumblr) are betting on ActivityPub over ATProtocol.

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idk. After they dropped invite codes, they started requiring phone numbers for sign up.

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It’s supposed to happen relatively soon I think bsky.social/about/…/11-15-2023-toward-federation

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That project is called Bridgy Fed.

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User-uploadable custom feeds, which aren’t really possible with ActivityPub

bsky.social/about/blog/7-27-2023-custom-feeds

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Not everyone has moved on to Bluesky yet

Jon Stewart Returns to ‘Daily Show’ as Monday Host, Executive Producer (variety.com)

After scuttling a months-long search for a new host, the Paramount Global network said it had enlisted Jon Stewart, who presided over the late-night mainstay’s most popular era, to serve as its host on Monday nights throughout the 2024 election cycle and to run the program. He is expected to oversee the program through 2025....

Introverts of Lemmy, what do you do when you feel lonely?

First time I’ve been feeling lonely this year, ik this is in stark contrast with the time of the year but I wasn’t able to perform in my school annual function (I really wanted to) and for some reason I have been feeling lonely since, what do you do when you feel like this?

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Give it time and there will be bad actors trying to manipulate Lemmy.

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return of settlers and settlements to Gaza

This will go well 🥴

Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year (9to5mac.com)

In a surprising move, Apple has announced today that it will adopt the RCS (Rich Communication Services) messaging standard. The feature will launch via a software update “later next year” and bring a wide range of iMessage-style features to messaging between iPhone and Android users....

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I’d say that it is the Twitter clone with the best chance at replacing Twitter. It already feels like Twitter (in a good way).

It’s still invite only but everyone has an excess of invite codes at this point.

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I just kinda hear about it here and on Twitter/Bluesky. I also like to watch Hasanabi and sometimes listen to NPR

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No because they would settle the West Bank and further the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.

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I mean it would be kinda nice to have games on mac

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That really surprises me considering their the lemmy devs’ leftist political beliefs

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I didn’t take them to be free speech absolutists, though.

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I’m not trying to defend America but they don’t put you in jail or fine you for using a VPN (yet).

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