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RedWizard [he/him]

@ AmazingWizard @lemmy.ml

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    ICE/CBP kicks off door-to-door raids in Minneapolis, targeting houses based on race and whether the occupants are involved in protesting. Via Reddit.

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  • I think you're going to have to look elsewhere, fighters are not the preview of the Democratic Party. See if there is a DSA chapter near you and join it, it might ease your mind some to find like-minded people who actually want to fight. The streets are where the fight is now, not congress. ICE is knocking on our doors, not the doors of Congress. That should tell you everything you need to know about who they think is a threat.

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    ICE/CBP kicks off door-to-door raids in Minneapolis, targeting houses based on race and whether the occupants are involved in protesting. Via Reddit.

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  • Why do .ml users get a bad rep?

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  • The thing that is funny about Piefed vs. Lemmy is the level of authoritarian control the admin has over what you see and whether votes count or not. Specifically, they can open each instance connected with them and add a vote weight to the instance. So if they didn't like ML, instead of blocking the instance, you can set the weight to 0, and then those users would have no idea that their votes do not contribute to a rank at all. You can take an individual user and set their account to ban comments, ban posts, or both, which effectively shadow bans a user. If they're remote, the comments, or posts never arrive at the piefed instance. None of this is visible to the end user, by the way, no alerts that this is happening to your account. You can be kicked from a community by moderators, an action that you will not even know is happening to you.

    It leaves you to wonder how much of what you're seeing is an accurate tally of votes and score. It seems driven purely to keep out opposing perspectives and stifle thought. None of these "tanky" instances have this level of user and content manipulation at their disposal. The Admin of a piefed instance can shape the feed silently, and without users even knowing it is happening, through the use of vote weights. Which is a pretty nasty feature if I'm being honest. One of the things people assumed was happening on Reddit was that the feed wasn't an honest representation of user activity, that the feed itself was ideologically bias (one way or the other), and yet piefed explicitly gives you those tools.

  • Why do .ml users get a bad rep?

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  • You don't have a banned tag and there is nothing in the mod logs? What do you mean you were banned?

  • Desperate North Koreans sell blood for food as hunger crisis deepens

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  • Hmm, what's going on here?

    Just another example of projection from the great empire of the west I guess.

  • Desperate North Koreans sell blood for food as hunger crisis deepens

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  • Desperate North Koreans sell blood for food as hunger crisis deepens

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  • We're talking about America right?

  • Graham Platner said he was going to kill thousands if not millions of Muslims because his way of life is better

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  • Yes, but guys like Planter are not better than neoliberals; they are still liberals, the same liberals that will support genocide if it gets you healthcare, that is, if you're straight and white.

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    News @ Abolish Capital!

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  • Thanks cowbee!

  • Piefed finally fixes Lemmy’s ugly post URLs

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  • Most places that matter (popular chat apps, text apps, social media) use Open Graph protocol to provide a preview of the link that's been sent. I don't see the issue here. Its on the site operator to implement Open Graph and it works fine on Lemmy.

  • But according to the libs round here, ChInA BaDDDDddd

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  • One of them could be the Tianfu Twin Towers in Changdu.

  • But according to the libs round here, ChInA BaDDDDddd

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  • They are real pictures. Here's another city you've never heard of.

  • Please for gods sake dont use CasaOS

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  • Your first point makes zero sense: it can’t be both “for profit” and have “no means of generating income”.

    Are you for real? The entire concept of Enshittification hinges on the real fact that most internet services start out with a net negative "profit" and are kept alive through large injections of VC capital. This allows them to offer the service for free or close to free to gain a massive user base, which they then leverage for profit later on through measures that make the service worse for consumers. The entire reason Mastodon, Lemmy, and the federated social network exist is because of this contradiction.

  • Democratic Party lawmakers are refusing to endorse Zohran Mamdani and are spreading lies about him in the process

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  • I'm curious to hear the objections and alteratives. I'm not fully versed in anarchist thought.

  • Democratic Party lawmakers are refusing to endorse Zohran Mamdani and are spreading lies about him in the process

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  • Do they run candidates? I'm curious where. I know they do presidential campaigns but how many local races do they really run in?

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    Permanently Deleted

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  • Shiori is a single binary you can run on your desktop or host on a server. I use it all the time.

  • Trump Orders Faster Build-Out of Nuclear Power Plants | Among a flurry of executive actions, Mr. Trump directed the nation’s nuclear safety regulator to speed up approvals for new reactors.

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  • It really depends on what these reactors are going to be used for. Are they going to be licensed to private corporations to power data centers, or are they going to provide power to citizens homes?

  • Do you browse hexbear or have an account in hexbear?

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  • This is precisely what we should be doing with these tools, good on ya!

  • Do you browse hexbear or have an account in hexbear?

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  • You have 4 removed comments before the ban, the rest of your history is still very visible in your profile, so they didn't purge your account, they removed a few comments, which is why it says, "removed by mod". It's funny reading your removed comments. The downvote removal is looked back on as a pretty good change. I've not used the site when it had downvotes, but frankly, I like that they're gone. I don't even know what the "main" issue is, and I've never heard anyone talk about it. The site has never struck me as a "Chapo" site, even though I know that is its origins. I've listened to the Chapo pod before, not for me, honestly. Frankly, seems that separating from the Chapo brand was the right choice.

    Anyway, 4 years is a long time to hold a grudge.