I had a bit of a brain fart and hit wrong button posting before I had fully written. That's on me not on you.
And yes protesting isn't going to change policy directly. Only new policy will change policy. But protests often leads to new policy.
They're going to look for every reason to discount and disregard protests however. Specifically highlighting any small instances of violence. And specifically because it can change policy eventually.
Do you have any evidence of this? If so you should write your own article. Literally an someone that thought the same as you looked into things and found otherwise. The article was just posted for it. look forward to seeing your research and reasoning on the subject.
This is what needs to be happening everywhere. Definitely something that should be applauded. Is anyone taking up a collection to help fund and cover these people who are taking actual risks right now?
Let's be fair some of us are far more concerned with virtue signaling than actually making things better. Not all of us. I certainly wouldn't lump all the left in on that. But there is a very vocal minority I would.
Is that why they all imagine external threats to justify their militaries at the cost of the people? Much secure, very safe. Lol you've said nothing to disprove my point.
Sometimes violence can be necessary to start. But anything won or held by violence will also be lost by violence. Only that which is held through peace and understanding will ever be secure.
People forget or are blissfully unaware of the financial mismanagement, the basic incompetence with keeping their own domain. They nearly lost it several times. Not to mention shipping with the AUR while being incompatible in many ways with the Aur.
If someone wants to use Endeavor or Garuda or one of the other different easy to use Arch spin-offs. There's no issue with that. They all work like they're supposed to and have generally been competent teams. There really is very little reason to use Manjaro these days. The last time I used it was for their Raspberry Pi version. Which wasn't really going to work with the Aur anyhow. But I think endeavor is still providing a pi image now so there's still no reason to use Manjaro
That said all this is yet another tick for Wayland.
The problems with the Lemmy developers though is plain on the face of it. Problematic political and social positions. And then demanding that donations must go towards furthering those problematic political and social positions. Because they think they found this one weird trick that nobody can argue with. Their Flagship server is the political server. It's not lemmy.org after all.
Not to mention that the admins of the server moderate more than most the moderators on the server. There is no free speech. It doesn't matter how moderate or respectful you are. If you go against the narrative you will be banned.
Development wise they are also vanguard minded. Does the userbase want features the devs aren't working on? That's too bad. The devs are going to work on what they want to work on. Whether or not that's a good thing. Which can sometimes it can be. It also has led to a number of people reluctant to contribute. The childish cliquesh behavior.
You're not always going to agree with the politics and views of the people who write the software you use. And that is okay. But when they mix the two it's not wrong to have issues with that.
It's in the readme. Several comments above this and around this all mention it. You can search for it and you will find it.
Dei really shouldn't be considered politics of course. It should just be a part of being a decent person. But those who persecute others or don't care about the persecution of others at least. Always have to put on a show to make everything about them. How acknowledging traditionally excluded people is somehow an attack or imposition on them
Being left or right doesn't make you good or bad. There are plenty of reasonable right-wing groups. However few to none of them identify as right wing. The Democrats in the United States for instance. A staunchly, solidly right-wing group. That most people somehow mistakenly think are left wing.
No, the people desperate to identify themselves with vagaries such as left or right. Almost without exception are some of the worst most horrible people you'll ever meet. Only trying to deny the failures of their ideas, or deflect from the horrible things they want to do to others. Leninists and fascists are both Prime examples of this.
Anyone who talks or acts like DEI is a problem is a clown who deserves to be ridiculed. Its possible to have substantive nuanced criticism of DEI. Left or right. But DEI isn't the problem. The people whining about it typically are.
100%. Not just controversial but childish. It's completely poetic karma that they've become a minority in their own network. Repeating the same patterns that got them exiled elsewhere. Basically doing it all again. Having learned nothing.
I had a bit of a brain fart and hit wrong button posting before I had fully written. That's on me not on you.
And yes protesting isn't going to change policy directly. Only new policy will change policy. But protests often leads to new policy.
They're going to look for every reason to discount and disregard protests however. Specifically highlighting any small instances of violence. And specifically because it can change policy eventually.