That's literally most of world history.
- Posts
- 0
- Comments
- 737
- Joined
- 2 yr. ago
- Posts
- 0
- Comments
- 737
- Joined
- 2 yr. ago
The main difference is that you can choose to use an instance that doesn't.
But to a user of an instance that defederated burggit it's more or less a direct parallel to r/jailbait, just with the extra step of asking the instance to confirm and losing the rest of the instance and not just the one community.
I'm glad that this is the controversy on Lemmy, and not things like Reddit had with r/JailBait.
Lemmy already had a round of that, specifically over loli. It's why a lot of instances block burghit.moe - they don't ban loli and have a few loli specific subs.
The only other Lemmy server I know of that allows loli subs is the rad queer one and it's tiny and also blocked by many other instances, though I don't know if that's for the loli or the general rad queer thing. Really, likely both.
Oh, boy. Back to the old Reddit patterns. How long before they start using bots to preemptively ban anyone who has ever posted on certain communities regardless of context as a time saving measure, because that was a thing on Reddit as well?
Any idea which subs are banning like that already?
and suggestions that ‘any instance is fine’, although true in a technical sense - is a little misleading
I'd say more than a little. I always suggest they look at the instance rules and also who the instance blocks to make sure they're OK following those rules and being blocked from that content before picking. Part of why I picked SDF was that they block no other servers.
I think the blurring of the lines between developers of the Lemmy open source project, and admins of the lemmy.ml instance is a self-sabotaging and tone-deaf reflection on the site, and hurts chances of wider adoption.
Why? They explicitly haven't baked any of their moderation/administration preferences into the code and have rejected suggestions that they should bake things along those lines into the code. If they decide to, that sounds like an awfully good reason for a fork. You don't have to love the devs and their politics to use the software they developed, though you should probably be on board if you want to use the instance that they run.
The easiest way to explain it is to compare it to email.
You know how you might have a gmail address, your friend might have a protonmail address and your parents might still have their old aol email address? But you can all still freely talk to each other anyways?
Lemmy is like doing that, but for something like Reddit. If you notice, usernames have an @servername on the end and just like an email address that's the server that person is connecting through. For example, I'm Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org.
Which means I log in to lemmy.sdf.org and use their servers to read Lemmy, but I can read, post and comment on communities on any other Lemmy server that is federated with lemmy.sdf.org just like they're on lemmy.sdf.org just like you can send an email to someone using a different email service and it makes no difference on your end.
Communities work the same way - so for example politics@lemmy.ml, politics@beehaw.org and politics@lemmy.world are all different communities hosted on different servers with their own separate posts, subscribers, mods etc. And users on any Lemmy server federated with the server that community is on can read, comment, post, etc (mod action notwithstanding).
This federation thing I keep mentioning is just which servers are willing to talk to which other servers - again you can compare to email. Sometimes email servers pop up to send massive amounts of spam, and when they do mail providers blacklist them and simply ignore all messages from that source. Defederating is the same idea. You use lemmy.world according to your username, so if lemmy.world defederates lemmy.ml then you will no longer be able to see any communities @lemmy.ml or read any posts or comments posted by someone @lemmy.ml - to you it will be like lemmy.ml just doesn't exist.
If you scroll to the bottom of the page, you'll see a link labeled "Instances", which will give you a list of which servers lemmy.world talks to and which ones they've specifically blocked. Lemmy.world has a pretty long list of blocked instances.
One of the reasons I picked SDF's lemmy instance was because they don't block **any **instances - as far as SDF is concerned it's up to the end user what they want to see. Also SDF is kinda a cool entity - they're a non-profit best known for maintaining public access unix servers and a bunch of retrocomputing stuff (like dial up internet and a gopher server) that has been around since 1987 (the name is literally an old anime reference because they started out as an anime BBS).
I don’t know how to best deal with such indoctrination chambers. Their members become completely divorced from reality and there’s no way to pull them back from the brink because anything you could say to that effect gets moderator-deleted. Yet vice versa, they can freely spread their propaganda and engage in “raids” on other instances.
This is essentially the same problem Reddit has (mods/admins can control what is discussed on their boards), stems from the same place (mods/admins have essentially unlimited power over their boards/instances), and has the same basic solution - let the echo chamber echo chamber and create alternative communities that don't have that problem. And on the upside, since this is a federated space you can just have whatever@otherserver.net instead of r/truewhatever7alpha.
It's just more noticeable here because the censorious leftward fringe is both more extreme and more aggressive about it.
At least we haven't started getting mods running bots to auto-ban anyone who has ever interacted with other specific communities yet.
Really no different than Reddit in that regard. At least we don't have people automatically banning you for having ever interacted with specific other communities yet, at least I don't think we do yet.
EDIT: Shit, somehow I forgot the don't. Teach me not to proofread.
You mean like they did the Anniversary Edition update for Skyrim that broke a ton of mods, and then two more updates since then that re-broke a bunch of mods each?
Conservative women hate women just as much as the men do, that’s the impressive bit.
I mean, so long as you define "hating women" to mean "opposing abortion" then sex isn't really relevant to who hates women - despite some folks who pretend otherwise it really isn't a men vs women issue, men are pro choice at about the same rate as women.
That's kinda the point - Texas permits a life-saving abortion, but is super vague as to what counts as "life-saving" and if it's not life-saving **enough ** then comes the extreme punishment.
- JumpDeleted
Permanently Deleted
Which US politicians typically attend the inauguration of the Mexican President? I'm genuinely curious, it's not something I've ever paid attention to and which US politicians attend it isn't usually something that gets news coverage here.
If it happens, it couldn't happen to a more deserving show.
Wyoming wasn't the first state to allow women to vote for President. At the very least women could vote in New Jersey as early as 1790, presuming they had the equivalent of 50 British pounds of wealth (because the wealth requirement was the only requirement). Women later lost the right to vote in New Jersey when New Jersey embraced Jacksonian democracy and extended the right to vote to all white men of age, regardless of wealth.
But again, women's right to vote was a state issue prior to the 19th Amendment and as such it was kinda all over the place with some states allowing women to vote but only in some elections (often different rules for municipal, county, state and federal elections).
I suppose the only questions there are whether or not her state allowed women to vote for president, and whether or not a candidate who cannot legally hold the office counts (since she was under 35). Because it wasn't just blanket illegal for women to vote prior to the 19th Amendment, it was up to the individual states and like anything up to the individual states it was all over the place depending on which state we're talking about. For example, New Jersey allowed anyone who had the equivalent of 50 British pounds of wealth to vote regardless of sex (and there are recorded examples of women voting there) - at least until they embraced Jacksonian democracy and removed the wealth requirement and added a sex one. By the time the 19th Amendment passed, women could vote in at least some elections in most states.
The legislature tried to backpeddle it as much as they could in order to prevent black people from voting, but the main mechanism is forcing the felons to pay a bunch of money, which isn't a problem for Trump.
To be exact, the "backpedaling" was that if the courts assigned you fines and prison time you had to complete both before you had "completed your sentence" and thus could vote.
At least he's talking about the views of a justice he might pick, rather than what race and sex they're going to be as though that's the most important criteria.
You know you can have Firefox open a second window, right?
Too bad there are so many French people
There are a bunch of right-wingers out there that would tell you (((they))) are working on that. That's basically the heart of the whole "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory and I've seen a few specifically point to Paris as an example of it in action.
That would just change how SEO worked, since the old methods would be less optimal. Search engines have to rank results somehow, and whatever that is there's going to be some way to game it.