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  • Bluesky has just welcomed and verified ICE

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  • Reddit Admins removed Destiny-aligned moderator from the r/livestreamfail mod team for promoting a suspected scam, then he uploaded a 20-minute video threatening Spez

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  • It's an opportunity to say it once more: how the word "influencer" is used so casually and neutrally by everyday people baffles me. How long would it take to become normal if a few cute celebrities said "Hi, I'm a manipulator! I get paid to control public opinion for companies :D "

  • [Help Design Lemmy] Joinlemmy website and New User Onboarding

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  • I think the description starts off too technical - "link aggregator" is correct, but not a term that many people know about. "Selfhosted" might even be lost on most people.

    Perhaps something more simple would help as a first introduction, there's plenty of opportunity for the more technical-minded to learn more. Maybe calling it a "network of content-sharing and discussion forums"? I'd love to put "decentralized" at the front, although I'm not sure how obvious that term is.

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    Two wrongs don't make a ri-

  • Lemmy's active userbase has been stable since September 2025

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  • On no level do most accusations of “sealioning” seem to hold up to scrutiny, in my opinion.

    Agreed. While I haven't seen many accusations of it, all the ones I've seen have been false. And like you said, Lemmy has sufficient moderation that I've never seen it happen here.

  • Do we need more users ?

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  • As for the title question:

    Do we need more users ?

    We don't need more users. It might be nice, there are benefits, but we don't need it. I agree with you on not caring much about growth-as-a-target, "growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell". I was here years before the first big reddit exodus with the third-party API changes and I was having a good time back then too.

  • Are there countries/territories where copyright law is truly unenforced?

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  • Since the micronation is unrecognized, within the territorial claim of the UK and easily within reach of their law enforcement, I wonder what the Principality of Sealand would have to do before the UK attempt to enforce their laws on them. Would the huge pressure of recording and film industries have enough power to compel them? Sealand have gotten into serious armed shenanigans before, which if one chooses not to interpret their governance as valid, would effectively be ransom.

    Their wiki page mentions HavenCo, a data haven which apparently was operational for a few years.

  • Are there countries/territories where copyright law is truly unenforced?

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  • Good example, with the caveat that one would still be subject to the intellectual property rights of Russians, and I'd assume of their allies. (I know I used Hollywood in my example, that's on me)

    Thanks for adding the source.

  • New PieFed instance: MULTIVERSE

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  • I'm not a soulist like the user you replied to, but for another perspective, mine is that rights are imaginary constructs which mean nothing if unenforceable.

    People have some rights to not be murdered; that's not an opinion if we have a compatible definition of 'rights', it's written in law, it's ingrained into mainstream liberalist social norms and ethics. So the right exists as a social idea which sometimes manifests in real consequences. However:

    • I can get murdered by the government or law enforcement who proclaim to enforce my right to not be murdered! It's a conditional right, not the idealistic universal right it's often made out to be.
    • And there are some people who I wouldn't really care if they were murdered. I don't weep for Wnssolᴉuᴉ's lynching. I don't mind that Ken McElroy's murderers weren't charged. Sometimes we just don't have the luxury or power to go through the ideal routes of justice. And to be clear I also don't advocate for murder for a big long list of reasons, many of them are obvious. For example, I think the assassination of Brian Thompson was morally just and cathartic, it stopped an antisocial social murderer who would not have been held accountable by law, and the fear it created may feasibly have saved some lives of UHC customers in the short term, but ultimately I do not advocate for such adventurism as it's proven historically to do little to create long-term systemic improvements, and can easily go wrong and cause more damage than benefit, as we saw with the "golden age of Propaganda of the Deed".
  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Are there countries/territories where copyright law is truly unenforced?

  • What happened to internet culture?

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  • Though it’s hard to find similar places to early 4ch that aren’t nazi paradises.

    Yep. Finding the small scattered imageboards which ban or reject politics and combat spam is difficult, but rewarding. And they tend to be special-interest focused sites, like erischan or lainchan, so they're not all going to be interesting to everyone. trashch /comfy/ is a possible counter-example.

  • What happened to internet culture?

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  • Add to it that there are more and more professionals making content for profit, a decade before AI reached this stage. Memes and viral videos became marketing opportunities.

  • What happened to internet culture?

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  • To oversimplify a complex multifaceted question: money went online. Pre-2000s and early 2000s was dominated by self-hosted community sites, like forums. It was often a personal sacrifice to host them, rather than a business like with modern social media platforms like reddit, YouTube, etc.

    I've often preferred to stick away from the middle of the internet, the smaller community sites are so much better than for-profit grifter-filled addiction machines. When I see a few people (less of them now) saying "Lemmy is too slow/dead", I think about the sites I love that get 10 posts a week. One particular board occasionally has some new kiddo arriving to a thread and asking a question to (or getting annoyed at) a post made over 10 years ago. And since these aren't sites dedicated to sharing things that other people make, they develop their own cultures. Anyone there to advertise and make money will leave dimeless, anyone there to insert political propaganda will be ignored or laughed at and banned.

    Lemmy has some shared traits, and some of the benefits are glaringly apparent when we compare to reddit, but it's still largely a content sharing site more than a creative community.

  • Lemmy's active userbase has been stable since September 2025

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  • The sealion in the comic overheard someone being racist against them, and stepped in to say, “Hey, why are you being racist?” And for some reason is wrong because… they’re persistent? Or because they’re annoying? How is that not literally just every “anti-woke” argument?

    I think the point is that the sea lion is feigning civility while harassing someone over a casual opinion.

    My response would be that if we extend the metaphor, like you did, and substitute the absurd 'sea lions' for a race, then harassing the racist doesn't bother me. Bigots don't deserve peace. It's absolutely harassment to stalk and interrogate someone who doesn't want to talk, I just wouldn't care that they're being harassed for airing such bigotry.

    (On the other hand, if we assume the original opinion is not a metaphor and replace it with a similarly absurd statement, like enjoying pineapple on pizza, then the sea lion would be acting unreasonably. If someone followed you around online and kept bringing up how you prefer pizza to be prepared, demanding a calm discussion and insisting on peer-reviewed proof that pizza tastes better a certain way, while you ask them to stop, that harassment would obviously be uncalled for. For what it's worth, the author made a comment that it wasn't meant to be "analogous to a prejudice based on race, species, or other immutable characteristics." - but I say it's a though-provoking interpretation to explore regardless)

  • 11.37%. Now we're talking.

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  • Yep. "Hmm, 'unknown?', let's assume they're all Linux!".

    Linux is doing well, no need to lie about it!

  • Why do schools look like prisons and are there any countries where they don't?

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  • Lemmy's active userbase has been stable since September 2025

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  • I've come across some people who have no idea what "sealioning" even means. There used to be a hb user "Ulysses" or something, like three years ago, who accused me of doing it after I replied to their reply to my reply, and that's the only conversation we'd ever had. I pulled up the definition of sealioning and the comic which the word originated from, and they just say "no that's not true, stop sealioning".

    I feel like some people just think sealioning means "this person keeps replying to my posts", as if conversations on a public forum are somehow uncalled for, or unusual.

  • Lemmy now (partially) federates with Bluesky via Bridgyfed

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  • Good to know! Hope I won't need it.

  • “I Didn’t Vote to Lose My Job”: DOGE Destroys $1.2 Trillion Industry as Rural Workers Bear the Cost

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  • Blame culture isn't a way forward, both the con and the conned hold partial responsibility. Power doesn't come from thin air, and those who voted for this regime helped empower it.

  • What are some anti-socialist arguments you hear which were refuted a long time ago in a book or speech?

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  • Haven't been to a McDonald's since luigis capture. Never will forget. Never will forgive.

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  • If you don’t and just enjoy the thought of killing people you disagree with then you should be out celebrating alongside MAGA over the murder of Renee Good.

    This is a bizarre comparison.

    UnitedHealth, and therefore its leadership, are collectively responsible for the systemic social murder of many thousands. They (like the rest of the industry) are so ingrained into bipartisan government though lobbying and other forms of soft power that we have consistently seen no legal justice, and have no reason to expect it.

    Renee Good, on the other hand, was not responsible for mass death and not an ongoing threat to millions of innocent citizens.

  • Communism @lemmy.ml
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    What are some anti-socialist arguments you hear which were refuted a long time ago in a book or speech?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    What are some useful things to create with a typical 3D printer?

  • videos @hexbear.net
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    Finally, a good political Little Dark Age edit (Zootopia AMV)

  • bloomer @hexbear.net
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    "Positive Leftist News" video channel

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    What is something you can see, hear, smell, etc., that others can't?

  • music @hexbear.net
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    One Hour of Soviet Christmas Music

  • Ask Science @lemmy.world
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    A friend likes the idea of a personalized "DNA artwork" but has privacy concerns. Any ideas for creating a unique marker artwork ourselves?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    What power do citizens have to hold Mamdani, and other recently-elected social politicians in the US, accountable? What is needed to build such power?

  • badposting @hexbear.net
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    Republicans push to strip Zohran Mamdani

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    How much do some mega-expensive things cost?

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
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    ok, yes, sure, but, if they pull it off I'm still celebrating

  • Greentext @sh.itjust.works
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    Anon has concerns about America

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    What are you doing about it?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Relatable

  • Film, TV, and Media @lemmygrad.ml
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    Requesting /u/Anarcho-Bolshevik review two more South Park episodes:

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    The rise of progressivism led corporations to misappropriate progressive values and language. How did this manifest before?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    There was a post yesterday havin a giggle about low resource usage Linux setups, shout-out to LOW←TECH magazine's solar-powered site (running Armbian Stretch)

    solar.lowtechmagazine.com /about/the-solar-website/
  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
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    Japanese nationalism is so bad that they don't even learn about the war crimes their country committed wow that's so horrible and not like my country