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I feel as if there's a level of hopelessness online now. With all the wars and genocide going on, it's hard to stay optimistic. Maybe that's just me though

I don't use Brave but did you take this screenshot or find it somewhere? I can't find this "tag line" when searching for Brave in the Playstore.

You accomplished a lot in this post

I am using the Voyager app and can't find it in the settings. Maybe that has something to do with it. I'll take a look at the website later and figure out how to add them. Thanks for letting me know.

Where do I add them? I feel like I missed something. Did I not read a rule? I am he/him but my first language is Arabic, so I don't have any emotional attachment to using English pronouns, if that makes sense.

I've been waiting for this! Please sign me up

Rewatch some comfort movies or shows. I watch Princess Bride every time I get sick

Moroccan here. Just want to add that the first years of Mohammed 6 were marked by great optimism, naming him "the king of the poor". This optimism was later on shattered, and a new form of oppression took place. While Hassan 2 was a dictator who sent people who opposed him to a secret prison, and people just vanishing like for publicly saying the wrong things like Mehdi Ben Barka, the opposition was fierce. There was a notable coup attempt in 1972. The reign of Mohammed 6 presents a friendly face but is marked by a shift to business, the king owns many major businesses in the country, making competition nearly impossible. The king gets to extract all the riches while pretending to be this meek gentle king, and the prime ministers are changed at will and they get to be the focus of all the discontent people have. Speaking against the king is still a political taboo that you never hear publicly.

I think it all follows the same structure. There's an imagined wholeness and peace that was beset by something alien, eliminating that alien threat will get us back to how things were. In case of Israel for example, things were great before October 7th and then something was introduced and we need to eliminate it. The imagined wholeness is always a fascistic nostalgia for a state that never was, and the alien threat element is a scapegoat for the problems they don't wanna face. Genocide is the fascistic structure taken to its limit. We find this now in Trump's rhetoric about how things were great before the alien emigrants and how getting rid of them will turn us into this imagined state of wholeness and belonging, it's always scapegoating and focusing internal issues on one group in order to avoid facing them.

Thanks I'm already there, but haven't been super active on Mastodon lately. I do enjoy the server though.

Bluesky is more similar to Twitter and has what most people were used to, like an algorithm, quote tweets, etc I found it extremely boring, but tbh it's a more polished experience. One of my biggest annoyances with Mastodon is how threads and replies look weird. Sometimes I see the reply to a post before I see the post, especially in the "lists" view. Also not having an algorithm is both good and bad. It's great because it's organic, but it also means many posts get buried and it's dependent on the time. As someone not living in the US and Europe, it's tricky because sometimes you'll post something when most people are asleep and no one will see it. I ultimately love Mastodon more because of the openness and the federation. But most people will find Bluesky more approachable

Idk it's full of zios. I posted about Palestine and went on an argument with someone who claimed telling Israel to stop killing children is antisemitic because Hitler blamed Jews of killing children.