Firefly7

joined 1 year ago
[–] Firefly7@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Wars tend to involve civilians getting hurt, because yeah, it’s cheaper and easier to disregard international law.

I wouldn’t generalize that to evil always winning vs good, though. Human life is complicated, and mean, but progress gets made anyway. There’s a reason most people dislike war.

[–] Firefly7@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Smaller canvas, to make it feel less empty and encourage more communication across communities (or competition! >:] )

[–] Firefly7@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

That’s the lemmy.blahaj.zone instance logo

[–] Firefly7@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Hexbear only recently started opening itself up to federation. It’s one of the old leftist instances that was around before the reddit api fiasco. Think lemmygrad but more tolerant and pro-lgbtq.

[–] Firefly7@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huh, okay. Good on you for being consistent.

I find the banning of individual users to be highly necessary, to prevent spam of porn/nazi shit/general assholery. Instead of everyone having to spend a long time forming their own blocklist, they can sign up for an instance with a mod team that they trust to do it for them. Defederation is a useful tool towards that end, because (for example) Exploding Heads is an instance that explicitly allows racism and such, so a well-moderated instance will defederate with them rather than having to ban hundreds or thousands of individual trolls who sign up over there because they like racism.

[–] Firefly7@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Are you also against the idea of banning individual users for the content they post?

[–] Firefly7@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Subscribing to a community does not curate content. All subscribing does is add it to your list of subscribed communities, so it’s one of the ones that shows up when you look into your Subscribed feed (sometimes called the Home feed). Subscribing to a community will not impact the Local feed or the All feed.

Lemmy does not have “curated content” outside of your subscriptions adding to the Subscribed feed, and your blocks taking away from all feeds.

[–] Firefly7@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This question is analogous to “why hasn’t anarcho-communism yet worked on a wide scale?” Which is a question with many, many facets to it. You’d have to ask a lot of questions separately.

If I were to try, though, I think the simple answer is “people who work in X area usually do not own the means of production and as such cannot redirect the end product to horizontalist organizations.” Most people can’t just quit their jobs to join a mutual aid group because, without being able to contribute things, the biggest thing a mutual aid group can pass around is time, and most mutual aid groups that exist irl are focused on doing tasks like “picking up prescriptions for others,” and cannot replace participation in the capitalist economy.

Nevermind how most governments don’t want horizontalist non-capitalist organizations to gain enough power to provide a viable alternative to living under capitalism.

[–] Firefly7@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of the streets where they remove all markings entirely. I think this would increase safety, since road safety coincides inversely with how safe drivers feel to drive fast and not pay attention, and this signals pretty strongly “you’re on your own now, good luck!”

[–] Firefly7@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

I’d say any health emergency, for anyone you care about, should count. Although, the validity comes more from how the event affects the worker than from whether or not the event is objectively serious, since that’s impossible to measure. So it’s hard to say anything with certainty.

[–] Firefly7@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

I agree that Threadiverse is the best choice for a name for combined Lemmy+Kbin. I think I’ll still just say Lemmy when introducing it to friends, but it’s definitely helpful to have an agreed-upon word that correctly represents that Lemmy and Kbin work together in a way that, for example, Lemmy and Mastodon don’t really.

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