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I don’t know enough to say if it’s more insular or not, I don’t know how common it is to have the default sort as All, but we’re definitely worldly enough for other instances to have some users pushing stereotypes on us when we comment.

You do have some point about lemmy.ml having enough instances that you can get by with Local as default, but I assume most people would be subscribing to or exploring other instances too? I really don’t know.

When liberalism fails, people look for alternatives. Historically speaking, the lower classes move towards socialism, and the owning classes adopt fascism to protect their privileged position from socialists. Apart from some important exceptions, libertarian forms of socialism generally haven’t been able to prevail, while one-party states have built third-world countries into superpowers more than once, which makes for an appealing role-model, especially in countries where the system beforehand was a monarchist dictatorship or US puppet pretending to be a democracy.

Nah, they’re just over at the crosspost thread: https://lemmy.ml/post/24456592

Their main point is that, as the article states, erotica is outlawed whether it’s gay or not. They weren’t ‘arrested for writing gay erotica’, they were arrested for writing erotica. Obviously that’s also a controversial position, but it’s a very different one to the false homophobic position implied by the headline.

Honestly, it depends on your circles and network. I only remember seeing The Picard Maneuver maybe twice, didn’t know of them before this week. I’ve seen your username far more, for example.

I just run mpv $URL

When was this questionnaire posted? I didn’t see it and get a chance to answer.

Also, I treat servers different to desktops due to different threat models. The server automatically applies security updates and keeps most feature updates sitting for a while for stability, but on desktop I just install everything within a couple of days.

What did they blow up? Their own vehicle and a piece of the road? Some random bystanders? A few thousands of damage to the hotel maybe? I don’t know their goals, but I don’t think that’s successful if they wanted anything more than attention seeking. (edit: which honestly seems like it could be the goal, why else have fireworks instead of fertilizer?)

Compare with the Oklahoma City bombing.

Speak for yourself. If you’re doing nothing, that’s on you.

Look at Palestine Action in the UK, who have written off weapons factories. That’s doing far more to take down ‘the establishment’ than a poorly-executed suicide bombing. Look at environmentalists sabotaging coal infrastructure, or even Cop City actions. Look at the unions sabotaging the police in my own city.

What’s that got to do with anything? It’s still called a reunification even if both sides didn’t want it. There was a whole entity, it split, and if it joins back together then that’s called reunifying it.

Reunification doesn’t sound right

It’s an objective term for when states join into a single state, like the unification of Italy for example. It’s not about approval or disapproval, I’m not taking a side by calling it reunification.

Not an authoritarian, not even taking a side. I’m pointing out that unification is the term for resolving partitions to form a single state.

You can use both terms, there’s no contradiction.

Consider the US civil war. The Confederates were (rightfully) invaded and plenty of them still aren’t happy about it, the result was still the unification of the ‘northern’ and the ‘southern’ states.

Why isn’t that an appropriate term? It was part of China’s (Qing) territory from 1684 until the Japanese occupations, and is only disunified because of an unresolved civil war. Taiwan (officially the “Republic of China”) considers themself to be China. So why wouldn’t their combination be the reunification of China?

OP asked for specific examples, do you have any you think are worth emphasizing?

Anecdotally: the night Mozilla builds were a godsend when I couldn’t afford decent hardware.

I don’t know much about them, do you happen to know why the nightly builds were better? Did the new features fix a problem?

I used to have to custom compile nginx to get HTTP/3 and brotli working (significant speed benefits), but now it’s possible to get those in packages on my OS. This makes maintenance far easier or even automatic for me, which is great from a security standpoint.

and especially here

Good to know that old post is still useful. (It’s also nice to see that wolfballs, bakchodi and exploding-heads all died.)

Obviously not.

well I’d say since non-federated Lemmy is just a forum with a bunch of stuff for federation that you won’t use

It’s not the same as every other forum software, or even every other content aggregator.

with only one instance, it’s little more than a mediocre forum.

What would make it mediocre or not is the community, and pre-federation Hexbear, or even reddit itself, is proof that you don’t need federation to have an active community, it simply makes it far easier.

Federation doesn’t make the rest of the software worse.

It’s not like wanting a car to solely generate heat with the exhaust, it’s closer to using a four-wheel-drive car on regular city streets.