I can understand people staying on Reddit more than those staying on Twitter to be honest.

At least spez hasn’t gone full nazi yet, or provided tools for generating pedophilia.

Both of which people seem to be perfectly fine with. So it doesn’t surprise me they’re fine with Reddit too.

The US already has huge issues with understanding what you’re voting for. Why would you simplify it even further? You need to do the opposite if you want a healthy democracy. Make sure people are properly informed about what they’re voting for.

Mine is nothing special. It’s Architect of Ruin from Shotgun King. You get it for doing some minor progress in the new-ish (not really anymore, but it used to be new) Charnier mode, nothing challenging at all, but I assume the reason only 0.6% of players have it is because everyone moved on from the game before that content dropped.

The fediverse doesn’t like that kind of approach from devs. Both Piefed and Tesseract got criticized heavily over doing stuff like that.

Check out NodeBB, which is also part of the threadiverse.

To me personally, “woke” means living in the real world.

A lot of people nowadays reject reality and prefer to live in a world of falsehood. They desire a simpler world, so they refuse to acknowledge the complexities of the world.

Woke people don’t do that. They engage with reality, not fiction. Which is what makes them a danger to those that do prefer to escape to a simpler fictional world. Hence them denying and opposing woke. It’s a defensive reaction to a perceived threat to their alternate worldview.
Or at least that’s how I see it.

One reason I haven’t seen mentioned yet is practicability.

Yes, people have the tools. But how do you get that tool to where you need it?

In the US I believe you can just carry weapons for whatever reason you want. That’s not quite the case in Switzerland. If you’ve got a gun for military service, for example, you’re only allowed to carry it from and to military service or the shooting range. You can’t just go to a school with it. Same applies to other purposes. You can only carry a gun for the specific purpose you have your permit for. You can’t just take it to a school or mall.

Plus, the people who have guns at home usually only have the guns, no ammo, iirc.

Expat is the term used by immigrants who think they’re better than the bad immigrants because they come from the good countries. At least that’s how it is in my country. Usually they’re the worse kind of immigrants because they refuse to integrate.

Is there a way to transfer posts etc from one account to another?

Pretty sure there isn’t.

I made a Pieface account, but I can’t see the comments and posts from my Lemmy account. What’s up with that?

Lemmy and Piefed work a lot like email. Your posts are sent to a list of recipients, and only the receiving servers are aware of them. On Lemmy/Piefed, that list of recipients includes: the community you’re posting in, the user you’re replying to, any users you mention in the post, and users that follow you. Any server with a user on that list will get your post, any server that isn’t featured on that list will not. Communities will then fan out posts they receive to all their subscribers, allowing them to reach a greater audience.

If you posted to an obscure community, then that explains why your post isn’t visible on Piefed. If you registered on a smaller Piefed instance, that could also explain why they might not have received your post. Less users means that, even if the community is large, it’s less likely for someone to be subscribed to it.

It’s also possible that the Piefed instance has blocked your Lemmy instance. Or, if you just made your posts, that it’s just taking a while for the two servers to communicate.

Interesting, seems like lemvotes doesn’t show downvotes for Mbin users. Only upvotes.

I use IsThereAnyDeal. Don’t really care about the source, as long as they’re listed on ITAD, have a 70% or higher discount, and the purchase can be activated on Steam (or it’s GOG). I trust ITAD to not list fraudulent sources.

Would it be dystopian if we don’t even own our right to live anymore?

I’d disagree we have a right to live in the first place. If it was a right, we could refuse it. But that’s actually illegal.

What we have is an obligation to live, not a right. And so we’re already not in control in the first place.

but would Codeberg’s policies allow doing such thing ?

In its terms of use, Codeberg explicitly outlines under what license terms it provides code hosted on it:

• the right to use the content for any purpose, including both commercial and non-commercial purposes
• the right to make unlimited copies of the content and redistribute those copies to others, with or without charge
• the right to examine the content and determine how it works and/or how it was made
• the right to make their own modifications to the content, to use the content with those modifications privately
• and the right to redistribute copies of the content which include their own modifications, with or without charge

You are not allowed to upload code which you do not have permission to publish under these terms. Which means you can’t just arbitrarily relicense code you got from Github, and you also can’t upload Github projects with a more restrictive license, such as non-commercial ones.

How do you know?

I’ve seen more than enough bots here, and we know that only the tip of the iceberg is actually visible with things like this. Bots nowadays can pretend to be humans scarily well.

I know someone who has gotten temp banned from 4chan for their speech repeatedly, so it doesn’t seem to fit what OP is asking for imo.

But that would hurt fossil fuel companies, so we can’t do that. (/jk)

There is flohmarkt.

Question: I don’t have a camera, how am I supposed to complete this captcha without cheating?

I believe that the mod team’s action in publicizing the private mod mail is incredibly wrong. Private communications need to stay private unless mutual consent is given to make it public.

That said, I also think the arguments given in the report are bullshit.

Ultimately fuck both sides here imo. The mods and the user that filed the report.

Also this is the mods organizing a witch hunt… the original post wasn’t, but the one they made was.

We’re seeing the consequences of your approach today

We’re not, because countries don’t have competent people in charge. Except maybe New York, I’m not too familiar with the guy’s work, not being from the US myself and all, but I’ve only seen positive news in the right direction about him.

Just to clarify here, I interpreted your question philosophically, not related to a specific real world situation. So I answered with an ideal scenario. A “if x were to be the case then y” scenario. X isn’t the case, so y doesn’t apply. But y would apply in a world where x is the case.

My approach in fact has not come to pass, so we’re not seeing the consequences of it. We’re in need of a lot of politicial legwork to weaken the power of money first before billionaires can become a net benefit.

That said, some countries like mine do apply wealth taxes to the rich, and my (non-US) state had actually redistributed their surplus in tax income (almost certainly due to wealth tax, as the rich love this state for its low taxes iirc) to the people last year, by lowering the cost of healthcare this year iirc. So i think we are seeing some of what I’m talking about selectively. Though I do agree that selective cases aren’t nearly enough, and that the current situation doesn’t result in a net positive for having billionaires.

The world isn’t run in the interest of the general public, but by unscrupulous billionaires who don’t give the general public a second thought.

Yeah and that’s because the world isn’t run by competent people but by corrupt bastards who only care about money and getting reelected.

Also I think this is a very US centric opinion. I agree that my scenario doesn’t currently properly apply to any country I’m aware of, but money has vastly different power in different parts of the world. “The world” is a big term, and I really don’t think it applies globally. Money doesn’t buy you everything everywhere. Otherwise the US wouldn’t have been the only country (that mattered) to oppose the OECD deal. I know my country ended up implementing almost all of it, except for the part that would have had to be implemented by everyone to be effective. I assume at least a few others did as well. I doubt the money was in favor of implementing it, yet it still happened.

Therefore, one can only conclude that your idea of some “Führer” who act justly leads to disaster.

I think you’re kind of putting words in my mouth there. I know the specific term here is meant to be a form of figure of speech, not something I said, but I’m clearly not talking about having a benevolent dictator in charge. In fact, while I didn’t bring it up here, I do believe that having a single guy at the top of any branch of government is inherently problematic. Imo more countries should use the Swiss approach of having a council of equals from multiple parties as the head of state, not a single president or prime minister. it’s the only way to properly represent the people even at the highest level.

I might have to clarify here: To me, a politician’s job in a representative democracy is to represent their constituents and act in their interest. Not pocket money and act as a puppet to the highest payer. That’s how I differentiate between a competent and an incompetent politician. Hence the better the system enforces this, the better it is imo. As a little background for my opinion above on having more than one person in charge.

What you might have in mind may be a technocracy

No, what I have in mind is representative democracy with competent representatives. Simple as that. Not technocracies or other alternative forms of government.