Machinist3359

Fediverse really needs onboarding pages that hides some of the wires.

Join Lemmy for example should highlight the content and UI, and a big "Join the Lemmy Fediverse" button. Click the button and it asks 3 questions and send you directly to account creation for an active instance matching your answers.

Frankly instance choice should be something people think about after they've been involved for a while, at least until we have a few multi-million active user instances to choose from

By extension, this is why I don't think defederating with Meta is an effective strategy. Like gourmet burger restaurants refusing to be on the same block as McDonalds.

Meta will get the big names as they exit Twitter, and become borderline necessary to federate with-- assuming updates from years of state, artists, activists, etc are of any interest to people considering your instance.

This is inevitable. I think the only discussion is how we have a vibrant enough community that EEE becomes less viable.

It's something we failed to do with email. I suspect the answer is approximate to far easier instance hosting, to increase the number of instances and make a federation whitelist unviable for Meta

Conveniently the abstract category of tools are hurting workers, not their bosses prioritizing cost savings over quality.

There is little useful work that AI can do without human editing and approval. These employers choose to either devalue that skill and/or pay workers less relative to their productivity.

Wait until Meta joins the microblogiverse gunning for those VIP accounts eager too leave Twitter.

AI and horribly exploited outsourced labor is basically Facebook's MO

Oof, the delay in me realizing the joke here...

If you don't mind getting your hands a little dirty with self hosting...

I recommend using ytdl-sub with jellyfin ( or plex etc).

You download the video and person locally, so no ads, but you can also use sponsorblock.

It also has useful retention options, so I have some channels archive indefinitely and others delete week old or watched videos.

The downside is no gui, so lots of reading the docs to set up properly .

Not unique, but uniquely central. Fascism cannot exist without a persecuted outgroup. In other contexts, genocide is generally a state consolidating power or resources, but not the focus of these state projects.

There is no fascism without genocide. It's an idealogical ponzi scheme which promises to an ingroup if they destroy outgroup(s).

Other forms of authoritarianism simply demand obedience, and optionally or incidentally incorporate genocidal policy to that end. But genocide is to fascism as driving is to a car, the reason for all off is components. Not a byproduct to some imagined other purpose

At this point any reddit protests need to sort focus on tarnishing the platforms reputation further. They've made it clear they won't course correct.

Top of mind, spamming the subs with content that looks bad for them to remove. The ideal would be dirt on spez (e.g comments he made on /r/jailbait), but it could even be something more reserved like a charity link or "why I'm leaving" memes.

July 1 is a good excuse to get another news cycle out of this, and warn potential investors skeptical of the future of the company.

To what end though? This is one lemmy instance, and probably the one fediverse instance facing the highest influx of traffic.

The distinction between a square and a rectangle is important, even if you don't like right angles and parallel sides. Fascism is a flavor of authoritarianism which is uniquely worse and focused on genocide.