Thanks for this! I will contribute for sure.
Edit: I would possibly revisit rule #2 though - making the rule more general, such as "no hate speech", and specifying that proponents of any hateful ideologies should be excluded. Right now it's strangely targeted - I guess "no antisemitism" goes under rule 1, but I think rule 2 should be wide enough to also cover "no nazis".
Edit edit: As frustrated as I am by [email protected], I think I'll proceed with some hesitation.
I got banned from [email protected] at some point for raising the German response to pro-palestinian protests as a potential democratic problem. Seems European enough to me. 🙃
Governments post vital information there, they try to turn it into payment services you might depend on, personally I've lost contact with friends who are only answering on platforms I don't use. The entire business idea is to make it so that those who are not using the platforms are missing out.
I think maybe it does, but I'm a pretty normal user who just used the Murena quick installer to get /e/OS. Reading up on Magisk after some web searches I quickly realized it was more than I could bite over without spending too much time trying to figure it all out. If people insist on making apps I can't use I'll just accept that I won't be using them at this point. Their loss.
Along with a bunch of open source alternatives everywhere. But mainstream options are always run by capitalists, and they always try to find ways to punish people for not using them.
Which technology isn't at this point?
It's a question that answers itself on this platform, but nevertheless.
I live in Denmark, their state identification app does not work if it detects that the Android ROM is not straight from Google. So when I switched to /e/OS I couldn't access anything any more. So yeah, in my case the solution was ta give up on one pretty critical app.
Thankfully the solution was as easy as getting one of those old fashioned code chips, and everything else seems to be working fine (including banking apps from other countries). So now I'm rocking /e/OS and I'm pretty sure there is no way I'm ever going back to Google Android.
I imagine a very swampy tram track would attract a lot of mosquitoes to urban spaces, so chances are it wouldn't be very popular. But I like the idea.
Still, (entirely) green lawns in Europe are a result of cutting the lawn all the time. If we give it more time to grow between each time it's cut it'll grow into a colourful oasis of all kinds of flowers that are both beautiful and allow insects to thrive. It doesn't always make sense - if you want to lay down on the grass for a nap you'd rather have an even surface of grass and relatively fewer insects - but there's too many green lawns around here as well.
My family started transforming the lawn in my childhood home into a field of flowers a few years ago, and the transformation is fantastic. Every year there are new flowers popping up. When cutting the lawn it helps to leave the cuttings a couple of days or so to dry, so that the seeds have a chance to fall off and enter the soil.
The tram track in the bottom picture looks like it's doing good. A bunch clovers, and they probably won't discourage other wildflowers as/if they appear. There seems to be some white flowers there already.
Some context:
Rachel Anne Accurso (née Griffin; born November 30, 1982), better known as Ms. Rachel, is an American YouTuber, social media personality, singer, songwriter, and educator. She is best known for creating the YouTube series Songs for Littles, a children's music series focused on language development for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.
Mad respect for her standing up and fighting for what's right. Bravery is a rare trait in America these days.
on many communities and instances
Bingo!
We have no ambition of being more lenient than Reddit, it's just less centralized. If people want to be bigots they can find themselves an instance and a community for that, and other people can choose not to be exposed to their bullshit. That's the whole point.
Also, the UKSC judgment is a pseudo-scientific piece of junk. Agreeing with it is a big-ass red flag.
Well, the entire thread is still there except my deleted comment reading as follows:
So you can see in the thread that I provide sources, such as the New York Times:
To me, this seems relevant in a thread about how German youth feels that their avenues for democratic participation beyond voting are restricted. Besides, I was not banned for alleged misinformation, but for "derailing".
Even if I was wrong, which I do not believe I was, I hardly see my comment being worthy of a ban in a reasonably moderated community. Discussion, yes.