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Good ol' Revkas. No, wait, PEBKAC.

"I'm doing the no poop challenge until Luigi is free!"

Jokes aside... it depends on how you define left/right. Political behaviour and ideology aren't just a simple axis, not even two; they're multidimensional. And, for me, if I'm forced to analyse it 1D, it's all about how you distribute power: the left wants to spread it as much as reasonably possible, the right wants to concentrate it.

So, for me, the most left-wing thing someone could say is simply "nobody should have more power over another than the other has over them". Or something like this. Note how this encompasses rather well both anarchism and Marxism.

I'm glad I managed to do some change! ...beyond, you know, pissing feddit.org off with my wiggly green line 🤣

(It'll haunt their dreams until Canvas 2026.)

I hope I'm wrong, but I'm worried the next wave might make Lemmy even worse than Reddit in this aspect.

Lemmy encourages politicisation. It's generally a good thing, but politics raise the stakes of everything, so being political and irrational is way worse than being unengaged and irrational.

What would happen if you get an influx of people from a platform that actively encourages irrationality, landing into one where a huge amount of people are politicised? A: newcomers who were "eating crayons" in Reddit are given a box with 48 huge crayons, and competing to see which one eats them the fastest.

I genuinely hate karma, I think it encourages mindlessly posting common denominator stuff, but I wouldn't be opposed to that if handled like Slashdot handles it - it doesn't give you a karma number, it only tells you your karma is "good" or "bad".

Lemmy was only ever going to work as a tiny forum board - it simply refuses to grow.

I feel like part of that is scope: Lemmy as a software is trying too hard to be "federated Reddit", filling the exact same niche as Reddit, to the point advertising Lemmy means "to make it appealing for Reddit users". And, in the process, losing access to potential new userbases.

Think on it this way: most of what we do here is to discuss things. Like in Reddit and in forums, but also in comment sections of random sites. Why isn't Lemmy trying to capitalise on that, and eat a chunk of Disqus' pie too? Fuck, we could have Lemmy built into the discussion sections for random wikis out there. (And if not Lemmy, at least some ActivityPub software that integrates really well with Lemmy.) It would be an amazing way to bring in new fresh blood without it being necessarily from that shithole, or social media platforms in general.

Ah :-/ I wish I saw it, just for the laughs!

If I didn't suck so bad at recruiting people for my anti-flags faction, perhaps we would see less of them.

Fanfic = fiction written by fans of a certain work (series, book, etc.) Sometimes deviating from the original story, sometimes adding stuff or fixing plot holes, sometimes pairing characters into a romantic relationship...

Lemon = smut, sexually explicit fanfic.

In this case it's being called "fanfic" metaphorically, as if both people in the chat were characters of some work.

I remember them mentioning some technical problem, right at the start. I kind of used the opportunity to write the "fuck flags // fuck nations // we're in a single Earth" text, right where they'd make the union jack. Then I saw people actually making a background for it and thought "yeah, no huge Australian flag this time".

I'd like to thank you for hosting the event, plus everyone who helped me out with a few pieces of art! Also, the furries for being great neighbours! And the Enterprise folks, for letting me build booze on their starship!

Mwahahahahaha! Bring it on!

(It wasn't just the green wiggle - I actually managed to shave two lines off the flag, top and bottom. Plus some pixels from the sides, but those got undone really fast by Hörnchen and Comput3. My goal was to leave only the text with some border.)

You should've seen the chat. Hestia was almost writing a lemon fanfic about other two users, it was hilarious.

Ategon showed interest in the chat on making the notification chime configurable. So you could for example have it chiming when it's full, or for any number of pixels.