Note that for most old-school forums, 40K MAU is absolutely top of the pile in activity. The only reason people expect these MAU on lemmy is just because reddit has it. And don't forget that moar users, moar problems.
I don't think we can hold it against people to not have hot takes on literally everything Trump does.
/disengage
So you think Ukraine ought not defend themselves
If this is the best retort you can come up with I think you're just looking for arguments and I'm not in the mood to enable you.
I wouldn't call me upset but that is just semantics. I'm just calling out PTBs.
It makes it easier to do what needs to be done.
The effects of your dehumanizing behaviour are leaking...
The fact that the room demands fucking dehumanization is the problem. Nothing good ever comes from dehumanization.
Anarchist/Environmentalists get debanked: I sleep.
Epstein-club child-rapist billionaires get the slightest inconvenience: Real Shit.
I feel it's changing positively, as instance admins and our tool-sets mature, and more and more people are becoming permanent residents as they're either permabanned on reddit (so they have no alternative) or they recognize the value of a system that is not and cannot be controlled by a corporate entity and they US billionaire interests behind it.
However I'm also concerned that our yet small size has protected us from truly existential issues like dedicated spam and propaganda orgs, especially those who would utilize GenAI to be more covert. I've already published tools like the fediseer to help prepare for this, but I really hope to see more people per-emptively getting ready for this. I see way too many doe-eyed admins firing up instances without a care in the world, open registration, no captchas, no botnet protections etc and they either burn out and close shop after a few months of firefighting, or get defederated, or they have to re-learn a painful lesson the rest of us did.
This does give me an idea, we do need a more holistic "So you want to open a threadiverse instance" guide to give such pointers to new admins and way to get support from others. Hmmm....
Do you understand that showing empathy for wasted lives, is not sympathizing with the cause of those lives?
There's a lot of tankies on other instances as well. As you said, they jump to be able to agitate with other. Doesn't mean that we're "influenced" any more than most. Quokka is part of the FAF for crying out loud and they're as anti-tankie (from the left) as it gets. I think y'all are just having cognitive bias by noticing only the times that tankies write, but not all the time we have anarchist perspectives. Literally some of our top posts are anti-authcom.
Honestly, most of this is driven by a few haters, who are salty we don't ban every tankie on sight and a few haters who are salty we're principled against Zionism and try to divide us from the rest of the threadiverse as a result.
Mate, every time you mention our instance and our comms you're just shitting on it...Hobbyless behaviour...
The video I linked for reference
I guess I was "sympathizing with invaders" because I said "Such an absolute waste of life, just for the vanity of one man."
Just patently ridiculous moderation...
Cross-posted from "Is this true for you?" by @LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone in !autism@lemmy.world
Cross-posted from "Fair point" by @LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone in !autism@lemmy.world
Hello again peeps, I come back to you with more exciting news. After last months vote passed to accept quokk.au as a member of the FAF, the vote on their end only just marginally failed for a 1-vote tiebreaker. The primary reservation people expressed back then was not wanting to follow the FAF defederations/bans as many people chose quokk.au explicitly due to their defederation list, particularly of Marxist-Leninist-friendly instances like hexbear.
Given however that there was willingness from admins on both sides to collaborate and provide mutual aid to each other due to our shared values, we went back to the drawing board to find a compromise. The main issue was that we wanted a way where we didn't want to sacrifice the tight integration of the FAF proper, but there is also an option "softer" version of the flotilla integration, which is less technical and more political.
So we came down to having two different tiers of membership in the flotilla
Consorts: These are the fully integrated members of the FAF. For all accounts and purposes, they count as a single instance, as they follow the same rules, bans and federations and their members get voting rights on all proposals. I.e. the original vision I proposed.
Companions: These are the more politically-only aligned instances.
Naturally a Companion instance can at any time become a Consort by simply on-boarding existing FAF defeds & bans and therefore immediately get future voting rights for those as well.
After we reached internal consensus on these two tiers, we then re-approached @Quokka@quokk.au to see if that would cover their reservations and we're today happy to announce that they've officially joined the FAF.
On a personal note: It's been always my passion to grow a system that is not only technically robust, but also politically as well, and the only way we can achieve this is by reinforcing the mutual aid ties between aligned actors, while providing enough independence for self-expression. This is yet another step in that direction and I hope it can lead to more versatile fediverse structures like feeler networks and whatnot.
Cross-posted from "MAGA getting rekt as antifa super-soldiers use next-generation tech to chase O'Keefe and his fascists out of Minnesota. This will spread to every major city as soon as the weather warms up." by @xijinpingist@hexbear.net in !technology@hexbear.net
Throwing ICE bottles, that's brilliant! Hey, fascist! Catch!
Cross-posted from "What's it like for you?" by @LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone in !autism@lemmy.world
Unfortunately the golden zone is golden for a reason, it's very attractive and therefore doesn't remain in that range for long. It's a tipping point