[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago

Tells you that you can take your social media back from big tech then casually recommends Bluesky. Gimme a break.

I generally agree but I still feel it's important to keep some perspective. Bluesky is not the solution but it's definitely progress compared to existing corporate platforms (because it has real fundamental differences - several articles posted here went into detail about this).

IMO the best argument against Bluesky is that it will suck up the oxygen for other, better, solutions. That's a fair theory but it seems to me that there's plenty of market share to go round right now. Everyone is still on the evil corporate platforms.

RSS still exists and it’s still beautiful.

Agree, I use it every day.

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Article emphasizes the concept of "middleware". BlueSky inevitably gets more attention than the "Mastodon protocol" but there are some decent theoretical observations.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Je sais tout ça. Je dis simplement qu'il n'y a pas de noir et de blanc ici, de commun accord le WaPo sort encore du journalisme irréprochable (hors page d'opinion donc), il y a encore d'excellents journalistes qui y travaillent, et il n'est pas encore temps de tout jeter.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

That's interesting. I paid a bit over a grand (a lot of money, sure) for what amounts to a full-on scooter with pedals. Seemed amazingly good value to me! For information, I'm not in the USA and the e-bike comes from a certain large hegemonic Asian country.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

Article très bref ! Ça valait le coup de poster ? Alors c'est vrai que j'ai déjà été planté par cette ligne, qui a subi un glissement de terrain juste avant mon départ. J'ai dû prendre le bus.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

Oui oui d'accord, on ne peut plus se fier à quoi que ce soit, ils sont tous vendus, tout est foutu, etc etc, c'est compris

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I'll be honest, a quick review of this thread did not clearly reveal who was downvoting who for what. My position, and this other person's, is that downvoting opinions is bad manners and toxic to healthy discussion. If there was genuinely harmful advice there, then OK, downvote away.

(Obviously these days the word "harmful" is thrown around liberally so this probably just puts us back to square one.)

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Exactly my point. The virtual equivalent of taping someone's mouth shut because you happen not to agree with what they say.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Their original staff was a bunch of pretty serious journalists sourced from the BBC.

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Si on juge comme ça, il n'y a pas un seul journal français crédible. Ils appartiennent tous aux milliardaires. Sauf que, de fait, on y trouve toujours du bon journalisme car la structure de propriété n'est pas le seul critère pour juger la crédibilité.

En l'occurrence le WaPo reste très sérieux comme source.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Similar to: chough

It's a type of bird but good luck knowing how to pronounce it. Ahh, English.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

A few years ago I considered learning Greek. Abandoned the plan because Greek has the triple whammy:

  • quite a hard language, with tricky grammar and different alphabet (phonetics easy tho)
  • only spoken in one small country - not very useful (tho good for general culture - 6% of English lexicon comes from Greek)
  • the locals all speak English (coz tourism) so you'll have trouble getting a chance to progress

So: good luck.

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Geo-glossary for non-Indians:

  • Gurgaon: an upmarket satellite city near Delhi
  • Malibu Towne: a district of Gurgaon
  • NCR: National Capital Region, i.e. Delhi
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This rule is weirdly incongruous with the others, given the anodyne dictionary definition of "Zionism". Does it serve rather as a kind of ideological litmus test to exclude certain viewpoints - and indeed certain people - from this community? How is that defensible?

I'm a European who believes in tolerance. Having just noticed this egregiously discriminatory statement of values, I'm now thinking that I will not feel at home in this community.

PS: I see without surprise that this is not going to generate worthwhile debate. As a liberal (not Jewish and I generally vote green), I did see the health warning about "left-anarchism" (whatever, there's overlap). I was pretty pleased to discover this community. But I don't think I can continue contributing when there's literally a rule condoning ethnic discrimination. That's something that fascists do. It's certainly not the European spirit. Bye.

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Seems this highly relevant piece was not yet posted here.

An excellent and thorough summary. Mostly bad news but not all.

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PS: Why would people downvote this? What is wrong with you people? It's from a highly reputable source, it's super interesting and well-written, and it concerns the subject of this community.

Do you want this community to succeed, or do you just want to talk to each other - all 6 of you - in an echo chamber?? I don't get it. You're stopping this community from succeeding and wasting your own time.

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Those who cheered on the latter murder should now be examining their consciences.

The historical record is very clear: in politics, violence begets violence. This story is only beginning and it may not end well for America.

See details about the recent shootings.

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Excellent concise reporting. Well worth a read.

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