dessalines

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago

I'll let you read the thing first.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago (7 children)

Its not illegal to disproportionately imprison black people for minor drug offenses in the USA, just like slavery was and remains very legal there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

Use torrents, lemmy is not meant to be a file sharing service. We can't afford the hosting costs for video and music.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 19 hours ago (5 children)

This is a good article on why pacifism has not helped us overturn injustice historically, and won't in the future.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 19 hours ago

Is China Imperialist?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Its more that you have internalized an pessimistic imperialist talking-point: your own country is run by sociopaths, and they tell you that every other country is too (whether they justify it being the natural order of things, realpolitik, or anything else. You should be even more skeptical when US leaders point at all their enemies and call them psychopaths, considering how many innocent people the US has and continues to murder. Essentially this meme:

In reality there are very few countries that exploit others, most want to work together politically and economically to better the lives of their people. Even the poorer capitalist countries, which are the majority, often have earnest leaders who are trying their best to escape the low-wage trap the imperialist countries have forced on them.

Here's an excellent comment by @davel on this.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah colonizers are bad, but do you know who's worse? The people fighting back. /s

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

I banned that one now too.

Some common threads I'm seeing with these troll accounts:

  • lemmings.world
  • new account
  • claim to be or know the creators
  • make claims about the insecurity of an open source app
  • blame china in some way
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (4 children)

So you trust what the ppl bombing arabs have to say, over the arab countries themselves? Why?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

They say that every time, and people are fooled each new election. The US system is not a democracy, but it's really good at convincing it's citizens that they live in one.

 
 
 
 
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We all know how awful most modern websites are in terms of bloat, javascript and tracking. Not only that, but designing and maintaining web-browsers has become such a gigantic undertaking (almost the size of an operating system), that only a few companies have the resources to do it (google and mozilla, and mozilla might not hold on for much longer).

These alternative protocols offer a minimal set of features, and are trying to get back to what the web should've been: static content with images, text, and links, with local applications filling the void for anything more complicated than that.

Lets say I wanted a privacy-friendly way to view a page on a news site. I could:

  • Copy the URL of the page
  • Open some tool, (or website, anything), paste that url.
  • It converts the content in the url to the necessary privacy-friendly alternative format, and I can view it with my gopher/gemini browser (or even maybe a markdown viewer).

I know there are a few html -> markdown converters that can do the last step.

Does anyone know if this would work?

 

Here is an update that explains what we have been working on recently (apologies for not having these for a few months, summer vacations and all that). This should allow average users to keep up with development, without reading Github comments or knowing how to program.

@privacyguard added Single-Sign-On (SSO) support to lemmy (this still needs some UI work and testing, but the bulk of the work is done). Special thanks to Privacy Portal for working on this!

@carlos-cabello added a way to filter posts by title only (and not body) when searching.

@Freakazoid182 added custom emoji and tagline views.

@nothing4u made our scheduled cleanup job delete denied users.

@sunaurus made a few image proxy fixes.

@sleepless has been working hard on lemmy-ui-leptos, which may eventually replace lemmy-ui. He made improvements to how posts are displayed; made SI formatting consistent with how the current UI handles it; added translations; added post content actions, creator, and community listings; and made some plugins for markdown-it.

@nutomic cleaned up the issue tracker by closing invalid issues and adding tags like good first issue. He also made some simple improvements, like adding a category to RSS feeds, fixing an issue with activitypub ids, and removing the enable_nsfw setting in favor of content_warning.

@dessalines integrated a new rust clearurls library into lemmy that will remove tracking params for any post or comment text (Much thanks to @jendrikw for creating this library), increased the bio max length from 300 to 1000, removes lemmy's reliance on openssl, made the list logins response more uniform, added the ability to restore content on an unban, added a default comment sort type for both the local site, and your user.

Support development

@dessalines and @nutomic are working full-time on Lemmy to integrate community contributions, fix bugs, optimize performance and much more. This work is funded exclusively through donations.

If you like using Lemmy, and want to make sure that we will always be available to work full time building it, consider donating to support its development. Recurring donations are ideal because they allow for long-term planning. But also one-time donations of any amount help us.

 
 
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