I would probably just rent an instance if I was a mod or creator and just host my community there. I think its understandable that federated admins are much more cautious due to the well known tactic of shooting a „politically foreign“ instance down for other - easier to prove and get away with - reasons.

I host my own instance and its not a huge project in itself but I would never host any community for someone else that even has the remote chance of getting me in hot water, legally. Especially because of my vocal political leaning. I‘m perfectly able to get myself into hot water.

The funny thing is that this is completely impossible. Only very few, very big or very lucky projects have decent ux and i would even ague that they are THAT much better than proprietary stuff under the hood that they are still comically bad in comparison to their technical prowess.

The reason for this - and yes you will probably disagree - is the shit legislation we have accepted over the past decades. People got addicted to overpolished shitapps with gambling mechanics and dark patterns. The way out is gonna be brutal.

So no, we wont get better ux, preriod. We pay for it or we get buttfu**ed by big tech some more. One way to ensure payment is voting as comically left as you can.

Its as if the linux hardliners were right all along. Almost as if people laughing about our cautionary tales stand there holding the bag now.

I‘m not saying „we told you so“ but…

Well hello there! Long time no see.

Yeah, lets see what happens.

We should hang out sometime. You sound pleasant! :)

You hit the nail on the head.

Now you need to be able to counter the manipulation happening every day through media, other people, etc.

A decade ago I stopped watching TV. Everyone asked me why. I said I‘m not watching commercials. Guess what I do with platforms that push ads!

We really need to talk about outlawing commercials that arent pure product information. Good looking guy gets chased by beautiful women when using *** bodyspray? Cue moron: „but its sarcasm, duh!“ no its not. Not for your subconcious. It is manipulation.

Btw I was trained by a psychologist (a guy paid by the car company, who is a licensed therapist and has a licensed practice) to manipulate people into buying cars. Not through arguments or superior manufacturing but pure tone of voice, using familiar wording, analyzing their weak points. This stuff is dark. Needless to say I dont do that job anymore. No amount of money is worth manipulating people into buying stuff they dont need.

This shit needs to go if we want to live free at some point (let alone make it through fascism and a planet on fire).

For you and all those suggesting this should not happen. Our motherboards and devices come in antistatic bags FOR A REASON!

Of course its a bad idea to plug any cables into a motherboard while it is running. You should always tun off the power, unplug the power cable and ideally hole the power button for a bit.

Reason being that the board runs on 3-12 volts with very little amps which can be easily fried by static electricity, let alone random plugged in cables that possibly arent correctly grounded yet.

Try (as suggested by others) to unplug the hdd you connected, run it again. If that doesnt help, unplug power cord, hold power button for 10 secs, plug back in, start back up. If that doesnt do it, unplug, unload and start pulling off all devices (take photos if before if you need it for remembering config) and try a minimal start.

If minimal doesnt work, try a different power supply, hoping you only broke that. If that doesnt work either you are the proud owner of a broken motherboard (or ram, or cpu).

In any case, please never put your hands on electrical devices while they are running. It is not safe or smart.

Of course we didnt learn that centralization and billionaires are cancer. Lets build another centralized shithole.

So it is untrue that a large percentage of the conservative parties worldwide are rightwing extremists? It is not true that fascism by definition shares large parts of its ideas with conservative parties? It is for example not true that a large portion of the german fascist party consists of former right wing party members?

I think we both know where this ends my friend. Your mental gymnastics are insufficient and I‘m no longer willing to provide a platform to your fascist propaganda.

We are more.

Yours, obviously. Conservatism is the political „right“ wing. Fascists are the „extreme right wing“.

Asking if a very close relative to fascism is going to do mental gymnastics to somehow normalize even more fascism is neither new nor is it controversial. Thats how it went for more than a hundred years.

Then trying to steer the discussion towards the US democrats (still right wing from an objective position) is not only unproductive, it is obvious trolling.

What I dont understand is that your other posts dont seem to fit a classic fascist troll so I suppose its either a misunderstanding, a pedantic trigger or the account was hacked.

I think A LOT of people here are women, trans, nonbinary, etc. the part of cwm pretty sure is a bit lower than everywhere else.

The important distinction in the fedi is: nobody cares what your gender is because it does not matter in the slightest.

Other important point: we already have homeservers that federate with shitholes like threads or hybrids like bluesky. Lemmy is just one way of displaying AP protocol content. From that perspective it is basically ungovernable, which is cool if you ask me. ;)

Nice shizopost.

Lets go at this one point at a time, shall we?

1. lemmy as a whole does not have permabans or ip bans. Individual servers do. It is statistically unlikely you will be permabanned from lemmy.world let alone all of lemmy. Yet you can get banned by most communities over and over if you keep spitting nonsense that disagrees with their rules.
2. bigotry and authoritarianism are never okay. It is scientific fact that fascists are wrong. No need for mental gymnastics. Diversity is healthy for any group, period.
3. the fact that you have issues with running back into abusive relationships is sad and you may profit from therapy. Reddit is not your friend.

I wish you better experiences with the internet. Have a nice day.

As depicted very well in this article:

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions

You‘re redirecting the conversation towards the dems instead of answering OPs question or engaging in any meaningful conversation.

So yes, in strong opposition to the article you are commenting on.

JAQing off much?

Nobody cares about the dems or harris or anything at this point. The fascists are the fascists, trump or not.

That would be a great solution. Another would be to put quotas of employees, customers, owners and the community (people living around a plant for example) in there. Just an idea though.

Two things can be true at once:

1. valve so far took tremendous care of the people using their product. They have outclassed afaik every other billion dollar company in the world in terms of listening to their customers and not exploiting them to hell (as others do).
2. billionaire companies are cancer. If gabe ever gives up valve (through death or whatever), we are at the mercy of a monopolist that can extract as much as they want.

My conclusion: force companies to behave like valve does now, but forever. Let them make money without exploiting people. And in case if valve: break any monopoly.

Down with shareholder value.

Correct. I‘m doing my duty. Everyone else feel free to share it.

You‘re not getting the point.

If the current trajectory continues, you will still be able to continue posting to r/pics, but only as long and you dont offend the government. As long as you arent a person deemed unfit for the country (think minorities).

We‘re all heading to full blown fascist autocracy, worldwide. And those protesting it dont give a shit if you think „leftism“ looks bad. You‘re talking about non-fascism btw. Maybe start reading about fascism in history. It always „looked good“, but its horrendous behind closed doors.

We‘re not going to accept this, are you?

Places are already being occupied. Soon people will start disrupting the economy. Economic blackout day is being planned on feb 23, here‘s some info about it: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220000520.

After that, there will ne strikes, your trash will fill up, electricity will go out. We will ruin the whole system until we can eject the fascists from our governments. If that means war, so be it.

Welcome! Good to have you here.