That there is no perfect defense. There is no protection. Being alive means being exposed; it’s the nature of life to be hazardous—it’s the stuff of living.
I’ve moved over two Lemmy two months (I got the feeling that I needed a Reddit alternative).
I still visit Reddit for more niche content, but for many things Lemmy works fine.
That being said, Lemmy is a lot smaller than Reddit. I believe Lemmy (all instances) only have 50K DAUs, while Reddit has 73 million DAUs, so a lot of things will be missing.
Thanks for the clarification, I misunderstood.
Smotrich was born in Golan Heights and never seemed to have lived in Ukraine (and I am guessing he doesn’t speak Ukrainian?).
Why would we “take him back”? :)
And what’s he going to do in Ukraine anyway?
Don’t think he has what it takes to fight the russians.
It’s one thing to demolish Gaza and another thing to fight against a strong, well equipped and deadly enemy.
take him back!
What does this even mean? I live in Ukraine.
I agree in principle with what you are saying, but this particular statement is very brutal considering this is an official statement from a senior Israeli government leader.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich implies he believes that blocking humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip is “justified and moral” even if it causes 2 million civilians to die of hunger, adding however that the international community won’t allow this to happen.
I personally avoid “taking sides” (we have our own problems in Ukraine) in what wikipedia calls the Israel–Hamas war, but this is a full on open call for genocide.
There is a very high probability that it whoever executed this was managed by the russians.
People in west really don’t understand russian mentality and how to deal with them.
There is got to be something else going behind the scenes. He must have had enough money to disappear (high in the mountains of Bolivia?) if he really wanted to.
I already mentioned that I do use Mastadon. You’re preaching to the choir.
Yes, I do.
My national background and the current situation in my country makes Twitter an important source of information (I follow local news sites as well).
I used the gaming as an example as a more neutral topic of conversation.
I see where you are coming from (even if you are being a bit glib), but the reality is such that the vast majority will go with the flow.
And trust me, my hate for Musk is way more than you can imagine. This is serious stuff.
I actually did try that twice (in a context where they would have more motivation than a typical dev/studio), no luck.
Don’t get me wrong, I do think we have to move of corporate social networking systems. I started actively using Lemmy about two months ago and I am enjoying it. However, we do have to be realistic about the state of the market.
For certain content there really is no alternative. One example would be gaming, almost no studios/developers are on Mastadon.
I do have a gaming-focused Mastadon account and I do use it, but it’s not really comparable.
I had a pretty decent self-hosted setup that was working locally. The whole project failed because I couldn’t set up a reverse proxy with nginx.
I am no pro, very far from it, but I am also somewhat Ok with linux and technical research. I just couldn’t get nginx and reverse proxies working and it wasn’t clear where to ask for help.
All the individuals you mentioned made their contributions and statements under their real names.
The Tor team largely publishes their work under their real names:
https://www.torproject.org/about/people/
They even have a board of directors:
https://blog.torproject.org/announcing-new-board-members/
Has the lead Nostro developer mentioned anything about his support for Olavo de Carvalho (the claim that “Pepsi-Cola was flavored with stem cells of aborted fetuses” is particularly wild)? I will note Stallman, Linus have provided feedback to public criticism of their statements/approaches.
The Lemmy tankie issue is definitely a major problem.
Turns out Nostr’s founder (who is a crypto-bro) is super sketchy:
https://www.businessinsider.com/jack-dorsey-fiatjaf-nostr-donation-2024-6
Interesting, will need to do some digging.
It is an excellent concept. I wish there was a more common “killer service/use case”, something like a imagehost but without all the bullshit and corporate changes (like the recent issues with imgur).
Good to hear. I am very cautious about remote access and yggdrasil seemed like the perfect solution.
I do remember IPv6 being a pain point, by provider then (2018) didn’t support it. My current ISP is planning to add IPv6 support, but still isn’t there yet. :(
While development seems to be strong, their website and documentation is also still lacking.
Why would I use a payment system that developers themselves call unreliable? Are you serious?
I am not even talking about overall usability (i.e. recipient support) and UX/UI…
And the vast majority of russians couldn’t care less.