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Cake day: April 1st, 2022

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  • They’re anti-oligarch and anti-billionaire. Ask them about the fall of the USSR and its consequences if you don’t believe it. They’ll tell you how the Russian billionaires looted the place and sold the children into literal prostitution. All the gains of the USSR went to waste.

    Any support some of them have for the capitalist RF is ‘critical support’ based on their theory of multi-polarity, not support for their capitalism nor their billionaire garbage running the show.


  • Good question. It’s especially a tough one in the real world, where the people who have the power to censor are typically the ones who shouldn’t have it.

    I personally don’t think there are any hard-and-fast definitions of what should be censored and what shouldn’t. It depends heavily on content and context. There’s a big difference between, hypothetically, a historian discussing Nazi ideology in a research paper, and between a politician discussing it in the presidential debate. One of those has legitimate value to society, the other is anti-social, politically delusional and harmful to citizens. Same with some forms of climate denialism - there is a valid point in permitting counterviews to consensus in the scientific method, but there is also a point where mass media is outright lying for the sake of self-enrichment at the expense of the entire planet’s population.

    who should be the one deciding

    One aspect of this is that communities often decide, to some degree, what is acceptable to say through social mores. This obviously isn’t foolproof and can be manipulated, but tends to be better than having just one person at the head of a network deciding.

    It is a tough question, because everyone has biases. You shouldn’t have any one person or group in control of this.

    That all said, my comment was meant more meant as a critique of the environment, where the owning class (that is, the ruling class) own and control the vast majority of the mass media and social media platforms. The worldview I’ve seen around which suggests their speech is comparable to the speech of you and me is naive. That’s a big part of why nonsense is now common sense, because the ruling class and their propaganda can pervade society despite so much of it being either illogical misinformation or outright bullshit.


  • Worldwide, people envy you. The poorest inhabitant of the USA has rights, possibilities and duties that only the richest in any other country can only dream of.

    It’s one thing to exaggerate or to fall for propaganda, but this is a ridiculous statement.

    • The richest of many, many countries have more rights and possibilities than 90+% of the USA.
    • A whole percent of the USA is incarcerated, and according to their constitution, legal slaves, many performing labor in for-profit prisons.
    • According to the UN HRC 2018 report, “5.3 million live in Third World conditions of absolute poverty”. In two of the visited states, “a high proportion of the population is not served by public sewerage and water supply services”.

    This is not a country which has had mainland wars in the last century. This is the country creating those asylum seekers on rafts through their imperial wars.







  • I guess my experience with open social media is that there are far too many radlibs who insert themselves into communist discussion spaces.

    I wonder if the easy win for this situation is to redirect any radlibs to designated communism101 communities with learning resources to avoid them derailing discussion among communists. That way, they’re not simply rejected and banned (that is, alienated and possibly offended) for their arrogance, they have an opportunity to learn without the community either getting annoyed or wasting time in arguments.


  • because the techniques, practices, assets, learning material and so on should circulate and the format of social bookmarking platforms like lemmy is good for that.

    I’d have to disagree, these sites aren’t really designed for archiving such knowledge for easy access. Wikis and libraries, for example, are more suited to purpose, although they’re less social and less about discussion. Even other types of messageboards, like traditional internet forums are alright. But on here, older conversations tend to leave the front pages and become near undiscoverable within days or weeks. reddit and the like are designed to for news and novelty more than real information sharing.



  • I’ve used a lot of different forum types and it’s sometimes impressive how much of a systematic difference some decisions can make. By not putting your scoreboard on your profile, simply just not adding a couple of numbers to the page, ‘karma’ just isn’t on my mind and there’s no incentive to farm it.

    It’s degamifying, and it’s a good thing.


  • Joined about a year or two before the reddit API fiasco.

    • I really don’t like ads+tracking and didn’t want my posts supporting a company like reddit
    • I’m an advocate of FOSS
    • reddit has inherent pressures to censor content based on mass media pressure and profit, and to permit anti-social far right trolls
    • reddit punishes proxy users, where many instances here allow me to protect myself while posting here
    • didn’t like the new reddit layout - even before I came here, I was lurking for a year or two on alternate frontends
    • I believed federation was a good strategy at building a better reddit alternative

    But also, it actually had some communities at the time. If it were more dead, or unfederated, I’m not sure if I would have put as much effort in building communities.





  • I completely agree. It’s tiring to ask a question and then have some low-effort absurd answer every time.

    any advice on washing my cat without her scratching me?

    is it two metres long and has orange and black stripes and are you in a jungle? try a tranq dart first

    park it on the driveway and get a hose. oh wait u said ‘cat’ not ‘car’ #oops!!

    ez bro just dress in a SWAT bomb defusal outfit. works every time.

    yeah jeez thanks. It’s worse than no replies.