I think they mean in the sense that it’s not a native desktop app (or mobile)

Considering the reasons for shutting down, specifically that it took too many resources to keep out bad actors and keep the site as safe as possible, I don’t think making it open source is a good idea.

If you go to very leftist areas of the internet (socialist or communist areas, anywhere from anarchistic (bottom left) to authoritarian (top left)) you’ll see people using liberalism by its political science definition, rather than the definition its taken on within American culture. It stems from the idea of capital moving freely (that is, liberally) without restrictions. You’ll also see it referred to as neoliberalism in the same spaces.

Full disclosure, I myself am pretty extremely socially libertarian (arguably borderline anarchistic), and have used liberal derogatively myself.

The bit about “no” not meaning “no” means they’re specifically implying meta employees can be sexually assaulted even if they say no. I’m sure it’s said in jest, but it’s still a fairly offensive comment.

I’m not ready to really degoogle my phone, but wow next DNS has a lot of cool features! Thanks for the recommendation

I haven’t gotten into vrchat personally, but I love that it’s become well known as a good safe place for people to explore their gender identities

I’m not sure I agree with the take that blahaj.zone has a facism problem. They’re explicitly anti-tankie and anti-nazi, which are the authoritarian end of the political spectrum. It’s a very left leaning space, and I think anyone in the lower left quadrant, e.g. libertarianism to anarchism and socialism to communism, would be well received.

I’m not sure why you would need accounts on all those different platforms. Isn’t the whole point of posse that you just post it once and then anyone, regardless of platform, can see it? That’s what already happens (with the caveat that some, like lemmy, won’t show you certain types of posts, like notes).

And people following you on one platform but not another sounds like more of a desire for multiple identities, each one a fragment of your actual identity. That’s another concept, that stuff like socialhub try to implement.

I’m not sure I understand how this isn’t already possible. Create an account on some federated platform, such as your own self hosted one, and people from any federated platform can now follow you. Isn’t that already POSSE?

I mean hey, by all means if you think a community is too hive mind-y or echo chamber-y then by all means don’t join. That’s the beauty of small highly customized communities - it can be moderated in a way all the members agree with, and anyone who doesn’t like it can find or found a different one.

I don’t know what exactly you’re imagining such a community would disallow, but I feel like whatever it is, I’d agree with it being disallowed. Disagreeing with someone is typically fine in most communities I’ve seen, it’s just hate speech or any -ism or -phobes that aren’t. And that’s fine.

I totally agree. I’m optimistic about technology once we escape capitalism. Under socialism automation and technology make everyone’s lives easier. e.g. the classic example of a technology that allows workers to be 2x more productive would mean the workers all keep their jobs and pay, but work half as much under socialism, but under capitalism half lose their job and the rest work just as much for the same pay.

That said, things like sustainability, social responsibility, and the other pieces of the “demoralization campaign” should absolutely be considered. They’re important.

pixelfed seems to be getting some really nice improvements at an incredible rate. Props to those devs!

If you picture the political compass, where the y axis is how how democratic the society is(where the top is tyranny and the bottom is anarchy) and the x axis is how socialized it is (where the left is communism and the right is capitalism), OP claimed that ancap (the bottom right quadrant) doesn’t exist, and that those who claim to be ancap tend to be authoritarian right instead. You argued that democracy could exist in a socialist (leftist) society. You are not disagreeing with OP, because what you described is not a capitalist (right leaning) society.

I probably should’ve clarified its the last few that I felt were relevant to this post. I understand it sucks when you feel like anything you say may get you banned due to someone else’s interpretations, but in practice I don’t think it really becomes an issue.

Perhaps be a bit more careful when first joining a community as you learn how the community tends to act and behave, and where the lines tend to be drawn, but then after that you should have a general sense of what’s allowed, and if you do go over the line the mods are much more likely to just give a warning instead of a ban if you’re a regular.

A ttrpg called .dungeon got a remaster recently and I keep coming back to one of the screenshots on the store page, because I’m such a big fan of the rules for community moderation it enumerated:

I wonder how memes about WinRAR still get made. Besides everyone mentioning 7zip is better in every thread, windows explorer has been able to unzip things for ages now. Who is still using WinRAR?

That’s a pretty glowing review! Particularly liked the part about tscn format being git compatible. Easily one of my biggest frustrations with unity was merging scenes

I think this article makes reasonable sense. Also that quote from Spez is so disheartening. Glad I’m not on reddit anymore

I was looking into hosting a threadiverse app previously and was interested in kbin because lemmy was dealing with the csam stuff at the time and I liked the idea of combining microblogging into the threadiverse app. My overall takeaway from kbin though was that it was too new / missing too many features I needed, and development was slow enough that it felt like I’d have to implement all I need myself. So a community fork of an already not super active repo sounds… Well, I’m not optimistic about it, at least.

Not new, but we are still defederated from world so I can’t subscribe