Pamasich

I don’t agree on that claim, no.

The modern left-right discourse is just so confusing to me.

I’ve seen authoritarians, supporters of war crimes, and support for terrorism and cruelty, all claimed as leftist positions. I can’t reconcile them with what I thought left-wing values were about.

I really think we need something with more dimensions to be popularized. The left-right system is just so loaded at this point. I personally can’t identify with either side at all.

You’re wrong, Hamas are in fact “the good guys” in this conflict.

Let’s agree to disagree there then. I wasn’t planning to convince you after all.

What I think they meant was that people here only think about the genocide and thus declare the perpetrators evil (which they are) and the victims the good guys (hamas are not).

One side’s atrocities don’t justify the other side’s. Excusing your own group’s actions because they’re the good guys is far right thinking.

In reality there’s more factors to this than just the genocide, and both hamas and israel are the bad guys in their own way. One is just worse than the other, but that doesn’t make the other good.

I recommend using Lemmy Federate.

It’s a tool that tries to subscribe to your community with a puppet account on various instances. This allows your community to reach those instances and for your posts to appear there.

I mean, ChatGPT can do it. I just tested it. And if you run your own AI, you can probably remove most such rules anyway.

Nowadays people use OpenClaw agents which don’t really involve human input beyond the initial “fix this bug” prompt. They independently write the code, submit the PR, argue in the comments, and might even write a hit piece on you for refusing to merge their code.

Mbin let’s you do that. Well, it lets you create microblog posts which aren’t scoped to a specific community. Not ones only visible on your profile.

The big issue there is that at that point, whether it’s a Piefed/Lemmy implementation or Mbin’s, you’re having to deal with Mastodon’s main federation problem. Which is that your post only goes out to your personal followers, otherwise it stays on your local instance. Which means you need an existing personal following if you want it to federate anywhere. The threadiverse usually has the luxury of having relays in the form of communities, but with self posts, you don’t have access to that luxury.

I think making a personal community, throwing it at lemmy-federate, and then posting it there really works best in this case. Lemmy-federate uses actors on various instances to subscribe to your community to ensure the posts get federated there.

It isn’t currently treated as an upvote by Lemmy, yeah. But Mbin does count boosts to the score of a post when ranking them.

My point I was trying to make was more that I think Mbin tried to address the issue you’re pointing out there. Boosts actually even used to be swapped with likes in the early days of /kbin, and upvotes are still called “favorites” even today. Boosts are also not in any way displayed as retweets on Mbin itself, so I doubt they were intended to be used that way by users. But yeah you’re right on the actual implementation of how they’re federated.

When it comes to actually using them, I do stick to favorites for content I like and boost for promoting stuff I think should be seen by more people, but in most cases I ‘like’ what I want to promote (so I end up using both), and in the rare case where I don’t, I don’t really care that Lemmy isn’t counting my one upvote. I don’t upvote/boost my own content either despite knowing that Lemmy expects a self upvote.

Isn’t that why Mbin has boosting? To separate liking from increasing visibility?

At least that’s how I’ve been using them. Upvote to like, boost to boost.

There have been some users reporting they get ads despite being Premium users, especially in regards to Youtube’s efforts to bypass adblockers (even if they weren’t using one). I always assumed that’s because their measures were misidentifying the lack of ads as using an ad blocker, even if that lack was due to using premium.

Just wanted to give an actual explanation. I’m not qualified to actually confirm or deny whether those user reports were factual or made up. But people usually consider them factual because of herd mentality.

Not just the premium part, but also it affecting descriptions makes me think this is some kind of bug. At least partially. There’s not really any point to disabling descriptions specifically, most people don’t read them anyway.

“there’s currently no way around it” “The issue goes away with a refresh”

The way I understand it, the issue only resolves if you refresh while on the video you want to watch. Navigating to another video would unfix it again. So it’s not really a real fix the way most people expect a fix to look like. They want something they can apply and then they don’t have to deal with the problem anymore. Which, based on this article, only disabling your adblocker achieves.

For people who only go off headlines and comments and don’t read the article, here’s the important bits:

• This only affects some users, not everyone
• The issue is that comment sections are disabled and video descriptions claim to be empty
• The issue goes away with a refresh, you don’t need to turn off the adblocker, though you’ll have to refresh every video
• It affects all videos
• The link to adblockers is due to everyone who is reporting the issue being a user of an adblocker, and turning it off fixing the issue permanently until it’s turned on again
• There’s no specific browser or adblocker mentioned in the article
• It affects Premium users too

edit: added “the article” after “don’t read” to clarify

it’s very unlikely we’re going to have two of them any time soon.

Sadly there is Grokipedia which is a second Wikipedia but worse (because it’s all just far right AI written)

Don’t think so. I mean there is the web client which does give a default instance, but it requires an invite code.

There’s Shoot.

So I’m currently at work, where we use Fortinet, which is blocking your website for “Phishing”.

Before that, your website made my browser ring the alarm with the error “net::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID”.

You might want to look into those two.

Can all of our Discord contacts see all the Communities we joined?

I can only see mutual servers (ones both of us are in) for other users.

I am a registered voter, so I give my name and vote.

How do you protect against impersonation like that?

Like, what prevents someone else from claiming to be you? If all you need is a name?

(not an american btw)

Is there a reason the room icons have to be humongous, at least in the web version on PC?

Other than that, looks great.