Goth, Dj, anarchist, artist
The post bots are a new thing of the last few months. Look at the mod on almost all those communities. Came in and set up shop a while back. To take advantage of the low activity.
I don’t have anything against post bots explicitly or modding multiple communities. I have two. However there should be limits
I think there may only be tens of us using the piefed.world interface. It very much is an afterthought. Even the official Mastodon account linked to it hasn’t posted in a couple years lol. I have a piefed.social account as well. Though honestly I’m considering trying to spin up my own small personal instance.
This is less about “democracy”. But more about the state building systems to undermine democracy and concentrate power.
It’s a sad state for sure that at the national level, the only thing third parties are good for is losing. But it’s just a fact of the systems that have been built. Ranked choice is a good thing regardless. But we really need to do away with or heavily reign in any office at the level of an entire state or higher. State governor, or federal Senate. Even the federal house honestly. And they’re should be no presidents to flirt with this unitary executive fascist bullshit. If we are to elect for offices, we need them to stay connected and answerable.
It’s a play on nationalist conservatives. Many of them would deny being fascist like the Nazis. Despite the clear similarities. But they have embraced nationalism.
Fair enough 🙃
You’re right to shudder. The US and Canada did it to my family. Which at times included mass graves. But even without those it is still terrible. Yet you will see many hypocritically criticizing the west for this. While denying what China has stated as official law and policy. It’s wrong no matter who does it.
It would be like magats in the US demanding everyone speak English, providing no accommodation for other languages. As well as adopting “white culture” whatever that is. Which they technically are, despite it being nonsense. Of white supremacy is wrong, so it’s Han supremacy.
Honestly I comment mostly from voyager and post mostly from piefed. I hadn’t really noticed that. But I guess that can be chalked up to posting much less. I will have to pay attention more next time I do.
This. I have installed wled via espressifs ide and tools. It’s doable. A lot more work.
I’m all for the isolation and such. It absolutely shouldn’t be avalible to just any website. But comparatively it’s way easier.
I have to keep a version of Chrome around because Firefox refuses to support or won’t support web USB. But other than that my daily driver is Zen. Firefox based. And I wouldn’t trade it.
It’s still worth repeating to inoculate ourselves against it. I hope you’re right. However the proof will be in the pudding as the saying goes. And there’s still plenty to worry about. I see a lot of neo liberal and neo con consultancy types screening Doom and Gloom about anything even remotely DSA adjacent. They’re still going to try. So we still need to be ready
This made me think of Mitch Hedbergs escalator joke.
“I like the escalator, man, 'cause the escalator can never break. It can only become stairs. There would never be an ‘Escalator Temporarily Out of Order’ sign, only an ‘Escalator Temporarily Stairs - Sorry for the Convenience.’”
Gotta give that actor some recognition. He really nailed “Republican” with that performance.
Even if they aren’t. The interface isn’t that bad. More just different. It takes some adjustment. Although there 100% is an old threaded like interface for lemmy at least. But that’s an issue for Discovery and presentation.
Had never heard of this. Cool. Christopher Lee is a very varied and talented guy. Christian Bale too. Lee in particular had a minor career in metal. Releasing a number of heavy metal and symphonic metal albums after his 80th birthday.
With regard to the allies. The United States specifically. We’ve never had a healthy Reckoning with our past. They gave many Nazi scientists amnesty. And the fascist themselves were inspired by our own powerful racists and fascists. Who never felt repercussions who are why we are in the position we are in today.
It was valuable. The structure it was in wasn’t. It should have been razed and not repurposed. For quite some time fascists had been making pilgrimage there to revel in the sight and sounds their hero enjoyed. And celebrate his accomplishments in the exhibition. The exhibition didn’t deserve this. It was collateral damage for something overdue.
For this reason mara lago also needs to be razed ASAP as well. Nothing left there for fascists to return to. No tacky gold or grandure left. A simple brutalist monument and exhibition recounting his own narcissism, calisthenics and brutality.
Yep, Everyone is always the hero in their own story. Regardless of whether or not they actually are.
Yep, two wrongs don’t make a right. But no stone or board related directly to the man and not his victims. Should have been left intact. The museum of course wasn’t the issue and should be rebuilt. A nice new structure with no ties to the monster other than outlining and attacking him for his atrocities.
Similarly maralago should be burnt to the ground. And redeveloped into a memorial/public toilet. Where no little fascist will want to pilgrimage.
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It’s not even about deception. Although deception starts off as aid generally before they are deceived. Hence deception. Realistically an individual cannot properly moderate that many communities. Not even people I know who are on disability and spend all day online can do that and still remain mentally healthy. It’s just not a good thing.
Un moderated or poorly moderated communities can also be problematic in their own right. Not to mention creating all these unused communities. Posting all these bot posts to those communities. It grows the local database, for no real purpose. Just the hope that maybe they could catch someone to come in and contribute to the community? Does the good outweigh the bad? And then it leads to assessments somewhat like yours. Of large bot presence. Which if you were looking to grow communities. That sort of thing is generally seen as a detriment. Maybe they think or are looking to try to help. But again I just question it. The efficacy of it. I would rather see fewer but more active maintains communities than a bunch of ghostcoms. Magically getting posts but no engagement. But that’s just me LOL. And if I put up my own instance I will probably keep it quite tight.