Cripple. History Major. Irritable and in constant pain. Vaguely Left-Wing.

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  • Oh yeah, there were a whole bunch of issues early on. I’d completely forgotten about that particular incident. I think some of the instances had to wipe several weeks of their image caches over it. I forget what the exact solution was, but apparently there’s some technical aspect to preventing such things that’s been implemented now.

    dbzer0 is kind of ‘the’ piracy instance. Run by an anarchist, a good egg, db0.

    .world here is kind of the ‘normie’ instance, very left-wing by US standards, but centrist by European standards.


  • It was an utter disaster in those first few months. I stuck it out only out of sheer stubbornness in not going back to Reddit. Lemmy.world was always down, federation was borked, it was just not ready for the big-time. Just what happens when your userbase balloons 30x inside of a month. Now we’re in a much better position to absorb new waves. The big thing is trying to get niche communities started on here - a bit of a arduous task. The mainstream communities are all pretty active at this point! And anything about Linux.



















  • Unfortunately, the insane are very loud, and to the marginally engaged, loud insanity can sound like informed and passionate sanity.

    People in this country are taught voting is a moral duty, but not taught why it’s a moral duty. So the lunatic position of “Don’t vote for anyone you disagree with!” dovetails nicely into our broken fucking civic culture. In reality, voting is, as you said, strategic - it’s a moral duty insofar as we are morally obligated, as citizens, to examine the power we have, to exercise it in the most effective way we can, in service to the moral aims we have.

    Too many people in this country view voting spiritually. We aren’t Christian martyrs preparing to be fed to the lions in the Colosseum. We’re closer to congresscritters when we vote, than canonized saints. Take a look at your choices. Decide which one is closer to your goals. Vote accordingly. And be prepared to answer for it.