Welcome 😊

Most of us were clueless when we arrived here :)

In 1946, a Black Army veteran was beaten by police in South Carolina simply for asking to use the bathroom. He emerged from the jail permanently blind.

His name was Isaac Woodard. His fight for justice reached the White House, inspired artists like Billie Holiday and Woody Guthrie to speak out, and helped set the stage for landmark civil rights victories. Yet his story is largely forgotten.

https://theconversation.com/the-police-beating-that-opened-americas-eyes-to-jim-crows-brutality-53932
#VeteransDay

Not really afraid to be a stupid-head and to be called a stupid-head at all. That’s how I learn :D

@Paul I think this is what you're looking for. https://indieweb.org/#:~:text=%F0%9F%8E%A1%20Homebrew%20Website%20Club

Saw a post saying some shitty Christian lemmy instance was spamming bullshit on one of their latest posts, I said something along the lines of “probably Russians”. Come to find out my comment was removed and I was banned… then to find out they effectively have a CCP agent running town… lol.

I’ve seen people mention they were a garbage instance, now I know why! They said I broke rule 1 … this might just be the app I’m using but they don’t even have any fucking rules to look at lmao.

Glad they did the work for me and made it easy to avoid them.

Horizontal governance is missing from almost all our codebases. We're building digital feudalism: every crisis forces us to become princes and kings because the software gives power to whoever holds the keys.

We don't need better digital landlords, we need code that makes collective power, accountability and grassroots democracy possible. We need our own code, that's the point of #OGB.

#OMN #4opens #OpenWeb

Conversations is now permanently available for free on Google Play.

Google doesn’t deserve me and my money anymore.

https://gultsch.de/posts/breaking-up-with-google-play/

#XMPP #Jabber #Conversations_im #Android #FOSS #OpenSource #Google #GooglePlay

Hobbyists don’t talk about politics much, but if I meet someone with totally opposite views, I’ll hear them out if they have an interesting take. If it’s just emotions, I’ll move on. I’ve got the hang of this, but thanks!

Welcome! It’s cozy here :-)

But make sure you filter out what agitates you. For many here, that is the Tankie fraction. Lemmy has a fair bunch of left authoritarian instances with users that are prone to having unpopular takes, and being very adamant about them - if that isn’t to your liking, block out the lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.net instances to avoid most of it.

(But if you like heated discussions with delusional people, by all means, go ahead lol)

@inpc oh, I recognise one of those - thank you!

@i_dabble thanks hehe 🙂‍↕️

Just a reminder to those people using AIs (local or not) that unless you are purely training on your own data, any benefit you receive is paid for by other people without their consent, and that's only one of the harms.

Perhaps we could do a NAS distro called ... #NAStty ?

Lemmy.ml and even more so lemmygrad.ml (the latter is defederated from by most sane instances across the Threadiverse) are tankie platforms. Tankies believe in alternative facts, such as the fact that nobody died in the Tiannamen Square Massacre. Or if they did then they deserved it. Or if they did not then it was necessary. Or if it wasn’t then… - I am saying that you should expect arguments to shift goals moment to moment, based on the personal biases and need to appear right on the Internet, regardless of any need to actually be thus.

And don’t even get me started on hexbear.net, which has no real beliefs at all beyond the raw need to troll people incessantly (this one is also defederated from by nearly all sane instances across the Threadiverse).

So, you are missing out on nothing important whatsoever. Consider yourself fortunate that you discovered this early on.

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004

reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).

the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.

another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.

size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.

we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.