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People began the day in Spain by blocking highways as part of the general strike in response to runaway gentrification and evictions.
The movement began in response to the eviction of Maricarmen Abascal, a disabled 87-year-old woman, who subsequently passed away.
@CrimethInc just a quick remark, the root causes of the movement are exagerated housing prices and low wages, maricarmen was just the trigger
Ata mārie, Cloud Island!
@aurynn Morning!
Spanish workers went on a general strike on Wednesday, setting up picket lines despite stormy weather in a mass protest against the country's ...#spain
Spain roiled by first general strike in 14 years
The woman next to me on this train is on a zoom training about orgasms and it's very hard not to look
It isn't enough to not like a particular candidate for Speaker of the House.
THERE NEEDS TO BE ANOTHER ALTERNATIVE WHO IS RUNNING.
Last I heard there was not.
Shit, I forgot the 5th of November 🤦
@nyquildotorg is our gunpowder, treason and/or plot a joke to you?
We hope these fingerprinting test results are useful to everyone looking to switch to a browser that respects and protects their privacy. We also hope they are galvanizing to any browser engineering team working to improve their browser's privacy.
We'll keep testing over time! ✅❌
@privacytests did vivaldi keyboard layout test fail? The value is empty unlike any other browser (would also suprise me if that on setting they randomly protect 😉 )
What is the best structure of non-profit workers?
@evan I volunteer for a pet rescue group. VOLUNTEER. I give my time and skills to help the animals I care about. But the vet clinic the organization runs? That staff is paid and should be paid, along with the half-dozen full-time employees of the organization. Volunteers come and go (though I've been doing this for about 20 years); an organization needs continuity to survive, and that means a living wage.
Been sailing and offline for 8 days what did I miss.
@rysiek Same, but different, but still same.
@Heliograph we don't own or offer map services, so that depends on the search engine you're using
@Vivaldi ah so, I thought #Startpage is part of your setup?
@alisynthesis first off thank you for sharing this! This is something I have thought about for a while but seeing someone actually doing this is great! Also, I'm upset that you gave me another youtube channel to follow, I will likely watch and rewatch all of the videos!
@nousersmanual reward good stuff on YouTube! It's the people's platform! 🤣
(I am only half kidding)
Glad you liked it! Seems like a worthwhile project
I feel like there is a gap when it comes to support groups for the partners of someone with a severe progressive illness. I feel that a lot of what's out there is, maybe understandable, aimed at older people and those more physically involved in caring. But like, I don't know anyone my age (early 40s) dealing with this shit, and the emotional turmoil is the hardest bit. Maybe there needs to be a mastodon hash tag for, no idea what. I don't think the label of "carer" really fits for me
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size is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.
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.
Yeah size isn’t what made the culture, politics and capitalism is.
@paul IIRC, they were completely rendered in Javascript, so regular AI scraping got nothing anyway.
@gregatron5 I can’t imagine that being a particularly hard hurdle to get over.
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Fediverse
size is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.
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.
@Lancker hast du mal getestet, welche Features mit abgeschalteten WLAN noch funktionieren?
@jomo Bei der Meta nicht. Voxi kann zumindest noch gedruckten Text vorlesen.
BREAKING NEWS: $HEAD (Headless Corps) widely believed to dump gains from $PORN (PornHub) #BreakingNews
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