Infinity was a good replacement when Sync did its redesign, which I didn’t care for. Ah well. I don’t blame them of course, but reddit isn’t something I’m going to pay a subscription to access on a 3rd party app on my phone.

That’s actually all that the “block” function on Lemmy does too - it makes it so that you don’t see any more content from a user, but they can still make comments on your stuff. In other words, Lemmy’s “block” is essentially a “mute” function, too.

Converso doesn’t care about privacy or security!?

On Lemmy, if a community on another server doesn’t appear when you search for it, you can use the syntax “!communityname@server.name”. Your login Lemmy server will then go out and index it and it will appear in the search a few moments later.

Is there a way to do that on kbin? I’ve tried every syntax for a Lemmy community that I know of and nothing seems to work.

!communityname@server.name
/c/communityname@server.name
server.name/c/communityname
@communityname@server.name
etc.

Nothing. Literally, they just need to change nothing, to do… nothing. It is their actions that are driving people away. Today as of this moment, reddit is working the same as it’s done for the past several years.

Then again, I’m defintely enjoying my time here on Lemmy much more than I was at this point on reddit. This feels more like the early days of reddit, where you have more meaningful engagements. You don’t show up to a thread only to find 1,000+ comments, and likely one toward the top saying the exact same words you intended to say.

Yeah that’d be smart on their part. They’re already paying for the server space and the moderation team.

All of the main servers I’ve seen have a no porn rule. I suppose it’s only a matter of time until someone’s willing to stand up their own Lemmy porn server and take on the responsibility of moderating that.

Well yeah, Lemmy is to Reddit what Mastodon is to Twitter. Never cared for Twitter pre or post-Elon.

Yep, you’ve made it to Lemmy. The lemmy.ml server, specifically.

I started playing Firmament a bit before I saw this news yesterday. I figured the mysteriousness would unfold bit by bit as the game progressed as we’re used to with Cyan games, but now it seems it might just be a hodge-podge mess of AI written material. Oh well, the puzzles have been fun and engaging and I’ll probably keep playing.

Squeenix - if you don’t hire this team and produce this game you’re fucking fools. But I think we already know that’s the case and you’re already furiously typing up the DMCA notices.

I want to start off saying that I don’t disagree in principle with anything you’ve said. Still examining whether I disagree in practice with anything you’ve said, as well.

I believe that the most basic priority of someone living in the anglosphere should be promoting anti-imperialism by whatever means are available to them…

I don’t support the U.S. playing Team America: World Police as we have done historically and regularly, but I don’t see how (not why) that can be my top priority. After all, I’m the “boat dealer” (I benefit from the system), so other than the fact that politicians for whom that would be their top priority would likely align on my other priority issues, how does making American Imperialism my top priority protect my children’s future from the growing fascist movement? (I’m not being hypothetical here, I worry for what will happen to them if GOP fascism isn’t stopped.)

…and to build further means the organizing with others and constructing “dual power,” structures of power that operate in parallel to state power to organize people towards various social goods

Absolutely. Unions, group activism, etc. is definitely the way and means to bring about change. Unfortunately, and I know you’re going to call this a cop-out on my part, with my life situation I don’t have time to participate in all of that. I have a unique situation at home, I have to work to provide, and so on. Yes, I’m aware that this is what they want in order to keep us all from being able to change the system… but that is how it is for me. I will give my support to any groups who can go out and promote that change, however.

democracy has limited power and the aristocracy has the ability to prevent popular movements from gaining “too much” power

Without a doubt. I don’t know what the answer is to enact RCV (or similar), but I do know that nothing changes without RCV. I really don’t see how we can convince politicians to push for RCV when that’s exactly what will let some measure of power slip from their hands. A few states (Alaska, Maine, & Nevada) have done it now, and North Carolina had it but their legislature “thought better of it” and repealed it.

Wanted to save this part for last, having said all of the above -

have you considered reading Marx yourself

I’m not saying I won’t, but I don’t know that it would change much. I know Marx is likely fundamentally sound ideology, but ultimately it won’t change the basic, almost animalistic / survivalistic if you will, priorities that I have to focus on as voter in the middle of the U.S. - namely, stopping the growing fascism movement. Until then, I would just be sitting there reading and agreeing with everything, saying “yeah I know that makes sense… yes that’s exactly right, etc.”… and it would inevitably change nothing and most probably just make me more frustrated about the shit situation we’re in. There is absolutely a large portion of the population that needs to have that shit Clockwork-Oranged into their skulls, though.

I appreciate you offering a tl;dr, since I had already read your other comment but it’s a bit lengthy.

And I say this with no ill intent, but “Hello pot, my name’s kettle”. 😁

You’re right, it’s a chicken and the egg scenario. I really don’t know how we can convince politicians to push for RCV when that’s exactly what will let some measure of power slip from their hands. A few states (Alaska, Maine, & Nevada) have done it now, and North Carolina had it but their legislature “thought better of it” and repealed it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked-choice_voting_in_the_United_States

More than any one political issue, this needs to happen first for any real change to occur.

I found that I only encountered it when viewing ‘All > Hot’ or ‘All > New’, I believe. I thought it was someone spamming the server with the same thing to different subs, but I see now that it’s a bug.

So for now I stick with ‘Subscribed > Hot’ or ‘Subscribed > New’, and I subscribed to a crapload of subs.

Alright then, what’s your answer? March on the capital, gun down anyone who stands in your way? Read Marx to people in public until they all vote for an effectively nonexistent communist party?

There’s what I wish for society, and then there’s reality. Until something changes, I choose to continue to live in reality.

I’ll refer you to my comment below as to what I have to say on the subject. If you have anything in specific that you’d like to pose a rebuttal to I’d like to hear it, but my guess is that all I’ll hear from you is spouting more idealistic nonsense.

https://lemmy.ml/comment/461546

(edit) - To boil it down to a single point: Until we get rid of our first past the post, winner take all voting system, nothing changes and no 3rd party can take hold in this country. The only option for those of us who have to live here is to vote for the party that has at least some progressive politicians in its ranks. With FPTP voting, doing otherwise is the exact same result as voting for the fascist GOP.

Sympathies to them, yes.

Thanks, and yeah I realized pretty quick that things were getting out of hand there. I guess I can only say that I would never knowingly defend anything like that (misgendering, bigotry, etc.)

Since you refuse to be an adult and back your accusations I will do it for you. Here was my final take on that thread:

https://lemmy.ml/comment/445935

100% the other person should have backed down and apologized pretty much after the first comment or two. But people do also need to consider that language means different things to people in different areas of the world, and my guess was that (before the person got really defensive) he meant no offense. Calling someone “buddy” for a large portion of the population carries no ill intent in most contexts.

If that offends you, then that’s too bad. I’m not calling anyone a snowflake, and I don’t knowingly misgender people. You really will have to point out to me where that other person did however, because if I saw that I wouldn’t have defended it.

(edit) - As another example, it’s a normal phrase where I’m from to call a group of people consisting of any gender (or even all women) “guys”, as in “hey guys, let’s go do something”. If that’s something that you would take offense at, then I’m sorry but that’s life and you do just have to acknowledge that language means different things to different people in different contexts and different places of the world.

No, you’ve made the accusation, you provide the evidence. I absolutely stopped reading every reply in that thread once it was clearly devolving into a shitshow, so if you’d like to point out where I was defending someone misgendering someone else I’m all ears. But you can’t, because I didn’t, and you’re just trying to start shit.