Just a nerd who migrated from kbin(dot)social.
I enjoyed parts of Persepolis when I read it the first time. Mind you, that was at the same time for me that In The Shadow of No Towers was still too painful, and I had tried to engage with Maus. I need to go back to it.
She is basically right about people, in my experience.
So we need to defend the First Amendment again. They should probably have constricted the 2nd before the 1st for their own good.
The people absolutely do. It’s the government that’s the biggest problem. Same with Russia and the USA. Frankly, most people on Earth probably just want their work, their bread, and their circuses, and to be left alone outside of that. But there’s a problem - their government stands between us, and sets down rules that oppose those things - like the issues I brought up, among others. I care that they’re oppressive and censorious. I also feel that way about the US federal government, and European governments too.
I don’t hate the people - I try not to really hate anybody. I just don’t want their government’s enforced morals having an impact on the media I enjoy.
I don’t mind that. If they stop importing our movies, we can also block their companies from overtaking domestic film companies. And we can stop importing their cultural values and limitations.
Free Tibet. Free the Uygher Muslim community, free Hong Kong, free Taiwan ROC.
Yes, but 90% of everything is crap. Why should we expect data centers to be any different?
My answer is that it depends on several factors. The first and least impactful thing you can do (and that’s in terms of both you and the other person) is to just block them. Next step up is that if they’re not on a big instance that you get content from regularly, just block their instance. After that, report them to your instance owner - they might get blocked from interacting with your instance. And the more heavy-duty action is to reach out to their instance owner with evidence and make your concerns known - then if they get booted, you can continue as you were; and if they don’t, block the instance.
She’s about to be so fired. I wish her the best.
Totally agree with you that everyone in the fediverse should be working together. Especially the amazing devs.
On Android, software can be made with free tools, released on Github/Gitlab/Forgejo/etc, and pushed into an F-Droid repo. Heck, you might not even need the F-Droid side, you can just throw an APK up at your free host of choice. Plus, I don’t think there’s a language restriction in terms of what can be compiled for Android (I’ll make my ignorance known here). Apple is not an open platform. One language is accepted, they have one way to develop software, one (overstuffed) place to download that software from. It is much more difficult to develop an app for iOS compared to Android. And if you try to monetize it, people will use a PWA.
To make it clear, this is not meant to be a debate on Apple. This is just my take on why free fediverse software is much more likely to show up on Android.
I don’t really have a positive thing to say about people who want to stick to Apple as their primary device ecosystem.
It really is, from my limited use. I use the PWA on my (very old) phone and Firefox on desktop. But I like Interstellar.
Oh, I’m aware that both Lemmy and Mastodon have good apps. I’m just pointing out that if the ‘argument’ is that alternatives don’t have an app, MBin does have one.
Why aren’t we suggesting Mbin over Lemmy, actually? Because it seems like it has the same options. And Mbin even has an app (not just the PWA function)!
Cool, now make sure those products can get into American hands at a fair market price.
That’s about 40 years too long.
On one hand, it is a lot of revenue lost. On the other, it’s also a lot of resources freed up for Americans that would otherwise have been used by foreign tourists. As long as the supply remains the same and the demand drops, prices should get reduced as well. That’s what people understand.
What they don’t understand is that companies expect this to be temporary, and they’d rather have losses they can write off, rather than smaller profits that their investors will be upset about.
I’m genuinely struggling to see where this is really a bad thing. Then again, I’m also struggling to see where it isn’t exactly what was promised during the election. Tighter border controls and firm enforcement of immigration laws and border policies means that less people come in by all means. This outcome is exactly what people voted for.
I genuinely don’t mind that too much.