Nice cherrypicking. No, far left for adoring Stalin, deepthroating Russian propaganda and claiming Ukraine is full of Nazis and poor Russia had to react, claiming the Russian war they started in Ukraine is actually started by NATO, claiming that Russia and China are not imperialist countries and so on. Claiming that Russia and China support trans, gay and other minority people and the vile west doesn’t. Claiming that what’s happening to Uyghurs is made up.

There’s soooo much far left extremism here, way more than I ever encountered anywhere else. Maybe because I never wanted to be part of such a group. But I came with the group that disliked the Reddit api changes and Lemmy really looked like a (smaller and cozier) Reddit replacement at that time.

Most of the content from back then died out, but idiots (who would be among the first to be executed if their dream of regime change happened) cosplaying as leftists stayed.

Liberal, to me, is the opposite of authoritarian. No idea what other people consider it to be, but IMO it’s entirely disconnected from the left/right spectrum. You can have authoritarian left, right or center, same way with liberal.

Because it is? If private ownership of everything is the capitalist goal, aka far right, then people owning everything is obviously its exact opposite, aka far left.

We’re currently somewhere in the middle, leaning towards right. Some places further than others.

I think you underestimate how good AI translations are.

Every troll server gets defederated from by everyone. And every troll gets banned on the normal servers. I think the federated nature is a blessing, those assholes have their own part of the internet which is usually far from my part of the internet.

Just tell them they won’t be getting those sweet Euros from the EU, that worked every time so far.

Not that I wouldn’t welcome UK back (under equal conditions to all new-joiners, of course), speed-running is not something EU is capable of. Nor is UK. They will not like having to accept the same deal everyone else has to when they had a lot of exceptions for everything. It will take ages before some kind of agreement is reached.

Yuck. Even if I ignored economy, Trump and everything political, US food is pure shit compared to European food.

Finally, I’ve been waiting for this.

Most of Europe doesn’t speak English as a first language, I’m gonna continue searching for plíny. I doubt most people want to order from two countries over, at least I’d rather buy from official local distribution.

I said better, not more secure. It’s not as easy to accidentally leak the message. It’s equally easy to intentionally leak it.

Who would’ve thunk that misusing the same type for both public and private posts (with a sprinkle of weird mention rules to determine the visibility) could backfire?

Well, definitely not Mastodon devs. Lemmy’s current approach of using an entirely different type is much better.

If you’re interested in some details, I recently wrote a comment about it: https://lemmyverse.link/lemmings.world/comment/14476151

Yes, exactly what VoIP is for.

Shouldn’t any VoIP service work?

Yeah, they’re a great guide on how to treat your slaves, how many birds should one sacrifice when his wife is having her period, how much money should one demand when someone beats his wife so much that she has an abortion. Truly “social values”.

Nah, it comes from “feminists” making men the villains. And women listening to those “feminists”. It doesn’t concern me personally - I’m a man who’s pretty comfortable with who I am and some power-tripping psychos who hide behind feminism don’t really change anything about that, but sometimes I’m really sorry for men who are less sure of themselves or who internalized hearing they are the bad guys from all sides.