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Why are peole hating on .world?
  • Supposedly that will change with v0.19.6 (A recent discussion about that here: https://feddit.org/post/3524876), but yeah it's causing smaller instances such as Aussie.Zone to have delays of over 7 days.

    I also expressed disbelief that this info would not be bundled somehow - at least put together a package for everything that happened across the entire instance in one second, or one minute could be far better, for servers that can't handle the per-second traffic?

  • Highly illogical and dangerous
  • A surprisingly good movie actually:-).

    McCoy's paying someone to alter the archival files (but forgetting to also alter the crosslinks) to mispronunce words aside.

  • Why are peole hating on .world?
  • Was the lonely island skit based on your life story? 😜

  • Why are peole hating on .world?
  • In fairness, you in particular have lost your mind! (And I for one am glad to not be the only one!:-)

  • Why are peole hating on .world?
  • I just counted some of this in another comment here on this thread "they" being Lemmy.world:

    they are definitely the largest by a wide margin! According to https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list, they have >5-fold active users than anyone else. I presume that’s monthly. The next largest instance, is lemmynsfw.com, followed by Lemm.ee, sh.itjust.works, lemmy.ml, etc. but each of those with 2-3k users compared to lemmy.world’s 17.2k. So the latter is bigger than many others (if not quite all of them) combined.

    Also, due to how "packets" of data are sent, many smaller instances (like Aussie.zone) have like 7-day delays getting all the data from Lemmy.world, sent at a rate of no more than one action per second (a future Lemmy software update should help with this substantially). I'm not kidding about any of this btw - see e.g. discussion at https://feddit.org/post/3524876.

    Edit: I just realized I didn't respond to your "reddit clone” part. Honestly, unless you start talking like Mbin or Piefed or something, that's just Lemmy. I cannot really think of a single counterexample, not really - we all are on "link aggregators", and most of us further are on "general purpose" ones. For that one I can at least think of several counterexamples: as you mentioned, some instances such as programming.dev, StarTrek.website, mander.xyz, aussie.zone, lemmy.ca - all those have a "theme", but those too still allow general purpose usage, and still are forum-like. Then again, they can each have multiple communities, like mander.xyz is science but there are many individual communities underneath that heading. Which is a bit different from Reddit, having only just "subs"?

    Also, people on mander.xyz could block everyone from let's say lemmy.ml and/or lemmy.world, if they wanted to. Reddit definitely did not allow that - if you wanted to make a block list, then you had to do it the old fashioned way, one by one!:-)

  • Why are peole hating on .world?
  • That stache though...

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  • Why are peole hating on .world?
  • People are doing that here though - e.g. the user Blaze made accounts on basically every instance, and subscribed to every community. This gets around the limitation where at least one user of an instance must subscribe to a community before it will even so much as show up for others to also subscribe. Really the developers should have made better automation so that this was not necessary, but... anyway it works, for now:-).

  • Why are peole hating on .world?
  • I am really somewhat surprised to hear that honestly. After Lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.net, the worst extremes I see by far come from lemmy.ml. Sort of a "when I see trolling this bad, then >90% of the time it is lemmy.ml".

    After that, yeah, lemmy.world has the largest absolute number of trolls on the Fediverse - you kinda expect some from any large instance, and they are definitely the largest by a wide margin! According to https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list, they have >5-fold active users than anyone else. I presume that's monthly. The next largest instance, is lemmynsfw.com, followed by Lemm.ee, sh.itjust.works, lemmy.ml, etc. but each of those with 2-3k users compared to lemmy.world's 17.2k. So the latter is bigger than many others (if not quite all of them) combined.

    Trolls from lemmy.world I block individually, but lemmy.ml got so frustrating for me that I blocked the entire instance. I do not regret that in the slightest. It was that or quit Lemmy altogether. Lemmy.world though seems... "manageable", i.e. not every person from it is worthwhile to talk to, but enough are that it's worth blocking only the trolls while keeping the rest, imho.

  • Why are peole hating on .world?
  • I beg to differ: even Reddit these days is little like Reddit, as it was just prior to the protests. Reddit f-ing died, and Lemmy.World is nothing like that shithole, especially what's left nowadays with bots copying bots speaking to bots, allowing humans to simply scroll forever.

    To any extent that it is like the Reddit of old though, yeah it's just bc it's so big. It was guaranteed that some instance would become that, bc people are people - at least here, not like AI-Reddit. đŸ€Ą

  • Enterprise-D(ebunking)
  • I am one of those people. Halfway at least. But I also have other interests too, whereas our communities not so much, e.g. !videos@lemmy.world.

  • Absolutely nothing happened June 1989
  • Multiple of those links say that yeah. And the one where the admins took the vote, then ignored it and did the opposite of what the community asked. They are so toxic that they've even run off their own developers (I'm not sure if that really meant admin, but seeing as how iirc hexbear predates Lemmy it does make sense as actual developer too).

    Some hexbears have left hexbear bc they were kicked out - too toxic for them even - but also some were not toxic enough, as in even they could no longer stand it there.

    The only thing we absolutely must be intolerant of is intolerance.

  • Enterprise-D(ebunking)
  • Hypothetically speaking... how much money would I be able to make doing this? 😇

    But to be clear I mostly was joking about being a coward, not so much "cancelled".

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    More to the point, Lemmy is about Linux and... uh... GNU+Linux, and I for one don't need to be submitting posts that are not of interest to others. A skill which I seem to very much lack, most of the time:-).

  • Absolutely nothing happened June 1989
  • There are lots of REAL leftists here on Lemmy. I haven't researched enough to even know if I am truly one, but anyway it's obvious that they are children (of whatever physical age) merely playing at philosophical and political concepts.

    They constantly claim to be the victim, citing how "unfairly" they are treated, always conveniently ignoring that it's not their political beliefs that turn people away, but their abusive toxicity. Using tactics such as controlling the conversation, which apparently works on their instance, but can't hold a candle when talking with a real adult.

    However, since anyone who even so much as politely asks (if not sufficiently obsequiously enough) the wrong sort of questions there are promptly removed, the ones who remain are absolutely convinced in the rightness of their cause, seeing nothing first-hand to counter such a claim. Echo chambers can really be dangerous.

    Hexbear users are just like Maga conservatives, only on the other side of the spectrum - or at least claiming to be.

    Lemmy.ml users on the other hand, are a much more eclectic bunch. Some are great to talk to, though conversely whenever I receive the most batshit insane replies, even after blocking Lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.net sth like 99% of the time it is a user from lemmy.ml. I find it highly relevant that a LOT of hexbear users went over to Lemmy.ml when Lemmy.world defederated from the former. So after resisting for a long time and even arguing with others against doing it, I finally relented and just blocked Lemmy.ml too. I find my sanity greatly improved as a result:-).

  • Your Argument Is Invalid...
  • So then a werewolf would be a...? đŸș

  • Absolutely nothing happened June 1989
  • There was one when I looked before. Oh wow there's... more than one now. đŸ˜”â€đŸ’«

  • Absolutely nothing happened June 1989
  • Genuinely there are a lot of people that would like that. Maybe start with a community first before an entire instance.

  • Absolutely nothing happened June 1989
  • hexbear.net is known for discussion of what goes on in the rest of the Fediverse (I went and found a recent example to show you: https://hexbear.net/post/3645205). Whereupin people with accounts that are able to often brigade places that if we take the narrowest view of who "hexbear" users are, they would not have access to. It just goes with the territory of (a) being passionate about a subject, along with (b) caring not in the slightest bit about the consent of the recipients.

    I myself have multiple alts, and went to some trouble to ensure that it is barely recognizable which I am using (identical name and icon). I started on Kbin, and before it went defunct it got slower and slower so I switched to StarTrek, but it got slow for a bit too so now I made my final home on Discuss.Online. And when possible I will love to try out Sublinks, and probably I'll try Piefed too then.

    If someone switches from their hexbear.net account, where they heard about this post, to their Lemmy.ml one for the express purpose to downvoting and trolling this post with their "commentary", I would call those hexbear users. If you read hexbear posts, it won't be all that long before you find people not only admitting but being outright proud of doing precisely that. Here's a very tame one to get you started: https://hexbear.net/post/272530, here's another: https://hexbear.net/post/277508, and another: https://hexbear.net/post/280770, and there are links from there and available by searching.

  • Adam Connover: Trump Has Finally Lost His Mind

    He's funny đŸ€Ł

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    The Alt-Right Playbook: Why Don't You Respond to Criticism?

    Yay a new one, finally! 😃

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    Super cool video on viruses

    I'm not sure why they chose the title that they did though.

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    Hoop dancing explanation (<1 min)
    imgur.com Favorite Dump

    Discover topics like collection, random meme dump, and the magic of the internet at Imgur, a community powered entertainment destination. Lift your spirits with funny jokes, trending memes, entertaining gifs, inspiring stories, viral videos, and so much more from users like GuitaCosmosModel.

    I don't know how to link to it directly, but I mean the #5 entry in this imgur dump (the preview pic is wrong, it's showing the #1 entry, but you'll know the right one bc of the guy holding the hoop). Some of the others aren't bad either, but definitely check out the hoop one, I'm saying.:-)

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    Very well-stated (& calm) response to what is turning into a heated discussion about users on the hexbear.net instance
    lemmy.one Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? - Lemmy.one

    I think a little clarification is needed. No. I don’t actually think everyone there is insane. I don’t care about the bans so stop trying to use that. HB enthusiasts coming here and trying to call me out achieves nothing besides proving my point Edit: Feel free to keep trying to brigade me. It’s not...

    (The title you see below mine is the wording chosen by the OP of the full post - I hope I do not cause offense, but I cannot control it showing up here as it is linked.)

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    Robert Frost, Nothing Gold Can Stay

    >Nature’s first green is gold,

    >Her hardest hue to hold.

    >Her early leaf’s a flower;

    >But only so an hour.

    >Then leaf subsides to leaf.

    >So Eden sank to grief,

    >So dawn goes down to day.

    >Nothing gold can stay.

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    Rudyard Kipling, "If—"

    >If you can keep your head when all about you > Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, >If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, >But make allowance for their doubting too; >If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, > Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, >Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, > And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

    >If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; > If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; >If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster > And treat those two impostors just the same; >If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken > Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, >Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, > And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

    >If you can make one heap of all your winnings > And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, >And lose, and start again at your beginnings > And never breathe a word about your loss; >If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew > To serve your turn long after they are gone, >And so hold on when there is nothing in you > Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

    >If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, > Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, >If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, > If all men count with you, but none too much; >If you can fill the unforgiving minute > With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, >Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, > And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

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    Josh Johnson Asks Black Voters: Biden or Trump? | The Daily Show

    The result may surprise you: about 50/50, based on polls. These people relate their thoughts and experiences and explain why they feel as they do.

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    Jon Stewart Examines Biden’s Future | The Daily Show

    > Honestly though, "get on board or STFU" is not a particularly compelling pro-democracy bumper sticker, nor is "meh, what are you going to do?"

    > All we want is for someone to keep it 💯 - the percentage, not the age.

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    The Hollow Men - T S Elliott
    allpoetry.com The Hollow Men by T S Eliot

    Comments & analysis: Mistah Kurtz-he dead / A penny for the Old Guy / I / We are the hollow m

    The Hollow Men by T S Eliot

    I

    We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats' feet over broken glass In our dry cellar

    Shape without form, shade without colour, Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

    Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at all-not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men.

    Eyes I dare not meet in dreams In death's dream kingdom These do not appear: There, the eyes are Sunlight on a broken column There, is a tree swinging And voices are In the wind's singing More distant and more solemn Than a fading star.

    Let me be no nearer In death's dream kingdom Let me also wear Such deliberate disguises Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves In a field Behaving as the wind behaves No nearer-

    Not that final meeting In the twilight kingdom

    III

    This is the dead land This is cactus land Here the stone images Are raised, here they receive The supplication of a dead man's hand Under the twinkle of a fading star.

    Is it like this In death's other kingdom Waking alone At the hour when we are Trembling with tenderness Lips that would kiss Form prayers to broken stone.

    IV

    The eyes are not here There are no eyes here In this valley of dying stars In this hollow valley This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms

    In this last of meeting places We grope together And avoid speech Gathered on this beach of the tumid river

    Sightless, unless The eyes reappear As the perpetual star Multifoliate rose Of death's twilight kingdom The hope only Of empty men.

    V

    Here we go round the prickly pear Prickly pear prickly pear Here we go round the prickly pear At five o'clock in the morning.

    Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom

    Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow Life is very long

    Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom

    For Thine is Life is For Thine is the

    This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.

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    [Opinion] Biden Must Resign
    www.theatlantic.com Biden Must Resign

    If the president wants to protect American democracy, he should hand over his office to Kamala Harris.

    Biden Must Resign

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.one/post/16476649

    > For the good of the republic and to demonstrate new leadership before the election.

    Lays out an argument about how to navigate the difficulties ahead, addressing the challenges that would result.

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