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Which lemmy instances block us? which lemmy instances do we block?
  • EDIT: I just realized you only specified that it shows who we block. But I guess this still leaves the question open: a list of instances who block us?

    It looks like isn't showing what I'm expecting. It shows "feddit.de" and other instances that blocked us as "linked instances". I suppose this means we federate with them but they don't with us.

    Any way to see who blocks us?

  • Opinion: anyone who takes over a sub reddit because original mods closed it in protest, should face community outrage

    We should not let people take advantage of the situation to back stab strikers. We should discourage this behavior, and show anyone who does this that it will not be taken kindly.

    If this happens to any sub reddit you know, comment it here so we can be aware of it.

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    Why do you personally prefer using an Android phone?
  • The only real alternative is iOS, which extremely restrictive and limiting, UI is unintuitive and clunky to navigate, and a lack of Quality-of-life enhancing apps (like better keyboards or apps to password protect other apps)

    There's a bunch of small things that always get in the way. Lack of file system access for example, or FOSS app options.

  • Your favorite lemmy communities currently?

    Mine currently: Fediverse@lemmy.ml Selfhosted@lemmy.world Linux@lemmy.ml newcommunities@lemmy.world Memes@lemmy.ml

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    Dispelling myths about Communism and Communists "supporting human rights violation"
  • Yeah, I do think some communists spend a little too much time defending the USSR's controversies, but I think our time is much better spent focusing on the positives and asserting that this is what inspires us. Whether those human violations existed or not, we are not inspired by them and are irrelevant to what we believe.

    Our support for the USSR comes from a place of wanting to learn from past experiences rather than glorify them. Unfortunately the USSR is gone, and we must do better today.

  • Here's why more people won't switch to Lemmy.
  • Lemmy is still in active development and there are some missing features, but it is very usable. Your friends' complaints, some are a bit exaggerated and some are really not that big of issues that will get resolved eventually.

  • Dispelling myths about Communism and Communists "supporting human rights violation"

    cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/731575

    > It seems there are a lot of propaganda arising on certain lemmy instances parroting propaganda that lemmygrad and Communists support human rights violations, and equating Communists to the alt right. > > This is an extremely ridiculous assertion, given the historical context of the left being the main force fighting Nazism and fascism. But I write this post as there are probably many people misled by all the dishonest propaganda out there, who may be accepting of reason before seeking to silence us. > > Please link this post in other instances if they are parroting propaganda about Communists to justify demonizing us. Reasonable people will understand and oppose these motions. > > What is NOT Communism? in short, communism is NOT: > - "when the government does stuff" > - "capitalism but everyone gets paid the same" > - an incursion on personal freedom, or forcing people to do what they don't want (unless the thing they don't want is not exploiting others and not wishing mass murder on ethnic groups, etc). > > Then what is communism? in simple terms, it is the belief that the working class (i.e. the people, the masses) must own the means of production (factories, work places, etc) and control the direction of production in society, so that we produce for our own needs rather than to fulfill profits. > > Why? we spend most of our lifetime working, so why should we cater it towards profits of a minority class of capitalists rather than our own and out community's needs and wants? Why shouldn't we be masters of our own destinies? > > ### You may not agree with this, but this is not an excuse to silence us or lump us with genocidal ideologies > This thread is not meant to convince you with communism, but to demystify it and break the cold war era propaganda that some of you continue to parrot. > > ### you support USSR? What about their human rights violations? (applies to Cuba, China, etc) > > We do, but we do not support human rights violations as we believe there are tons of propaganda surrounding this. Equating this with Nazism is EXTREMELY DISINGENUOUS. The prevailing propaganda against the USSR is even acknowledged by NATO countries themselves. Nazism is an ideology founded on genocide, and this is easy to verify from Hitler's writing himself. > > Maybe in the end, we are wrong and despite the propaganda, there are human rights violations. But our support for the USSR comes from their achievements to better the human condition, and we hope to build on it. There are no human rights violation that inspires our ideology like it does for fascism or Nazism. > > Disclaimer: I am just a random Communist. I have no authority over lemmygrad or connections to the admins, just to make sure I don't upset the admins saying this.

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    Security concerns with locally self hosting publicly accessible app?

    Would I be compromising on the security of my local network and all the devices on it?

    I have a ton of local-only self hosted services, some may have personal data that I would not be compromised of affected.

    Now of course, I can work on securing those local services from each other, but still, the idea of opening up a port to the public seems incredibly insecure to me. Is there a way to host services publicly from a local network without compromising on security?

    I know I could host on a cloud provider or VPS, but for certain things I'd prefer to keep it local (especially for things that may violate VPS providers' terms of service, like media apps)

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    Dispelling myths about Communism and Communists "supporting human rights violation"

    It seems there are a lot of propaganda arising on certain lemmy instances parroting propaganda that lemmygrad and Communists support human rights violations, and equating Communists to the alt right.

    This is an extremely ridiculous assertion, given the historical context of the left being the main force fighting Nazism and fascism. But I write this post as there are probably many people misled by all the dishonest propaganda out there, who may be accepting of reason before seeking to silence us.

    Please link this post in other instances if they are parroting propaganda about Communists to justify demonizing us. Reasonable people will understand and oppose these motions.

    What is NOT Communism? in short, communism is NOT:

    • "when the government does stuff"
    • "capitalism but everyone gets paid the same"
    • an incursion on personal freedom, or forcing people to do what they don't want (unless the thing they don't want is not exploiting others and not wishing mass murder on ethnic groups, etc).

    Then what is communism? in simple terms, it is the belief that the working class (i.e. the people, the masses) must own the means of production (factories, work places, etc) and control the direction of production in society, so that we produce for our own needs rather than to fulfill profits.

    Why? we spend most of our lifetime working, so why should we cater it towards profits of a minority class of capitalists rather than our own and out community's needs and wants? Why shouldn't we be masters of our own destinies?

    You may not agree with this, but this is not an excuse to silence us or lump us with genocidal ideologies

    This thread is not meant to convince you with communism, but to demystify it and break the cold war era propaganda that some of you continue to parrot.

    you support USSR? What about their human rights violations? (applies to Cuba, China, etc)

    We do, but we do not support human rights violations as we believe there are tons of propaganda surrounding this. Equating this with Nazism is EXTREMELY DISINGENUOUS. The prevailing propaganda against the USSR is even acknowledged by NATO countries themselves. Nazism is an ideology founded on genocide, and this is easy to verify from Hitler's writing himself.

    Maybe in the end, we are wrong and despite the propaganda, there are human rights violations. But our support for the USSR comes from their achievements to better the human condition, and we hope to build on it. There are no human rights violation that inspires our ideology like it does for fascism or Nazism.

    Disclaimer: I am just a random Communist. I have no authority over lemmygrad or connections to the admins, just to make sure I don't upset the admins saying this.

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    Great Reddit Blackout of 2015. Is this time different?
  • This blackout has been very disruptive. Most users, participating or not, were impacted, and became aware of what's happening.

    The only issue I see is that many users might think we're throwing a pointless fit and don't understand the value of third party apps and the APIs.

    Hopefully people don't get bored and the momentum doesn't die

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