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Absolutely. I think we should still encourage good behaviors, while at the same time remembering that we merely provide a different perspective that takes time to bake in.

We cannot expect someone who is broken or taught wrong to flip a switch and become good out of sheer desire to be so.

Taught behaviors take a long time to change, this is just how neurons operate. With enough time and positive influence (including positive example), a person can retrain themselves to do better. Besides, to do so, they should first know for themselves what is right and what is wrong, and your perspectives might differ.

You can, if you’re part of a large military alliance, allowing each member to contribute a little to get a lot of defense capability. Accumulation of weapons makes military escalation more likely. And all these “defensive” weapons can be turned to an offensive any second.

2. Woah

Because eating meat means you support the hierarchy of people over animals or something?

Had some gems recently indeed

This is regular scientific hedging.

This thing, even if it turns out to be real good, it’s years away from being a marketable product. And it’s alright! It says more about sensationalism in scientific communication.

Exactly. Yes, I know they claim it’s just the UI, and the sole purpose of closed-source code is to make it harder to steal innovative UI elements - but when it comes to something as sensitive as the browser, I’d like for these claims to be verifiable.

Vivaldi is in big part closed source, so we literally don’t know what it does behind the scenes

How do you define “Chinese propaganda” and why do you think CCP even cares about a place as small as Lemmy?

As a side observer, I just see some people being more loyal to China and others to the US. This does happen on a decentralized platform where you can’t shut down the other side of the discussion.

Overall, Lemmy remains America-centric and America-dominated on all fronts, so if there’s any bias, it’s here.

Loops.

However, of a dozen instances that exist, only the main one - loops.video - functions well and serves a diversity of content. It’s still in heavy development, but technically, ActivityPub is already included.

The community push, mainly. But there seemed to be a PR campaign to capitalize on it. I don’t know if there were official adverts.

There already are quite a few instances actually, but they’re all trash tier for now, except for the dev-operated loops.video

They follow what is advertised. Fediverse, by its nature, doesn’t have money for this. There was a push for Mastodon, though.

First of all, welcome! Hope you’ll like it here.

Politics surely seems to drown the regular conversations at times. But some niche communities are quite active! Places like !newcommunities@lemmy.world , as well as general search might be of great help in finding your gems.

As per federation and stuff, I think Mastodon of all places does a more or less decent job on boarding new users, and Lemmy has a lot to learn from it.

Regardless, the core idea is that there are plenty of various interconnected physical servers operated by different people. A simple and rough analogy is e-mail, which is actually also federated. You may have your mailbox somewhere like Gmail, and I can have mine in Outlook or even host my own (and you can do that with Lemmy, too). But we’ll be able to write to each other like if we use same service.

Here, everything is organized in a way as to allow not only private communication, but public discussion. Posts and comments are public and can be seen by everyone from the server the post is made on.

For example:

• You connect to a server under the lemmy.ca domain. So, some Canadian guy just rents/owns a physical server and puts Lemmy software on it.
• I connect to rekabu.ru, hosted by a guy somewhere in Russia. Same idea.
• The post is in the community on the lemmy.world server, which is a third one.
• Our servers connect to lemmy.world, where the post is made, and exchange information with it. My server sends my comments, your server sends yours, and so we can see each other despite connecting to different places.
• Should I send you a direct message instead, it will go straight from rekabu.ru to lemmy.ca, just like e-mail. And vice versa.

Some Lemmy apps (and probably frontends, too) have filter settings allowing you to remove any mentions of various political figures to focus on what matters.

But yeah, Lemmy and most of Fediverse really need the influx of regular folks and regular topics.

This part is important too! Fediverse is remarkably active for its user count, and that’s its strength!

Join us as we make this place lively - and lovely :)