Why should we just accept that some naïve twitter refugees have misassociated the Fediverse as being just Mastodon? This isn't branding, this is raising awareness of the interrelatedness of this federated network! Disassociating from the Fediverse just makes the problem worse, I'd say.
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The Fediverse. There's nothing inherently special about Lemmy or kbin or lotide being link aggregators. We get regular posters from Friendica and I've gotten replies from Mastodon accounts before.
The Fediverse is ALL of us. We should be interacting with PeerTube and Misskey and all the rest!
If it were me, I'd also emphasise how reddit caring about profit over users is a systematic issue, not just a bad decision in isolation that will go away with this boycott, and that non-commercial alternatives like Lemmy won't have this problem.
I don't know why it would be any good to have a browser reskin just to change the default search engine. It's a simple settings change. Is there any other benefit? Worst case, it becomes poorly maintained and a security risk.
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I wonder if lemmy.ml will do what /r/antiwork failed to do, and slice away all the liberals once the instance has a decent mass. It could honestly go either way.
If it's any reconciliation, Hexbear may be federating with Lemmygrad soon.
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If you want to bring relevance into this, a war in Eastern Europe has extremely little relevance to me, my family, my community, my co-workers and even my country, beyond the fortunate side effect of it weakening the major world superpower. This entire conversation is irrelevant.
I'm not replying to you to "win the argument", that's an unhealthy mindset to have when discussing serious issues. Especially when you just made blind assertions about others being contrarian. If you want to spew a bunch of fallacies and declare some kind of victory, twitter will happily accommodate the spectacle. If you actually care about Ukrainian peoples, projecting arguments onto other people and declaring some strange victory provides no solidarity or support for them. It doesn't help us understand what is happening, and why it will happen in other countries next decade unless we help stop it.
Most of the viewpoints you just projected onto me are completely baseless. I've made it clear I want the dissolution of Russia. I also want the dissolution of NATO. No contradiction! I don't know why you keep insisting I like Russia. I want it gone more than you do. If I have any grudge, it's against the Russian Federation for willingly plunging their own people into poverty and terror.
My critique of NATO is not a grudge, it's a recognition that they actively antagonize the sovereignty of almost the entirety of South America, Africa and the Middle East, along with much of Asia, and more. Anti-democracy, invasion and bombing. The same bullshit Russia has done to Ukraine. The sad truth is that NATO are not "good". Russia aren't either. There is no good side in this war. Neither side really give a fuck about Ukrainians, hell they barely care about their own citizens.
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That's not salty, the developers intentionally state it's not the flagship instance and ~~help promote more "centrist" instances~~ have stated a desire to see "mainstread, or liberal" instances to avoid lemmy.ml becoming... what it just became.
Here is one of the devs saying so, in an official announcement post linked in the lemmy.ml sidebar: https://lemmy.ml/post/70280
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reddit users bringing over all the bad attitudes of reddit. Trolls are the last thing the Fediverse needs.
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I don't fall under a gender binary. It's quicker to type "comrade", or "friend".
"Illegal" makes no sense in international politics like this. The dissolution of the USSR was "illegal" (majority voted against it). The founding of almost every republic on Earth was "illegal". Almost every action taken by the CIA is "illegal". Furthermore, legality is a horrible basis for a system of ethics or morality irregardless.
Those points were relevant to my position. No outcome is "excusable", there was no good ending for Ukraine after the fall of the USSR, and it's pointless to impose some idealistic mindset of what is right and wrong and justified and excused when all states (governments) involved deserve to be overthrown. Being controlled by USA/NATO or by Russia are both bad for the Ukrainian people, and any actual sovereignty would be crushed. Ukraine's coup was only allowed to survive because of NATO strategic interest, they are unfortunately in a position where they are forced to be subservient to their nationalistic neighbour or the world major superpower.
The situation is terrible. Both sides suck, and my only allegiance is to the citizens of each country caught up in this bullshit.
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Please, tell me what my positions is.
Protip: Russia is a capitalist cesspit and so is Ukraine. Ukraine and Russia both only exist seperately because the USSR was dissolved, Ukraine's control by either RF or the USA was unfortunately inevitable. I will smile if Putin is assassinated.
Well, I honestly haven't come across anyone who uses it that way so I can't really advise.
I just feel like it's not so widespread to just assume we should accept that the "cat is out of the bag". We can just focus on correcting people, like we do when they conflate Lemmy with lemmy.ml.