sparkle

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[–] sparkle@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

There's plenty of Anarchist and non-ML communities on .ml and hexbear. The hardcore Maoist stuff doesn't apply to most of the communities on .ml. Either way though, the communities they do have isn't as relevant to federation for lemm.ee since the admins stated they only consider defederation for activities on lemm.ee. Which again, I would say lemmy.world and other instances have had just as much of a problem. That's relevant because in that case, if we're defederating .ml/hexbear, logically we should defederate .world.

Every day on this site I see people who are into transphobia ("I don't believe in trans people" I shit you not is something I've seen), Palestinians ethnic cleansing, want to get rid of healthcare, all that Project 2025 and "ancap" stuff. And they're mostly from lemmy.world and sometimes instances like sh.itjust.works. Their propoganda seems to prove far more consequential on the site, as most people will think you're a lunatic if you say China is a free and democratic nation, but a lot of people will buy what is now mainstream far-right propoganda and culture war nonsense. Although both of those will tell Americans to not vote for Kamala.

[–] sparkle@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

So let me get this straight:

You think it's okay that Israelis colonized Palestine. You think it's okay that they've displaced and murdered millions throughout their entire existence, taken hundreds of Arab towns and cities and renamed them with Hebrew names. You decry anyone pointing out that Israel does this stuff as 'hate'. On top of that, you've argued that slurs are okay, and that it's "woke" to say slurs are bad. You're literally a modern Nazi cosplaying as a leftist.

But somehow, you have the resolve to crawl around my comments, trying to get your ego back apparently, and you do the mental gymnastics to conclude that "defederation is reserved for extreme cases" is equivalent to 'defending redfash'. That's creepy. What is wrong with you, you freak? Why do you want to defend indiscriminately blowing up civilians, women, children so badly? Because they're the wrong ethnicity? Do you really think anyone's going to believe you calling anti-genocide protestors "Nazis" while you support the people who contribute to Israel's war crimes and prop up this ethnostate?

How do you suppose you get to label other people fascists, you fascist? Why don't you have any introspection?

[–] sparkle@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's pretty normal in say, Italy and Spain (or at least populated/Catalonian parts of Spain). Everyone immediately brings up Genoa G8 when a police do stuff.

[–] sparkle@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You know, I recall a band that had a really popular song about this... I think they played it on BBC once... pretty sure their name is... Anger Opposing the Computer? Distress in Conflict with the Machinations? Fury For the Engine? Mildly Upset About the Calculator?

[–] sparkle@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

Yea but it's inefficient. USB-A has a significantly lower transfer rate than USB-C so it'll bottleneck

[–] sparkle@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Objectively disgusting. How can one connector be so chunky while still being asymmetric?

[–] sparkle@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Is blowing up an automobile factory good? Or is that too militant? How do I guage the correct degree of militantness? I don't know how to make nitroglycerin... maybe I can snag some bourgeoisie's heart meds and make a cursed stew out of it.

[–] sparkle@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (9 children)

I completely get the stance you have. I just can't agree with the view that the instances are as bad as fascist instances. I mean some of the communities there definitely express heinous views don't get me wrong, but they're a leftist instance with many different types of leftism. There's the extremist "tankie" communities (one might call them) with all the Russian and North Korean apologia (yes, internet MLs think North Korea is free and democratic), then there's most of the rest of the instance with well-adjusted but very leftist views. This goes for .ml and hexbear but, I haven't seen much of anything other than authoritarian communism on lemmygrad so I can't say anything positive about that.

I think most instances have their extremely problematic areas that those admins don't see as problems, and we have to weigh whether those problems are serious enough to cause major problems for lemm.ee. Seemingly in our admins' opinions, and my opinion, hexbear and .ml are easily dealt with by just blocking them. I have seen a ton of cryptofascists and actual pedophiles from some other specific large instances (cough .world), and while I certainly put some blame on the instance admins for catering towards people with those views somewhat, I don't want to defederate from them. There's tons of good reason to federate with .world, and tons of good reason to federate with .ml, and with hexbear. They all contribute a lot of non-political stuff to my feed. Hexbear has probably the best trans communities along with blahaj.zone, probably like 1/3 of the posts in my feed are from .ml plus .world.

IMO, since there are a lot of instances that defederate those instances already, the classic use of the Fediverse is to have your account on one of those instances. Or to block the instance if you don't want to go that far. I go on lemm.ee specifically so I can see all the fediverse has to offer without having to change between a bunch of different accounts because of defederation. I don't want the LGBT and leftist communities I participate in to be blocked because a bunch of guys in the instance have really bad opinions. Unless they're spreading abuse content or something, I'd probably rather be able to see the instance.

Sorry for the wall of text, but defederation is an important topic that affects everyone on the site, I think it should have a lot of elaboration.

[–] sparkle@lemm.ee -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

...? I'm confused. Is ani.social a Nazi/anti-Palestine instance? I've had a total of 2 interactions with people from there mentioning Germany denying Israeli war crimes, and both of those people happened to be pro-ethnostate and immediately went the genocide denial route. I guess weebs on Lemmy are just as conservative as weebs on Reddit or something

Edit: Oh, it's mostly porn/erotic content and talking about erotic content in anime... so it's literally just the Reddit anime communities, but on the fediverse. Welp, that's enough Lemmy for today

[–] sparkle@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (8 children)

And genocide denial is illegal in Germany, many other EU countries followed that, but the majority of instances host with Hezner, wich has servers in Germany, so its legally problematic for EU hosted instances. https://www.dw.com/en/germany-criminalizes-denying-war-crimes-genocide/a-63834791

Huh. Well considering the actions of the German government this past year, I doubt they'll be doing much about genocide denial this time around.

This alleged holocaust denial though... you've piqued my interest. Lemmygrad, being an extremely communist instance, is almost always vocal about how the Nazis did a lot of genocide. It'd be weird for that to be there without immediately being removed by mods. Do you have any examples or quotes, perchance? I haven't had a particularly good experience with lemmygrad users on average, but this would definitely take the cake.

As for Hexbear brigading, that actually was apparently an issue for lemm.ee a long time ago. But the admins talked with the hexbear admins and were able to get it resolved. At least, on lemm.ee communities, hexbear users seem to be following the rules – usually it's lemmy.world users breaking the rules sitewide (usually for transphobia, very recently some prominent users there were promoting pedophilia). But I think lemm.ee doesn't ban users much regardless unless they're extraordinarily uncivil and cartoonishly evil. There's not even a modlog that I can find (pretty weird not to have a mod log).

[–] sparkle@lemm.ee 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

For a lot of English speakers, the "had" and "have" in contractions is completely omitted in certain contexts. It's more prevalent in some dialects (I'm in the south US and it's more common than not). Usually "had" is dropped more than "have".

Also, English can drop the pronoun, article, and even copula for certain indicative statements. I think it's specifically for observations, especially when the context is clear.

looking at someone's bracelet "Cool bracelet." [That's a]

wakes up "sigh Gotta get up and go to work..." [I've]

"Ain't no day for picking tomatoes like a Saturday." [There]

"No war but class war!" [There's]

"Forecast came in on the radio. Says there's gonna be a hell of a lot of rain today." [It said -> Says/Said]

"Can't count the number of Brits I've killed. Guess I'm just allergic to beans on toast." [I; I]

"House came tumblin' down after the sinkhole opened up" [The]

"I'd" can be "I would", mainly if used with a conditional or certain conjunctions/contrastive statements (if, but, however, unfortunately). Also when preceding "have" – e.g. "I'd have done that". Because "I had have" doesn't make sense, nor does "I had " anything. "I'd" as in "I had" is followed by a past participle.

"I'd" is usually "I had" otherwise, forming the past perfect tense. But in "I'd better", it's a bit confusing because "had better" is used in a different sense – the "had" here comes from "have to" (as in "to be necessary to") and can be treated as both a lexical verb and an auxiliary verb. "had better" is a bit of a leftover of more archaic constructions.

[–] sparkle@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Ok I said I was done with talking but this comment in particular is funny. You're really that extremely against the SPD and the German left huh...

After the rise of the Nazi Party to power, the SPD was the only party present in the Reichstag to vote against the Enabling Act of 1933; the SPD was subsequently banned, and operated in exile as the Sopade.

Maybe you're the Nazi if we think about it ;) After all, you're on the side of modern genocide. Have you considered that the Nazis got into power because of the centrists, the people "left nor right", refusing to take a stance against Nazism, instead fearmongering over the woke socialists and justifying the rise in power of the right as the left "pushing too far" and being "too radical"? You know, basic civil rights and all that extremist Marxist stuff.... Pretty analogous to what people like you are doing today, don't you think? "Oh what was left extremism then is fine, but what's left extremism now is the end of humanity".

Not that I disagree much of the modern SPD is pieces of shit. Because of their anti-Palestinian rhetoric and lack of action against Russia, not because of their "wokeness". But that's the entire German government, not localized to them.

But okay, okay, now I promise I really won't make a snarky response to your blatantly defamatory insults again. Go off on me. Call me those slurs you were saying were completely fine to use.

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