(and some of us don’t even use Lemmy - I’m on mbin and piefed)

For anyone unfamiliar, his machine which “loves, serves + protects life” is a reference to Woody Guthrie, whose guitar killed fascists.

[…] and now faces up to seven years in prison for performing a piece by Bach during a protest outside the headquarters of Citibank

…and the home of the brave.

It literally cannot, because nobody owns it. Which is why there’s some confusion in this thread.

You’ve basically entered a public beach asking for the manager. Everybody’s looking around a bit confused. That guy over there has been here all day, so maybe he would do? Or maybe that guy over there who has a beach blanket with a bunch of friends on it? That kid over there built a nice sandcastle, maybe he’s the one you’d like to talk to.

It’s not like the private beach over at Reddit. There’s not one clear person in charge, and not one person can shut it down or change the rules for everyone else.

We have some people occasionally trying to poison the water, but we’re getting better at expelling them before they manage to do too much damage.

I got my hands on a Dell USB C docking station for free, it’s all good except that the power supply is missing.

Looking for a replacement I found the same docking station for sale cheaper than what I would have to pay for the cable.

Man, fuck Dell.

It’s better to wake up alone knowing you’re alone, than to wake up next to someone and nevertheless feel lonely.

— Liv Ullmann, Norwegian actress

I don’t think it speaks for the US being run by dynasties, but rather that the top of the political landscape is not extremely dynamic. I think name recognition is a huge deal in the US, which would also help explain Reagan and Trump.

Woha, edgy!

I don’t know who anyone mentioned here is except the former president, and I have no intention of watching the videos and giving them further attention.

But none of this shit is real. Whatever he begs Musk for in the video is for show. The so-called gifting is for show. Trump is not going to drive around in a Musk machine.

These videos are Tesla ads, and they are Trump campaign ads. The guy making the ads apparently reaches an audience, so of course they will make sure he has access to Cybertrucks or whatever.

And considering what a piece of shit Musk is, I really don’t understand what is surprising here.

Colder than a well digger’s ass.

It might also be that they don’t federate well - Bridgy was not built with Lemmy in mind, and Lemmy was not designed to be a very flexible application of ActivityPub.

It could also be that Lemmy can’t search for users that are not already observed on the server, making Bridgy invisible as the account itself never posts any content anywhere.

A brief rough history, in case anyone is interested:

17th century: Kings and shit. The people supporting the rule of the king are in power. They become conservatives.

18th century: Liberals appear. They believe men have certain inherent rights from nature. They don’t dig kings, but they do believe in private property. They sit to the left in parliaments, the conservatives sit to the right.

19th century: Marx gives us his take on history and labour. Liberalism is given a competing framework from the left.

20th century: All kinds of shit goes down, partly because the conservatives and the liberals are terrified of the Marxists and give the fascists the keys to the kingdom, partly because of a Marx-inspired Leninists take control in Russia. The “new” left (socialism) becomes a major force in the postwar era, promising to build a new world on the ashes of the old.

21st century: There seems to be a head on collision. People feel strongly about these concepts, but it seems many have forgotten where they come from or what they mean. Disinformation campaigns have gotten efficient. Green politics enter the field.

As Bluesky is federated through it’s own protocol (AT), ActivityPub content can be bridged to the AT protocol and appear on BlueSky. This is currently possible through Bridgy.fed.

If you want your stuff to be bridged to BlueSky, just follow @[email protected]. It probably doesn’t work very well with the threadiverse though.

It doesn’t work, as what is being shared here is not the post itself but a link to it. You cannot “re-post” other people’s content into threads in the Threadiverse - they’d have to submit it themselves by tagging the community.

That said, people can check out @[email protected] and see if the post federated.

Terrorism = Acts of violence with the purpose of instilling fear. Or something along those lines.

Doesn’t matter if you agree with them. I sympathise fully with the root purpose of the PKK and the ETA, and possibly also the IRA. I find that their means sometimes undermine their cause, and it makes me somewhat uncomfortable to be aligned with them politically.

It’s possible for people to do terrible things in the name of a good cause.

And “terrorist group” doesn’t mean “the baddies” - that’s just how it’s used in America. Tarantino’s jewish gang in Inglorious Basterds would be a text book terrorist organization, but terrorising Nazis is generally considered an okay thing to do.

Yeah, having an option to suggest corrections to captions would probably be much more popular than actually writing them from scratch. I doubt it will be high on the list of priorities, but it would be a neat feature for sure.

Also true. There’s a lot of enthusiasm in the Fediverse about writing alt texts, so who knows! It’s a lot more work, but similar ballpark.

Because Lemmy.ca is a Canadian instance, and Greece is a long way from Canada.

A general instance like Lemmy.world might make more intuitive sense, if no Greek instance exists.

Then again, it doesn’t really matter. If the Canadians are happy to host them it’s all good.

Also worth mentioning that the community will be hosted at the same instance as the one you’re currently on. So if you’re half Greek and want to create a community about Greek culture, doing so from Lemmy.ca might be a bit weird. One of my favourite Lemmy.ca communities, [email protected], seems however like a nice fit.

It’s not necessarily a huge deal. It’s worth checking that the instance appears to be run by reasonable people who appear dedicated to continue to support it - if the instance disappears, so does your community. And if you disagree with the rules of the instance, that’s not good either. But for the most part, people don’t pay all that much attention to which instance the community they subscribe to is hosted at.

I guess it could, but implementing it in a decentralized system is probably more complicated at this point than having computer generated ones.