It needs to be accepted as currency to be useful.
My friend uses it to anonymously buy servers. Their country has a history of killing political activists so they take their privacy seriously when it comes to that kind of thing.
I would say Monero was useful to them, at that time. It didn’t have to be mainstream to be useful. They weren’t investing in it. It allowed them to make an international transaction which is much harder to track than other accepted payment methods.
Those are both great points, thanks for explaining.
Anonymity relies on other people using the same name. Otherwise you’ve just got pseudonymity, like me right now.
You can get the same end result with throwaways, but it’s a bit more time-taking on most instances since spammers have abused most of the instances without a signup manual approval.
Mussolini called it a merger of the corporation and the state, and he’s the guy who started it
That’s not what corporatism is, it’s a different meaning of the word “corporation”.
You’re absolutely correct that fascism is an illiberal capitalist ideology, but Mussolini framed their movement as pro-labour, not pro-capitalist. We must learn to recognize Classical Fascism’s class-collaborationist hypothesis as flawed and pro-capitalist, especially since this rhetoric is often echoed in social democracy.
Why is it wrong to promote the things a shitty person makes?
It’s FOSS, so using it doesn’t give them money. On the other hand, a user might voluntarily donate if they’re unaware.
One might claim they’re being given a platform in the community by people promoting their product, but on the other hand I hear more loudly that they’re toxic, fascist and banned from various places.
Anything else to add?
To be honest, and it wouldn’t work here, but I sometime enjoy the cryptic nature of iceberg memes at the lower ranks. It’s like a scavenger hunt.
Oh, am I that far gone?
I don’t see Qubes, Whonix or Tails on there.
Picking up an AR15 is just a last resort when, literally, all else fails
On the other hand, how late is too late? The later you leave it, the more innocent people might be imprisoned, exiled or killed, so I’d say we’re obliged to draw a balance somewhere sooner than literally all else.
Let’s consider the rise of the NSDAP (Nazi Party) in Germany - when is the point where that level of physical violence became appropriate? Try picking a specific year or event. Try doing the same with other fascist regimes, like Italy’s fascist party.
Using this knowledge, where is the red line with the current US regime? Innocent people are already being repressed, imprisoned and exiled.
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I kept quiet; I wasn’t a communist.
When they came for the trade unionists, I kept quiet;
I wasn’t a trade unionist.
When they locked up the Social Democrats, I kept quiet;
I wasn’t a social democrat.
When they locked up the Jews, I kept quiet;
I wasn’t a Jew.
When they came for me, there was no one left to protest.
The same principle applies for physical resistance. Divide and conquer is an effective strategy and already in the fascist playbook.
What specifically do you mean by “socialist government”? There are many valid ways to interpret that.
There are many governments which follow various socialist schools of thought (China, Vietnam, Cuba, Laos, DPRK), the ruling leader of Burkino Faso certainly has Marxist influence, the large Zapatista territory in Chiapas, Mexico (population ~300,000) is governed in a socialist manner, one of the two main parties in the Nepalese government is communist, as well as almost all of the opposition (it’s… complicated). And this is taking an anti-capitalist definition of socialism, none of that social-democracy Nordic model stuff.
This is not exhaustive. Many more self-declare themselves socialist..
Now, whether someone believes each of those governments fits their definition of “socialism” is a whole other story.
“You only attack liberals, what about the other side?!?!”
I haven’t heard this (strawman quote?) myself, but my answer is I rarely think people further "right" than liberals are worth discussing politics with. Outside of special circumstances, I skip arguing with anti-liberal “conservatives” and neo-nazis and go straight to denying speech (both peacefully, and where appropriate, forcefully). They generally have no interest in good faith or truthfulness, those concepts are silly, idealist and weak self-restrictions to them.
“Never argue with an idiot, they will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience,” - Mark Twain.
Liberals, on the other hand, sometimes value other people, the search for truth and a better society as much as us. So it makes sense to discuss our disagreements so long as each side reciprocates that respect. We can actually learn from each other.
Relevant quote from Jean-Paul Sartre on antisemites (1946):
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
And a point of notice: it’s worth acknowledging that some people share worker-class values but have adopted the language or even talking points of mass-media bigotry. I’ve even seen this in some unions, for example. I don’t automatically consider them a lost cause like I do with nazi scum, even if their ignorance or careless word choice suggests they’re “the other side” - the sides are drawn by the class war, not a culture war.
Technically? No. (ActivityPub)
Culturally? No. (Venture capitalist for-profit and already beginning the resulting enshittification)
I don’t see any reason to consider them part of the Fediverse.
You’re welcome :)
I just had another look at the settings options, and it looks like we can import/export account settings, including subscribed communities, blocks and saved posts. (I haven’t tested this, but I can see them in the exported data file)
subreddits
We ain’t in Kansas anymore! They’re officially called communities or comms for short over here.
It usually helps to subscribe to more than one, especially if it’s something simple like Apple comms, but you don’t need to sign up for a new account just to subscribe to communities on other instances. Also no point in subscribing to all the dead ones with no posts in months, but I’m subscribed to some technology comms on both lemmy.ml and lemmy.world and they both get posts. (There might even be some users who are only able to see one of those comms because their instance blocked another instance, so that’s a reason why one of those comms might not become the only one everyone is using.)
There are a few exceptions like /c/196 or politics subs where different ones have different-enough rules and moderation where it might actually matter which one you subscribe too, but for general interests, might as well just sub to them all because the worst case is they just don’t add any extra posts to your feed.
Generally agreeing with Cowbee’s reply. I joined lemmy.ml years ago when it was explicitly “leftist” (as in socialist) but that’s not written in the instance description anymore, and I am interested in FOSS discussion but you don’t have to care about that to use the instance. This was the first instance, which was created by the two core developers who are both communists. I wanted an instance that was socialist-leaning, stable and isn’t trigger-happy with defederating or regularly getting defederated, so this one is great for me.
I have mixed feelings on Hexbear, I like dropping in sometimes and some of their comms are nice, but I see them as prone to mod powertripping and the culture is (overall, not always) a bit low-effort for my liking and prone to idealism/sloganism/dogmatism. So I’m usually only using a couple of specific comms or laughing at /c/slop.
I haven’t kept up with Lemmy software updates so I don’t know where it’s at with migrating an account. I’ve had a couple of different accounts simultaneously (one on an instance which died years ago, one on an interest-themed instance) rather than just having one main account. And like they said, there’s little downside to abandoning an account beyond inconvenience. There’s no ‘karma’ score shown by default, and you can re-use your username on the other accounts if your name had a reputation you want to keep.
On that note: cache
Not the user you asked, but my impression is they’re tolerant (or undermoderating, I’m not sure) of the kind of behaviors many of us left reddit to avoid, like flame trolling, bigotry, propaganda levels of US-centrism (and labeling anti-US-government or anti-Democrat-Party attitudes as Russian bots), anti-socialism and straight-up platforming US reactionary users like Trump/Musk supporters.
The instance takes a general lax liberalist position, and as a result, allow a sizable amount of toxic users who we don’t tolerate in our communities. So some people take the easy option and just block the whole instance, unfortunately blocking a decent amount of good considerate users too.
There’s also a bit of bad reputation due to the staff being far stricter on deleting support for Luigi Mangeoni, like anyone suggesting what they did was positive or appreciated. Lots of people left reddit because there were banned for the same reason. Whereas my instance (and the one this thread is on) allows me to say that, while I believe history shows PotD assassinations are not the right strategy to solve this problem and there must be a social movement surrounding direct actions, the shooter’s assassination was cathartic, Brian Thompson deserved to die early and quickly, the owner-class mass media’s widespread failed attempt to demonize the assassination as immoral showed clearly their values lie in opposition to the worker class (regardless of electoral alignment), and the fact that healthcare CEOs were terrorized by the event was a benefit, however small, to humanity. You would probably get a warning for saying that on lemmy.world’s communities.
It’s unfortunate that such a big diverse instance goes on the block list. A huge amount of people get blocked just because the platform tolerates enough reactionary jerks that people begin associating it with the instance. And to be clear, I’m blaming the overly-liberalist position of their administration, not you or the typical user.
Sympathy as a lemmy.ml user. There’s usually a few people in these threads saying “just ban .ml” for various reasons.
Classic example are the few people who go around flaming inter-community drama in comments, then someone else replies showing that poster had recently been banned from that community and clearly deserved it. Modlog ftw.
It’s rare, and mostly the same people, but I see it about a dozen times a year.
For what it’s worth, I’m very familiar with that feeling too, despite excelling academically and a high score on IQ tests. Ignorance is not a lack of intelligence, it’s more likely a lack of experience. And every culture, job and hobby will have their own terminology and assumed knowledge, so not even the Einsteins could pretend to already know it all.
I listen to music all the time, I’ve composed amateur music myself, and enjoy occasionally reading wikipedia for trivia of music theory, but if two musicians start talking about basic stuff like major and minor chords I’m already out of my depth. Do I do the smart thing and ask them to explain? Or do I just nod until they talk about something I know, or tell myself I don’t actually care about music theory?