@joes desire slip lane path

Friendica has federated with Lemmy since… the very first time Lemmy enabled AP federation I guess? lol, idk. I just got very happy that I can also replace Reddit with Friendica, not just Facebook. Sadly, I figured out the hard way about .ml and the only alternative to .ml was beehaw, lol.

Back then .world didn’t even exist, lol.

Anyway, yes, hello from Friendica. It’s not so active indeed, because there are not so many people, but as it got some attention from Ruud (the admin of both lemmy.world and mastodon.world) there’s been an uptick as of late.

Sadly, the situation of Friendica as an alternative to Facebook is really disproportionate, imo, as this is a hobby project made by some enthusiasts that aren’t even organized as a juridical entity (unlike Mastodon for example) vs. a multibillion-dollar company that owns the biggest social network on the planet.

Lemmy is also in a somewhat similar situation, but Reddit is not that big, though.

Being the oldest still actively developed Fediverse project does give it an advantage, though.

@cm0002 My Friendica node did the heavy lifting for a while, blocking both .ml, lemmygrad as well if I’m not mistaken - although sadly .world and even lemmy.ca too - back in the day. The issue? Lemmy was just sending way too many activities (upvotes - generated as likes, downvotes, comments etc.) and was generaly overwhelming the server.

They have since reverted the block, but I got a hefty selection of communities spread across multiple servers. I followed !linuxgaming@level-up.zone, as well as !linux4noobs@programming.dev for example - as they are on more dedicated servers, rather than general purpose ones. Sadly, the former did not take off the way I expected it to 😁

I was just wondering how yogthos is doing

@SmokeyDope thank you!

You can find good stardicts of just about every dictionary on the internet if you look hard enough

I’m just amazed by this. Can you point me to some of the more common places where one could start? I could really use some new dictionaries 😁

No wonder they removed poVoq’s comment. The burn was too hot for them.

@Servais €7 for my cell phone plan (for which I have unlimited data, calls and texting in every network) and my home internet is included with the rent (it’s actually a full package complete with cable TV if I recall correctly).

@HowRu68 Lol, I just got suggested this one as well

@Skullgrid yes, they are. I don’t contradict you. But in their opinion it really is better to be a dictatorship than a democracy.

The only solution is to just keep fighting for your values in every way possible, as I said, and show people that these are objectively better than what they crave for (or, if objectivity is not possible, subjectivity can help as well)

@Mee it just seems like that. In reality, everything in the world has been just someone’s interests - because that’s how the world was built. In fact, good and evil are just subjective terms. What may be good for you, it might be bad for somebody else. Your evil might be someone else’s good and vice-versa.

I think you should think the things into more of what you care the most, what your values are, what is important for you overall. And then you’ll see the bigger picture: people are just having different values than you, they think that the values you believe in are not theirs. And I am somewhat in the same situation as you - let me give you an example:

Among the values I care the most are democracy, personal freedoms, the ability to voice out (politely) your own opinion; you’d think I am a normal person, that no sane person would be thinking otherwise. Well, what if I told you, you’re wrong! There was a poll last year in my country where 40% of the people said they would agree with my country returning under a dictatorship. Forty freaking percent!!! This is mind-boggling, right? That’s what I also think.

What would be the solution to a problem like this be like? Well, you could join the crowd, that would be the most obvious, right? Be one with the majority, mindlessly agree on what they say, do what they do. But I bet you would never see your place in there. Instead, I think you should keep staying true to your own values and beliefs and look for people that share these. Speak to them, understand them yourself as well and who knows, maybe you can do something about it. 😁

/my 2c

No worries!

They’ve been abandoned before they were completed. They’re like that for a few years already

@rhythmisaprancer yes, but there is a fence separating the construction site. Probably there’s a hole in the fence somewhere, but I didn’t check

@BlueHeron Nevil would be a better fit

Edit: because unlike Neville, he’s also evil

@TheReturnOfPEB True that. They were just incompetent. Trump and his aides are literally just nazi Russian bootlickers.

🤡

@tkk13909 not sure what bombings. The thing is that back then Sweeden was regarded as a highly progressive country, with similar refugee-accepting policies of Germany. The far/alt-right was consistently showcasing how because of the refugees related policies, terror attacks were rampant. Yet that was not the case.

@zaknenou be sure to ;) 👉👉

@JubilantJaguar @merari42 We’re doing our best. Sadly we’re not living in the most democratic systems. Even last summer at the local elections, in a few jurisdictions, there was solid evidence that the vote was rigged in favor of the ruling party. Wherever the difference is a narrow one, they can allow themselves to do this and get away unharmed. And in some smaller communities (i.e. villages), reformist parties have almost no foothold, so no members in the polling sections. This means that the possibility for voter fraud is immense, and voter corruption is almost guaranteed.

The solution is not just to vote, but to get out and vote massively to get these people out of power wherever we have a ground. As a well known sailor once said:

They cannot steal just as much as you can vote.