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Selfhosting is useful when you either need a lot of storage or a lot of processing power. For example, Kiwix is useful to selfhost on a server because a lot of its content can take up terabytes of storage, which a phone may not have. LLMs are also useful to selfhost because they require a degree of processing power that, again, a phone may not have.
In both cases, there is also a need for perpetual access. If you simply hosted an LLM on your home computer, it wouldn't be very useful to access from your phone since your computer won't be running all the time. So, a separate always-on server is needed.
However, there are some selfhosted software that I don't see a use for. For example, Immich. Immich requires to be run on a server to function, but a lot of (or even all) of its functions are things that could reasonably done entirely on-device. Aves combined with some automatic backup solution such as Nextcloud gets (from what I can tell) most of the functionality Immich offers. Obviously, some features like AI image tagging are missing, but you get the point. AI image tagging is also something that could be run on-device as well, since it's mostly lightweight (iPhones are capable of it). Having a setup like that also comes with the benefit of automatic backups being completely optional, rather than required.
There's no reasonable need for extra storage or extra processing power needed for that use case, from what I can tell. (Disclaimer: I haven't actually used Immich before, so this is speculation. I apologize if I'm missing something obvious) There's a lot of other selfhosted tools like spotDL which have a selfhosted web UI, but no GUI that can be installed outside of a web browser.
I guess my question is why there are so many selfhosted tools that unnecessarily require being run on a separate device. I do understand the legitimate use cases some of them have, but others seem better off on-device airgapped. This especially became an issue trying to find a notes app for Android that requires no account and runs fully locally, or an RSS reader that loads from the device itself. I found Joplin and Feeder or Read You as the software for each of those. I don't like "server-based" selfhosting for things that could be done from the device itself.
I'm sorry if this turned into a rant. If someone could help me understand, I would appreciate that very much.
Hi! I have a server with static ip, that runs docker with caddy and thingsboard (iot dashboard). I have my domain, that points to the servers ip (both ipv4 and ipv6). (I tried using with "www" and with wilcard "*" in the A and AAAA records)
Thingsboard can be reached in the browser via ip:8080, or domain.com:8080 (or with the wildcard "*" set in DNS records with (anything).domain.com:8080). It is set up this way by the creators, where i got the compose file (without caddy) guide here. So i guess no routing is done via caddy.
Thingsboard cant be reached via thingsboard.domain.com which i would be expecting with this config. Below is the compose file. They are all part of the same docker network (they get listed when i inspect the network).
some specific questions: - how do i have to setup my dns records, so that all requests to any subdomain get send to caddy and i can do all the routing (from the subdomain to the service) in caddy? What am i missing in the caddyfile - can i deactivate the port from the thingsboard container, so it cant be reached via the port from "outside" only from inside the docker network, by caddy? - why am i struggling so much with this basic docker and networking stuff "docker is easy, you should try it" 😁
Thanks a lot for reading, i hope someone can help! I dont know what to search for to get this working, networking stuff is still a blurr.
Petro is cool, he was an ex-guerrilla fighter. He had ties with the 19th of April Movement which was a Bolivarian, Socialist and Rojista (Left-Wing Nationalist Socdem Military Dictator of Colombia) guerrilla and political party.
Trump, a mi no me gusta mucho viajar a los EEUU, es un poco aburridor, pero confieso que hay cosas meritorias, me gusta ir a los barrios negros de Washington, allí ví una lucha entera en la capital de los EEUU entre negros y latinos con barricadas, q…
This is the sort of resistance we need, no more 'decorum' to a fascist leader. He won't respect international norms so he deserves the benefit of none himself.
I used the Google Translate function on my Android phone. It rewrites the text in another language, in this case English, and there are slight differences in the font because of that process.
US-American fascism isn’t new for Latin America. I’m not surprised that there are good people there who can recognize and name it. Kudos to him for stating it so plainly and not trying to soften it.
That said, I’m going nuts here- any ideas which miller?
Swedish prosecutors announced Sunday night that they have opened a preliminary investigation into suspected aggravated “sabotage” and ordered the detention of a vessel in the Baltic Sea suspected of damaging an underwater fiber optic cable connecting Latvia and the Swedish island of Gotland
The primary suspect was the right one: Vezhen has damage to its anchor. Swedish authorities have boarded it.
Finnish "Yleisradio" reports here that the owner company admits causing the damage: "anchor fell down in harsh conditions".
The "harsh conditions" here in Estonia, about 300 km from the scene, include a wind speed of 1.2 meters per second. 😀 On an image from the scene, courtesy of YLE, the sea is flat like a glass table. That's some harsh conditions...
Last year we saw Mickey Mouse going public domain and now every year more and more talkie movies are going public domain too. The talkies began in 1928, and I would say they got very close to what we have today in about 1934 or 35.
That means that every year people will have hundreds of "new" releases on public domain, making paying for watching new movies unnecessary. One thing is preferring the new movies when you have to pay both for new and old movies. Another thing is paying for new films when you have hundreds of old movies as good as the new ones (or better) for free.
I don't know about you, but I could spend the rest of my life watching public domain classics, no problem. For instance, I read a dozen books last year, only two of them were less than a 100 years old.
I would say Hollywood is in a pinch right now, something that will make them miss the days when their biggest enemy was piracy.
Moby Dick is good in a way where I don't care about any of the characters or the story, but I could read Melville describe water or argue that dolphins are fish for the rest of my life, just because of how beautifully he does it.
Thanks for the recommendations! Haven't read any of these books and after reading some reviews, I'm intrigued.
If you liked the details in Moby Dick about whaling, you may also be interested in this great BBC series I've discovered a few weeks ago: Inside nature's giants where they dissect large animals and explain their anatomy and evolution. There are also two episodes of stranded whales being dissected ;)
A team of scientists reveal the mysteries of the evolutionary process by exploring the inside of giant animals, uncovering the anatomical secrets of some of...
exactly this. I have no desire to watch a "talkie" in 2025. movies from my childhood don't even really hold up anymore. society and culture changes so fast. I think it would be a real niche group of ppl that go back and watch these old movies
There's no need for most people to agree with me. Even if 10% of Netflix subscribers decided to cancel it and move to classic movies, that would already be a crisis for them.
And don't forget that humans have flock mentality. If this gets a little popular, it will be easy for it to explode. Just look at Nintendo now trying to contain the retro gaming boom and emulation.
Next ten years we will see classics led by John Wayne, James Stewart and Kirk Douglas going public, and that would be enough for millions to drop the new so-so movie stars.
Where will people watch the movies? Someone still has to provide a service where you can get them. Most people don't want to download and store them somewhere, Netflix is just easier. And Netflix can easily add them to their collection as well.
Tell me what's better: a 21st century hammer or a stone-aged one? Do you prefer a cell phone or an old phone? It's not about being "old", it's about usefulness or how useful you actually find it. We've been riding horses for hundreds of years, and they're still useful, even though cars have taken over the planet, and we've ditched black/white TVs for better ones with colors.
None of that makes any sense. An old book and a new book aren't different in the way a rotary phone and a smartphone are. They are functionally the same object: text on paper.
You could have, for example, a story about someone stranded on an island, and the era it was written in would make almost no difference at all because technology doesn't have any bearing on the story, and we haven't changed as a species. The culture of the author would influence things, but that's true even of media today since we don't all share the same culture.
Old media can also be very illuminating when it does affect the story because it can teach you something about the era in which it was made. You might think to yourself, "Gosh, people used to be able to feed and house their families on a single paycheck? Why can't we do that today?"
And yeah, having stuff in black and white is less visually interesting, but I'm not going to rule out something I might find enjoyable just because of that. I watched quite a few old sitcoms in my childhood that I enjoyed just as much as the modern cartoons, and I still enjoy some of those cartoons today alongside modern TV.
Do you think the Home Alone sequels are better than the original?
There's lots of bad pacing and horrible acting in movies today though. You can obviously watch or not watch whatever, but I think you're limiting yourself unnecessarily if you put too much weight on the year of release.
Acting techniques improved massively during the XXth century, so stuff that relies on that (basically anything but slapstick Comedy and mindless Action) will feel less believable, which impacts mostly things from the 60s and earlier.
Then there are the Production values: the scenarios in early XXth century films were basically Theatre stages whilst more recent stuff can be incredibly realistic (pay attention to the details in things like clothing and the objects and furniture in indoor scenes in period movies) and Sci-Fi benefited massive from the early XXIst century techniques for physically correct 3D rendering and Mocap techniques so there is a disjunction in perceived realism between even the early Star Wars Movies and something like The Mandalorian.
There are plenty old movies I have seen or would love to see, but very few of those were made before 1940, and 1940 won't reach public domain for another 15 years.
Good for you but I'm of the opinion that public domain nowadays is a bad joke of the cursed capitalist world we live in, if I wait to see something modern "for free" I'll be 150 years old and I won't even be able to see that Oppenheimer movie because of that stupid 95 year period of time... seriously, if the waiting period were 15/20 years I would make a genuine effort not to pirate but as I said above the public domain law is a joke and will continue to be...
That’s delusional man. We’re talking movies older than most people can even relate to. If this was maybe movies in the 80s we’d have a bigger problem but I’m sorry the content from 1920-1940 is just not relatable enough in most cases. If we have something like Batman and Superman Spider-Man, whatever right, things people care about, or like The Office or shows from yesterday hit the public domain, I think what you’re saying would have far more validity.
Method Acting (which is a pretty powerful Acting technique for getting actors to genuinely feel the emotions of the character) dates back to the 60s in Movies (it dates back even longer to Stanislavski in 19th century Russia, but its popularity really took off mid 20th century) so before that actors were just faking it whilst after that it will be more and more them reacting genuinely to imaginary circumstances (in terms of the audience it means we will actually empathise with what's hapenning to the character because the emotions on display are genuine).
So the quality of the acting in the kind of Films that are now coming into the Public Domain will be lower than what we are use to (though in stuff like Comedy and certain kinds of Action it's seldom noticeable).
And this is before we even go into the quality of the Production (in audience terms, how believable are the scenarios).
I doubt Hollywood will be threatened by this for at leat a couple of decades.
Another thing is paying for new films when you have hundreds of old movies as good as the new ones (or better) for free.
Yeah, no. Movies made in the past, say, 20 years, are WILDLY different from the ones made 90+ years ago. I'm not talking about technology, image quality or special effects, I'm talking about cinematography (shot composition and camera angles), acting and the kinds of stories that they're trying to tell. Some stories are classics and timeless, but not all of them are, many are a direct byproduct of the historical context in which they were created, thus serving as interesting glances into the past.
If all you end up watching are these movies, you will get alienated from the world you actually live in. For instance, I bet there isn't one of those public domain movies that portrays native americans as anything other than uncivilized, tent-living indians; or any movie that attempts to portray, even somewhat respectfully, the struggles they had to endure against european descended settlers. Movies that don't shy away from showing some grim, dark realities? Not gonna be in public domain for another couple decades.
I'm ready to completely jump in to using decentralized, federated platforms, however most people I know aren't fully there. It strikes me that this moment in time, where a lot of people are newly actively aware and frustrated by Meta and Twitter's actions, is ideal to get people to switch over to new platforms.
To encourage people in my community to join platforms on the Fediverse, I want to host instances of various platforms (probably Mastodon and Pixelfed to start with). Having a specific instance on these platforms to point people towards would probably help a lot of the folks I know get on board.
However, I'm scared I'm not knowledgeable enough to admin these public instances for others. I know some basic networking, I self-host a bunch of stuff with Docker on an old laptop, and I definitely am smart enough to figure out how to start up instances of these platforms. However, I'm mostly concerned with whether I'd be able to properly maintain and secure these instances. I wouldn't want people to be soured on decentralized social media just because I don't know what I'm doing.
Any thoughts, words of encouragement, tips, warnings, etc. are welcomed!
If you're selfhosting already, you know how to deploy it. Are those services available in the internet via some domain? Having an SSL certificate with automated renewal is quite important. Make sure to update the machine the service runs on regular.
Backups! Having daily snapshots to be able to roll back if necessary is great. If you want to use your own hardware, I suggest Proxmox. If you want to rent a VPS, see if the cloud provider has something like that as well (will likely cost a little extra). Also, check the service's documentation on what data to back to in order to be able to restore on a new machine in case your server explodes. (3-2-1 rule). Shutting down the instance with no prior warning because of some error you can't recover from because of no working backup is the best way to spoil anyone's experience.
If you use docker, make sure to have it behind a reverse proxy and configure your docker ports to be bound to localhost only so you don't accidentally expose your database to the internet.
Think not only about technical deployment but also governance. Set instance rules and think how you want to do moderation. See if you have someone to help you with that.
Go for it! Set it up, fiddle around for a while and when you get comfortable, invite your friends. Just be upfront that there might be an occasional downtime for maintenance (which you will advertise a day before or so) every now and then.
None of my selfhosted stuff is available to the public internet, I run everything through Wireguard. However I do know how to get SSL certificates from Let's Encrypt because of previous messing around.
Backups is definitely something that I'm lazy about with my selfhosting that I'd need to address for a public service. I currently just manually copy over the few essential files I have to my server, my desktop and my phone. If I commit to hosting stuff for others, proper backups are definitely at the top of the priority list.
Governance is something I've already thought a lot about, since these services would be aimed at a specific minority community.
Thanks for your comment! I'm currently messing about with Hugo to build a landing page to explain decentralized, federated servers and link to services I might host in the future. I really want to do this, I don't want to just accept that the common communication platforms are controlled by American fascists.
Feel free to hit me up if you need some assistance with setting it up, I can help with the initial setup, making sure it's secure and setting up backups.
There are some self-help chats (usually on Discord, IRC or Matrix) with other admins that you should join to get a feel of what typical problems arise and how to fix them. But it is usually not that much of a deal and you seem to be already on a good way.
Specifically for ActivityPub and other federated services it is important to know that even if there are only few people using your server the remote federated activities can have a quite significant impact on the performance of your server and RAM/Storage requirements.
Remote federated servers also usually "remember" who they talked to via special cryptographic keys and so on, meaning that if something goes wrong for some reason it might not always be possible to just delete everything and start new from scratch on the same domain as the remote servers will refuse to talk to your "new" server. Just something to keep in mind and another reason why backups are important.
The issue I have with self-hosting is that the day something goes wrong, you lose your account along with all your posts. And if you host for others, they also lose all of theirs.
I know this isn't the answer you were looking for. But I have the knowledge to self host and all. I have 17 years of experience as a Linux sysadmin, a software developer and now a DevOps specialist. And I honestly don't want to bother because of the responsibility. However, there are organizations and non-profits who have the resources to host stable long-running instances. But they need money. So I donate to the instances I use instead.
But it you REALLY want to learn, start learning about Linux web servers, databases, networking, containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes) and a good bit of cybersecurity. Hosting stuff on your laptop is a good start.
There's also Managed Hosting: Hosting a Fediverse instance (a list of providers): "However, there are hosting companies that can take care of the installation and technical maintenance for you. You get a pre-installed application, mainly Mastodon, which is also technically maintained. You yourself are an admin and can do some things in the application’s admin menu, such as manage your own users. This way, you can also allow a larger group of people to access the Fediverse."
This is the English translation of my German article Eine Fediverse Instanz hosten lassen (eine Anbieter Liste). Both articles are updated in parallel.
Are you sure this is a serious offer? This seems suspicious to me: "If you do not want or do not care about having your own server, but still want to be part of the fediverse. With these service packages you get an account at our flagship instances at a low cost. Share a group package with your friends and make it even cheaper!"
Do I understand correctly that you have to pay 29.99 just to get an account on their "flagship instance"? or how is it to be understood?
I'm very comfortable in Docker and honestly most of the software out there in the Fediverse is weird. Like they make containerized deployments much more convoluted than they are supposed to be.
GoToSocial is maybe the least bad that I've tried so far. Most of the more popular ones are, IMO, really really bad on this front.
I've had their Stans counter this but then they point me to the process that they followed and it's like something out of a Hogwart's spell book compared to what most self hosted containerized apps are like.
Basically nobody opposes deporting actual criminals (not political crimes). The problem is that it isn't the cartel members and bank robbers who get rounded up when a factory is raided. And the mother fleeing persecution is treated the same as the drug kingpin.
You're asssuming they got mothers on this specific flight? I've seen nothing about innocents in this flight being posted, are these not straight up criminals on this flight? Can you show me articles I cant find any
Basically nobody opposes deporting actual criminals
Deportation as a mechanism of punishment for state and federal crimes is generally bad policy. It is excessively draconian (it effectively renders them homeless, unemployed, and indefinitely denied their family and friends for... what? Too many parking tickets? Working construction without a license? Illegally camping?) for some. And entirely too lenient (deporting hardened criminals and cartel leaders like serial rapists or murderers effectively guarantees their release in states that can't afford to jail them) for others.
That's why we'll often extradite gang leaders into the US from overseas, when the crimes are severe enough. Its also why "sanctuary cities" regularly look the other way for petty offenses in order to avoid the mass economic disruption of ICE interference in municipal matters.
Injecting immigration penalties into the civil justice system fucks with all the basic functions of local courts and prosecutors. It raises the stakes on minor offenses and gives the worst offenders a get-out-of-jail-free card.
All that is assuming you even have somewhere to send undocumented criminals. For people who are functionally stateless - migrants who came over as children without papers, refugees from countries that cannot repatriate them or effectively no longer exist, Native Americans who the Feds don't want to recognize as legal US residents - the ability to deport is little more than Penal Transportation. Nevermind how it routinely violates the 5th and 8th amendment, it mostly just means bribing a small, bankrupt satrap of the US to accept planeloads of random people, often without so much as a proper conviction.
it effectively renders them homeless, unemployed, and indefinitely denied their family and friends for… what? Too many parking tickets? Working construction without a license? Illegally camping?
the u, s and a are actually deporting people over misdemeanors?
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It's really simple if you have a basic, or very tiny, ability to think about it for two seconds. Let's see if I can help. Criminals being deported are a huge problem for any receiving county, you see, they often don't have any legal pretext to imprison or arrest them, if they committed crimes in anther nation, it's unlikely the can collect evidence, or call witnesses to a legal process, also, it's quite rare to have laws that apply to actions that occurred outside all legaly boundaries. It's it illegal if an American goes to a county they don't have documentation to be in, then commit crimes outside the US against other people without any way for the US to detect or prove these actions? So if Colombia has an American who kills dozens of people in their country, and is charged and sentanced to life without parole, and then the decide YEARS after the fact to put them on a plane to LAX and throw them off the plane with no other effort, do you want to let that plane land? That's fucking insane. The solution to this problem already exists. Instead of being a fascist stupid fuck, you can create an extradition process where we can accept the Colombian legal process and transfer them ourselves to a US prison without dumping serial killers at an airport on their own.
Being a threatening authoritarian isn't solving this problem, and thinking every country in the world will simply accept people who have been convicted an sentanced in another nation is fucking stupid. And thinking they can't manage to exist outside US economic good will it's also stupid. If he think burning every ally in Latin America is going to hurt them more than us, he's as dumb as everyone already knows.
We don't actually know what is going on. We had a system that favored protections for people presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Now Trump is moving so fast with a process that is not transparent and a rhetoric that is hostile and unsympathetic towards all immigrants. People are understandably suspicious that the immigrants were given a fair chance to defend their legal presence in the USA.
Shit, I won't be surprised when legal us born citizens get deported in a mix up.
Shit, I won't be surprised when legal us born citizens get deported in a mix up.
They're already rounding up native Americans in these groups. It's only a matter of time until they start deporting randomly to other countries because ICE was already an incompetent organization and has done that previously numerous times, speeding things up just means more fuckups. Which is of course, the plan. Because it's not about illegals, or immigrants, it's about non-whites.
Stop using that label as an excuse to treat people as subhuman.
The state is rounding up people en masse and shipping them off to a foreign country. This process took a week. Due process is not present. This is some straight-up Nazi shit, and if you can't at least mutter "fuck that," then please shut up.
Ah yes, because criminals are subhumans who should be exterminated like the cockroaches they are. And if we can't take the trash out back like we should we can at least make it not our problem and make sure the cockroaches aren't in our backyard. That's what you're saying right?
Yeah, why shouldn't we send all Republicans to another country? Or how about those criminals guilty of being Jewish, or black, or gay? Or how about the crime of "looking too Mexican," like the US did to US citizens during Operations Wetback 1 & 2.
Also, love how you even say "some of them are criminals," not all of them. Meaning that you're okay with gathering up some amount of innocent people and sending them to a different country with nothing more than the clothes on their backs.
And let's get this clear, sending someone back to their "home" country without a plan or an actual home to go to should be a criminal act. These people are often productive members of US society who pay more taxes than Aotus. They already have homes and family in the US.
This is beyond despicable and crosses into the the realm of pure evil.
The best middle-men in this situation are the ones sidestepping the tariffs entirely.
Not like Colombia doesn't already have a rich history of smuggling high-demand US contraband over the border, but it will be weird to start getting all my coffee shipped by way of Langley.
You don't understand, tariff is promoting the emergence of American made alternative, by next week you will find American grown coffee and bananas in the supermarket.
You have to clean your grinder? Mine's going on 5 years without... In answer to your question, I didn't want to clutter up my kitchen, so I wouldn't have bought one on my own, but it was gifted.
Right now it seems he's getting anything he wants. (gestures at OP) I hope there's an end to that, but until then, yeah, I must angrily conclude, dude gets shit done. (Using the most reprehensible methods, and with shitty outcomes, but that's what his base voted for, so I'm quite sure they have few complaints right now.)
And I will keep pointing out that getting shit done is not fucking shit up and making things worse. That is just making a shitty mess.
I don't care for the opinions of his supporters mainly because they have no real opinions. One Trumper I ran into today said good thing Drump is a making Federal workers go back to work because they are waiting on their SSD determination.
HereBeter is saying that trump is a legal criminal... you know, since he has been found guilty of many crimes, yet hasn't had to have any consequences.
E.g. donald trump, or are you disagree that he is a legal criminal, according to his sentence. Like, a criminal yes, but we don’t judge you, because clearly not everyone is the same in front of the law, apparently.
"Criminals they forced into the United States" = "Invasion"
"Repatriation" != "Deportation"
Repatriation is what happens when you return a POW to their country of origin. Deportation is when you return a criminal to their country of origin.
POWs are not entitled to access to the criminal justice system. They can be held indefinitely without charges, or returned to their country of origin, without judicial oversight. Since deportation is a judicial process, POWs are not subject to deportation.
POWs are not "subject to the jurisdiction" of US law; Trump is arguing that the children of "invader-immigrants" can't be citizens.
The term repatriation is not in any way exclusive to POWs. It was, for example, used extensively during COVID when talking about voluntary repatriation of expats to their home countries.
True. I should have been more clear: Deportation requires the involvement of the judicial branch. Repatriation has no such requirement. "Repatriation" is a more generic term for returning to one's country of origin.
I did not mean to suggest that "repatriation" was exclusive to POWs, and I apologize if I gave that impression. I meant to distinguish between judicial and non-judicial.
POWs do not need to be charged with a crime. Indeed, under international treaties and laws governing armed conflict, POWs generally can't be criminally charged for simply participating in hostilities.
They can be held without charge until the conclusion of hostilities. They are not entitled to the protections afforded to the accused, because they are not accused. They are not entitled to access to the criminal justice system.
By describing them as "invaders", he is suggesting that immigrants be treated as enemy combatants.
He didn't quite stick the landing on his "destroy the US empire" speedrun last term, but he wasn't idle over the last 4 years and has come out the gate with a strong strategy this time around!
Not by itself, but it’s representative of his overreaction to every little perceived slight against him. Correct me if I’m wrong; it’s standard to send and receive civilian planes for returning migrants. Colombia does not want its citizens being treated like criminals, detained aboard military aircraft. US media is declaring victory for Trump on a technicality. If this is all it takes for him to completely fill his diaper, he’s going to drone strike the first country to follow through with retaliatory tariffs.
Maybe the US should take back the US members of ISIS that have been left (along with the people from the other nations that joined ISIS) for the Kurds to keep.
If they won't take them, maybe we could put all these Columbians in some sort of District. A District of Columbia filled with criminals. Wait, we already have that.
Look, I know that immigration is a contentious issue, but sanctioning a country for not repatriating its citizens is a disproportionate response. Trump and Co. are really obsessed with immigration to even do this. It says a lot what values they have.
Trump is going all in. He's reverting to the 19th century way of strong arming other countries over petty things. He's reviving the old-school capitalist imperialism.
I suppose, but we're talking about international diplomacy. And a modern one at that.
Trump's strong arming sounds so 19th century though. His open threat of taking Panama canal, Canada, Greenland, and renaming the Gulf of Mexico is so manifest destiny.
Are those people really Columbian citizens? I would not put it past Trump to just command ICE to land the next plane full of "somehow latin looking people" somewhere south of the border.
You missed the point where the people were cuffed the whole flight, were dehydrated and transported in military planes like cattle. That's why those planes were rejected.
The president send his own jet to get these people back because they are people not cattle.
So he saw these people were transported like cattle, dehydrated and mistreated, and instead of letting them get off the planes, he's sent them back in those same planes so he can retrieve them with normal planes?
Unless I am missing something, I feel like you'd want those people to not fly in a plane like that again.
Either the plane didn't take off in the first place, case in which rejecting it would make sense.
Or those planes landed in Colombia, then sent back so they can be brought in proper planes, extending the suffering for no reason.
They should start now. Countries should cut off trading with the US once Trump starts making threats in their direction, instead of waiting for him to make up his mind and do something. He's too used to there not being any consequences.
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What do they care about the exchange value if they're not exchanging anything with the US?
Adjusted for PPP, the Russian economy is the 4th biggest in the world, experiencing a boom after the start of the war. Largest than any in Europe.
Everyone knows the USD is artificially inflated and has been for decades, propped up by oil and the threat of violence. Y'all gonna learn when this mother of all bubbles pops.
The problem with that is that anti-Russian sentiment is highest in the East, so there's no way they will break off.
Also Russia is not China, they barely have anything to give in a trade relationship. Also, the Ukraine invasion is scrounging up bad memories in most of the member states, so there's that.
In Hungary, arguably the country closest ideologically to Russia, EU membership has had a consistent 70-80% approval. They won't break off.
Also, the EU is designed to protect EU business interests against international ones, so they will go where the money is, and under Trump, that may cease to be the US.
It would be a good idea that Mexico, Columbia and other latin countries promote the Trump Wall, but expelling all US residents in their countries. A wall always works in both directions.
When did you submit the marriage visa? Also congrats! My wife is also Colombian and these last few days have been a fun time
Edit: I wish I could supply more information directly, but I am still trying to learn the visa processes. A local immigrant lawyer runs a daily Q&A stream if you want to hop in and see if you can get a slot to ask about your situation. Link: Jim Hacking immigration law. Dood is a good guy who doesn't bullshit and gets straight to the point. I hope everything goes well for you and your SO
We are getting married at the notary today so she hasn't applied for it yet! I am here I Colombia with her so sorry for the late reply. Internet is spotty I will look better when I arrive at her house. Thank you!
Yay! Wishing you both the best. I feel weird promoting a YouTube stream but it's helping me learn a lot by just listening and hearing people's stories. I believe the Zoom number and Whatsapp numbers are posted on his page. Looks like today's is scheduled for 3:30PM COT/UTC -5 and tomorrow's is 6:30PM COT/UTC -5.
With all the executive orders he's spewing forth, I wouldn't be surprised if you run into some roadblocks, if only out of confusion on the part of immigration officials. For both your sakes, I hope it isn't too disruptive. Mazel tov!
Saying the president is already unpopular and now he won’t take these people makes it sound like taking refugees would boost his popularity
Trump however by doing this shows he thinks taking refugees is a bad thing
Forcibly relocating refugees doesn’t make them no longer refugees, it just makes you (the one relocating them) a bad person/in violation of international law
Norman Finkelstein said something the other day, quoting someone else...it was..."hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue". Meaning, evil people understand what they're doing is wrong, that's why they pretend to be good. Hypocrisy is beyond the point to them. They've sacrificed morality. Although I think Finkelstein was saying it in the context of talking about how Republican pols do so much less of even pretending to be good (though certainly not zero).
To be clear, Colombia already backed down and accepted all the demands. Which is unfortunate but not surprising. Starting to get "Just give Hitler what he wants and he'll stop" vibes. Surprised folks didn't learn their lesson...
Remember the whole secret code involving narwhals and bacon that some of Reddit leaned into while others cringed? And a good portion weren't even aware of it despite using Reddit.
I never told anyone I used Reddit, but I've def told many about Lemmy (within my foss propaganda I regularly administer upon the unsuspecting, if need be at the urinals).
(Still won't ever share my username, I don't like people like that)
I started using Reddit in 2008 (kill me). One of the of the defining traits of the site at the time was the fact everything was anonymous. It was considered taboo to expose your Reddit persona to your irl circles. Hell, I still don't have an email associated with my Reddit account.
It's been interesting, and a little tragic, to watch that attitude erode over the years and then see Reddit itself encourage the idea of creating a unique identity to cash in.
Lemmy is way more like the original Reddit & I'll actually admit to using Lemmy, even though no one knows wtf I'm on about.
I only mention Lemmy as a caution, like what to avoid, while I’m mentioning other fediverse social media..
Because I’m a woman and most of the people I know who want social media alternatives are also women, and I’m not subjecting them to this shitshow. I like them too much to bring them here.
I read a similar sentiment yesterday in a thread about apparent misogyny on lemmy. As someone affected, what would you suggest be done to improve the situation?
I must say I have rarely observed the issue myself and if so the offenders generally get down voted to hell and eventually mod deleted. Though I am of course a dude and not frequenting the women centric spaces, so my perception is definitely skewed.
I don’t really think there’s anything that can be done other than policing your own and letting the platform grow.
It’s a whole vibe thing, not just obvious stuff.
For example, whenever there were questions aimed at women (hey ladies, what’s your hair routine? Sort of thing), it’s nothing but a bunch of men spouting off about what their wives or girlfriends do, and maybe a few actual women, but their comments always ended up buried. Nobody actually wants that “the woman in my life does this, I think..” sort of input at all, except other men (which unfortunately is the vast majority of the platform, so those “as a man” comments get heavily upvoted, even when they are obviously full of complete shit). It drowns out the few female voices that actually are around. And if you correct some dude in a post for women voices, about something men typically know nothing about, you’ll get heavily downvoted for it. Not at all welcoming.
I know we have some strong transfem comms, and I’m all for it because all women are women, but the experience of those women is wildly different from cis women, and a lot of the memes and stuff coming from those comms are sort of… cis-excluding and often very off-putting. Which is sort of the only fem representation on here.
It’s just not friendly for women. And so so many things need to change before it really is.
Thanks for your insights, now that you mention it I have noticed the tendency for husbands of women to chime in instead of the wives themselves quite a bit. I didn't realize it was that ubiquitous.
I will try to make a conscious effort to pay attention to these tendencies you describe, and also thank you for sticking it out 💪
It's like people think FOSS means considerate. It means it's the wild west, with a few zealous moderators who care way more about respecting femboys than women.
Me in the yellow shirt: ..... (turning towards you suddenly in surprise without thinking) .... LEMMY! ... ME TOO!!!!! ... (as I'm smiling and spraying you with urine)
I don't care if you're gay one way or the other,but if there's a free urinal not next to me but you pick the one next to me I'm 100% walking away, regardless of if I'm done or not. I've done that many times.
More often than not when I mention Lemmy to someone, it's after they've told me about something they saw on reddit and their reply is invariably, "what the fuck is Lemmy?"
I sent someone a screenshot and they asked what wefwef was because it showed the name in the top left of the screen shot as like a ‘go back to your last app’ link. Turned into a short painful discussion that I was happy to be over. Sometimes I think people are purposefully obtuse though and it reminded me why I don’t talk about technology with most everybody I know IRL.
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
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Hey folks, most of you probably have seen me around, I'm coming up on 2 years here and big believer like most of you. With the downfall of FB and Meta I have a lot of family who are genuinely interested in what I described as "A private way for us to share photos and updates, like we used to before FB... you know", and there was genuine positive feedback.
Next I set up friendica, and so far I'm happy, I think it'll do. Solid local sharing and privacy for sharing family specific things - but that's the easy part. The hard part is now how do I convince people to join - and harder - stay.
A lot of my tech friends want to do something similar, I think small family oriented instances like this could be great! However, how do I explain what else there is to offer to family who, let's all be real, do not want to hear an explanation of the fediverse? How can I word it in the most basic of ways without also sounding boring? That's the real kicker. Interested in opinions
I love Friendica and I manage a Friendica instance that is developing very well. It is a feature-rich software, certainly the most complete software among the social networks of the Fediverse. However, I do not hide from you that it has several defects of an ergonomic nature that do not facilitate its adoption. It is not a point and shoot social network, like Mastodon, but it requires a bit of patience. The learning curve is steep and the mortality of users is very high, but if you get past the initial phase of disorientation, it becomes impossible to do without it. So remember that the most important requirement for using Friendica is not to be in a hurry! In my opinion, you are right to invite your friends, acquaintances and family who frequent Facebook, but do not expect their enthusiasm. And for those who mainly use Twitter, I recommend that they go to Mastodon! Finally, I hope that you will like a guide to Friendica that I have prepared in Italian, which should be easily translatable with any automatic translator
La guida di Informapirata a Friendica, dedicata a tutti coloro che dal Fediverso vogliono ottenere tutto il possibile.
Un Mastodon con gli steroidi e attualmente l’unica alternativa a Facebook di tutto il Fediverso. Con mille pregi e, soprattutto, mille difetti. E mai nessuno che ci spieghi come utilizzarlo. Almeno finora…
Are you coming to FOSDEM 2025 to attend the Social Web Devroom? Do you like helping make things happen? We need volunteers to help with the audio/visual (A/V) system (no experience necessary), to answer questions at the door, to coordinate questions, to k
Are you coming to FOSDEM 2025 to attend the Social Web Devroom? Do you like helping make things happen? We need volunteers to help with the audio/visual (A/V) system (no experience necessary), to answer questions at the door, to coordinate questions, to keep time for the speakers, and otherwise keep things moving smoothly. Reply here if you’d like to help out, or email social-web-devroom-manager@fosdem.org .
FOSDEM 2025 – Social Web Devroom – Call For Participation
The Social Web Foundation is pleased to announce the Social Web Devroom at FOSDEM 2025, and invite participants to submit proposals for talks for the event.
FOSDEM is an exciting free and open source software event in Brussels, Belgium that brings together thousands of enthusiasts from around the world. The event spans the weekend of February 1-2, 2025 and features discussion tracks (“devrooms”) for over 140 different technology topics.
The Social Web Devroom will take place in the afternoon of Saturday, February 1.
Format
There will be two available talk formats:
25 minutes – for bigger projects, followed by 5 minutes of questions.
8 minutes – lightning talks on smaller or newer projects, in groups of 3, followed by 6 minutes of combined questions for the group.
Topics
The Social Web Devroom is open to talks all about the Social Web AKA the Fediverse, including:
Implementations of the ActivityPub protocol or ActivityPub API
Clients for ActivityPub-enabled software like Mastodon
Supporting services for the Fediverse, like search or onboarding
ActivityPub-related libraries, toolkits, and frameworks
Tools, bots, platforms, and related topics
Important dates
Submission open: 1 Nov 2024
Submission deadline: 1 Dec 2024
Acceptance notifications: 10 Dec 2024
Final schedule announcement: 15 Dec 2024
Devroom: 1 Feb 2025
Submissions
Submit talk proposals to pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2025… . Select “Social Web” from the “Track” dropdown, and include the length of your talk (8/25) in the submission notes.
Been running pikapods for about a month for FreshRSS and just today it stopped working. After some troubleshooting, it looks like xfinity/Comcast is flagging pikapods as a risk through their "Advanced Security" feature through their hardware. The only way I could permanently get through it was to disable the advanced security setting. Just FYI if anyone has similar issues.
Edit: its just the configured pod address to the FreshRSS server that was inaccessible. The main pikapods.net site was still accessible. This is with valid SSL certificates, and on multiple devices, and only on the WiFi network that I use. It was completely accessible via mobile network.
"The U.S. cannot treat Colombian migrants as criminals," Petro wrote. Petro said even though there were 15,660 Americans without legal immigration status in Colombia, he would never carry out a raid to return handcuffed Americans to the United States. "We are the opposite of the Nazis," he wrote, in a jab at Trump. Mexico also refused a request last week to let a U.S. military aircraft land with migrants.
Colombia has nothing to lose. The country is already in the black list for narco traffic. They suffered political meddling from the US in the 70s/80s. What next? Invasion? The cartels would be the first to pick up arms to fight back.
I would beg to differ. We have a lot to lose. We get millions of dollars for our armed forces and anti drug forces to fight the guerrillas (narco terrorists). If Petro keeps pushing, Trump could take that away. We are going through an increase of violence in the Catacumbo region. That means investors are already nervous. This issue with the US government could affect our economy even more. As always innocent folks will get caught in the middle of the armed conflict and any terrorist acts. We also have a ton of export trade with the US obviously starting with coffee, but lots of other industries (flowers, cacao, fruits, etc.)
Anyway, we could get fucked if Petro and Trump can't work things out. I don't expect they will, since they both behave like children.
It's likely to be taken away anyway. There is a vocal group in the US pushing for more isolation and less funding for those types of aid. The Trump admin will keep raising the vig if you capitulate now.
If every country could come up with a way to personally annoy him (refuse to give away their largest territory, build taller buildings all around his hotels, call him a silly name, etc.) all the tariffs would essentially cancel each other out. If everything's tariffed, nothing's tariffed.
The country’s leader, Gustavo Petro, backed down after a clash with President Trump, which started when Mr. Petro turned back U.S. military planes carrying deportees.
That we elected him twice, not even consecutively, means that we can effectively never be trusted in our current state. Even if a psychopath leader is voted out, the American people are stupid enough to vote him back in once our goldfish memories fade.
May Europe and Latin America find their strength to be the democracies the world needs. The US, always a flawed example, can no longer be relied on even in matters of self-interest.
The way Nixon screwed up South Vietnam back in the 60s kind of indicated how the US puts excessively too much power in the hands of its presidents and result in random foreign policies
Talking (and sometimes going through with it) about pulling out of random international agreements and organisations like the Paris climate agreement and WHO. Then talking about invading other countries (including allies) and imposing tariffs on everything and everyone.
Also, both times that he got in, it seems like he had the previous administration’s achievements as his todo list for things to undo.
It’s like dealing with a whole new country every four or eight years.
You elected bush Jr and richard nixon. You can't be trusted, period. Those who trust america usually end up with a regime change and dead leftist politicians.
Personally, I am hoping it is part of a lifecycle, and that the dawn of a new golden age will happen after Reconstruction v2.0 has thoroughly removed the poison from America's veins.
I'm admittedly not a genius when it comes to foreign exchange/international currency dynamics, but unless the Yuan became the reserve currency I think it would be a positive change for most of the world.
It is a lot harder to use that military than people think though. And purging the officers only makes it harder. The best trained infantryman in the world can't fight without bullets.
Trump thinks tariffs are some great threat and yeah they cut into US imports but countries will just export to other countries instead. Meanwhile the US implodes from lack of goods since nobody can afford to pay the tariffs. The only thing Trump is going to achieve is accelerating this coming recession into a full blown depression.
Yup. Biden had just started to return stability and reassure allies, even with one arm tied behind his back for his entire term, just so that Trump can fuck everything up again. I hope a true American ally sees him for the threat he is and we have an Ebrahim Reisi situation
I'm no Trump fan but I'm looking forward to not having to fight everyone for everyone else in Europe, you guys need to get your shit together and police your own continent. Maybe someone else will step up and we can start to take care of ourselves and our needs instead of blowing billions on places we destroyed or taking care of ungrateful assholes. This has been coming for a long time.
All that's going to happen is that the US will continue spending the same or more of the military, while others will also build up theirs and the relative strength of the US will diminish. You will definitely not be saving those billions.
Since WW2, when has the US ever fought anyone for Europe?
Korea, Vietnam, Libya, Iraq 1 and 2, Afghanistan, Syria. All US incursions. A number of them had European countries backing up the US. Even today it's the US giving Israel unwaivering support (when it really should be waivering) that's dragging NATO countries into a conflict it really doesn't want to be a part of.
Europe has backed the US again and again so that it wasn't seen as acting as unilaterally (even if it was).
The only European operations I can think of Bosnia and Serbia, both of which were NATO operations with multinational forces.
Korea, Libya, Iraq and Syria I will concede. However:
Are you not aware that the Vietnam War was directly precipitated by the First Indochina War, in which the French failed to maintain control of their colony and the US stepped in when they pulled out?
(Also, re: that previous Libya/Iraq/Syria concession: let's be honest, the whole current Middle East clusterfuck is the legacy of European colonialism, including shit like the Sykes-Picot Agreement and the various Allied-controlled protectorates formed from previous Axis colonies (e.g. Libya) after WWII. I'm conceding those points because I can't be bothered in a Lemmy comment to do the research to trace exactly how the US involvement was rooted in a need to clean up messes left by the British and French, but I'm pretty darn confident the link is there.)
Yes, a lot of the areas are post European colonialism. Most of the world is post European colonialism, including the Americas. Vietnam wasn't fought for the French though. The French were expelled in the first Indochina war and the North and South Vietnamese had independence. The French lost and went home. The US never tried to re-establish French rule.
You might argue that the US fought in Vietnam for the South Vietnamese, to maintain their independence from the North. However I think we all know that the US fought in Vietnam to block Russia and China getting more influence in the area. It was a choice the US made for it's own reasons to do with the cold war.
Now, the US might feel that because nobody else had the military might to stand against "communism" they had no option but to get involved. They did it to protect their own interests though.
you guys need to get your shit together and police your own continent.
We do? Increasingly we're having to secure it against US threats and meddling, though. And of course our actual police aren't as corrupt and murderous as yours, and our legal system offers far more basic human rights and protections than yours does (I've heard you don't even get the most basic rights like mandatory holiday and sick pay? Wild. You need to start fighting against your government for your basic rights).
we can start to take care of ourselves and our needs instead of blowing billions on places we destroyed
Have you tried not destroying places? You might not have to spend quite so much on reparations if you pace yourself a bit.
The world doesn't revolve around your country, and all of your nation's current major problems (oligarchy, late stage capitalism rot, poor citizen rights, poor/absent social services, poor education system, large class gap, poor environmental protections, etc etc) come from within, not - as your fascist self-proclaimed Dictator would have you believe - the evil foreigners trying to oppress/abuse you.
Nobody's country is perfect, mine isn't, yours isn't. We all have problems, and it's difficult to admit that our problems are more often than not of our own society's making...
Don't believe the oldest fascist trick in the book though - being told it's all somehow the fault of foreigners - to rally the people against a common foe whilst stripping away your own rights and building an authoritarian state bit by bit, destroying your own freedoms and eroding the moral core of your nation, all in the name of fighting that foe.
A lot of technology goods. Which basically means China, which was already doing a lot of their manufacture, wins out. China is going to be moving all in on the US international market as it continues to ramp up this way, and the US will be left increasingly alone when it is eventually forced to aid Taiwan in its defense.
If it comes from China, it won’t have a tariff. That’s why those tariffs won’t work in the US. We will just work with “other vendors” who eventually are just China, with extra steps (and cost). I can’t think of much that the US exports, besides weapons, that can’t be bought somewhere else.
The only one suffering is the USA. The entire world does not need us, and most of them are sick of our shit.
The cherry on top is Trump rescinding the CHIPS act which was supposed to bring more silicon electronics manufacturing to the US, meant to make our microchip supply more resilient. Not only is it cutting off one's nose to spite one's face, it's also shooting ourselves in the foot (and then blaming Woke when the obvious consequences come knocking home).
and the US will be left increasingly alone when it is eventually forced to aid Taiwan in its defense.
The US has recently convinced TSMC to open latest-process fabs in the US so that soon it won't have to do that. Within a few years the US's military policy in the event of a invasion from mainland China is going to shift from defending Taiwan to bombing TSMC ourselves and then leaving them to the wolves.
U.S. goods exports to Colombia in 2022 were $20.8 billion, up 24.2 percent ($4.1 billion) from 2021 and up 27 percent from 2012. U.S. goods imports from Colombia totaled $18.5 billion in 2022, up 40.3 percent ($5.3 billion) from 2021, but down 25 percent from 2012.
The United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement (CTPA) was signed on November 22, 2006. Colombia's Congress approved the CTPA and a protocol of amendment in 2007.
THAT is the point, isn't it? YOU pay the tarifs, not Columbia, so Americans will pay 25% extra for coffee, bananas, avocados, roses, and many other products that come from Columbia. And, when the orange turd puts tarifs on Canada the cost of gas, homes, and MANY other things will go up.
Right. I know how tariffs work. No one but the US is gonna suffer from Trump’s stupid existence. He seems to think other countries can’t just buy from someone else.
Everyone needs to remember this is how the “Final Solution” started. They originally just wanted to deport everyone they didn’t like. Then other countries started saying No. so they came up with other ideas.
No. Not after all their rights and their citizenship were taken away.
See that's the thing a lot of people don't understand. Fascists often use the law and the system to LEGALLY implement all their horrific shit. Just because something is the law does not make it right. Laws can be changed, thus we shouldn't use them as an argument for what is and isn't right.
Let's just imagine for a moment that tomorrow Trump and his little friends push through some law that allows them to strip every person with Swedish ancestry (for example) of their citizenship. Suddenly they could be deported, sure. And it would all be legal. Would you think it was right?
Your government is already talking about taking away birthright citizenship. And the GOP has shown us they are perfectly happy stripping at the very least some people of some of their rights already. Are you telling me you don't think it could get any worse? Are you telling me that as long as it's legal, it's okay?
There was no law changed to call them illegal. It's not like they were here as citizens and then trump came in and revoked their citizenship. They entered illegally and have always been illegal. That's the major difference.
First of all, many countries, including Italy, are literally installing lagers in other countries (in Italy's case Albania) to "take care" of illegal migrants, so they are not easily sent back.
Second, the place they come from could well be akin to a death camp for them.
Third, rules like those can be subtly change in a minute to acquire ever more vicious features.
Fourth, as Zexks said, things could escalate once those countries serving their xenophobic policies start caring about the internal externalities of such deals.
I think you might have misunderstood the lesson that we're taught about the Holocaust. It wasn't important who Nazi Germany gurt, it's what the Nazi's did. Regardless of who they did it to. The Nazis threw away their own humanity to achieve their goals, that is always wrong. Everything else after that is just details. That's what people are afraid of with Trump's deportation mandate, that to actually achieve it migrants will need to be treated subhuman. To deport them as quickly as Trump wants America and American's will have to throw away some more of their humanity. It's not the same as Nazi Germany in that there aren't death camps, but Trump and his allies want America to walk down that path a bit. It's wrong.
"Prior to the Nazi regime taking power, Roma had been a subject of fascination and hatred in Europe. Though many viewed Roma as outsiders—and they were closely monitored by the authorities in Germany—the roughly one million Roma people in Europe lived diverse lives across the continent. Some Roma lived in caravans and traveled from town to town, selling horses and handcrafted products. Others lived in cities, towns, or villages doing a variety of jobs, from farming to fortune-telling to medicine.
[3]When the Nazi regime took over in 1933, little changed right away for the Roma. They were already subject to travel restrictions and investigations by the police. But in early 1934, a number of Roma came under threat from the “Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases.” This law legalized and encouraged forced sterilization for people who were considered medically likely to have children with a “defect” of some sort—disabilities, mental or physical, that the Nazi regime considered damaging to the “German race” and workforce. Between 1934 and 1945, over 300,000 people were forcibly sterilized, most of them women. Many of these women did not survive the procedure, which often had to be repeated, was extremely painful, and was often done without any anesthetic. In the 1930s, 500 German and Austrian Roma were sterilized.
[4]In 1935, there was another harsh blow to German Roma when the “Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor” was enacted. The first of the Nuremberg Laws, this law denied Jews their citizenship, banned marriages between members of “foreign races” and Germans, and took away political rights of so-called non-Germans.[5] Passed in September, the laws were expanded in November 1935 to include Roma. As a result, marriages were broken up, many Roma lost their jobs, and families faced destitution.
During this time, Roma began to face further restrictions on their lives. High rental prices, foreclosures, destruction of caravan sites, and harassment by the police were some of the ways the government controlled “Gypsy” populations. As part of a policy designed to “prevent” crime, Roma men capable of work were frequently rounded up and sent to concentration camps as “vagrants,” “work-shy,” or “asocial” prisoners. Families of traveling Roma were confined to small geographic areas, enabling the police to monitor them closely."
The White House said Sunday that Colombia backed down and agreed to accept repatriated citizens on military flights, after President Donald Trump threatened maj
That doesn't seem to be true: elespectador.com/politica/petr… Translating, it means that the Colombian government agreed to all of Trump's terms for the deportation of immigrants. Additionally, militar planes have been used for deportations for some years now, it's not a Trump-only thing.
Colombian government did just caved out in fear, no VISA for anyone and 50% tariffs is a way too big thing for Colombian people to just let Petro (our already impopular president) do it, specially right now when there's a internal commotion status due to the rise of violence in Catatumbo, something that is mainly already his fault.
I'm sorry; whatever search engines I've tried are f*cked and only give me articles about US tarrifs on other countries' exports. It's been ridiculous trying to find what I'm looking for.
That does make sense to me, since I'd feel less comfortable if a military plane was flying into my country, whereas I'd be more comfortable if a regular civilian flight was used instead. From the perspective of a Colombian, I would be concerned about how national security would be affected by giving permission for military planes to operate when they wouldn't otherwise have permission.
They want to use military planes because they can hide the cost of this program in the "whoops it's too big to audit" defense budget. The cost of civilian contractors would be publically disclosed.
you realize that's what he's already trying to do right?
That's what ending birthright citizenship is all about. Millions of people who are currently considered to be American citizens will have that stripped from them and then they are free to be deported
Even before Trump, the US illegally deported lots of citizens by accident. Because practical legal protections against deportation were shit even back then.
So they don't even have to make it legal. Just impossible to practically fight illegal deportation.
I think Trump has a long history of racism and it will either bake it into law that Europeans get preferred treatment or it will be selectively enforced.
Btw, why are you using two questions marks? Do you think doing it makes you look more expressive?
The shit he signed into law says NOTHING about birther tourism or any other kind of tourism. Just delete the fourteenth amendment. Cause fuck the constitution right. Is that what you support.
Do you know that the Jewish population in Germany were citizens? And then Hitler took their citizenship away. Just like they used to have rights, until they didn't. Besides, just because something's legal, doesn't make it right. What's legal and what's not can change in the blink of an eye.
This person's outright sadistic blindness or trolling aside, anyone reading this comment with good faith and not immediately having an aneurysm should remember that the once and current president once said, and I quote:
I like taking guns away early. Take the guns first, go through due process second.
In your own damn link it says he was talking about those who are "red flagged", or is alerted to authorities as someone who might do something. You know, like when someone posts a manifesto online, he was saying they should be able to confiscate their gun and then have the court process.
He certainly wasn't saying he wants to disarm regular citizens.
well, you clearly demonstrated your reading comprehension on the Snopes article... perhaps you should exercise that same skill on my comment because nowhere did i mention any of that nonsense you replied with.
The link that was posted gave context. He wasn't trying to disarm the population, he was talking about confiscating a firearm from someone who's been flagged as about to harm themselves or others.
Persons, groups of people, governments, territories, borders, citizens, immigrants. I'm pretty sure Nazi Germany had every one of these and now that Trump is president, I'm supposed to believe that we have all of these coincidentally? Next stop: Auschwitz.
I wish the lunatics voters that support this would realize how expensive each of these flights are, at tax payers expense! Easily $30k per flight and Trump is aiming for thousands of these flights!
First of all, let me apologize to those people who was affected when PeerTube.wtf initially went down.
I've been working this past month on building and setting up a fresh version of PeerTube.wtf and this time, I won't be relying on decentralized storage 🙃 🙃 🙃
I've been reading a couple of threads on Lemmy, to better understand what people want expect to be able to do on a PeerTube server, so here goes:
PeerTube.wtf is a platform for general use. Every topic is welcome.
The Global Search Index is enabled. This means that the search bar will show results from almost 900 PeerTube servers.
Remote URI/handle search is enabled. This means, if you know the URL/handle of a channel, that's not part of the Global Search Index, you can still find it via the search bar and subscribe to the channel.
The Public Index is enabled. This means that PeerTube.wtf will federate with almost a 1000 PeerTube servers.
Audio-only, 360p, 720p, 1080p and 1440p is enabled. This means that videos uploaded, is provided in these resolutions.
Video transcription is enabled. Will Automatically create subtitles for uploaded/imported VOD videos.
Live streaming is enabled. Streams are transcoded in 720p and 1080p at 60 FPS.
A user has 100GB of storage. This is obviously not sustainable, but is subject to change.
FAQ
.wtf?
Yea, it stands for "What The Fediverse". What else could it possibly stand for, that sound as cool?
Where is the server hosted?
It's hosted in Denmark, at my residence. I have 100% ownership and control over it.
What's your specs, bro? The server is assembled inside an Inter-Tech 2U-2404S, with a: - AMD Ryzen 3 1200 @ 4 cores - 16GB of RAM - nVidia Quadro P600 (hardware transcoding) - 2x120GB SSDs in raid 1 for OS - 2x4TB HDDs in raid 1 for the video storage
4TB of storage ain't much
That's true, but I will be upgrading the disks eventually.
Why no 4K??
4K takes a lot of space and the majority of users don't have a 4K monitor. In the future, it might change.
I've probably forgotten something, but yea.. Enjoy.
First of all, let me apologize to those people who was affected when PeerTube.wtf initially went down.
I've been working this past month on building and setting up a fresh version of PeerTube.wtf and this time, I won't be relying on decentralized storage 🙃 🙃 🙃
I've been reading a couple of threads on Lemmy, to better understand what people want expect to be able to do on a PeerTube server, so here goes:
PeerTube.wtf is a platform for general use. Every topic is welcome.
The Global Search Index is enabled. This means that the search bar will show results from almost 900 PeerTube servers.
Remote URI/handle search is enabled. This means, if you know the URL/handle of a channel, that's not part of the Global Search Index, you can still find it via the search bar and subscribe to the channel.
The Public Index is enabled. This means that PeerTube.wtf will federate with almost a 1000 PeerTube servers.
Audio-only, 360p, 720p, 1080p and 1440p is enabled. This means that videos uploaded, is provided in these resolutions.
Video transcription is enabled. Will Automatically create subtitles for uploaded/imported VOD videos.
Live streaming is enabled. Streams are transcoded in 720p and 1080p at 60 FPS.
A user has 100GB of storage. This is obviously not sustainable, but is subject to change.
FAQ
.wtf?
Yea, it stands for "What The Fediverse". What else could it possibly stand for, that sound as cool?
Where is the server hosted?
It's hosted in Denmark, at my residence. I have 100% ownership and control over it.
What's your specs, bro? The server is assembled inside an Inter-Tech 2U-2404S, with a: - AMD Ryzen 3 1200 @ 4 cores - 16GB of RAM - nVidia Quadro P600 (hardware transcoding) - 2x120GB SSDs in raid 1 for OS - 2x4TB HDDs in raid 1 for the video storage
4TB of storage ain't much
That's true, but I will be upgrading the disks eventually.
Why no 4K??
4K takes a lot of space and the majority of users don't have a 4K monitor. In the future, it might change.
I've probably forgotten something, but yea.. Enjoy.
First of all, let me apologize to those people who was affected when PeerTube.wtf initially went down.
I've been working this past month on building and setting up a fresh version of PeerTube.wtf and this time, I won't be relying on decentralized storage 🙃 🙃 🙃
I've been reading a couple of threads on Lemmy, to better understand what people want expect to be able to do on a PeerTube server, so here goes:
PeerTube.wtf is a platform for general use. Every topic is welcome.
The Global Search Index is enabled. This means that the search bar will show results from almost 900 PeerTube servers.
Remote URI/handle search is enabled. This means, if you know the URL/handle of a channel, that's not part of the Global Search Index, you can still find it via the search bar and subscribe to the channel.
The Public Index is enabled. This means that PeerTube.wtf will federate with almost a 1000 PeerTube servers.
Audio-only, 360p, 720p, 1080p and 1440p is enabled. This means that videos uploaded, is provided in these resolutions.
Video transcription is enabled. Will Automatically create subtitles for uploaded/imported VOD videos.
Live streaming is enabled. Streams are transcoded in 720p and 1080p at 60 FPS.
A user has 100GB of storage. This is obviously not sustainable, but is subject to change.
FAQ
.wtf?
Yea, it stands for "What The Fediverse". What else could it possibly stand for, that sound as cool?
Where is the server hosted?
It's hosted in Denmark, at my residence. I have 100% ownership and control over it.
What's your specs, bro? The server is assembled inside an Inter-Tech 2U-2404S, with a: - AMD Ryzen 3 1200 @ 4 cores - 16GB of RAM - nVidia Quadro P600 (hardware transcoding) - 2x120GB SSDs in raid 1 for OS - 2x4TB HDDs in raid 1 for the video storage
4TB of storage ain't much
That's true, but I will be upgrading the disks eventually.
Why no 4K??
4K takes a lot of space and the majority of users don't have a 4K monitor. In the future, it might change.
I've probably forgotten something, but yea.. Enjoy.
First of all, let me apologize to those people who was affected when PeerTube.wtf initially went down.
I've been working this past month on building and setting up a fresh version of PeerTube.wtf and this time, I won't be relying on decentralized storage 🙃 🙃 🙃
I've been reading a couple of threads on Lemmy, to better understand what people want expect to be able to do on a PeerTube server, so here goes:
PeerTube.wtf is a platform for general use. Every topic is welcome.
The Global Search Index is enabled. This means that the search bar will show results from almost 900 PeerTube servers.
Remote URI/handle search is enabled. This means, if you know the URL/handle of a channel, that's not part of the Global Search Index, you can still find it via the search bar and subscribe to the channel.
The Public Index is enabled. This means that PeerTube.wtf will federate with almost a 1000 PeerTube servers.
Audio-only, 360p, 720p, 1080p and 1440p is enabled. This means that videos uploaded, is provided in these resolutions.
Video transcription is enabled. Will Automatically create subtitles for uploaded/imported VOD videos.
Live streaming is enabled. Streams are transcoded in 720p and 1080p at 60 FPS.
A user has 100GB of storage. This is obviously not sustainable, but is subject to change.
FAQ
.wtf?
Yea, it stands for "What The Fediverse". What else could it possibly stand for, that sound as cool?
Where is the server hosted?
It's hosted in Denmark, at my residence. I have 100% ownership and control over it.
What's your specs, bro? The server is assembled inside an Inter-Tech 2U-2404S, with a: - AMD Ryzen 3 1200 @ 4 cores - 16GB of RAM - nVidia Quadro P600 (hardware transcoding) - 2x120GB SSDs in raid 1 for OS - 2x4TB HDDs in raid 1 for the video storage
4TB of storage ain't much
That's true, but I will be upgrading the disks eventually.
Why no 4K??
4K takes a lot of space and the majority of users don't have a 4K monitor. In the future, it might change.
I've probably forgotten something, but yea.. Enjoy.
So, you're in Denmark. I'm in the United States. Does that mean you as the host need to comply with Denmark local laws, and then also just for me, incorporate USA laws as well?
I don't know Denmark law, so lets just asssume that marijuanna is illegal there. In the USA it's illegal on a federal level, but legal in my local state level. Yes, it's confusing. We don't know how to make laws work.....and it's about to get so much worse.
But, lets say I upload a video of me smoking and promoting marijuanna, something that's legal for me to do. If we assume the act of promoting marijuanna is illegal in Denmark, would you be allowed to host that video? Would people in other states, where it's not yet legal, be shown a black screen?
this right here. So many people say "Well it's legal in my state" ... No what that means is that State officials will not arrest you for doing it, a Federal official can and will arrest you for it if they wanted to. Thats the biggest reason why most of your pot shops don't accept bank/credit cards. Because that makes them more open to federal insight and regulation.
Currently the usage of it isn't a concern of the federal system, so while it's illegal they are not actively enforcing it, but that can change at any moment, and you can bet your ass that if they needed some more dirt on someone, they would use that to their advantage for a search.
I follow Danish law. I'm not 100% sure if it's legal in Denmark to promote cannabis, but as a precaution I would not allow it. Not saying you can't talk about it though.
I already had some experience using the P600 with Plex.
It’s essentially just installing the nVidia drivers, install the HW transcoding plugin for PeerTube and then select the nvenc transcoder in the settings.
What about it is more complicated? The experience with qsv has always been easier IMO for anything transcode, and I (maybe mistakenly) thought it used ffmpeg for that under the hood?
FWIW, qsv does all my Jellyfin transcoding like an absolute champ, which is why I'm surprised and curious.
I am still looking into it but it seems like the Peertube hardware transcoding extension does not support Quicksync by default and you need to use some fork or so.
Quick question: do you know if multiple hardware accelerators can be used in parallel? Like a Intel Quicksync and a Nvidia card, or two Nvidia cards etc?
I don't seem to be able to login, it tells me my password and username/email is incorrect.
Do we have to make a new account because the server is new or am I just running into some kind of error?
Also where can we best see updates about this peertube instance is here on Lemmy good or will they be through peertube or is there not really any solid plans for this yet?
I really appreciate the work going into this it seems like peertube.wtf has the goals in mind that I want out of a YouTube alternative!
Monetization does not align with the principles of the Fediverse imho. Donations can help, but I don't believe that's sustainable either. I can do this because I have the time and the money. I wouldn't recommend doing this, if you had to rely on donations or monetization.
I would think many servers that accept donations don't rely on them. But taking donations while it is optional can stave off the time when donations would be necessary.
Eh always iffy on putting ads on other ppls content (thats all of the internet lol), at least the beauty of the fediverse is they can always leave and host it themselves. I'm sure ads could be done right but I've yet to see it.
People will say you cant expect ppl to do stuff for fre but thy always do they just get overshadowed by ppl making ad money spending money on marketing
corporate sponsors with branding could be cool, but video ads, banner ads, clickable stuff I dont want to see and will always block,hope any instance blocks ads that try to creep into the fediverse
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
I've never understood how or why this is an issue.
Shortly after Spez's petulant AMA, I ran across a link for Lemmy. org. It looked interesting, so I followed it. I poked around a bit, and it still looked interesting, so I picked an instance and created an account. I played with it a bit, then I went back and found a different instance that looked interesting and created an account there too. And I just kept reading and posting, just like I'd done on Reddit (and half a dozen different sites before that). Some instances came and went and I lost some accounts and created others and eventually settled into a few that I like best, and just read and posted and didn't leave. The end.
But it seems that every time I turn around, someone's going on about the hardships of moving to a different site and all the difficulties to be overcome and yadda yadda yadda, and I just don't get it. At all.
I've been trying for weeks to get friends to move to Signal. They don't have to delete WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger to use Signal. Some of these people have got degrees in various computer disciplines and still won't even give it a try. I don't understand the reluctance to try new software either. If their job or uni asks them to use a piece of software they'll try it no bother but if a friend asks it's impossible. It's so strange.
I did that back in 2015 when I moved to discord for my primary social platform. "I am am leaving Skype and Facebook, anyone who wants to reach me can do so at discordname"
Did all my friends move? No, did I lose anything of value doing so anyway? Also no. The people who still wanted to message me either reached out to my family or myself for a phone number, or added me on discord.
You don't need all your friends to follow, what you need is enough people to leave the platform anyway that more people use that than other platforms in your friend group. That's why Skype died as fast as it did, a combination of instability and enough people deciding they didn't care who they left behind and just went to discord anyway.
If their job or uni asks them to use a piece of software they'll try it no bother but if a friend asks it's impossible.
normie and/or bootlicker mind set.
Daddy asked me to do this, so obviously it is right and proper
My friend asked me to use Signal due to "privacy", I think he roof is starting to leak again, give him lip service and continue using whatapps as the "smart" move.
There's a guide in their subreddit. I was never able to get it to work (set it up like 4 years ago) so I just give iPhone users my apple ID when I'm putting in my phone number
Same here. About 25% have picked up Signal, the others haven't. Even though, like you say, they don't have to drop WhatsApp to get Signal. They aren't mutually exclusive.
And there's no rhyme or reason for who starts using Signal. Some of my most tech-illiterate friends jumped on it, because they were sick of Facebook and Meta. As I've if them said: it's not at all difficult to start using it. So it's all about motivation.
It didn't help that there are several other similar spots or there, like Viber. So some people who have multiple already installed don't want to get yet another. I get that. But Signal is such a solid and unobtrusive app
For the case of your job or school you either use what is required or you need to find another job or school. That might not be popular but it's the reality. Other relationships don't have that kind of pull. Maybe RCS could fix some of it but given what happened with XMPP I'm doubtful.
I've had some luck getting some of my people to switch over by asking them to switch as a favor to me specifically (if they want to of course... And they can always just not use it if they end up not liking it).
Asking them in a more direct way like this seems to work, even if there's some reluctance at first. I tell them that it helps me out because I can also send stuff to them on my computer, which is true. Then there's the fact that I just really like all of the extra features it has (it's just a really good chat app in general), emoji replies, reply quotes, and read receipts to name a few.
If they need any other reasons, the last things I tend to get into are the privacy/security aspects.
Boom, all of a sudden they're using something better, and even though they're probably still using those other (shit) apps, at least I don't have to. You have to start somewhere, right?
Lemmy doesn't fill every hole that reddit filled. There are a lot of industry and hobby subs that just don't have the audience here. Especially the more niche ones.
Shitposting and memes...yeah, we got that in spades. But that's not what keeps people coming. You can get top-notch shitposts anywhere.
My subscribeds here are dead. I can't find direct matches for communities I have in reddit, and I have no interest (let alone time) in modding one.
That is a critical mass thing. Reddit 15 years ago didn't have a thriving pokemon community either. Things grow naturally over time. I think Lemmy is in a good place 😀
But, for example, on Reddit there is r/hockey and a sub for each team. On Lemmy those team subs are graveyards, but if you post on c/hockey you might get enough traction to have a conversation. Find the larger community and help grow that first before fracturing to smaller ones.
Yeah I suppose. I came on to reddit early, before there even were subreddits, and comparing young Lemmy to an over-the-hill reddit isn't a fair comparison.
Still feels like Lemmy tries to be a drop-in replacement for Reddit (sent from Boost for Lemmy), and it really can't be until it sees much, much more growth.
The internet as a whole is also different than it was 15+ year ago.
Your typical reddit user now doesn't know what digg is or who Kevin Rose is or the significance of something like 09 F9, sites, people, and events that were big things on the internet are just nothing now.
Hell, tons of users on reddit were literally babies when reddit was young.
Your life must be hard now, right? At every corner of every street, at every TV station, in the faces of others you must see the guy that you hate and you can't do anything about it.
It's relatively easy to quit things like Reddit. There's no attachments to anything, and the content is mostly links to other sites.
When you have followers and follow specific accounts for the content, users are less inclined to leave unless those they follow and their own followers also leave.
The only one that is difficult to replace is Facebook. It's still the best way to keep up with family and friends from all over. I also like Facebook Marketplace and haven't found a substitute that is as good.
Leaving Facebook will be an enormous deal for half a generation that literally grew up with Facebook being the internet, period. There are enough people that have no idea what can be, so yeah, I see it
I mean I understand because I wanted to find a good amount of matching communities in lemmy, but that didn't fully happen. I just had to make the jump.
Being on lemmy at all is going to come with huge confirmation biases.
Something to consider is that most of these issues with common social media are intangible at best and straight up invisible at worst for most users.
Most people don't care strongly enough about any of these apps or websites to be bothered. Go ask strangers on the street what they think of spez's this or that and they will say 'who's spez' followed by, 'oh, I don't really care'.
Most people's relationship with any given corporate / algorithm driven social media platform is akin to a drug addict.
Start viewing people who can't imagine quitting cold turkey as drug addicts, and it makes a lot more sense.
This is what happens when corpos have oodles and oodles from data on how to drive 'engagement'... and then they do that, via algorithmic content feeds and dark patterns and other kinds of manipulation.
These people are addicted to convenience, to the dopamine hits, to the rage bait, to their validating echo chambers.
They don't care that it makes them stupid, misinformed, angry, takes all their time, ruins their attention span, makes them feel like ugly failures amidst a sea of beautiful, rich influencers.
If you can't stop 'voluntarily' doing something that's bad for you without a giant fuss, without needing a guided intervention, you're an addict.
Having experienced and overcome actual addiction, metaphorical quasi-addictions like social media have never been a challenge. Yeah, there's a sort of stimulus/reward feedback look, and the sites are structured to encourage compulsive use, but I've never spent a week in bed feeling like I'm going to die when stopping. And some substances I was fortunate enough not to get hooked on, such as benzos and alcohol, are even more deadly: they can literally kill you if you try quitting without medical support and supervision. You won't die of seizures when quitting Xitter. At worst, you might try finding something else to waste your time doing.
I was on reddit for several years. One day I started getting hit with bans for nothing because one of the mods had it in for me. There's no way to win in such a situation. So I replaced the text of every post and comment in every alt with lorem ipsum, then walked away. Nothing of value was lost and I don't miss it. Lenny is fine, and in the instance I'm in, the mods aren't power-mad zero-tolerance assholes.
Quitting Facebook was similar. Again, I replaced all the content I'd ever posted on the site with gibberish before leaving. I've kept my account, but don't use it. The elderly relatives I used to keep in touch with on FB have mostly died, and I told everyone else who mattered how they can find me. That part didn't take long. It was, however, interesting how much dark-pattern bullshit Meta throws in your path when you attempt to disengage.
And if Lemmy and other less toxic social media weren't there, I'd just do other things. Nobody needs social media, anymore than anyone needs cigarettes.
Most people simply don't care or if they do they don't need others to care. And then there are the people that want to change something and expect others to do the same, then being surprised they have their own opinions. The next step is of course to rant about it to other random people on the internet just so they can get a confirmation that they are not the problem ¯\(ツ)/¯
I think it depends on how you use those different sites
I transitioned from Reddit to Lemmy pretty seamlessly like you did. Around the time it became clear they weren't backing down on the API thing and other bullshit, I looked up some reddit alternatives, chose Lemmy, and kept right on doing what I was doing on Reddit.
On the other hand, I'm having a bit of a hard time ditching Facebook.
The difference is I know the people I'm friends with on Facebook, I have actual relationships with them, I'm there to interact with those specific people. Leaving Facebook without finding a decent alternative and getting those people to switch with me (which probably means they'd also have to convince their other friends to switch too) means losing contact with those people.
On Reddit and now Lemmy, I'm basically here to read articles and have conversations with strangers about those articles. I don't really form lasting relationships here, I don't recognize usernames outside of maybe 2 or 3 big names. If they weren't full of the worst kinds of idiots, trolls, bots, and scammers I could pretty much get what I'm looking for from the comment section on a news site.
Some people do build those kinds of relationships here though, they come to Reddit or Lemmy, at least in part, to interact with specific users and communities that they have some sort of connection to, and when you have connections like that, it gets pretty hard to leave that platform. Unless all of your friends leave at the same time and go to the same platform, you need to either lose some friends, split your time between the two platforms (neither of which may be as good as what you had because not everyone is there) or you have to find some other way of staying in touch and keeping the friendship going (which is often much easier said than done)
A lot of people don't seem to get that social media services are almost entirely about their userbases, not their companies. Facebook and Meta are unbelievably terrible, but that is where most of the people you know can be found. Switching to something else is easy, but pointless, if your reason for being there is the people.
I have slowly convinced friends and family to begin using MeWe, but only a small number. And most of them still primarily use Facebook. At least recent events are pushing a few more away from it.
The FSF has published its evaluation of the "Llama 3.1 Community License Agreement." This is not a free software license and you should not use it, nor any software released under it.
“President Trump will do what President Trump wants to do. He has a plan, and I will play accordingly,” Goncalves said. “I’m a big boy. I bought Stelco knowing that Stelco is in Canada. And you know what? America first.”
Let him. Stelco has regulations to follow. He can shut it down and then nobody gets steel and start fucking with trade agreements, but big corps aren't gonna like his scorched earth tactics.
Let him burn it all to the ground so we can start moving the economy away from the US.
I think people are about to learn just how much punishment people are willing to tolerate for Trump and how powerless our institutions are in the the face of rich people who are willing to bend so far for Trump.
Man I want to pump my fist and say “hell yeah” but it has been a fight for a fucking decade and I just do not see the path forward right now. Right now it feels fucking hopeless and I know that will change but vague notions of unity and fighting back do not carry any water for me right now.
Some of us have put years of work into things that just evaporated two days ago with the stroke of a pen. I’ve been stun grenade-d by the police, been physically grabbed by MAGAts while trying to film interviews as a member of the press, called a race traitor and threatened by neo nazis, been doxxed twice, had my kids threatened, and I’m fucking exhausted. So unless you have something very specific and actionable right this fucking second I can do with minimal effort I just can’t give you any of my mental bandwidth or energy or optimism. I know it will come back, but today? I’m out of spoons.
no, none of my action items are minimum effort, sorry. Defending democracy will never be a low strain activity. I'm organizing unions in my workplace by following the disruptive and worker-led Minnesota Model of organizing. We workers make the world go round. As the US labor movement gears up for a genuine general strike in 2028 (yes, we're following through with Fain's call to action), we need unions of all stripes to form. Labor unions, tenant unions, debtor unions, etc. Then after forming, we need unprecedented inter-union cooperation. It's ok to be tired and burnt out. Let yourself recover, and then continue the good fight.
You can do so much more good protecting, sharing resources, building community programs, etc. If they burn the country down to ash, well your oasis might survive.
Then for aggressive stuff, non-compliance would be way more effective. Think simple sabotage manual, a bit of sand really grinds up the gears of fascism.
Wait until they see what other countries are willing to tolerate to decouple from the Nazi bully country.
Made in the USA is a mark of avoidance. Fuck visiting your country. I will sign up to die to defend Greenland from you for our friends the ~~Dutch~~ Danes.
Edit: I’ll die for the Dutch or Danes against Trump.
It's roughly 10% of our US steel supply (or around 40% of all of our steel imports)....meaning prices are going to start going up. This is going to hurt....
Considering the fact we've been clapping "third world dictators" and installing others purely for profit or wouldn't at all be surprising but you can bet it'll be a weirdly confounding way. Ie. So unbelievably obvious and discrediting and yet so plausible no one can honestly tell if it's fact or bullshit, coincidental or intentional.
I actually agree that Americans don’t understand solidarity, because they’re soaked in neoliberal, individualistic ideology. But even if they did understand, they’re so lacking in class consciousness that they wouldn’t know what to rally around.
Thanks. Remember, it's nothing against you, or even against people who were lied to in order to get their vote.
At some point, some random billionaire will become slightly less billionaire-y and freak out about tariffs wrecking their bottom line. Until then, we've all got to grab on to our sanity and hodl like never before.
The problem is the billionaires are self radicalizing. They're believing the lies they tell the poor, and that's a dangerous feedback loop. Barry Goldwater was what they would've wanted had they been rational actors promoting fascism for their class interests. Even the "smart" ones like thiel are clearly losing it. They too were not immune to propaganda.
I'm not so certain. I think they're perhaps opportunistic nihilists and have seen too deep into the abyss one too many times to know how to deal with the sheer amount of nothing they saw there.
and freak out about tariffs wrecking their bottom line.
Nooooooooo. You got it all wrong! (seriously)
The ruling class wants the tariffs because tariffs artificially increase the price of their competitors' products! The entire point is to literally block people from getting a better deal outside of the US, so those same people can get screwed over domestically.
Tariffs are not good for the working class.
They only exist to protect the profits of the rulers.
This all assumes that businesses and consumers can absorb the bump in prices due to the lack of a better deal. There are going to be plenty of construction contracts that Just Won't Happen because they won't be able to get the building materials they need to actually build something for a price that someone is willing to pay. That's the kind of thing that can wreck a bottom line.
Edit: this isn't about the article itself so much as an idea it gave me. Companies are refusing quotes for legal, not political, reasons. But they should be refusing for political reasons, something those of us in the US must start doing ourselves.
I'm obviously not happy it came to this. But, with the US being a genocidal, neofascist oligarchy, it's entirely necessary. This is real, we are the resistance, and we need to start acting like it before we get disappeared. It is absolutely the duty of every country that values equality, liberty, and solidarity to implement a total blockade on the United States and seek maximum sanctions until the genocide in Gaza ends, until threats of US expansionism end, and until the people reject neofascism, whether in the midterms, in a coup, or in a revolution.
For those living in the US and allied countries, it is our moral imperative to sabotage and destroy all machinery in the US that is being used or soon will be used by fascists. Just be careful who you target and be sure you know why you're targeting them. (Vandaling small Black businesses accomplished nothing. Targeting ICE will make you a hero.) Make evidence-based vandalism and sabotage your playbook to buy time for immigrants, trans people, Muslims, and Jews in your community by slowing the machinery of ethnic cleansing before it's too late. (I worry it may already be too late.) See:
“President Trump will do what President Trump wants to do. He has a plan, and I will play accordingly,” Goncalves said. “I’m a big boy. I bought Stelco knowing that Stelco is in Canada. And you know what? America first.” Lourenco Goncalves CEO of Stelco ...purchased last year.
This is a bigger deal than I suspect people might realize. The reason there’s been destabilizing civil wars in Syria and Libya is their Russian bases. Now they might have to go through NATO country waters for basically everything in the Mediterranean.
Whether it’s wise is going to be up to history. I’m not saying that. I’m saying you could have predicted who would have a civil war 15 years ago with a map of Russian bases.
Yeah the moment the civil war ended in Syria I started chatting with folks about what this means for Russia’s presence in Ukraine. They can’t handle both of these crises at once. To say they need this warm water port Is beyond an understatement. This is as significant to Russia as the US losing Israel in the Middle East with regards to ME power projection. Their entire hub of power projection for the region just vanished along with their only real warm water port.
This is as significant to Russia as the US losing Israel in the Middle East with regards to ME power projection.
Russia's situation is worse. If the US lost Israel, the US would still have bases in Bahrain in the Persian Gulf and Djibouti in the Red Sea for power projection in the ME plus others. Russia's other warm water ports are in the Black Sea (which can be cut off by NATO member Türkiye or Kamchatka in the Pacific far from most everything else in Russia.
In 2014 Ukraine, Russia invaded and annexed Crimea to save the port in used historically (which belonged to Ukraine). I'm sure Syria is reading the history books to see if Russia tries that again in Tartus.
@spaduf@slrpnk.net created !growthefediverse@slrpnk.net to synchronize efforts to promote the Fediverse on existing social media (e.g. that Reddit thread on /r/Technology which got a few people joining Lemmy)
Spaduf wasn't aware of the existence of !fedigrow@lemm.ee , which is an existing community focused on the internal growt on the Fediverse, mostly between mods and regular posters trying to make Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed communitied grow.
To avoid confusion between the two communities, we are thinking about a potential new community to replace !growthefediverse@slrpnk.net, but with a different name.
Potential options we came up with: - !fedimigration@slrpnk.net - !fediversesupport@slrpnk.net
What do you all think? Do you have any other ideas for the name of that new community?
Edit to clarify as it seems it wasn't as obvious in the post: the objective is to keep !fedigrow@lemm.ee with its current focus: growth of communities already here (so more internal), while the new community would be about advocacy and promotion of the Fediverse on other places (so more external).
Having two communities seems better as people busy with keeping their communities active aren't automatically interested in promoting the Fediverse externally, and vice versa.
One strategy that I'd like to specifically promote is fediverse users calling attention to spaces of the internet where people are talking about the fediverse but there's relatively few users there that can share their experience.
To that end I've been considering things like:
Fedimigration Reinforcements
Fedimigration Support Team
Keep in mind that whatever name we pick will also be the hashtag that the Mastodon contingent of this project will end up using. As it stands, they would see posts from this community under #growthefediverse
In general, I think communities shouldn't splinter until there's a need. IMO both efforts should just use !fedigrow@lemm.ee, and title posts in a way that makes the distinction clear. They're both about growing the Fediverse in the end. If and when it becomes too much to keep in the same comm, then you'd split it up. That's just my opinion as an internet rando though 🤷
Having two communities seems better as people busy with keeping their communities active aren’t automatically interested in promoting the Fediverse externally, and vice versa.
I wouldn't call it anything with just "support" in the name, or I'd imagine you're going to get a lot of tech support questions regarding Fediverse software.
And keep in mind the attention span on the internet is reading half of the title of something. So the topic of conversation has to be very clear from the name alone.
Or maybe you want to join efforts? It's still not clear to me whether both are about the same thing, just on different instances. I think both fedigrow and growthefediverse are good names that make it clear what it's about. What about fedipromotion? or promotethefediverse? But I don't think my ideas are as good...
I think there is more of a need to make the fediverse feel like a community. Use my account on one service as a automatic validation to any other without requiring a formal sign up. Something like how "login with GitHub" etc. works. If these were interconnected in a low effort and seamless way, the existing community would be less of a walled garden and more of a culture. Posting video, pics, blogs, or even more forum like persistent topic threads should be seamless. In my opinion pursuing growth as a community has small returns. Becoming the most effective tool and the path of least resistance while being positive and stable is the real key to large scale growth. Updating LW is absolutely critical for Lemmy's future IMO and is our weakest link.
These were the thoughts that came to mind after I saw fedigrow. That name was very intuitive.
I've been saying this the entire time I've been here.
You shouldn't have a lemmy account, and a mastodon account, and a pixelfed account, and a peertube account, and a misskey account........you should have 1 account. A fediverse account. One account, you log into and any activity you have on your array of services would go to one account.
So if you post a picture on pixelfed, and a someone says "oh, thats a pretty butterfly!" And then you post a video on peertube about the ghostbusters, someone might reply "Oh, slimer is my favorite". And BOTH replies go to the same notification area, and you canreply from the same page.
Took me a second to figjre out why you named it that, but the Fediverse is more than JUST Lemmy. That'd be a great name for something promoting Lemmy to reddit users though.
Fedigrow@lemm.ee is the mis-named one. "To discuss how to grow and manage communities on Lemmy" is not really about evangelizing the whole fediverse to people outside. It could be more outward focused, but if you look at the posts in that community you'll see it's very much not what is being discussed.
So it's a type of growth, but more internal than external.
Having two communities seems better as people busy with keeping their communities active aren’t automatically interested in promoting the Fediverse externally, and vice versa.
Why not literally just here? Growth news are already posted here and the people subbed to this will care about the concept. It's by far the biggest of the lot too.
Yes but both in one community makes sense since people who advocate will care about the news and people who care about the news care enough to maybe advocate.
Here is our regular update that explains what we have been working on for the past two weeks. This should allow average users to keep up with development, without reading Github comments or knowing how to program.
There have been lots of changes since the last dev update. Contributors have been more active than usual during the Christmas holidays, and also the last dev update was already a whole month ago.
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If you like using Lemmy, and want to make sure that we will always be available to work full time building it, consider donating to support its development. Recurring donations are ideal because they allow for long-term planning. But also one-time donations of any amount help us.
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It implements the following:
The necessary DB tables
Fetching the post tags while reading PostView (list and sing...
I personally think lemmy users for the most part are technical enough to get that based on the descriptions you two may add. Those communities already have followers right?
I know asklemmy@lemmy.ml is not gonna censor me like asklemmy@lemmy.world is though they “have the same name.”
FYI: there is already a Fediverse Marketing Community as part of fediforum.org/projects/. How about joining forces with the people who are already there instead of duplicating effort?
Honest question: what is the goal here? As a user, I don’t care much about the fediverse as a concept. As a Reddit refugee, I love Lemmy and that is worth promoting as far as I am concerned. I was never into twitter, and mastodon doesn’t appeal to me. But if people want to promote it, go for it. As a techie, the fediverse is an interesting concept, but not one you’re going to get the general public interested in.
Would be interested in what? Some may be interested in a Pixelfed app, others may be interested in a mastodon app. Those groups don’t necessarily overlap much, and while some may be interested in the fediverse or activity pub, most people just want to know what it can do for them.
Pixelfed could overlap, a lot of posts on art type communities tend to be images with a caption, if you posted there and had it show up in like blender with the comments and likes syncing thatd be nice
Ideal world would be lemmy posts popping up in mastadon so ppl could reply there and I could see it as comments here, I want more users to interact with but not the mastadon/twitter interface
Le Secrétariat d'Etat aux migrations (SEM) a été victime d'au moins une vingtaine de cas d'usurpations. Des faussaires se sont fait passer pour lui le printemps dernier apparemment dans le seul but de faire fuir des étrangers.
At a time when established social media platforms are facing criticism and turbulence — from TikTok's temporary shutdown to Meta's withdrawal from fact-checking and growing criticism over political content moderation — a new approach to social media is gaining some attention.
"Help us put control back into the hands of the people!" declares Canadian developer Daniel Supernault, whose open-source platforms aim to provide privacy-focused alternatives to mainstream social media.
Supernault's Kickstarter campaign, launched on Jan. 24, has already exceeded its initial CA$50,000 goal, TechCrunch reports, raising CA$93,022 (approximately US$64,839) as of 11:02 a.m. PT today. The funding will support the development of three platforms within the Fediverse — a decentralized network of interconnected social media services. These platforms include Pixelfed, Loops and Sup, designed as privacy-focused alternatives to Instagram, TikTok and WhatsApp, respectively. Each platform rejects traditional venture capital funding and ad-based revenue models in favor of community-driven development.
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My only issue is having WhatsApp in my circle is a must.
Friends and families are more than happy to text or call. But the numerous contractors and engineers I work with and request their service, to them WhatsApp is a must to send photos of issues or videos of faults.
Yeah but you see the point? They offer us one option. We offer them ten.
"You don't have any of them installed? Well, I don't have Whatsapp installed. So one of us is going to have to go out of our way. Why should you assume that's for me to do, just because everyone else including you behaved like an unthinking herd of sheep?" That's what I feel like saying, and occasionally do actually say.
It's a difficult conundrum. Speaking personally, but at this point resisting the Whatsapp fascism has become a stubborn article of faith for me. I won't do it.
My point was about the social scenario, which is a genuine puzzle because most people want to have friends. I've lost some over this.
For the business context (this was the subject, true), I find that's much easier: "F*** off and send an email." Impossible? Well then that's one less customer for you. I have lots of experience of doing exactly this. Almost always the email suddenly becomes possible after all.
While BlueSky may benefit from venture capital, free (as in beer) open source projects where user data is not commercially exploited for revenue do not have the same benefit. They rely a LOT on donations for running the infrastructure and for the hours and hard work that people are putting in.
I know ads are very hated here, but I wouldn't be against an ad at a reasonable cadence to increase sustainability. Then create a pro version that gets rid of ads that's like $2-5 a month or $30 a year. The real problem is the exploitation of this system like Reddit/Insta feeding an ad every other post. Or Twitter charging nearly $13 a month for a check mark.
The sync app got so much hate for having ads during the original migration, but a lot of us here are devs and we should definitely get paid for our effort and be able to maintain our infrastructure without our of pocket money.
Yeah, ads also wouldn’t be an issue if the user was given control about how their data is used to decide on what ads to show them. Users could have an option to opt in to more targeted ads but be able to choose what aspects of their data are taken into account, if at all. Maybe all data sharing is turned off by default, but a user could opt in to ads that interest them like interior decoration, or furniture, or workout equipment, etc… while still being able to ban ads they don’t want to see, like political ads.
I think people will need to learn to accept that there is no such thing as "free". The current social media sells you to advertisers, taking every bit of data they can get.
So for independent and privacy focused social media, we're going to have to accept we have to pay for it.
I've moved to paying for my email, my file storage, my VPN and my password manager - all for privacy and security. I pay for subscriptions for streaming to avoid advertising. So I would pay for social media.
In the early days of the internet, people accepted paying for things but then the "free" model came along. The fediverse will need to persuade people to pay for it. That may limit it from being the big everyone social medial, but it could be able to become the high quality version of social media that people pay for.
I hope that's going to succeed. And those are the platforms in demand. While Mastodon is losing users, and we've been stagnating for quite some time already... Pixelfed is currently going off the charts. We'll have to see where this leads to and if it's going to last.
It's owned by Brian Acton. The original founder of WhatsApp before it was sold to Meta. I'm yet to hear of controversial stories about him. Unless him being a billionaire irks you, i think it's fine.
In what way is it insecure? If the user was going to message someone off platform they'd still be sending them an unencrypted message anyways if they have to switch apps to SMS. If users didn't understand the distinction, that's a design failure on signal's part.
To a lot of us, SMS fallback was the killer feature signal provided.
At least with matrix, it's decentralised. If they ever try to rug pull like signal did, their users can at least choose to not update if they self-host their own instance. I'd imagine a lot of lemmings would appreciate that, considering.
If the user was going to message someone off platform they’d still be sending them an unencrypted message anyways if they have to switch apps to SMS.
It sounds like they don't want to take responsibility for that user choice or be connected to anything that happens because of that choice.
It would still be an insecure choice, even with obvious UX distinctions. It would only be a matter of time before headlines muddy the waters with "intercepted Signal messages reveal..." or "Judge rules in favor of subpeona for unencrypted Signal messages..."
That's such a poor excuse. If they really really thought it was a problem, they could obscure-gate the feature. Make it so you have to long press on the 3rd word of the ToS or something ridiculous, and share that info online.
This is a fairly common practice for potentially dangerous android features, for example. It keeps the less tech savvy audiences from accidentally impaling themselves in the foot.
Usually the vanguard of adoption for platforms like these are fairly technical users. When you start cutting the feature set that brought them to your platform, it starts the death knell for your platform. They'll go elsewhere to find a platform that respects them more, and they'll drag everyone else with them sooner or later.
When was the last time you saw android getting a severely bad rap for including ADB?
They literally were not given any out (and were unwilling to take the one they had, or forgot they had it). People were complaining that SMS isn't secure even in Signal (when SMS by design can't be), which buils undue mistrust on the project, and Google is the one who controls all the keys to RCS so implementing that was not an option either.
The part where Signal dropped the ball hard is that they could just as well perfectly revived their old, perfectly functional SMS app with a new name and add it to the project,and thus be able to claim they still support SMS. Since SMS is pretty much a build-and-done for thing, it would barely if ever need any maintenance or updates.
In practice Matrix isn’t decentralized in the slightest. Almost every account is on Matrix.org or a server they host. The whole protocol is a data/metadata syncing machine that isn’t good for privacy & is prohibitively expensive to run anything beyond a single-instance since all history of all users in all rooms necessarily needs to be synced onto the server. Many medium-sized servers have shutdown on storage costs & system resource requirements (especially RAM)—which forced its users often to flock back to Matrix.org. This is wild since it is mostly text chat.
Luckily there are actually decentralized chat alternatives with low system requirements to encourage self-hosting, but man is Matrix so overhyped & misunderstood.
Luckily there are actually decentralized chat alternatives with low system requirements to encourage self-hosting, but man is Matrix so overhyped & misunderstood.
Thank you for the illuminating post. Could you name a few alternatives that better align with the ethos of the fediverse?
I wish I could get everyone to use it but many of my friends are having trouble with notifications not working reliably for Signal. Or sometimes messages are simply not sent immediately, even if both sides are online. This is not helping to get people over. Also no one but me really cares about all the reasons why I would like to get rid of Whatsapp, especially if they would have a lesser experience.
Can you guys help me: I have Facebook and instagram which isn't great. Never got twitter or tiktok and I'm very glad about that. If I get bluesky will I end up using instagram and Facebook less or just get addicted to another regretful thing? What's it actually like?
I joined Pixelfed yesterday, the Instagram alternative. I wasn't really active on IG and haven't logged in in years, but Pixelfed seems solid. The glaring issue though is that none of my friends use it, so it's just a personal photo for now, but hopefully that will change.
Hitching on the wagon that Pixelfed is leading is good. There's a lot of talk even from those who don't care about FOSS, or Fediverse projects. Let's give some credit and let things slide so the whole can succeed.
Look at the objective. The objective is to kill corporate sponsered social media. Well what better way to do that then by normalizing non corporate social media in the minds of the masses?
Heads up @dansup@lemmy.world the creator of these apps refuses to open source the projects stating (Loops):
Not until it's stable
Anyone who's followed any project of any kind knows that this is just a formal way of saying they just won't do it.
Not only is it not truly OSS, but he's a bit of dick. Like weirdly so. Banning people for reverse engineering the API, creating a poll on whether or not ads should be introduced (only to 180 on the matter claiming the poll was a joke but also emphasizing that the poll was in favor of ads)
On the plus side he dislikes Trump, so there's that I guess.
In any case I highly recommend people read this comment and the sources linked:
A federated tiktok alternative by the same guy who made Pixelfed. You can find the app on testflight.
It's not actually federated yet, not even open source. It's promising but Dan gets himself into a lot of controversy :/
It doesn't even have a web ui yet, but it's pretty much finished (atleast from dans mastodon teasers). We only have to wait a couple of weeks or a month for it (i estimate at least)
Don't get my negative comment wrong tho, i'm still excited for it, just disappointed so far from dan's handling of it.
I think the weirdest thing I ever saw him do was discuss meeting with Meta when they were working on Threads, get called out for it so he made a post somehow distancing himself from it and saying something along the lines of, "C'mon, guys; I'd never cozy up to Meta," and then, when Threads started federating, posted a screenshot of being able to see a post from a Threads account from PixelFed and gushing about how incredible this was.
Dude is suspect, for real; glad to see I'm not the only one getting that.
EDIT: just read through what you linked to and wow; that's so much worse than I originally thought. That's an inane degree of unprofessionalism.
"Hey dummies, this here is the place that isn't trying to fuck us, let's move it over."
For me the way bigger issue is clunkiness. The fediverse needs a massive push for UI, usability, intuitiveness. Not having that will turn people away, but part of what will get it to happen is more people showing up and saying "stop making this otherwise objective improvement so janky that I second guess coming here in the first place." Maybe a few will be inspired to help, if they have the skills.
To everybody working on the fediverse in any capacity: thank you. You are building a digital Noah's Ark for the future.
I've been getting into the fediverse for less than a month, and it seems the biggest barrier for a newcomer like me is settling on a select few out of many clients/apps. One question I think a lot of people migrating want to know is (and I open this up to anyone):
What's the fewest signups needed if we want to enjoy all of the federated replacements to corporate social media? It sounds like each client demands its own account but I'm wondering where/if there's overlap, because…
My Lemmy account already worked on movim before i discovered movim. That's really cool but I don't know 100% how that worked (same community server, I think), and how many other apps/clients offer that.
Movim is XMPP and I don't know how that overlaps with ActivityPub, but I want to better understand so that I know how few accounts are necessary so I can micro and macro blog, share original/repost images videos and music, have group communities, and have a personal page to post things on as opposed to thread/conversations/forum posts and not have to manage ten separate accounts if I can help it
I'm in need an open source and ethical Amazon alternative. Any ideas? It seems like every website I can order a box of varied goods from (Amazon, Walmart, Target) is owned by somebody who sucks off Trump on demand while somehow ending up paying Trump for it too.
The alternatives already exist and they are build on Nostr and it has different apps/clients to interact with that protocol. For example Olas is a Instagram-like and tik-tok-like app, and there are also many twitter-like or mastodon-like apps such as Amethyst or Damus
My experience is that nobody cares about privacy, moral issues or anything that might be an issue in the future. They only care about convenience, distraction and whatever their peer group is doing. So the "attention" this is getting is never going to reach the spineless mass audience.
(Okay, I got nothing after that one. Based on my limited knowledge of French, this is appears to be a terrible translation issue- tree = arbre, horse = cheval, house = maison.)
What's crazy to me is that eugenics is largely sound... It's literally a forbidden branch of science not because it's unscientific, but because our species can't be trusted with it
So much so that it becomes worthless. Elon Musk is doing his best to spread his genetics, even inappropriately offering up his sperm to female employees... He thinks he's one of humanities best and brightest. The kedamine addicted failed programmer turned conman, a guy so insecure he faked being good at video games and has created nothing himself, thinks his genes need to be spread far and wide
We are animals, we can indeed be bred for traits like animals, but we're so bad at evaluating ourselves we literally cannot use this branch of science
Eugenics is not sound because 1) It makes moral judgments as to what human traits are desirable and undesirable, which are non-scientific and largely based in prejudice. 2) It treats all traits as heritable which neglects socialisation and other complex factors.
Like for example eugenics in the Nazi regime genocided 90% of people with schizophrenia to try and wipe it out. But now, in 2025, schizophrenia rates are largely the same between germany and other western countries, because schizophrenia only has a small heritability factor.
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Pronti per un nuovo psicodramma con giudici brutti e cattivi che seguono la legge invece che i desideri governo?
IIRC dall'ultima volta non è cambiato nulla sul piano normativo (forse la cosa di spostare la competenza alla corte d'appello dal tribunale ordinario? immagino non farà nessuna differenza, non è che le corti d'appello siano più malleabili dei tribunali ordinari).
A voler esser stronzi (e contemporaneamente ottimisti!) si potrebbe sperare che si stiano preparino a far un gran rumore su questi 50 poracci per coprire quello di un qualche altro evento (eg. magari un certo ministro finalmente si dimette?). Ok, 100% speculazione.
È la terza operazione di questo tipo da quando sono stati aperti i centri di accoglienza: le altre volte però i giudici italiani non avevano convalidato i trattenimenti
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Most people know of the disasterous launch of (Legacy) Fallout: The Frontier, but did you know about the rework which is underway? That's right, The Frontier's release is still ahead of us, and the team released a master document outlining their plans for the future early September, last year.
P.S: The rework is currently looking for chinese-american voice actors fluent in both mandarin and english for an upcoming faction, if this sounds like you, please consider applying!
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Hey, c/Fallout! We over on c/FalloutMods are working on building a community, and so I see it as apt to promote ourselves with the occasional crosspost!
So what would be better for our first crosspost than some news you may not have known about the Fallout community's controversial darling, Fallout: the Frontier? If you're interested in more discussions about the Fallout modding scene, come check us out!
And don't worry, I won't be spamming you guys neither, this is the last one this month, hope to see you around!
It’s based on the writings of professor Cheng Enfu, President of the Academy of Marxism at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and Director of the Academic Division of Marxist Studies of CASS.
Socialism and communism are not one and done processes. They are gradual changes, both Marx and Lenin have addressed this extensively. We can’t just instantly press the big communism button unfortunately.
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In every BGS game ghouls all look identical, and it drives me insane. I feel it really detracts from the fact that ghoulification should be a unique experience to all that undergo it. Unless the Followers have invented some new kinda wasteland plastic surgery trend, of course, but I doubt that.
also ferals look so different from sane ghouls in all the bgs games which I feel is kind of a missed oppurtunity
I think they just were in f1 (iirc they were mostly moral device in the game, like who cares they are zombies or oh god I can't just steal from people), in f2 they were exposed to fev, and in later games not sure probably retconned one way or another.
If there is no fev in the air where all other mutants come from? 🤔
the beginning of this comment is hard to interpret for me, so I'm just gonna leave it alone. but I think the idea is the other mutants are just caused by radiation, or at least FEV isn't explicitly a cause other than... in racoons according to 76? radiation works differently in fallout cause the devs wanted cool monsters
Non-feral ghouls should mostly have their heads totally shaved because they're still ghouls and can't grow a full head of hair. Although some of them might wear wigs lmao
personally i think ghouls should have some more variance. admittedly, given the creation kit's systems it might be a little difficult, but surely a few extra headparts and some wackier, more deformed shapekeys could do something
Yeah I agree with that. More horrible disfigurement would make sense for ghouls. They've become a bit too comic for my liking. I know Fallout has always had a humourous element, but I'd like to see future entries in the series lean more into the horror side of it again.
Ghouls are too cute now, at least in Fallout 3 they were clearly disfigured (if unvaried and lacking expressiveness) I agree, we gotta lean into the horror of ghoulification. As of present the anti-ghoul sentiments seem really hard to hold up in setting. Like, we coulda had ghouls with half-attached ears, and cancerous growths on their necks, but now we just get kinda melty mannequins.
Fallout 4 seperated the design for feral and non feral ghouls, making the former more human and the ladder less so. Ignoring that is kinda cherry picky
im not sure what you mean, ferals were also much more monstrous in 3's artstyle. besides, the post mostly shows how they inexplicably have full heads of hair.
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