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Cake day: June 12th, 2023
  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nltoFediverse@lemmy.world•Pixelfed just overtook Lemmy as the 4th most used Fediverse software.English
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    7 days ago

    I am using the app. I sent a message to Stix the admin of the instance and magically a few hours later I was able to see everything (but no response). I wonder if there is a timed lockout or simply a soft ban to prevent spam on that instance. I also verified that discover indeed linked to other instances, but the results were still all but useless.

    However, there is still no way I can find to switch to or even view the global feed on the app, but I can do that on the web browser app easily. Is there a setting that I am missing or so? It is very straightforward on every mastodon and lemmy app…

  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nltoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is there any way out of the US political spiral?
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    7 days ago

    When has there been a revolution without a revolt in all of history?

    When has there been a 180° change without a revolution in all of history?

    In much of the world, Unions were forged in blood of many revolts.

    Nation separation and independence was almost exclusively revolution.

    Even the civil rights (which most people have been whitewashed into thinking was peaceful) had the black panthers. They have been completely villified, but the civil rights movement would not have succeeded without their willingness to use violence.

    History has shown time and time again that violence works and peaceful movements are stamped out 99% of the time.

  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nltoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is there any way out of the US political spiral?
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    7 days ago

    I would strongly argue that it is more difficult now.

    There is mass communication, yes, but 90% of that communication is rolled on over to the government with the exact location, search history, secrets, psychological profile, medical histoey, vices, everything at the tip of their fingers for every single dissident to exploit and blackmail them into stopping.

    In those days if a letter wasn’t signed and resistance posters were put up at odd hours, nobody would be able to track down the leader and who was doing it. Now, the surveillance state is so big, it would take a matter of hours to make a full roster of the resistance and have an “accidental” police raid on their house where they are killed “by mistake” and it is ruled a suicide.

    The entire success of revolution movements came out of anonymity and the fact that the government couldn’t snuff out the organization and break it up. Now, with technology, it is quite trivial to break anonymity anywhere on the main internet. Long lasting organization is much much harder.

    That isn’t even getting into engineered addictive media to keep people occupied and demotivates just enough to not get organized.

  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nltoFediverse@lemmy.world•Pixelfed just overtook Lemmy as the 4th most used Fediverse software.English
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    8 days ago

    Gram.social

    To me, the entire idea behind federation is that, like mastodon and Lemmy, you can see everything in the space, not just what is on your own server, especially by default or extremely upfront and clear way to make the behavior like that. That is the entire thing people are afraid of when they have to choose a server which leads to centralization or people simply leaving.

    I mean I also don’t get any of the hashtags I follow on my feed. Only the 5 accounts they forced me to follow by default.

    It’s hard for me to believe the number of 44k monthly active users and yet the “most popular accounts” that I can see on discover have 45 followers and there is virtually no activity outside of a few photographers that imported their Instagram account.

  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nltoNews@lemmy.world•Meta admits some people can’t unfollow Donald Trump on Instagram
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    8 days ago

    Lol less that 1% of users probably think about the prerequisite line of thinking to even start that argument, then probably 1% of those would make that argument. A fraction of a percent won’t cause any change at all.

    What has been proven time and time and time and time again are that humans are extremely extremely lazy and will not do anything at all unless there is a direct and present threat to them or their way of life. Hence why the wealth gap can be almost the worst in history with only 1 person actually having done something at all meaningful about it across the world. People still haven’t moved off of fucking twitter, they aren’t going to move off of Instagram. Especially not when “influencers” that draw the most people make their livelihood specifically from being on Instagram.