Tuukka R

Maybe @[email protected] can say? :)
(Though, I’m not sure if they read their Mastodon anymore. But maybe yes?)

I know. They’d exist anyway, but the scale is because of the Russia. They firstly give a lot of funding, secondly they do a lot of work to shape the discussions in the Internet. They put some “opinion” into the wild, then let local people do the talking. They only need to bootstrap the discussion, after which it will continue on its own weight without much need for further influence by the troll factory.

The only thing this petition can achieve is maybe getting a few people to move their donations to projects such as PieFed.

Beside that… Well, Nutomic and Dessalines are the two people who decide on how to act regarding this petition – if they should remove themselves or not. I find it unlikely that they will look at the finished petition and go “oh, people want us gone. Okay, we’ll do that”.

But yeah: Do not give money to Lemmy. There are other projects that are compatible with Lemmy and have use for your money as well, without being assholes :)

It’s very largely Putin.

We know about how he made Ukraine’s far right stronger and stronger until 2014, but there’s less talk about how he has done the same everywhere in the countries that used to be under Soviet rule. And then, around 2014, he started seriously expanding the same to the west, as well.

Because Germany has made a big effort picturing Soviet Union as a hero country that saved Germany from Nazis, anything that would be somehow against the Russia has been traditionally seen as pro-Nazi. So, it’s extremely difficult to talk in Germany about how the Russia is doing evil things. In Germany the Russia has had exceptionally free hands to operate. And they’ve used the opportunity. AfD is an offshoot of Kremlin.

No worries :)

You could just read from sources you have subscribed to and skip the “All”. That way you don’t need to bother with content filters :) You also aren’t really forced to follow the communities that are about US politics.

1. The multiple instances.

You only use one. You don’t need to care too much about this.

2. Multiple communities that are the same name.

This one can be confusing indeed. I hope they will ask if they encounter this. Then you tell them they’re on a different Lemmy, and that the two are interconnected. And that’ll help them understand a bit about federating.

3. What is exactly decentralization.

Not really important for using Lemmy. Nice to know, if you like being tech-savvy, but not necessary for using.

4. Federation

This was already mentioned as “2.” You can read and write posts without understanding this. You’ll get the point of federation at some point.

5. Difference instances can give different results

Different groups have different rules anyway. Some of them are derived from the instance’s rules, but whatever. Same end result. Not necessary to understand for basic usage.

6. How Moderation works is different than the usual platforms.

How is it different, actually?

7. Community discovery is different. Searching for something can be quite difficult on Lemmy.

I’ve never had trouble searching for something. Maybe that’s because before Lemmy I basically used only Facebook and there you cannot really find anything by searching anyway. For me Lemmy’s search works just fine for searching for what communities exist. Haven’t felt a need for something more.

8. Lemmy’s community has a lot of tech-jargon which non-tech savvy people might find difficult to wrap their head around.

You don’t need to understand everything on this planet. If you cannot wrap your head around something, then don’t. You don’t need to participate in every conversation.

9. How the banning system works on Lemmy is different than the usual platforms as well.

They’ll figure this one out if they ever get banned. Otherwise, it’s irrelevant for reading and writing.

All in all… Understanding federating isn’t strictly necessary for reading and writing in communities, but yeah, it is good to understand at some point. Everything else… Meh. Things that are nice to know, but you are able to follow communities and write in them just fine also without understanding those things.

Looks like an interesting game. Thanks!

How?

You don’t need to be tech-savvy to use a social media.

Well put!

Why do you not like it here? What can/should be done differently?

This is probably the way that works the best.

What do you mean?

The whole thing with federating is irrelevant to most users.

I tell them it’s a social media built in a way that makes it impossible for any company to take over it in order to make profit. And then I show them to some instance I’ve hand-picked for them, without really telling them there are other instances as well. It’s not something they should worry about at that point. I can explain it later on, anyway.

Religion != Ethnicity is only partially true in this case, though: The Jewish religion puts quite an effort to viewing all Jews as a singular nation and ethnicity.

But the main sentiment still holds: It is not acceptable to hate Jews in general for the state of Israel committing a genocide.

Nie wieder? Hah. Doch. “Nie wieder” ist so gestern!

That’s about what Merz’s words mean, in practical sense.

Why just 400 kV?

At least Ukraine has several 750 kV power lines. Decreases the energy loss quite a bit!

By 20th Sept 2026 the Russia will have lost the war it is waging, or at least it is clear to all sides that the final end of the war will in approximately half a year. USA and China can still change this, but I don’t think they will.

What do you mean with this?