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Yes

Most defectors go through China == it is easier to cross the border / defect in China != it is easy to cross the border to China / defect in China

From what i know , it is not easy at all to neither go to China, neither “defect” there, neither defect from authoritarian communist countries nearby. What you ‘showed’ me is people working in China, so controlled travel.

Based on what i know, i take your affirmation that it is easy to defect frop China either as ignorance, either as propaganda. If you have good info on the traveling part, please share so i and others can learn. On the original matter, i think it’s not worth debating further if we do not share a same-ish perception of facts.

Because they could have airlines if they accepted foreigns workers. That part os the NK government decision, good or bad. Let be clear : economic isolation of NK is a ofc product of both NK politics and UN embargos. But freedom of travel is not directly affected by UN. The first thing that stops NK people to travel is a border with armed guards, including with friendly states.

So they are barred from travel via plane because of NK decisions on airlines, and not banned from travel via other means (if we forget about frontier guards and all, ofc).

It’s not about forbidding NK people to leave the country, it’s about working.

Oh, so i misunderstood part of your question, thanks for explaining !

Indeed, i can’t find a way to see the Instance Sidebar on Voyager. I’ll try to dig deeper, but i think there is no option for this. If this interests you, here is the codebase for Voyager, where it is possible to suggest enhancements (though there is no guarantee they will be implemented).

Finding communities on a specific instance also does not work easily aside from your local instance, at least on Voyager.

For the part of your original post where you point out that the search option does not give any results of the instance about a specific country, there may be another explanation : for your instance A to show results of another instance B, they need to be federated. This works when one user of instance A subscribes to something on instance B : then instance A adds instance B to its list, and start referencing its content (though i’m not sure if it references everything, or only the content of the communities that users of instance A subscribed to). So if you see nothing, maybe it’s because no one connected to instance B on your instance A, so they’re not aware of each other. (though it seems that mander.xyz is federated to a looooot of instances, so it’s probably not this problem)

But honestly, it’s also because the search engine seems quite bad. I tried searching for instances names i’m sure my instance is federated to, and it did show some of their communities but far from everything, and not even all the ones i’m subscribed to.

Some info to sum up :

• yes, searching for new communities, especially on other instances, and especially on apps, is quite hard, at least for now. Once you’re set up, it’s quite smooth, but the beginning may be strange.
• lemmy.ml is indeed quite a folkloric part of Lemmy, but i think you’ll find alternatives for most of the communities hosted there. They’re the “test” instance for Lemmy, managed by the dev, and also quite a big instance, so that’s why they haven’t been defederated from most instances yet, but they are an exception.
• If you want to see which instances your home instance is linked to, and which it blocked, you can find this on browser at the bottom of the main page, there is a “Instances” button.

It seems Voyager is available on iOS, and i suppose it works the same than on Android. Here are how to achieve what i think you’re trying to do.
To find communities of your local instance, you can use Search/Explore and set the filter on the top-right to “Local” instead of “All”.
To explore the content (the posts) of your instance, whether you subscribed to communities or not, you can use the “Local” option (located with “Home” and “All” in the “Communities” section of the main interface).
To find the sidebar of an instance, you have to ‘go’ to the instance (by clicking its name somewhere, on a post or a search feed), and then there is a “Sidebar” option in the three-dots menu.
I don’t think that all clients are from the same codebase, and i think you’re not missing one big thing, rather just some specific knowledge on how to get to the things you’re looking for (to be fair, it’s not very intuitive).

From most interactions i had, it did not seem like a problem. Even tankies seem to be mostly individuals in a cult-ish thing rather than an armada of bots / automated answer.

Came to say this : Zorin was perfect for me, especially for its elegant resemblance to Windows.

Mostly vege/france. I don’t mind leaving food out in the open, especially cakes, pies and cookies. I can confirm that sometimes a few days out are too much, but as long as you check for weird scent/look, you’ll be ok. My parent recently ate boiled meat over the course of a week without putting it in the fridge, leaving it in its pot and reheating each day, they threw the last bit because it smelled bad, but they had no problem before that.

I mean they definitely were special, one way or another

Sure the wording may sound rude, but it’s also perfectly understandable given the circumstances. Kinda seems like both men in your story are not realizing the mental workload your friend and you faced.

My two hypothesis :

• either they don’t see most of your comments for some reason (like most comments being on lemmy.world coms and them being blocked from it), and they believed you were a fake account promoting vote
• either they don’t care for a proper reason. I see a lot of bans from .ml being referenced as “bigotry” even when it’s only pointing out negative aspects of some dictatorship ML worships, so this could be a thing on Hexbear too.

V Rising is a very good game from the little time i played it. Caravan Sandwitch is really cool too, according to a friend of mine. The others i know nothing about, except that Atomic Hearts was really dividing about its quality and playability.

As other pointed out, it is not technically racist to be against illegality, but asking with free will for laws and system with a racist bias to be strictly applied is racist as a consequence (as in, you’re not racist by yourself, but you are racist in your speech/action), so in our world, i’d say yes it is racist in a certain way.

My guess (i dont understand it all that well) is that people are less again using systemd, than against a growing dependency on systemd. If something bad happens to it, it could drag down other big elements of the linux ecosystem with itself.

For furniture/house design, there is Sweet Home 3D. Otherwise, Blender can work for most of your desired features. Though both have 3D features that would be overkill, but they’re not that intensive for basic tasks as you ask.

People are probably giving good advice when saying people of knowledge (either therapists or lgbtqia associations) may be of more help than people on the fediverse. Other than that, my experience about this is that it needs communication, and that the sooner the better : i guess it’s not different from traditional dating, you would just talk about your needs in intimacy at the beginning of a relation and see if it’s okay for your partner or not.

Kinda basic, but my favorite is the bass. I play guitar too, but it’s a bit easier to play bass and people are less aware when you make a mistake !