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That powerlessness you feel is by design, and every state technically wants you to feel some form of it, with varying intensity. It keeps people from trying to make things better without actually having to put effort in to preventibg them.

But there are things we can do, and we are not powerless. Get involved in your local communities while there is still time to organize: https://infosec.exchange/@tinker/113589807117870451

That’s how everything in history has ever changed for the better.

Our only hope is to direct pur collective efforts into building horizontal egalitarian structures in society that can permanently replace our existing insertions.

Getting involved in your local communities is the first step: https://infosec.exchange/@tinker/113589807117870451

Hm, isn’t Airvpn based in Italy?

You bet it is.

Politics are affecting increasing amounts of people, it makes sense that there would be more discussion of it.

Cheers for sharing that!

I would argue the next step that would really make a difference is economic warfare, such as ceasing purchases of any nonessential goods, and a national general strike. That would have a dramatic effect.

In the meantime, the best option is to organize in your local community to lay the groundwork for such a thing to happen.

Our leadership sure ain’t courageous… Like at all. Pretty dang spineless.

Helpful link on how to find like minded folk to organize with: https://infosec.exchange/@tinker/113589807117870451

This feature has been available to all kbin/Mbin users since the beginning, btw.

I’m still rocking a 2011 38" vizio from Costco. Does everything I need, nice and dumb, as a TV should be. A bigger and higher def TV won’t bring me more happiness, so I’ll be sticking with it until it quits and I can’t fix it.

When I played the first game, I eventually become a bit annoyed at how some systems worked, such as how frequently henry became hungry, so I downloaded a mod that extended the time between meals, which made the experience a bit more realistic and less annoying.

Though on the topic of degrading equipment, I kinda like shoes wearing out of it’s not too frequent, because for some odd reason I find it enjoyable to have to plan trips around such limitations 😄

That’s a fair point, actually. I suppose as long as an algorithm doesn’t prioritize engagement at all costs, it could be a worthy addition.

Not a bad idea!

As someone who has had to explain to longtime Linux users why and how some arcane aspect of package management isn’t grok-able by the common user, I understand where you’re coming from with that point.

However, while I do agree the overall experience could be more intuitive and easier, if the first concepts of federation and picking a server is too much for someone, I don’t know if that is possible to overcome since it’s fundamental to this whole citizen controlled media experiment. Hopefully at some point in the future it becomes more popular, and thus the concept becomes more understandable and less scary due to seeing others get on with it, just like email.

I don’t think the existence of a second solarpunk instance would negate my experience with the first instance. It would still apply, there would just be another place where that same phenomena is happening for a different group of people.

That’s not to say that I couldn’t subscribe to their communities and get to know the regulars there too, but it would be more norrowed since I would only see the ones I specifically subscribe to, where as with my local tab I see the totality of what’s posted to my ‘home’.

If you personally don’t care about that specific experience that a local tab can bring and think your curated subscriptions is just as good if not better, awesome, more power to you.

But for me specifically, and possibly for others as well, it’s a noticeable difference and a welcome addition to our experience :)

I’m not entirely sure if this is how it works, but I believe the instance that disables down votes does not federate downvotes from other instances. So if a downvote enabled instance downvotes a post from the non downvoting instance, other users on the same instance as the downvoter will see downvotes, but other instances will not see them.

Could be totally wrong about that though!

It’s not that the local tab replaces your home ‘subscriptions’ tab, it’s that it’s nice to have in addition to it.

My instance, slrpnk.net, caters to solarpunk topics only, and we’re small enough that it has a tight community of regular posters whom I recognize. In my local tab I can see at a glance just the stuff posted to my community, with my other subscriptions not mixed in and cluttering it up. I also see in my local tab what’s being posted in communities I’m not subscribed to, but will often have comments from our members since we all collectively view our local tab. It’s like a sort’ve town square feel that my all and subscriptions tab don’t have.

I like having access to both.

Voting being disabled is an option built into Lemmy that the admins can activate, though only a few choose to. I know Blahaj disabled down votes but not upvotes.

Also I can’t test this immediately, but at least on reddit, if you highlighted text from someone’s comment before hitting the reply button, it would automatically put that in quotes in your comment box.

AFAIK, you’re able to see pretty much everything on your instance, but Beehaw did defederate from your instance, so I think you can see their posts, but they can’t see yours.