I’m very well aware. I frequent that server.

Yeah, porn is the only reason I still visit Reddit from time to every day.

Miranda IM was the best messaging software ever. Enormously configurable and super light weight. The installer was like 1Mb or something.

Apparently Miranda-NG (Next Gen) is a thing.

Pff, Pidgin, Trillian… The true master race was Miranda IM. Only the real pros remember.

I’d prefer it if the Fediverse was ActivityPub only, for convenience, but as I understand it any platform that supports federation is a part of the fediverse, no matter the protocol used and no matter if it can interact with other federated protocols.

Edit: If you think of the Fediverse as a multiverse instead of a universe it makes more sense.

#random #absurd #mentalinstitution #helpme

I guess a lot of people feel like Mastodon is more private because it’s smaller. Which is a kind of privacy, I guess, until it isn’t.

Put hashtags on your random shit and more people will find it

I just realized the Swedish slang for flea market would work a charm. Loppis. It even sounds like a hip app. Someone quick make it an open fedi platform before the capitalists take it!

Edit: It’s short for loppmarknad. Loppa = flea. Marknad = market.

Hashtags are afaik the best way to go. Some hashtags have a bigger following than others.

Yeah it’s sad to see. It’s not the reaction I would have expected from Lemmy. But then again, given how black people feel treated on Mastodon maybe I should have.

Yes, but context matters. Not that I have any statistics, but I would assume the Fediverse as a whole is predominantly white to an almost absurd degree. Had someone who represents a very small minority in Bangladesh turned to the Bangladeshi people to adress concerns of racism they experience all over Bangladesh from Bangladeshi people I would hardly call that controversial.

I hear you, and in general I absolutely agree. However I definitely believe that it’s valid in cases like these. I’m one of the affected, I’m white, and I’ve never seen racism on Fedi, and I take this as nothing but a group of people trying to help me see if I have any unintentional racist blind spots (which I’m pretty much guaranteed to have, as we all have them). It’s a good thing for everyone.

They are addressing racism against black people from white people. Based on what I’ve seen black people say on Mastodon about how they’re treated on that part of fedi, the points in that list seem reasonable (except “don’t post as much”, which seems weird). What they’re trying to do, as far as I understand, is to open the eyes of many white people who don’t realize what’s going on. I guess you could say they’re pointing out and trying to fight a kind of systemic racism, or a bias that can take the form of inadvertent racism.

In order to do that, the people affected by that (white) bias would benefit from countering said bias by taking part in other and more diverse sources, groups etc. In this specific case, black people. Basically: “hey guys, your group is treating us badly, would you mind listening to us instead of just saying that you’re not treating us badly?”

You’re saying OP is a racist?

I wasn’t aware that this has been posted before. I spend way way to much time on Lemmy and I’ve never seen it before, or any post relating to racism on Lemmy. Of course something being posted to many times can be annoying.

I thought the post was interesting because of how much talk there’s been on Mastodon about how exceptionally bad black people’s experiences are on there, and Mastodon is a part of the Fediverse. There are tons of complaints about how white people don’t even see the racism in front of their eyes on Mastodon, claiming there is none (which I, maybe incorrectly, correlated with these here downvotes). Personally I’ve never seen any racism on Mastodon, nor on Lemmy, so if someone is asking for racism to be linked I would find that interesting because I would like to see what I am missing. I could learn from it. All racism isn’t blatant and using slurs that are obvious to people not being targeted.

I find it fascinating that this is down voted.

Most people in the US don’t vote because those parties don’t meet their needs.

Even if that’s true that doesn’t mean they all agree and would vote for the same candidate. In fact that seems very unlikely given how distributions usually look. And in a first past the post system people usually vote for the party that has the biggest chance of beating the party they dislike the most, not for the party they like the most, and over time that usually leaves the system with only two viable parties that a lot of people don’t like. But it doesn’t mean they all agree.

Wdym? Harris looks like she might win over Trump. And yes, the Democrats would prefer Trump over someone like Sanders who wants to change the country in a fundamental way to benefit the people instead of corporations and the rich - the two groups that both parties work for.

While I agree that someone like Sanders would be a better candidate, it would require him (as an example) to have the full support of the Democratic party. And he certainly does not have that, as seen previously when he was running as a Democrat and the Democrats fought him harder than they’ve ever fought a Republican.

Harris is the only realistic non-republican candidate on the table, and so far she’s doing way better than Biden did and would have done. Biden certainly would have lost this election, Harris has a decent chance of winning. A Democrat Sanders would have lost due to constant sabotage by the Democrats and the Democratic aligned media outlets. An independent Sanders would also have lost, and split the vote for a Republican win.

At least that’s my 2 cents.