There’s no light hearted fun silly cool niche interesting happy or positive shit here. Everyone is angry

Oh the irony

BTW, at least in my experience, kbin fails to federate a lot of content properly, leading to communities and posts seeming A LOT emptier than they actually are

It’s not a sustainable model, OP just wanted to see how many people would put their money where their outrage was

Only those based in the EU.

Do uploaded images get federated? If they do, this is a pointless losing battle

I don’t get it. It’s open source. Anybody can just look at the code. Unless you’re talking about a closed-source binary blob, in which case chances are nobody will ever adopt it.

Oh I’m not saying the feature couldn’t work, and I like the idea. I’m just saying it wouldn’t be possible to keep it a secret, for obvious reasons.

Functionality by obscurity does not work for a platform as open source and federated as lemmy

About a dozen modern QoL features, like not having to host your own server to be able to receive messages on mobile clients

I said no STRONG emotion, go back to my post 2 levels up. Like, I’m not about to sit there and start crying, I’m just not an emotional guy. Is that now a crime?

Possibly. Is that on the level of getting permabanned, though?

Yep. So was the holocaust. But at least for me, it’s an intellectual outrage, nothing that works up my emotions. Apparently to some people, that’s unacceptable.

I don’t have any strong feelings or opinions about the holocaust in particular, as opposed to any of the other multiple genocides and atrocities humanity has committed over the ages, or even just the assorted hundreds of millions of deaths from war, famine, disease, etc. They all suck, but I see no reason to get more emotional about one specific event than any of the others.

I get that it’s especially sensitive for many people because they feel connected to the event via personal, family or national ties. None of those apply to me. How strongly do YOU feel about the Crusades, which were very much an attempted genocide? Chances are, you don’t, because it’s just not culturally relevant.

Meh. Their admins are human like any other. One of their main subs banned me for saying that as an Asian, I didn’t have any opinion or strong feelings on the holocaust.

She released a video at some point explaining WHY she looked and dressed that way. It was an interesting PoV, and totally unrelated to her hobby as maker and influencer.

I guess the real lesson is that if you’re Chinese and develop a Western audience, us that to escape China. Don’t stay behind in China because your big audience is painting a target on your back, and eventually the Chinese authorities are going to ruin your life.

She couldn’t, her SO was Uighur and couldn’t get permission to leave.

It had nothing to do with ISPs. Here’s a good writeup on the topic

https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html

Um. I’m not one of those who downvoted you, but are you sure you understand the difference between hosting email, and running a client?

Gmail did with email.

That might be the worst example you could have chosen, given that Gmail is largely responsible for the current technical impossibility of self hosted email.

Ootl, what was wrong with kbin that led to the fork? I thought Ernest had quite a bit of support from the community

If I ever do crack the code, I’ll post the recipe.

And THAT’S why he would never give you the recipe