OpenStars

Be the change that you would like to see in the world...:-)

I disagree that authoritarianism is anywhere in the same ballpark as democratic socialism, and naively I would far sooner believe that dbzer0 was anti-censorship rather than pro-authoritarian. I have heard that accusation about dbzer0 previously but as far as I can tell it seems based exclusively on the post https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/52313315, which is if not fully debunked then at least highly contested in the comments, so the furthest from a fully settled issue as it could possibly be.

But am I missing something, do you want to share a link to support your accusation of them? (You did not phrase that as "I heard somewhere that..." but rather stated it as a true fact, as if you believed it based on some kind of evidence?)

Otherwise, the only accusation that I've heard of that seems to hold any water is the Nazi bar argument... which would apply to the entire Threadiverse, and perhaps by extension to the entire internet also? i.e. while valid, I am not seeing how helpful that is. e.g. your instance and mine both federates with Lemmy.ml, which makes each of us "tankies" as well by that logic. Unless there is something more specific about dbzer0 specifically being pro-tankie rather than simply not anti-tankie enough?

“Muad’Dibber”, the Lemmygrad admin is a Dessalines alt.

That sounds like a conspiracy theory. If true then I have seen no evidence of it, though I don't particularly care one way or the other so will just leave it at that. Here too you did not phrase it like "might even be...", but as an established fact. It is already so exceedingly difficult to separate fact from fiction on the internet, please aim to be more precise so as not to muddy the waters further. I do thank you for your desire to help.

Stay curious.

The question I guess I’m getting at is, is this place more maga friendly than socialist friendly?

Perish the thought! The reason is that during Rexodus, the more conservative/right-leaning instances (mainly exploding-heads.com) were so strongly hard-defederated from basically every single Lemmy instance across the board that nowadays there basically are none left. Maga.place is a brand-new one (oldest post is 3 months) and, looking in the side-bar text, I see that it has only 3 active users per month. So it is both new and highly irrelevant to the wider Threadiverse except the notoriety of it representing conservatives.

In fact most communities on the Threadiverse with names such as "conservative" are actually trolling conservatives rather than representing them. Also, a fun historical tidbit: exploding-heads quickly turned on itself and self-imploded, then (after first shifting over to another instance, rammy.site) emptied itself out when Donald Trump's Truth Social came out, leaving exploding-heads itself to eventually die (so there is little point to defederating from it anymore, since it no longer exists, although it is easy enough to leave in the defederation list, and one day that URL might become resurrected...).

Why are the communist/socialist instances blocked by default and not like, maga? I see it’s blocked by my instance anyway, but thought it was weird to block those three considering there are much worse instances.

"True" socialist instances include places like slrpnk.net and lemmy.dbzer0.com, which I highly recommend checking out. Hexbear.net however only claims to be leftist, while actually being trolls who believe in nothing except the power of being internet edgelords. Lemmygrad.ml and lemmy.ml (the latter also run by the developers of the Lemmy software) are extremely pro-authoritarian places that despite not saying anywhere in the rules about it will nonetheless ban you from every community on the instance (even those you've never so much as heard of) if you ever say anything critical (or not supportive enough?) about Russia, North Korea, or China. That banning btw is arguably fine - it's their instance so they can be free to run it however they wish - but the disingenuousness of never stating that fact up-front, instead calling itself a place for FOSS enthusiasts to discuss things, is one of the main reasons why they are blocked from new accounts, since they have shown themselves to not be governed by the traditional codes of conduct that a Westerner would expect regarding freedom and transparency. So very MANY people have, upon being exposed to that, noped back to Reddit and then complained about the entire Threadiverse, not realizing that those instances do not reflect the wider ideals held by the great majority of the instances here. There are whole entire communities - such as !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works - dedicated to ~~bashing on them~~ documenting their behaviors.

Afaik, "Attitude" does not actually do much of anything - the worst that can happen is that after reaching some ENORMOUS ratio of downvotes to upvotes (I don't know the value, and it could differ from instance to instance anyway, but think like: 10-to-1), an icon gets placed next to someone's username to indicate their fairly toxic overall behavior. It does not filter their submissions, only labels them, so that someone responding has a better idea going into a conversation that the outcome is generally likely to result in disappointment if the goal was to be liked or at least have content received positively. Your own attitude is currently reported as 97% so I don't think this will ever end up happening to you.

Another spam-blocking feature is that you will not be able to DM anyone for I think it is 2 weeks after account creation. Unfortunately, since some people abuse the privilege, crackdowns have become necessary...:-(

A -1 score could have 200 upvotes.

I whole-heartedly agree and very much await the day when this aspect can be improved in PieFed software. I frequently get situations with like a +1 score but it represents a +11/-10 split rather than zero engagement - and yes those are two totally different scenarios, which it can be helpful to be able to distinguish!!:-) New features are added to PieFed practically weekly, so one day I strongly hope to see this one.

If you hover over the number, it will pop up with the number of up and down votes.

On a mobile device, this can sometimes be difficult to impossible to trigger (Firefox on Android). I find it helps to zoom in tremendously, but even then sometimes I can click the digit 50+ times without ever getting it to show me the count breakdown.

I was going to ask why this is, but now I see that examining the same situation from a desktop it works, so now I think it is just a bug / UX flaw.

"Coat bath"?!?

I am too poors to understand this.

Edit: also the Jack and Jill Fun Bath #2 has 3 sinks... and nothing else. Meanwhile the Master Roesn on the middle left realizez the real truth(iness): that after using the toilet, one has no need of any sink... 😅👏

Well, there's nothing we can do.

How about paying a living wage for human writers who actually give a damn about the integrity of the end product?

Like I said, there is nothing whatsoever that we could possibly do about this...

Correct:-). Though the person you were replying to might not have pursued the issue quite as far to determine that fact (or there could still be other issues going on besides that?).

Also yes.