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Yeah, bluesky has a bunch of features, notably account portability, which was specifically designed into the ATProtocol.
The purpose of the ATProtocol was never to federate with Activitypub, it was to build a more feature rich and scalable “federated” protocol.
People make up the system.
I can hate the system’s structures and want to change it. Hate the elite that designed a system, but I wont hate a person for simply existing within the system.
cheers.
IMO would be a cool feature.
Because I often get posts I don’t have a clue about because I’m not subscribed to that community, take like 15 secs to understand what the hell is on my screen, and then the for you algorithm starts pushing that community even more because I stayed on it a while.
Maybe I have settings wrong or something. But is it possible to get a for you feed with only my subscribed communities?
It’s all of them, every single one. But tiktok is literally owned by a country known to interfere is elections, so it’s the most useful scapegoat. (And probably there’s some truth to it).
It was down for a couple hours half a day ago
Yeah the booklet in french was also quite shockingly oversimplified langauge that didn’t seem fair.
And when the best detailed argumentation you can find against is a pdf from the against group that’s not super well sourced, it really didn’t feel like a fair vote in the way it was presented and explained.
I was super suprised my canton voted nearly 60% against.
This round of referenda was a major shift to the left, I wonder why.
The federal government has no ownership. It’s owned 55% split across the canton’s and 45% private shareholders.
In practice that means basically if 2 cantons and the private companies agree on something, and the 24 other cantons disagree, the private companies get there way.
It’s an institutionalisation of corporatism.
In practice it loses billions of CHF in public funds, on purpose, to make sure the CHF doesn’t become too strong, the CHF becoming stronger benefits the population, but hurts the companies because their prices become less competitive. It’s a system made to serve the companies as much as the people.
Our political system might work better than most western democracies, but your claim is categorically untrue.
The elite have strong power in the Swiss system
I’m sick of the upper middle classes in Switzerland consistently saying the system is representative of the wider population.
It’s representative of their classes, not those of us who get by below the poverty wage, not those of us stuck in oppressive nursing home setups, not those of us who fall through the cracks of a system which is so focused on stability it often ignores needed reform. We have some of the worst disability rights laws in western europe. We only gave women the right to vote in the 70s (and in parts of the country, the 90s).
It takes a fundamentally fucked up country where in the same village of population 10,000, disabled people can starve to death whilst being unable to afford medical care, while a 5 minute drive away, there is the villa of a billionaire.
45% is completely normal here. We have votes every couple months, you vote when you’re interested.
Our “yearly voter turnout” is around 76%
3/4 wins.
The health insurance lobby wins their vote, but the rest is a win for poorer and middle classes and environmentalists.
It’s not like other services. Books are only a couple mb so it’s really easy to reupload the entire website.
Check out the piracy lemmy community megathread.
Yeah it’s got loads of domains. It’s never been gone.
Interesting anecdote. Though to judge by your username, it seems you may have an agenda yourself.
This wasn’t the ME/CFS article (the illness I am personally disabled by) and anyways all this happened before I became disabled.
Anyways my ban is over now, but I can’t get myself to edit wikipedia anymore. It was a pretty shitty experience and I don’t wanna go back.
And it wasn’t the only one. So much NPOV-violating stuff on most the fringe articles and whenever you edit to make more neutral tone or you remove something unsupported by citations you end up in an insufferable straw man argument chain on the talk page.
The main fun part is filling out abandoned articles and making new articles yourself. But anything showing problems in other people’s work becomes really tiring really quick with all the talk page nonsense and endless reverts.
I know the conversation is a media outlet that lets researchers publish articles, but any title that says
“researchers say…” when it’s like two academics out of a field with thousands is kind of disingenuous
On many UI’s like voyager this is a setting
It definitely has, just not to as large a scale.
In practice it’s ran like a heirarchical aristocracy, where a admins control articles they care about and are very picky about the changes they allow.
One article about an illness contains false information related to alternative medicine “treatments” and I edited it, this was removed by the person who made most of the page. I got into an argument with them, and turns out they have the same username and come from the same country as an account on other platforms selling alternative medicine products, which are subtly advertised on the page they control. They also are a wikipedia admin.
Anyways I reported this to the admin team, and my report was immediately deleted by the admin I was reporting, and I got a three year ban. Mind you I have over a thousand wikipedia edits and have made some big contributions so this was quite annoying.
And this is far from the only incident. The people who are most likely to edit wikipedia pages are those who really care about, or could really benefit from the topic. So you end up having situations where companies hire agencies to improve their image by changing the wikipedia article about them and their products, same thing for celebrities.
read my post, not just the title.
For Ukraine, only NATO membership makes sense to end the war.
There is literally nothing else that can prevent Russia from invading. They broke their word in 2014, then again in 2022, without NATO membership, Ukraine will just get invaded again and again by Russia until it’s a satellite state or fully annexed.