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if he uses the word "leftism" he can't say anything coherent about politics
What would you call it?
I don't reduce myself to cliches, so, I wouldn't "call it" anything
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Re: Lemmy – A link aggregator for the fediverse
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Which is why Lemmy needs more users to promote diversity and mainstream usage. Right now its filled with leftists mostly because they get banned from sites like reddit. The thing I enjoy about Lemmy is that you can join an instance and if you don't agree with the policies and the people there you can join a different instance.
https://github.com/innereq/lenny#the-lemmy-problem Having more users isn't going to help if the core developers are anti-diversity.
I was expecting your link to make some kind of point to substantiate your "anti-diversity" claim. This just shows they don't allow slurs on the platform.
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#153I'm intrigued by this. However -- and this is probably a cultural thing with me being an old-timey unix guy who likes to build things from scratch -- I have a point of confusion. If you choose Run A Server, it suggests two main options: Ansible or Docker. It specifically warns against "from scratch". When I'm developing software, I want people to be building it from scratch. If someone likes something I made enough t…
I've installed it from scratch. It's not complicated, get Postgres set up, do a cargo build, and set up the settings.
Re: Lemmy – A link aggregator for the fediverse
#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which is why Lemmy needs more users to promote diversity and mainstream usage. Right now its filled with leftists mostly because they get banned from sites like reddit. The thing I enjoy about Lemmy is that you can join an instance and if you don't agree with the policies and the people there you can join a different instance.
https://github.com/innereq/lenny#the-lemmy-problem Having more users isn't going to help if the core developers are anti-diversity.
It's a federated protocol. You can run your own instance that allows slurs and federate with whoever agrees. That's a non-issue.
Re: Lemmy – A link aggregator for the fediverse
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You're being rapidly downvoted but to play devil's advocate I wonder if you could explain why you think "American leftism" is "disturbing".
Somebody can correct me if my timeline is off, but I think Lemmy was largely embraced by exiled Chapos, much like Voat became a Groyper den. I don't think it's even worth considering such a community left-wing. They're more like an anime poisoned grooming circle that embraced red aesthetics for shock value. However pathetic that sounds though, I'm the bigger loser for even being familiar with this nonsense.
No, you're thinking of Hexbear. Chapos didn't go to Lemmygrad.
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The problem with Retalk is this: It’s closed sourced. If we want to talk about Reddit alternatives, I would rather we look at ones which are open source, including Reddit itself until 2017 [1], the Mastodon Twitter-like web app [2], Discourse [3], Lemmy [4] (use a fork [5] if you can’t stand the slur filter), and the old school PHP discussions boards like PhpBB [6] and MyBB [7]. [1] https://github.com/reddit-archive/…
> use a fork [5] if you can’t stand the slur filter I'd rather not support the ecosystem at all if they pull stunts like this.
If it was possible to write an effective slur filter, I would not find it completely objectionable. Not because that would be useful to stop people saying completely shit-headed things if they really wanted to (I strongly suspect you could get the entirety of Mein Kampf past that filter), but as a "people who use these words are not welcome" signal, which definitely has some value.
As it is, it's bashing the problem with regular expressions, and doing so badly. I mean, some of those words actually have completely different, non-offensive meanings in certain communities & contexts. (One of a few I spotted: Last time I used "retard" was in the context of ignition timing...)
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Perhaps it's to reduce overhead in troubleshooting questions for those who 'just want it to run' rather than be curious about the nature of it.
Indeed this seems to be the main cause for them to recommend either Docker or Ansible. This is what the notice ( https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/from_scratch.h... ) actually says: > Disclaimer: this installation method is not recommended by the Lemmy developers. If you have any problems, you need to solve them yourself or ask the respective authors. If you notice any Lemmy bugs on an instance installed…
Theoretically, you could run a web server and database both written in rust and have your entire dependency stack contained within cargo. Literally deployment with a single `cargo build` and just a couple weeks of build time
Re: Lemmy – A link aggregator for the fediverse
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Reading the whole bug, it's literally a political stance with no teeth or real purpose. It's bizarrely all for show, serves no real purpose, is functionally deficient, and the DEVs know this. Further, a 10 line script could easily patch each new version, replacing the hardcoded code with a loadable text file. Done. Updates would take zero time to deploy. It's all about taking a position. Taking a position is fine. Bu…
In this case it's really about the burden of community moderation. It's a fairly impotent restriction, and yet it serves the social function of discouraging a certain sort from making Lemmy their home. Most Reddit alternatives become really scummy because they attract the people (not "the kind of people", the literal individuals) who get banned from Reddit for pushing anti-Semitism, racism, and misogyny past what Red…
The problem is it cuts the other way too and spooks those who believe in open speech. I'm now uninterested in Lemmy because of this "feature". Anyone who would try to limit the speech of others cannot have my best interests in mind.
Re: Lemmy – A link aggregator for the fediverse
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By and large what “isn’t allowed” on major tech platforms is racist, xenophobic, and homophobic content. You can still find a lot of non-PC, fringe content on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Reddit. I get that censorship in major tech platforms is problematic, but the sense of martyrdom in comments like yours feels a little overwrought.
Are you even paying attention? This isn't true. You can be censored from social media for all sorts these days. This last year we had a UK media organisation banned from YouTube for questioning the UK COVID response. People in the US are no longer allowed to question the legitimacy of their elections on most social media platforms. Even US media outlets like the NYPost were censored for running stories Twitter didn't…
> People in the US are no longer allowed to question the legitimacy of their elections on most social media platforms.
> Yeah, sure you can be banned for questioning if an untransitioned man wearing a wig is really a women, but this isn't what most people are concerned about.
> the guy produced "conspiracy" content but it's really high quality stuff with no hate at all.
> I'm not coming at this from any political position.
can you hear yourself?
Re: Lemmy – A link aggregator for the fediverse
#160I'm intrigued by this. However -- and this is probably a cultural thing with me being an old-timey unix guy who likes to build things from scratch -- I have a point of confusion. If you choose Run A Server, it suggests two main options: Ansible or Docker. It specifically warns against "from scratch". When I'm developing software, I want people to be building it from scratch. If someone likes something I made enough t…
From a cursory look running the backend is close to as simple as installing libpq and then cargo build --release and then creating the PostgreSQL user and database, and editing a config file then running the lemmy binary. I don’t see a problem. Serving the frontend cannot be a challenge either I imagine but I didn’t bother looking at the frontend.
If you look in their docker-compose.yml file, they’re also running an instance of pictrs. So I assume that image uploads would be borked on a manual install. There’s another fork that uses iframely in a similar way