[-] Daz@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

What a depressing view of "socialism" you have.

[-] Daz@lemmy.ml 8 points 7 months ago

Wouldn't they just use a VPN? I know they're technically illegal in China but from what I've heard lots of people still use them regularly.

[-] Daz@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

If you mean communists that support capitalist states like China, then yes, unfortunately. Better than being around nothing but liberals or anti-communists though.

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Funny if true.

[-] Daz@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago

You can but it won't be respected. It will continue to default to their included Noto fonts despite whatever font you select. You can test this yourself. I'm sure they do it for some "privacy reason" but if I wanted that trade off I'd simply use the Tor Browser or one of those hardened firefox profiles.

[-] Daz@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

Librewolf doesn't respect your choice in system fonts if you uncheck "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above". I don't use it for that reason.

[-] Daz@lemmy.ml 59 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I don't think a federated wiki is solving any of the problems of wikipedia. You've just made a wiki that is more easily spammed and will have very few contributors. Yes, Wikipedia is centralized, but it's a good thing. No one has to chase down the just perfect wikipedia site to find general information, just the one. The negative of wikipedia is more its sometimes questionable moderation and how its english-centric. This has more to do with fundamentally unequal internet infrastructure in most countries than anything though. Imperialism holds back tech.

I agree that it might be fine for niche wikis but again, why in the world would you ever want your niche wiki federated? Sounds like a tech solution looking for the wrong problem.

[-] Daz@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago

It's really weird to see how almost infantalizing the Israeli minister is towards the ambassador. Like he's correcting a child or something. I suppose when you're commiting genocide you carry that attitude with you everywhere.

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From https://fediverse.observer/stats

Which seems to not at all come close to representing what you might actually see on Lemmy, not that Lemmy is tiny either.

Has there been any attempt to measure the total active Lemmy userbase? This would depend on the definition of Active but any working definition would be more useful than counting account creation. Something like "posted at least once this quarter".

[-] Daz@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

I hate that projects name themselves "fed" as that word is permanently associated with, well, feds.

"Welcome to the Fediverse, we got pigs of all kinds"

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submitted 1 year ago by Daz@lemmy.ml to c/socialism@lemmy.ml

Just finished reading issue #1 of Kites Journal and thought I'd share this piece. I know it's long but you'll find it readable. Covers the O22 coalition, an organization that was created through a united front effort though with strong leadership from the Revolutionary Communist Party (before they devolved into a weird cult of personality thinktank) to confront police violence. Of particular interest is the fact that while organizing against police violence, O22 recruited family members of those who were killed by police to be the face of the organization and the actual leadership. It's in stark contrast to the style of orgs these days which operate more with a service style.

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submitted 1 year ago by Daz@lemmy.ml to c/lisp@lemmy.ml

A fantastic talk about Common Lisp and its possible future, using history of CL's standardization process as a historical backdrop.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Daz@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

Would Lemmy be a good fit for adding individual "blogging" as a feature? What I mean is the ability for a user to create posts tied to their account instead of a specific community. The default Lemmy Frontend/webapp has all the basic features that would normally make up a blog: ability to make posts, markdown editor, hell even replies that you normally need to disable on blogs because of spam. I can imagine adding a section next to the "Communities" button that says "Blogs" where you could browse users blogs. Not sure if you'd want to federate the blogs but something I'm thinking about.

Not asking this as a feature request on the part of the developers. This should be something I implement myself. But I thought I'd throw the idea out in the wild and see if folks could either tell me "why not" or point out what might be problematic with this.

Daz

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