Yeah for an anarchist the only periods that might have been genuinely hopeful were between the revolution and full on civil war in 1917 (like 6 months) and between the failed Soviet coup and the successful Yeltsin one in 1993 (like 2 years)

There's a one time purchase to remove ads and a subscription for features like machine translation or importing/exporting your communities. It's $17 yearly or $100 lifetime

Good preview for what's going to happen to the new York times under the new admin :)

As a russian I feel this a lot :/

love this genre of images so much

Bluesky (well, atproto, bluesky is the twitter clone running on atproto as a demo app) doesn't actually have instances in the mastodon sense, it's a more modular design for better scaling (because it was designed from the start to replace twitter)

Here's a good article with illustrations https://atproto.com/articles/atproto-for-distsys-engineers

The question of whether someone works for a government is not really a matter of opinion

ejoy your cocp is now a part of my vocabulary

That the universal ports are worse for some purposes than the old specialized ones. I feel this especially for magsafe and analog audio

no, no, he has a point

Apparently this subreddit is now hitting the front page for unsubscribed users, good job everyone

I don't think most of the data in the network should be hosted by a single legal entity, that's just unhealthy even if the protocol is open. It's also my main complaint about bluesky- technically open protocol, de facto centralization.

I can agree both those things happened, but you're saying one of them had a much stronger effect and so far i'm not seeing any evidence presented

Steam deck: am I a joke to you

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To be fair it was an underground religion in the west for a while too

Hey nobody said they're not attractive to men

No, the historical socialists are dead and buried. You need to engage with the workers where they're at, and where they're at is "brainwashed by tears of anti communist propaganda to the point of pavlovian triggers". Imo the least you can do is not use those specific words front and center.

The fact that the difference between Kamala and convict was so small is enough grounds by itself imo

No, in general i take a dim view of supremacist/essentialist ideology. However I've seen entire servers on Lemmy described as tankie, but haven't run into anyone on here getting called a white supremacist. I imagine mods take care of those pretty quick.