Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org
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Software developer, open-source enthusiast, wannabe software architect. I like learning and comparing different technologies. Also general STEM nerd.
Joined May 2021
You know how we laugh at journalists being vultures jumping onto any tragedy to shit out as much content about it as possible? It's somewhat understandable but also quite disgusting. That's the feeling I get every time I visit youtube recently.
It's really bewildering to hear from a western tankie their alternative history in which the soviet bloc countries had it super cool and all the badness is just capitalist propaganda and being shown a recording of some one guy in Latvia that actually liked it as proof, while being East European and knowing how it really was — awful to the point of people hijacking planes just to get to the other side of the Iron Curtain.
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"Why are people saying the modern Web is cluttered and unuseable? It's really not that bad..."
*disables adblocker*
"oh."
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@Wander The fediverse has had the issue of a "block everyone first and ask questions later" culture since Gargron went around touting it to journalists as "Twitter without Nazis." It attracted the kind of people that want the internet, if not the world at large to be a safe space devoid of people that disagree with them. That line of thinking is also really rampant among Reddit moderators, and Lemmy instances tend to give you the worst of both worlds.
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The #Fediverse needs to learn some serious conflict resolution...
If we ever aspire to become a serious alternative to corporate platforms we can't continue with this behavior. Let me explain.
Two days ago someone created a "The_Donald" community of a well-known #Lemmy instance. Immediately there were cries for defederation, blocking, and suspicion about the admin letting racists run rampant on his instance.
What ultimately happened was that when the admin logged in they removed that community. But before they even had time to realize what was happening they were already being accused of stuff and if any instance heeded the call to block, it would have caused damage to the users who would have their subscriptions / follows severed.
Some users who've just arrived from Reddit and bring a fresh perspective are already wary of the shit show this can become.
That instance resisted massive blocks because it was large enough. But what if it was smaller?
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This guy built a fully-functional 32-bit #RiscV computer in #Terraria. It can even run compiled #Rust programs. 🤯 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXPiqk0-zDY
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This is basically the web / app experience of everyone using a language with latin-esque alphabet but with diacritics. People choose a fancy font, don’t bother to check if its authors bothered to include diacritics, and without a thought apply it to the translated versions.
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any vessel can be a submarine if you use it wrong enough
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Software developer, open-source enthusiast, wannabe software architect. I like learning and comparing different technologies. Also general STEM nerd.
Joined May 2021
