Turning to authorities to suppress fascism doesn’t seem practical. We need to cultivate good democratic systems and education systems that create citizens capable of thinking critically and turning down bad ideologies on their own. Citizens should be empowered, not coddled.
FOSS dominates by sheer persistence growing slowly as everything else burns bright and extinguishes until it’s the best remaining option.
It’s the slow way, but it’s the right way.
Subscription bugging.
I really like my unihertz Atom phone. It’s definitely not for everyone, but it’s small and damn near indestructible. Thinking of trying to install linux on it.
During Covid I ordered a little screen replacement kit from a cheap Chinese company, and they said it was delayed due to Covid, so I was trying to be patient, but then the company disappeared. Unfortunately, I was too patient and the six months went by so I couldn’t reverse the charge. Only time I’ve ever gotten scammed, and I was pissed because I had even looked them up before I ordered and they seemed to have decent reviews until after and everyone was calling them out. I don’t know if they were legit then collapsed during covid or they put a lot of effort into looking legit with fake reviews. Lesson learned I guess.
Replaced my samsung phone with a unihertz Atom – Definitely not for everyone, but I love it. With samsung I’d gone from my phones never breaking to two phones that seemed to jump out of my hands and crack if you looked at them funny, so I gave up on the brand and looked for something small and rugged. I swear I could chuck the Atom off a building into concrete and it’d be fine. I do wish there was a newer version to update the software, but you get used to the older interface pretty quick. Hopefully Unihertz will go back to the atom series and make one with linux software, but I was thinking of just buying another and seeing if I can install linux.
Skyrim is terrible in 3D. I can barely hack and slash normally, and I’m supposed to do it while disoriented and facing the wrong direction. Even with my coward play style of sneaky mage with uncapped runes, it’s too much of a pain to do anything other than stare up at the sky.
Yeah, I think there are two problems. One issue is that they profile users both for ads and manipulative algorithmic content, and I’d like them to profile me incorrectly in most cases (except like they are less likely to try to sell people on linux things, that’s a great thing I’d like to keep in the profile). The other issue is that they follow individual users using this fingerprinting, again this can be used both to sell things and to manipulate, but it’s a tad creepier since it tracks how you’re unique even compared to people superficially similar to you.
Ideally, I’d like some extension where I can look at values and either keep them, set them, or randomize them.
I think a lot of people are annoyed by car centrism. It’s not that they want a car, it’s that so many people having cars prevents them from having cheap trains / trams, bicycle lanes, mixed zoning, multi-layers multipurpose buildings, etc. Cars undermine a lot of other forms of transport and enable a more atomized culture that many people dislike.
Should I be using something that sends randomised bogus data instead?
Mine is sending that my primary language is English, but that I know other languages (I don’t), but it’d be nice to have a tool messes with them more.
I definitely have misleading information on there, which is great, but I probably need more.
I’m getting real tired of the escalating corporate-mediated fascism.
The United States is a Electoral Oligarchy, not a democratic republic.
getting to wander around utility tunnels is always fun,
I used to do this at my university. Once I saw a maintenance guy tell his friend “watch this” and walk up to me and ask if he could help me get somewhere under the clear assumption that I was lost. I was just like “no, I’m exploring” with that kinda childish stupidity that prevents people from yelling at you. He didn’t know how to respond and just said “Oh, okay” then walked back to his friend and muttered “I didn’t expect that”. Apparently I wasn’t anywhere that was technically off limits just someplace people didn’t generally go.
Fair enough, but in that case your argument seems in favor of staying with established systems even when central figures in those systems are corrupt. It’s hard not to sympathize with the impulse to separate from systems with prominent corruption, but perhaps there is an argument to be made about the need to tolerate some level of corruption for sake of social structure.
This concept of structured communities creating diversity appeals to me. As structural biologists, we often say Structure is Function, and it’s obvious this concept applies to societal rules and systems as much as physical systems.
It’s not willful ignorance to block users, comms, or instances. I’ve been pushed to block news/politics comms across multiple lemmy instances just to save myself the time spent reading the smooth-brained mouth-breathers argue we should abandon money and build a utopia out of hopes and dreams.
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Apologies, I think we are talking past each other. I think I misunderstood your initial comment. It read like a suggestion that lemmy’s more extreme communities were terroristic and a criticism of the first amendment, which suggested that you believe the government should be allowed to dictate what kind of speech is or isn’t acceptable – in particular on these little platforms. My comment was in response to that notion.
Re-reading it with your second comment, I think you’re saying that “terrorist ideologies” have been allowed to develop on conventional social-media by claiming first amendment protections in order to not moderate communities, and 2016 was not in reference to early lemmy but to the MAGA movement. That makes more sense, and I generally agree that conventional social-media follows irresponsible stewardship practices.