Sounds fun! Probably frustrating if that’s your everyday commute, but my friends and I enjoy telling each other stories of our transit related disadventures (car drivers being idiots and bus drivers acting accordingly, the metro automated system being stupid, stuff of this kind), so we’d probably like that.

You hate it while it’s happening, but it makes for some pretty silly memories. And most importantly it helps break the monotony of your commute.

Yeah when I do it it’s usually on trams or buses, although I find it even harder (and therefore more challenging) on metro trains. Those things accelerate FAST lol.

Way too easy on regular trains so not really that fun.

Bars if I have to, but I feel like I look cooler if I don’t hold onto anything, so I often try doing that and just balancing.

(I know I don’t, you don’t have to remind me that)

Not like they have much surface to put solar panels over lol

your fascist fucking grandpa is literally Mussolini

That’s not Meloni, I think you might be confusing her with Alessandra Mussolini. Even then, I don’t think it’s fair to hold people accountable for the actions of their ancestors, even when said ancestors are dictators such as “literally Mussolini”.

and it’s one of his old colonies

If anything what made the country so destabilized, ultimately leading to Gaddafi’s rise, was the “liberation” (read as neocolonialism) brought by the British. A similar fate happened to all the other former Italian colonies such as Ethiopia, Somalia and Eritrea.

I’m all for the right of self determination of people and decolonization was a traumatic process for many African countries (think of French Algeria for one), but it’s probably not a coincidence that all of those territories are now failed or war torn states. A smoother and more democratic process after WW2 might probably have helped the regions, but it’s not fair to blame Italy for it’s lack.

Ahaha thanks but I can’t take any merit for the Fediseer, that’s @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com’s baby. It also has a nice GUI that - despite not being the “best motherfucking website” - is pretty cool to look at.

Totally agreed on that, it’s actually a feature I’m working on adding to the UI fork I’m going to use for my instance.

It uses the admin-defined Fediseers preferences of an instance and hides content from users according to them.

Interesting idea. I’m currently working on a Lemmy-ui fork for my instance and including a feature of this kind in the frontend would be kinda nice.

I’ll bookmark this and come back if I ever get to it.

Flip side: imagine being a new Lemmy user, maybe coming from the algorithmically curated experience of Reddit, and having to learn what instance blocking is, how to do it and who to block. It would be quite overwhelming.

I’m all for user freedom but some users don’t want freedom. They want something that works without having to spend 15 minutes configuring it.

Looks like they REALLY don’t have half a clue of how the Fediseer works LMAO.

An instance removing their endorsement simply means that the admin PERSONALLY doesn’t appreciate your content. The opposite is also true: censures and hesitations mean that the admin either doesn’t like you or thinks you are dangerous. That’s it, end of story. Some people have their defed lists syncronized with Fediseer but a censure doesn’t automatically mean defederation.

And most importantly, from experience I can say no one ever looks at that “censure list” they mentioned. Rather, you look for an instance and weight the pros and cons by looking at the reasons behind their endorsements and censures.

BTW the name of the censuring instances are very much public and available:

Lemmygrad
https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/lemmygrad.ml

Hexbear
https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/hexbear.net

Surely by “drone striking the instance” they mean the server rather than the people on it. No harm in that…

Friendly admin to the rescue, I can still see user and mod deleted content. Usually it’s a curse, but I’m glad it can help for once.

Is your link any one of these?

• https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PH-Y-03022-C-E/1
• https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/page/1
• https://www.loc.gov/collections/

I’m sure you’ll love this AutoMod bot for Lemmy I have built, then!

Seriously though, I tried to stay as true to my morals as possible writing this and that includes not judging people for the communities they choose to interact with. So there’s no shadow bans nor any “you’ve been banned from X for having written in Y once” crap. Just removal of no no words (set by mods) and some other extra features.

In Italy we use hectograms (“ettogrammi”, “etti” for short) in day to day life when buying groceries. You don’t ask for 200 grams of ham, you just ask for 2 etti.

Vero.

Gli utenti sono pigri e le abitudini difficili da spezzare, ma le proteste fallite dimostrano ai Musk e Spez di turno che possono continuare a fare tutte le modifiche che credono, continuando a peggiorare l’esperienza. Se davvero Reddit non ha perso grandi quantità di utenti, Spez continuerà a fare modifiche del cazzo e privare gli utenti di libertà, finché la gente non comincerà ad aprire gli occhi.

Io credo andrà così. Mi basta che Lemmy sia pronto ad accoglierli quando i più capiranno.

Beh quello dipende dall’istanza. Ad esempio, lemmy.world ha attivato 40 000 frontend diversi e li sì, bisogna scegliere, ma altre istanze (mi viene in mente https://dubvee.org/, anche se è piccolina) hanno impostato una UI alternativa come default e l’esperienza risultante è abbastanza simile a new Reddit.

Secondo me l’utenza non è migrata in massa perché Reddit non è (ancora) diventato invivibile e Lemmy non era ancora pronto a raccogliere gli utenti smarriti. Ma trovo verosimile che si possano verificare altre ondate e quando ciò accadrà spero che Lemmy sia pronto.

Maybe I do. But I’ve already seen polls that appeared to be favouring (albeit marginally) the UK rejoining the EU. And this is only after a handful of years.

Please don’t take it as an offense, that’s not how I mean it, but I think Brexit showed that the UK needed the EU more than the EU needed the UK, so I expect those numbers to grow even further as the people realize it.

True for Serbia and Belarus, but Russia is so big - both in terms of surface as well as population - that it wouldn’t really work with the way the union is currently structured. I’m not even sure if it’s possible to restructure the union in a way that allows Russia joining without them becoming an hegemonic power within the union itself.

Short answer: the Norwegians don’t want to. Why? I think it has to do with both their very high GDP per capita (which IIRC would make them pay large membership fees) and more importantly, the fact that they’d have to follow the EU’s common fisheries policy.

With the current arrangement they have to follow most of the EU’s laws but not the fishing ones.

Soon we’ll be running out of European countries

Morocco be like: 👀

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morocco–European_Union_relations

In 1987, Morocco applied to join the European Communities (the precursor to the European Union). The application was rejected on the grounds that Morocco was not considered to be a “European country” and hence could not join.