This is indeed a difficult problem. Especially as laws and their interpretation are highly dependent on the hosting location.

Hiding posts behind warnings or only showing them only on user request are on the top of my head.

Very interesting blog post! Thanks for sharing.

I’m not saying there shouldn’t be any moderation. But there’s a difference between deleting a post and preventing whole communities to be accessed because of a subjective sense of what is the correct viewpoint on [topic], be it political, ideological or else.

I could imagine a setting where other instances’ posts/communities aren’t shown on the All page, but could still be subscribed / viewed by the user if he requests it.

Even though I don’t particularly like or agree with the attitude or points of lemmygrad users, I still think there should be no blocking/defederation on instance level.

IMHO it’s a fundamental design flaw of lemmy, that the instance administrators have the ability to prevent their users from accessing content from certain other instances just because of their different (political/ideological) orientation. Being exposed to other opinions, even though you don’t like or agree with them, is very important. Yet this seems to become an increasingly rare phenomenon. Even if an instance doesn’t want to promote the posts of another, the users should still be able to decide on their own, which community to subscribe or block. I’d love to see more features for that.

From reading the comments in this or other threads, I can see that it wont take long until lemmy will go the same echo chambered and biased way reddit went and ultimately this will be its demise. Alienating everyone who questions the current development with “Just go somewhere else” or “Get lost and host your own instance” is certainly the best way to go for ensuring only the right people stay for the infinite circle jerk…

This unhealthy dependency is not a good development. Not for Germany, not for Europe and in the long run not for the world.

Ugh… exactly what we need: more computer generated “content” optimized to generate clicks instead of something of actual value…

Do you happen to mean https://suckless.org/?

Otherwise, there seem to be an abundance of self curated lists of “high quality” software recommendations out there…

Slightly off topic, but I would welcome an .onion of .i2p link as an alternative mirror for lemmy.ml.

If the configuration isn’t too difficult, it would allow users of tor or i2p to browse with more anonymity.

I’m certainly more of an exception than a rule regarding those types of relationships, but I use a personal website instead of any social media to publish my projects (I also refer to it when applying to jobs) and frankly don’t give a damn about any childhood friends.

But I can see why, this approach may already be too “radical” for many people.

I still predict, self-driving will be pushed into series production. Even more, they will make the technology mandatory to use in every car in quite near future.

The shots are called by someone else. The moment self-driving cars reach the point of being less risky than human drivers on paper, no inusrance company will insure you.

you’re interested maintaining some sort of connection with them but you don’t have their phone number

Well I’m not an expert on any form of relationships, but why not simply ask for the number?

What do you mean with “honorary”? Ukraine is literally in Europe.

So, which crypto did they use?

Having to work while being in school is not ideal, but also not uncommon. Lots of people (me included) have done it successfully, so it’s absolutely possible with the right strategy.

If you already have problems with your mental health, this should be a priority. Make absolutely sure you are fit for uni, before starting! Otherwise the additional stress of the course load can have a big toll on your overall health and make you drop out. Seek counseling before attending.

The problem with multitasking (for a computer as well as for a human) is context switching. Constantly having to change between tasks (e.g. studying/work) costs a lot of mental resources, because you basically always have to focus anew on the current situation. So try to work and save the money during the lecture breaks and vacations, to focus solely on studying during the semesters.

Depending on your program, you might choose which classes to take for your degree. Find out exactly what classes are available and how they will be graded. In my experience classes that have final exams in the end of the semester are harder compared to those requiring the submission of a paper/essay or (group) projects. Exams always stressed the hell out of me, because no matter how good you were during the semester, the last few weeks always boil down to cramming books for different courses while the task of writing papers or doing projects can be distributed over a longer timespan. Choose the classes by the easiest grading methods, not so much by their topics.

Just when you thought the average attention span is already too low…

Sounds awesome! I‘ll check it out.

I am honestly amazed that there is no completely FOSS printer existing that runs on libre firmware and is build from 3D printed parts. I wonder how hard a project like this would be?

Using the german health insurance model as a positive role model is… something I don‘t see very often…

It‘s an unfortunate trend, that also kinda feels artificially propagated/normalized by articles like this one.

There are good reasons to personally decide against having children. But this decision should come from one self and not be instilled by fear mongering media or an emotionally skewed perspective on the current state of the world (both seem to be the most common reasons, when I talk to people about it).

In the end, your kids are the best way to ensure your own values and beliefs outlast beyond your life time. And I personally think future generations will be in dire need of good values and beliefs.

People could just uninstall the apps they don’t like

Unfortunately, it‘s not always that easy. Try to get any stock smartphone from the shelf and uninstall distracting stuff like the web browser. It‘s basically impossible without rooting the device and installing a custom OS. And this is something you can‘t expect a non-techie to do, even if they wanted to…

But I‘m totally with you on your notion, that all „bad“ software should be easily removable.