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  • balsofttoMemesinstance wars
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    7 days ago

    Engagement is just “emotional involvement or commitment”, it’s not necessarily “corporate media framing”. Capitalist platforms abuse this for profit (as they do with everything good), hopefully we can use it to create stronger communities.





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    25 days ago

    Thinking that the current Russian government is communist/socialist is peak brain rot. It is a nepotist police state with conservative/neoconservative social policy (religion, nationalism, anti-LGBT) and a neoliberal economic policy (capitalism). It’s almost an exact opposite of the ideas behind the hammer and sickle.


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    25 days ago

    Don’t get “rest of world” mixed in there; I mean sure, all governments suck in one way or another, but most of them at least aren’t imperialist.



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    25 days ago

    An @lemmygrad user not knowing what USSR/СССР stands for is so funny to me for some reason (it’s the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics/Союз Советских Социалистических Республик). The difference between a united republic and a union of republics is kind of the reason it was so easy to tear apart in the end, any constituent republic could quit the union at any time.



  • balsofttoLinuxFOSS IDEs recommendations?
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    28 days ago

    You can already do so incredibly much by hooking up a few extra LSPs and keybinds (calling external scripts/programs)!

    Yes, agreed. But I would still love some git integration that can’t be emulated like this. For now git cli + lazygit for more easier refinement works fine, but it’s not ideal.

    Emacs Org-Mode like context aware styling, for i.e. Bold or Italic text hints from LSP

    Hmm, isn’t this already the case for, like, markdown? Or what do you mean by context-aware?


  • Hm, I haven’t thought about a Fandom replacement (a bunch of wikis covering mostly unrelated, niche subjects); for something like this, federation would indeed be nice as just a way to have a single user account, search, etc. I still stand by my opinion that a general-purpose encyclopedia should have a single article per subject, and thus not really suitable for federation.








  • What is the point in federating a wiki this way? The point of an encyclopedia is to have structured and consistent information about everything in one place. This seems to propose a model where rules, formatting, notability/verifiability criteria, quality etc can only be consistent within a single server. Information is spread over multiple servers, creating a rife potential for duplicate articles, difficulties with search, and fracturing of the community (I can easily imagine a dozen articles about every even slightly politically contentious subject).

    In other words, to me the point of federation is to allow multiple sets of rules (e.g. moderation rules) to exist within a single space, which seems to be contrary to the basic idea of an encyclopedia. IMHO the better implementation of an encyclopedia is a robust set of rules ensuring that every (notable) viewpoint is represented, and social norms that ensure everyone follows them regardless of their personal biases. Wikipedia is kind of like this, although I understand the frustration due to it often being biased towards a liberal viewpoint (but even then, a wide range of viewpoints is almost always represented).