The article author went back to XMPP, which does appear to be the best option currently.

The states:

Health care exchanges in Nevada, Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island shared users’ sensitive health data with companies like Google and LinkedIn.

They do, but the way the fediverse works is that if someone else on your instance hasn’t already searched a community by pasting in its URL, it won’t show up in a normal integrated search, as it wouldn’t have federated to your instance (searching a community directly or subscribing initiates federation).

Lemmyverse doesn’t have that limitation, it crawls every instance and creates a complete list of every community across all instances, making its search very valuable.

but he is more worried if my sister gets to see this that she will simply quit my brother in law.

Thankfully he doesn’t have to worry about that, since your Sister already saw these texts last month.

I see you’re tweaking things this time though, refining the wording to… I don’t know, get the right sorta engagement?

Baffling why people go to this effort to create these little pieces of false drama, since there doesn’t seem to be a profit motive.

Just bored, I guess?

A good way to find cool communities to subscribe to is searching topics that interest you on lemmyverse.net.

Once you have a good amount of subscriptions, you’ll have a pretty good time.

Alternatively, if you diligently block each community from /all that doesn’t interest you, the /all page also becomes pretty great to scroll.

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I think this is an essential watch for anyone living in the US, as it shows how effective civil disobedience and a general strike is against authoritarian oppression. It also highlights reasons the movement failed, to learn what not to do, or what to improve on.

Alt of Prodigalfrog@slrpnk.net here (slrpnk admin). As mentioned in the link Faythofdragons provided, the server unexpectantly went down when poVoq went on a work trip, and the failure was unfortunately in a way that requires physical access to fix.

We’re using this opportunity to consider a migration to piefed, but if that does not work out, we’ll simply continue to run the Lemmy instance. Either way, we will be back! :D

You can follow the progress of the piefed migration here: https://feddit.org/post/13823532

The IWW used to have members pull security to route out planted agent provocateurs that were starting shit in mass strikes or protests. We will need that again.

Cheers for keeping the community alive! :D

I see in your edit that you confused us for a different instance, but I want to mention regardless that Slrpnk.net has 3 active admins, it’s not just poVoq (Kris).

Excellent article by Drew, I hope it helps push the needle in the tech sector.

As an addendum, I will say I agree with the argument put forward in your link that pacifism is a death sentence against a government willing to kill en masse regardless of what effects it would have on the world stage.

I don’t think the USA is at the point where nonviolent methods are ineffective.

Welcome!

https://anarchistnews.org/content/hostages-gun-militancy-and-militarism

And look at Chile in 2019: https://itsgoingdown.org/submedia-presents-interrebellium-the-estallido-social/

They brought their authoritarian government to its knees with continued non violent (in the sense of lack of firearms) resistance combined with an effective general strike.

They ultimately failed because the liberal parts of the resistance fell for the reformist bait, but it demonstrated that you don’t need violence to win if you’re able to educate the movement that reform is a trap.

This is the correct response at this point.

I can’t wait to drop that on some unsuspecting fellow.

Piefed also uses PostgreSQL. He was mentioning that the limiting factor on either platform is the DB, meaning that the parts written in Python will likely not be a limiting factor.

Piefed also has quite impressive optimizations in other areas as well compared to Lemmy or even Mbin.

Our sysadmin explained some technical advantages here: https://feddit.org/post/13613230/7063696

This guy started out with fairly innocent parodies (I think), but he ended up falling down the alt-right pipeline, and is now a hard right christian. Any of his newer stuff is done to harm who he’s mocking, it is no longer good faith parody.