Also wer sich den Werbeblock vor der Tagesschau ansieht, kommt zu einem ganz anderen Ergebnis.

There is a Canadian movie called “Beans”, but it’s a drama…

Based on true events, Tracey Deer’s debut feature chronicles the 78-day standoff between two Mohawk communities and government forces in 1990 Quebec.

And of course there’s the documentary about Lemmy Kilmister that is called - lo and behold: “Lemmy”

You do realize that the developers of Lemmy (the software) have a very close relationship with lemmy.ml, right?

My question simply relates to whether I can support the software development without supporting lemmy.ml.

Thanks for the reminder, I think I’ll take a look around.

Is it my fault if a comment I posted is removed by .ml-Mods simply because it states that there can be no justification for terrorism?

Honestly, I can’t support that. Do you see it differently?

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This unlawful attempt at forced brainwashing is truly scandalous and absolutely intolerable with its repugnant double standards.

No one disputes that the terrorist attack by Hamas was brutal.

Nevertheless, this by no means justifies the genocide being committed by Israel. There are also horrific images of this, of starving children, cold blooded murder of civilians and unbearable suffering - and Israel is even using every means at its disposal to prevent the world from seeing the full extent of their own atrocities.

If Israel were to adhere even remotely to international law and human rights, Thunberg would not be there.

It is absurd that this country continues to portray itself as the victim. They are the perpetrators and responsible for crimes against humanity.

These savages who represent Israel are truly the scum of the earth.

Yes, and that shows quite clearly that these people are probably not blessed with particularly impressive cognitive abilities either.

It’s not as if there’s much here that could fall into decline in the first place…

Merz certainly cannot be expected to work against US monopolies — on the contrary. The man is more of a professional lobbyist and, among other things, was chairman of the supervisory board of Black Rock Germany until 2020—he is a walking conflict of interest.

CLYD is a badass

I completely agree with you about Mastodon. I’m also not at all convinced that it’s a suitable replacement for Twitter for the masses.

When it comes to monetization, I just meant that I think it’s necessary for any Fediverse application if the Fediverse ever wants to have any chance of somewhat competing with mainstream platforms. After all, earning potential is, imo, the basis for professionally created content.

Not that the Fediverse necessarily needs all of that, but it does if you want to reach the masses, because they demand content in a quantity that simply cannot be provided free of charge (on mainstream social media it is paid for via ads).

I also think that Mastodon is not ideal for many people due to some fundamental design decisions and the lack of monetization possibilities, which I believe are necessary to enable content creators to earn a living (many operate as small, indipendet businesses).

Nevertheless, Twitter continues to be used — and this platform is no longer even fully publicly accessible since Musk’s takeover (since July 2023, most content can only be viewed with a user profile). As a result, you can only reach Twitter users and no longer the general public. This seems to me to be a very significant design flaw if you actually want to reach the general public.

Isn’t it interesting that all the arguments against it boil down to two main things:

• Network effect: The established platforms already have so many users that alternative platforms don’t stand a chance.

• Lack of technical expertise: The established providers are more advanced technically, there is a lack of investment, no comparable start-up culture in the EU, etc.

I think both are self-fulfilling prophecies:

• The network effect is at least to a certain extend maintained, for example, by the fact that even government institutions do not leave the established platforms (even though Twitter, for example, is no longer an open platform, which makes it completely unsuitable for public announcements).

• There is a lack of investment in technology because the EU does not invest in this sector on a proper scale, but instead makes itself dependent on established providers. In addition, due to the monopoly position of the established providers, which is imo made possible by inadmissible antitrust regulation, there simply can’t be competition from small startups.

I therefore believe that it all boils down to one central point: it is supposedly too late to change anything, so we should just accept the situation.

I find this unacceptable, as it is precisely the lack of will to change that has created this situation in the first place.

I mean, Bytedance was only founded in 2012 (TikTok in 2016) and faced exactly the same challenges. However, China still provided massive funding and support for the company, even though Meta, then still Facebook, was founded in 2004 and thus had a head start of almost 10 years. I simply don’t believe that it was just the short video format that made TikTok so successful – it also received massive (state) funding to promote the platform. If China had not done that, they would not have one of the most successful social media platforms worldwide by now.

It is also assumed that social media can only function in the form of centralized platforms. I think this is also wrong, because the platform economy is not a law of nature on the internet. Rather, it is only since around 2000 that the internet has developed from a distributed information medium into a largely centralized medium through unregulated, neoliberal capitalism — with the consequences we are all now feeling.

I therefore believe that it would be entirely possible to establish EU platforms or at least to promote the ones already existing more effectively.

I think it would be worth a try, especially since established social media platforms clearly pose a significant threat to democracies, as demonstrated by the global rise of fascism (which, imo, is largely attributable to misinformation on social media).

However, this would require renouncing the principles of overarching capitalism to some extend – and I think that this is the real reason why such approaches are not being pursued: Many EU politicians if not most are convinced neoliberals, which is why they refuse to acknowledge the devastating consequences of this concept and instead prefer to maintain the status quo, thereby making the established, centralized players more and more powerful.

Yesterday, I finally talked my parents into canceling MS356 and switching to LibreOffice and Thunderbird.

Now, the excessive subscription fees for MS365 goes to them instead.

If Microsoft keeps this up, I might even manage to persuade them to switch to Linux at some point.

What is wrong with the world? How can such inhumane atrocities be allowed to happen? Have we really not progressed since the Middle Ages?

I find all these people disgusting — but Kid Rock… I can’t even express how much I despise this talentless moron.

Well, he’s not an intelligent person, so…