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WatDabney

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  • For those who have tried MBin, is it a good Lemmy alternative?

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  • Piefed by default auto-subscribes accounts to a curated set of communities, auto-hides downvoted content and downvoted posters, attaches icons to accounts to mark those that have beyond a particular threshold of downvotes and entirely blocks links to a curated set of sites because Rimu deemed them to be unacceptable.

    The only saving grace is that at this point those (anti-)features are generally toggleable at least at the admin level, but that's thanks to wjs018.

  • For those who have tried MBin, is it a good Lemmy alternative?

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  • I dunno. I just noticed it as it was happening.

  • For those who have tried MBin, is it a good Lemmy alternative?

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  • Try it and see.

    It takes all of about a minute to sign up for an instance and it doesn't cost anything, so there's no reason not to do it. If you like it, great and if you don't, you're not out anything.

    For the record I actually prefer KBin/MBin - they just have a better interface than Lemmy. But KBin was a one-man effort and when the guy running it burnt out, it soet of fell by the wayside. MBin is a fork that was meant to be a more open project, but the guy who was mostly responsible for it is a bit of a twat and mostly used it to pimp Monero, so it never quite caught on like it should have.

    You might also sign up for an instance or two on piefed. The guy who's mostly responsible for that is also a bit of a twat, but he's had some good help and some people pushing back against his tyrannically censorious tendencies, so it's pretty decent.

    The only way you're ever really going to know what you think about any of them is to try them out for yourself. And there's literally no reason not to.

  • Rudy Giuliani hospitalized in critical condition: Spokesperson

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  • I thought the air seemed a little clearer today...

  • TRUMP ANNOUNCES OPERATION TO ESCORT SHIPS - Fmr. CIA Analyst Larry Johnson

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  • Has anyone been keeping track? I don't remember what comes next in the desperate flailing rotation. I don't think it's quite back around to "destroy your entire civilization" yet. I'm pretty sure there's a round of "make a ludicrous offer that Iran refuses out of hand then claim they're on the verge of accepting it" first.

  • With tariffs stalled, Trump's China policy drifts

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  • That's about the weirdest part of this whole thing to me.

    It really is just The Emperor's New Clothes played out in real life, as a wide swath of people who certainly know better all studiously pretend that the President of the United States is not a petty, shallow, vindictive, willfully ignorant and delusional egomaniac with the emotional maturity of a toddler who's slipping into dementia right before our eyes.

  • AI uses less water than the public thinks

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  • Slurp gobble.

  • With tariffs stalled, Trump's China policy drifts

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  • Trump doesn't have policies. He has whims, urges, compulsions, reflexes and tantrums.

  • Do you believe in separating the work from the artist?

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  • Sorry - I should've been more clear.

    Just as I try to keep my money put of the hands of scumbag creators, I try to keep my money out of the hands of any and all of the rentseeking scumbags who didn't create it but try to profit from it anyway, which includes their heirs. It's just that as far as that goes, it doesn't matter whether or not the creator was a scumbag - that's my position in all cases.

  • Do you believe in separating the work from the artist?

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  • I don't think anybody's estate is entitled to anything from their work, piece of shit or otherwise.

  • Do you believe in separating the work from the artist?

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  • Yes and no

    Yes insofar as the work really does stand alone - if it was suddenly revealed that Vincent van Gogh was a mass murderer, or a space alien, or a Labrador Retriever, or literally any other thing one might imagine, Starry Night would still look exactly the same.

    And no insofar as I don't want my money going to a piece of shit, and to the degree that I can prevent that from happening, I do.

  • The New Democratic Machine — And The Billionaires Behind It

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  • pushing Democrats to the center

    Because that worked out so well for them in 2024...

  • Palantir employees are talking about company's "descent into fascism"

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  • Anybody who's surprised by this is part of the problem.

    If an organization possesses influence or power that can be abused, then it inevitably will be abused. It doesn't matter how conscientious people are or how many safeguards are put in place - loathsome, power-hungry pieces of shit will angle for position in the organization, and sooner or later some will get through, and they'll immediately start shifting the organization to accommodate them, which is to say, to accommodate loathsome, power-hungry pieces of shit. And it's all downhill from there.

    I'm not an anarchist by accident.

  • Syundei, creator of Go For It, Nakamura!, deletes X account after harassment

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  • Gee whiz - who would've thought that when a toxic piece of shit bought Twitter it would turn into a home for toxic pieces of shit?

  • If this is terrorism...

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  • Genocide.

  • Megyn Kelly, who was team Trump for the election, now says the president is ‘not a moral man’

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  • More new rats abandoning his sinking ship every day.

    That should be good news, except that Trump is a dangerously fragile and delusional egomaniac, and there's no telling how he's going to respond. And Russell Vought and Stephen Miller are still there, whispering in his ears.

  • Could a corporate entity exist without government charter?

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  • That's part of why I've generally been putting quotation marks around the word "corporation."

    It's not meaningless though, because the underlying structure will likely remain essentially the same as it was when it was merely a corporation. And the relationship between the "government" and its "citizens" will have evolved from a relationship between a business and its customers/clients, and will undoubtedly retain some aspects of that. Most notably, the whole concept of public servants will vanish. Instead, the "government" will offer some specific services to potential citizens-as-customers, who can take them or leave them. Or, additionally or possibly even alternatively, the "government" will demand specific things of citizens-as-employees who will have the "choice" of following their demands or seeking employment-as-citizenship elsewhere.

    In either event (or any other - this can't possibly be an exhaustive list), the basic dynamic between "government" and "citizen" will be notably different from any of the ones we've seen before (though likely broadly most similar to feudalism).

  • [Zionism] Is jealousy the root of anti-Zionism? | The Jerusalem Post

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  • Oh of course. It can't possibly be the case that people oppose psychopathic xenophobes who are committing genocide because psychopathic xenophobes committing genocide is something that is rightly opposed. It must be the case that they actually do it because - checks notes - they're jealous.

  • What Life in Iran is Actually Like 🇮🇷

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  • Really fucked up that you just watched a video illustrating the gap between western characterizations of a rival country and the reality in that country and completely failed to get the broader point.

  • 80s Music @lemmy.world
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    The Alarm - Marching On (1983)

  • 80s Music @lemmy.world
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    Adam Ant - Goody Two Shoes - Dance Video

  • Alternative Nation: The Fediverse's Alternative and Indie Music Community @lemmy.world
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    The Mattoid - Slacker's Pain (2003)

  • YouTube Classics @sh.itjust.works
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    Op zoek naar Maria - Dans in het Centraal Station van Antwerpen

  • YouTube Classics @sh.itjust.works
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    Cybergoth Dance Party

  • YouTube Classics @sh.itjust.works
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    Touhou - Bad Apple

  • YouTube Classics @sh.itjust.works
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    Kasane Teto - Fukkireta

  • politics @lemmy.world
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    A twenty year old essay that's still relevant today: Thinking of Jackasses - The grand delusions of the Democratic Party by Marc Cooper

    www.theatlantic.com /magazine/archive/2005/04/thinking-of-jackasses/303838/
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    A seemingly valid reason to stick with Biden pretty much no matter what just struck me...

  • Alternative Nation: The Fediverse's Alternative and Indie Music Community @lemmy.world
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    Eels - I Like Birds (2000)