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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • You need to learn that such things are a part of life and you have to deal with it in order to be a member of society. The existence of progress doesn’t negate the need for hate speech protection. All societies have to change with time and that’s okay.

    I think you all forgot the purpose behind policies like freedom of speech and natural rights and that’s why you’re getting all mixed up.













  • Karma is an inherently destructive thing for many reasons. For people, it is a representation of other people’s approval of you, so they’ll do anything to boost that number as highly as possible, even going so far as to make fake karma farming accounts, create botnets to upvote themselves and downvote opponents in arguments, and post garbage content instead of engaging in meaningful conversation with other people. For corporations, it’s a marketing tool they can exploit to manipulate public opinion, by creating or buying high-karma accounts to convince people to buy shit, or to mass downvote people who point out flaws in their arguments or products, or figure out what they’re planning and try to call them on it. They can use karma to discredit opponents, astroturf, and even sway elections indirectly. It’s one of the reasons why civil and political discourse have completely collapsed in the USA.

    That list is not exhaustive



  • You literally can just download the Lemmy program and install it on any computer you want to use as a server. I used to run Mastodon servers a few years ago, and it’s not without its hurdles, but with some Linux knowledge and a little bit of server admin knowhow, you absolutely could.

    You’d need a computer you’re gonna use as a server, put Linux on it, then install NginX or Apache on it, then Lemmy, then set everything up and get a domain name to attach to the computer’s IP. Question mark, profit. It might be a bit of an oversimplification, but with some research and work, it can be done.







  • Oh. Well, I think mine might be the only game in town on this instance so far. Part of the reason why I made it. Site’s still new and growing.

    Um, from the way the fediverse works, you can see messages and such from other instances like lib.lgbt, but I am not sure if you can directly post there from one server to another. Your posts get sent to the other servers for viewing like how emails get sent to other servers so your recipient can read them, and that’s the most I’ve been able to make sense of it so far.