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[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 months ago (2 children)

No respect for the laws of mathematics

Lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You know, your instance is probably the one with which I represent myself more. It is a tie between db0 and slrpnk.net. However, I hate your domain name. So complicated, I feel like it is not really "friendly" for the masses.

Have you ever thought about changing the domain name? Or just adding a friendlier domain name that points to that one? Even db0.com or dbzer0.com, but adding the whole lemmy.dbzer0.com.. ahh!

Regardless, I am a fan of yours. Keep up the resistance brother.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I would have changed the domain name if it was possible, but unfortunately it isn't. I could set up a quick domain for a redirect for fresh guests, but all internal links would stay the same.

Anyway a more obscure name is not a huge deal. Being a bit more obscure adds to our "mystique" 😅

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm probably missing context here?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Think about our full instance name. ;)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Dragonball 0?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

nuoooooo!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What?!?

I was certain it was "database zero", as in "empty database": no logs like the good VPNs 😅

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Well...don't be so certain next time 😜

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Damn ha ha

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

The authright is probably hilariouschaos.com currently, which is itself a continuation of explodingheads

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't have given them the satisfaction of being on here and getting exposure even if I bothered to remember.

Oops, forgot their name again already

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

good call prolly :)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Explobingheads is gone?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

For like a year now.

[–] Shiggles 19 points 4 months ago

I love to live in a world where “hey man capitalism’s good at efficient economics you just should not let it touch politics with a 40 foot pole” is right.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think we have enough instances to make an extended PCM btw. The lemmy.ml -> hexbear -> lemmygrad for authleft. slrpnk -> dbzer0 for libleft, SJW -> communick for libright.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

We probably do, but I'm most familiar with the instances posted (plus solarpunk and sopuli), and also I'm lazy.

This is more meme work than I've done in... more time than I care to bother searching my memory for.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Lol aighte

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I really like the db0 'no respect for the laws of mathematics' brilliant. I say this an individual who has gone deep into bowels of math and come out with a love of random systems and just tossing nonsense into the wind because its more effective than all the the 'ordered' math we learn prior to graduate level courses.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hey what about Kbin and Mbin!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

KBIN RIP

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Huh what happened?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ernest had some health problems last year, and Kbin has been offline since. It was my original instance of choice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Aw man, that sucks to hear.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The chart is missing Hexbear, left of the top-left corner.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

I believe hexbear and beehaw are defederated from .world, so PugJesus doesn't regularly see them.

I've seen a bunch of CSAM sites in the defederation lists of most instances, which could really fill out out the bottom-right libertarian corner, but I'm real happy excluding them along with the nazis.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hexbear is sometimes a lot more anarchist and progressive than authoritarian and reactionary

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Hexbear is nothing but crazy tankies who can't take any sort of criticism.

[–] bestboyfriendintheworld 2 points 4 months ago

Where piefed?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

LOL all this time I thought .ml stood for "military".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

All two letter domains are country codes. So .ml is Mali. .tv is Tuvalu. etc.

By the way, this is why there is concern that when Britain will cede British Indian Ocean Territory (IO) to Mauritius as they announced, the .io domain will be phased out forcing many sites to find a new domain.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

With Trump in office, there's not a single chance that we get to take back Chagos...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

You can register a domain under any TLD, so people often use them to finish words or convey other meanings. In the case of lemmy.ml it's apparently meant as Marxist-Leninist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

people often use them to finish words or convey other meanings.

Yes, that is why I chose .tv and .io as an example :D

You can register a domain under any TLD

No. While most TLDs are general purpose, not all of them are. Most obvious example being .gov

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

That's correct, there are a few exceptions so you cannot use literally any TLD you want. What I should have said is that registering a TLD that's a country abbreviation doesn't imply that the registrant is in that country or has anything to with that country.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yes. While it does not contradict what you are saying, I think it is good to mention there are also countries that restrict their TLDs to people and companies that have something to do with that country. For example Australia requires local presence to register .au domains and Azerbajan is even stricter, allowing only residents to register .az domains.

[+] [email protected] -18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Forgot to add Lemmy.world, doesn’t support genocide unless the democrats are doing it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Bruh, the Israeli genocide was deeply unpopular on .world basically any time after November 2023, when it became increasingly apparent to normies that Israel wasn't doing anything vaguely resembling security operations.

But "Trump will be worse on both that issue and literally every other one out there, so we have to rally around the only other viable candidate" was taken as support of genocide, instead of opposition to more genocide.

[+] [email protected] -8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I mean I've seen way too many people either playing dumb or being dumb by saying that Biden wasn't the president of Israel and so there's nothing he could do. .world genocide apologia did not, and does not, end with "let's rally around the only other viable candidate". And don't get me started on the gloating over (so far imagined) Trump-caused Palestinian misery. I mean hell you can't open a news thread with Trump and Palestine in the headline without someone saying "leopards eating faces" and thinking it makes them smart.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I mean I’ve seen way too many people either playing dumb or being dumb by saying that Biden wasn’t the president of Israel and so there’s nothing he could do.

Most often I saw that in response to "BIDEN could END THE GENOCIDE ANY TIME HE WANTED" style agitation.

And don’t get me started on the gloating over (so far imagined) Trump-caused Palestinian misery.

Oh, we're just imagining Trump openly declaring that he's going to back the total expulsion of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. Cool. Anything else that I've been imagining? I'd like to've been imagining that past few months entirely, honestly.

I mean hell you can’t open a news thread with Trump and Palestine in the headline without someone saying “leopards eating faces” and thinking it makes them smart.

Considering the many people on here crowing about "I'm not voting Dem because of Israel genocide; this will really improve things!"

Uh, there's a reason for that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

See? This is exactly what I'm talking about. I'm tired of debating these things so I won't, but even if everything you said was true that doesn't excuse gloating and circlejerking over the miserable days that will surely come for Gazans any day now, and denying that the Democrats hold a lot of responsibility for enabling it is just... What? Team politics are one thing but this is ridiculous.

Oh, we're just imagining Trump openly declaring that he's going to back the total expulsion of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. Cool.

As I said above I'm tired of debating this, so just call me when it actually happens.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

See? This is exactly what I’m talking about. I’m tired of debating these things so I won’t, but even if everything you said was true that doesn’t excuse gloating and circlejerking over the miserable days that will surely come for Gazans any day now, and denying that the Democrats hold a lot of responsibility for enabling it is just… What? Team politics are one thing but this is ridiculous.

Most people were not denying the Dems were responsible in the sense that they were on the side of the long-standing, disgustingly bipartisan support of Israel, but that the sudden and unilateral opposition desired by many talking about how important it was to 'vote against genocide' was not a realistic expectation.

My favorite part was early on in the genocide, when the talking point du jour was "All I need is for the Dem presidential candidate to call for a ceasefire! Just that little thing, and then I could vote against fascism! But they will never do that!", and once Biden, and then Harris, began calling for a ceasefire, that was quietly dropped.

As I said above I’m tired of debating this, so just call me when it actually happens.

Big "Call me when LGBT folk are being rounded up into camps; until then, you're just fearmongering about Trump, lib!" energy

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Most people were not denying the Dems were responsible in the sense that they were on the side of the long-standing, disgustingly bipartisan support of Israel, but that the sudden and unilateral opposition desired by many talking about how important it was to 'vote against genocide' was not a realistic expectation.

Counterargument: Reagan. You probably already know what I'm referring to by that.

Big "Call me when LGBT folk are being rounded up into camps; until then, you're just fearmongering about Trump, lib!" energy

I mean one of these is more likely than the other. There are real reasons Trump won't be able to put into action his Gaza plan, but as I said I can't be assed to explain those anymore, so I'll just leave it at this: If Trump manages to put his moronic plan into action, I'll eat my words, but the misplaced schadenfreude can at least wait until it actually happens.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Counterargument: Reagan. You probably already know what I’m referring to by that.

I can make a lot of connections there, but I'm legit not sure which is the one you most want me to make.

Reagan making a phone call to stop Israeli retaliation against Palestinian targets in Lebanon during a ceasefire (as an example of how much power the president supposedly has over Israel; my counter is that it's not even close to the situation at hand - Israel lost very little by respecting the ceasefire other than a chance for macho chest-pounding, and Reagan threatened them with nothing; the Palestinian genocide, on the other hand, is a long-standing goal that Israel is now disgustingly close to completing, having been given both the excuse and a leader, in Bibi, desperate to execute it in totality to avoid answering politically for his domestic crimes)
The sharp increase in support for Israel under Reagan (as an example that policy can change, quickly, and in a bipartisan manner; my counter would be that moderate bipartisan support of Israel had been the standard for a decade at that point, the policy change is not as sharp as sometimes thought, even if it is also not as enduring and eternal as sometimes thought by others)
Reagan supporting apartheid against public opinion and his own party (as an example of going 'against the grain' which a president can do; my counter would be that it is not a reasonable thing to expect to happen, not that it is impossible)
Any number of the dogshit decisions made by Reagan that involved compromises with Dems that ultimately undermined Dem electability (as an example of why bipartisan policy is often a dogshit choice; my argument is not against that bipartisan policy often IS a dogshit choice, because bipartisan policy often is a dogshit choice, simply that changing dogshit policy, even just for one party, is difficult to do on a dime without overwhelming consensus, which we did not and even now, at this horrific point, still do not have)

There are real reasons Trump won’t be able to put into action his Gaza plan, but as I said I can’t be assed to explain those anymore, so I’ll just leave it at this: If Trump manages to put his moronic plan into action, I’ll eat my words, but the misplaced schadenfreude can at least wait until it actually happens.

People With Tasty Faces: "Government needs to stop trying to help genocide! I'm going to let this leopard get into government who is openly professing how much he wants to help genocide!"

Leopard-run Government: [tries to help genocide even harder]

Us: "We fucking told you so"

What we said would happen is happening. The consequences have yet to shake out fully, but they are almost certain to be something along the lines of "worse than what we pleaded, cajoled, coaxed, pressured, browbeat, and begged these people to vote for".