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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

" Lots of planets have a white cismale backlash"?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

A simpler time... when a fan could post a GIF of Spock shagging a sheep without having to worry about being downvoted. Only about how many people signed their guestbook.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

My software chops begin and end with: 10 PRINT "HELLO, WORLD" 20 GOTO 10

Good to hear devs are working on it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Thanks for the info.

In the meantime, I opened a new tab, input my instance, waited for the home page to load, searched for 'elena rossini', compared the top two results (her channels?), went with one, looked at its list of videos and saw that it didn't include the video in question, went back, chose the other account and discovered it has zero videos.

???

Saw your reply, tried new search: "Introducing the Fediverse"... 471 results with hers not visible among the top results. Ain't nobody got time for that.

Looked again at your reply, copied that video link that you originally gave and searched... and it works! (Although... how did you get it? I can't see it anywhere else.) Finally I can upvote it. Sheesh!

Also, tried searching for "[email protected]"

  • a search term that I think you can only find if you have already found the video? Catch-22?
  • finds the right channel (which is neither of the ones found in my original search)... but no videos... not even the one it just found when searching for that URL. Same when I'm on the page of the video on my instance ( https://peertube.wtf/w/64VuNCccZNrP4u9MfgbhkN ) and click on its channel name... no videos.

???

So, there's a chance of me being able to eventually interact with the video... if someone else somehow finds an underlying URL and helpfully gives it to me and I then copy and paste it into my instance's search bar.

Meanwhile with content on every non-fediverse social network, it just takes one click to reach and interact with it (comment, upvote etc).

A social network system that breaks the basic building block of the web, the link, seems to be shooting itself in the foot. I hope the fediverse comes up with a much more user-friendly solution soon.

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

I'm still new to the Fediverse; how do I view that link in my home instance of Peertube (peertube.wtf) so that I can save, upvote, comment etc?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Me neither.

  • Browser: Zen (mod of Firefox)
  • Extension: LibRedirect (pre-installed in Zen IIRC)
  • App: FreeTube

I click on a YouTube link and it opens in FreeTube, no ads.

Every now and then, videos won't play because of some change by Google, usually it's just a day or so until FreeTube releases an update that works again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I instantly recognized the intro. I've been listening to the Extended Boilerhouse Mix of A Tribe Called Quest's Can I Kick It? for three and half decades and somehow only today connected these two tracks.

https://youtu.be/2EPyPMLOM3w

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Truly groundbreaking.

Let the songs begin!

SLY & THE FAMILY STONE THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL 1973 LIVE -4K- REMASTERED.(STEREO.) (19 minute set) https://youtu.be/UpUCJWlN0sE

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

My school (UK, 1980s) offered Mandarin as an extracurricular course. I signed up, showed up... and was the only student. One-on-one classes the rest of the year :)

(Just don't try grilling me in Mandarin now, though.)

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

What can we do about posts that contain a link but are not a "link post"?

E.g. a post like below that (I think) is an image post but also has a link

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

There was also the flag of the defunct Republic of VIetnam

https://vietnguyen.info/2021/theres-a-reason-the-south-vietnamese-flag-flew-during-the-capitol-riot

The depth of anti-communist feeling in the Vietnamese community, which includes many military veterans and former government officials, meant that it has always leaned strongly Republican. While Asian Americans as a whole voted 2 to 1 for Joe Biden over Trump, Vietnamese Americans supported Trump over Biden, 57 percent to 41 percent. A deep animus toward China, amplified by misinformation in Vietnamese-language media, bolsters the support for a president they see as tougher on foreign policy. This dovetailed with their anticommunism.

 

Out of five critical tech sectors, “China has the most immediate opportunity to overtake the United States in biotechnology,” the Harvard Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs said Thursday in its release of a “Critical and Emerging Technologies Index,” covering AI, biotech, semiconductors, space and quantum.

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Online culture and censorship have broken the ties that once spurred protesters.

Today, June 4, marks the 36th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre—a moment of both tragedy and hope. It was the bloody end to a nationwide democracy movement that brought together workers and students, the most promising push for political reform in the history of the People’s Republic of China. But despite the courage of many individual Chinese who fought for democracy and the solidarity of their international supporters, there has not been a comparable movement since—and it’s hard to imagine one arising anytime soon.

It wasn't paywalled on my phone, but apparently it is when viewed elsewhere.

One of the key factors mentioned in the article: the erosion of the "the middle ring" from many societies (not just China): "close-ish" but not intimate/familial face-to-face relationships (neighbours, coworkers etc.) that are key to growing a social movement with real world activity.

 

I've been using Lemmy a couple of months, and now trying out Piefed.

Questions about community subscriptions:

  1. So by ticking the "topics" boxes during registration, I am now subscribed to a bunch of communities, right? Or am I subscribed to "topics"? Or "feeds"?

  2. What's the difference between Lemmy-style communities and Piefed's "topics" and "feeds"?

  3. How can I see which communities/topics/feeds I'm subscribed to?
    (I saw a list once, I think on the home page, but for some reason I've never been able to find it again.)
    Ah, I found https://piefed.social/communities but not through the Piefed UI, only via https://join.piefed.social/docs/user-guide/

  4. How can I find the Communities list in the Piefed UI?

  5. Re importing my community subscriptions and community blocks from my Lemmy account, what file do I need? Is it Lemmy > Settings > Export Settings: lemmy_user_settings_dateandtime.json ?

  • 5.1 And will that overwrite or supplement my existing Piefed subscriptions?
  • 5.2 Wait, did Piefed already include my existing Lemmy community subscriptions??? Or is it just luck/topic-picking-on-sign-up that they seem to be included among all the others?
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