I'm tired of the CCP basically forcing everyone to join them in playing pretend that Taiwan isn't a country, and depriving those people of a national identity. I'm also annoyed that most other countries are agreeing to play along when it's obviously untrue, just so the CCP doesn't start throwing a fit.
I'm very excited for the future of machine learning right now. I was cynical about it for a short while in mid 2022, since I got the impression that it was all going to be proprietary, privacy-invading online services, but things look like they're changing.
A future of democratized open-standard and open-source AI sounds like a good one to me!
Honestly, owning up to it being a selfish decision deserves some respect. I'm a big proponent of free expression and avoiding censorship, but I took a gander at the kinda stuff they got over there and...
It's not even the views they hold that's my main problem. It's really that they're just so needlessly rude and aggressive, and as you pointed out, they seem to be a lot more censorship happy than here anyway. I would be more sympathetic to them if they were less censorship happy themselves, and if they were less mean.
I do want to stress that I hope you keep the number of blocked instances to a minimum, since I feel that it would be better if the Lemmy software had better tools for users to control what they block for themselves better, and also maybe just having "default" blocklists that users can disable, to keep the new-user experience nice, but yeah for that particular instance, I can't be too mad about it.
This is the big thing I hate about downvotes on Reddit. Instead of downvotes, people who disagree should make a comment about it, and then THAT comment can get upvoted to show that people disagree with the original comment. It encourages conversation and discourages echo-chambers where people are punished for having a different opinion.
Do you know about Flatseal? It's an application that lets you manage flatpak permissions. Until the portals system is fully working, weakening the sandboxing using Flatseal is what a lot of people do to make the apps work correctly.
Also, if you use KDE, the settings app has flatseal-like functionality built in.
LFG that was something I've been hoping got added! I'm not even a big gamer, but I like it when I do game.