I think having instances or communities dedicated to that would be wonderful.

I think having separate identity providers would work well with this. Those identity providers could optionally verify age and location, and your instance can just trust them on that to make it exclusive to certain ages or locations.

You can only filter and sort what was downloaded by the client. So that runs into resource constraints.

There shouldn’t be resource constraint issues in downloading new content Metadata from all your subscriptions

tags

When I say “standardize tags on all content”, what I mean is make it a standard to have the option of having tags on every type of content, and treat tags as a first class attribute of the content. The XKCD you reference is not relevant.

That’s more the ATproto/Bluesky vision.

Sure, they use it. But it is compatible with activityPub as well.

I’m so far paging, and it’s so annoying this isn’t the default design on the fediverse.

On 4, I also agree, but what’s the best alternative?

That’s precisely why I call it necessary, you’re right!

The first issue you bring up would be resolved with the idea of separating identity and authentication as separate providers from instance providers. In fact, it’s much better than just relying on a small difficulty, as that is more likely to discourage a well meaning non-technical person than a malicious actor.

Wktn separate identity providers, your instance can trust the identity providers that have good reputation. And if I want to be seen by your instance, then I have to have one of those identity providers approve me.

Different identity providers will have different standards and requirements.

I agree with this. I think instance owners retaining ability to block other instances is still unfortunately necessary, if at least for administrative and legal reasons. But putting the onus on granular blocking controls on the user is a big achievement, as I prefer the user to retain that control.

Can we please keep the respectful ones so we have a chance to dispel their beliefs? There is overwhelming propaganda against Venezuela that is easy to disprove, but most of their spaces ban us (example: reddit). I wish we have a chance to argue our perspective.

Side question: are there any lemmy communities for political discussions (rather than just news links)?

North Korea, very unlikely. They’ve mastered guarding exactly against this thing.

Cuba is unfortunately more susceptible due to being an isolated island right off the coast of the US. Cuba is economically worse off, yet culturally still influenced by the US.

Iran has already lost the cultural war, and many people fell for the outside propaganda. Moreover, Iran is suffering its worst economic state. The country is barely standing at the moment. So this one is likely as well.

P.S. this is all, speculation, no one can predict for sure.

I am yet to hear a justification for opposing illegal immigration that doesn’t tie back into racism or racial prejudice, let alone a justification that actually makes sense if you take it apart.

Someone prove me wrong, and I’ll change my mind.

Nothing wrong with paying for biased journalism, as long as it’s high quality.

New York times and walk street journal both publish a bunch of propaganda, but also have high quality stuff and I find it worth subscribing.

Is this a robot.txt alternative?

Final Fantasy: strangers of paradise

It has a co-op mode (up to 3 players), which is a huge plus for me.

Whats great:

• variety of weapons and combat styles
• aesthetics
• Variety of enemies
• co-op mode

Whats decent:

• combat
• character customizations
• level design

Whats meh:

• exploration and rewards

Whats not good

• story. Wasn’t really interesting and some parts I didn’t understand.

Overall I really enjoyed it, because not many coop games I can play with loved ones.

The reason is because company decisions are largely driven by investors, and investors want their big investments in AI to return something.

Investors want constant growth, even if it must be shoehorned.

First of all, I would ask them if they’re familiar with the boycott and the reasons why it is happening. If they are, ask them them if they have a reason not to participate. Based on that, and how serious the cause behind the boycott is, I would judge.

Arch is not the most widely supported distro (as in supported by the creators of programs). You will see it supported most by some of the more indie open source programs, but beyond that, Debian and Ubuntu are more likely to be explicitly supported.

Arch definitely requires you to read. It’s a distro for those who want to assume greater amount of choice and freedom in their system. If you prefer an out of the box experience, try another distro.

Arch’s limitation is that you kinda have to stick with the latest version of things. This is usually a good limitation, and imo better than the limitation of having to stick with an old frozen version.

Depending on the package, trying an older version may not work or even break the system if dependencies or reverse dependencies are expecting it to be a certain version, which is often the case.

My journal is electronic (offline) and I have been doing it for 10 years or so.

It’s just less hyped now compared to days of reddit API change and Twitter going to Elon Musk.

Still waiting for an Arabic lemmy 😔