AbnormalHumanBeing @ AbnormalHumanBeing @lemmy.abnormalbeings.space

Some weird, German communist, hello. He/him pronouns and all that. Obsessed

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I’m not sure how the tone has changed around here since 2020, but I like the vibes for the most part and if I don’t like a server, I can hop to another one, which I have done several times already.

I was only active back then for a very short time on my old account. It was basically only after the first Reddit API announcement exodus, that Lemmy started to have the critical mass of users that makes it feel very similar to old Reddit like nowadays, which is when I started to truly become active.

In 2020, it felt much more like old forums, with just a handful of active users at a time, even more concentrated around the devs and hardcore Libre/FOSS people. It was nice in its own way from what I saw, but I, personally, couldn't really get into it (I prefer the content-focused nature of Lemmy, where you can get "lost in the crowd" to some degree, but without the trappings of total anonymity like with the *chans for example).

Also, there isn't even a way to tell if this is real. Sure, it could be, but chances are high someone took a picture of a couple that look kind of "white trash" from who knows where, and just used it to create outrage/superiority-circlejerk-bait.

Glänzie macht sich schon gut für rückkehrschmerzige Kringel-Maimais.

I really enjoyed the first one, although I thought the concept could have been expanded upon significantly. Hopefully this is just that.

Die letzten Wochen dauerhaft zwischen 8 und 9 wechselnd, mit gelegentlichem 6 (höhö)

More or less, I mostly use that channel to mirror meme videos whenever I notice a situation where they would be great to post, but can't find a mirror already on the Fediverse.

Can u r car get preganté?

That's an issue that can come up, when your inside guy for market manipulation with all the power necessary for the scheme is also an impulsive narcissist, who never was that bright to begin with, but is also clearly losing some mental faculties due to age, too.

Cane also made a good explanation video of his speedrun(s), and just how gruelling it gets to pull off the current tricks for it today:

The Most Difficult Trick in Adventure Game Speedrunning

¬(Yes; libreddit is more than a read-only frontend for Reddit)

!whatisthisthing@lemmy.world

I do think you could be right, but I also think it is a proper dilemma, that it is impossible to really know. An immature attempt at revolution can be impossible to tell apart from a proper revolutionary moment, and a genuinely well-advised conservative "let's not hastily break something" can be impossible to tell apart from useful idiots for reactionary movements, while living in the historical moment those things are happening. I think, to some degree at least, we just have to accept that uncertainty, and that the course of history is not simply determinable in the chaos of the lived reality.

Doesn't mean, that there is nothing at all to be analysed, no visions to be had, just that ultimately, every single historical movement will have to live with the reality of "crossing the Rubicon"-moments, where no amount of knowledge, no amount of theory, no amount of smug analysis can really tell the outcome.

I, personally, think advancements beyond social democracy should be possible already - I think the basic ideas laid out in the Gotha Critique (overcoming of monetary system through non-exchangeable production/distribution with a voucher-like system), in combination with advancements in Cybernetics already made within the 20th century (as well as computers to better implement the Cybernetics on top of that), could provide for a system, in which necessary labour can be jointly coordinated, with the aim of reducing work days and increasing value in everyday lives, along with a richer use of free time (think: education, makerspaces, creative hobbies like art and programming) beyond socially necessary labour.

But can I be certain? No. Do I think it is worth fighting for? Definitely.

For an adversarial relationship, as the one between EU and China, it was still one overall based on understanding and a degree of predictability. That just ends up being more attractive than an ally turning into a rabid dog and stabbing you in the back.

I think no one should be surprised by this.

I think blaster fire in Star Wars was inspired by how tracer rounds looked in WW2 footage. That, or my brain just hallucinated a memory about reading something, I wouldn't rule that out.

But 2 large economies tried to impliment communism… while engaged in a cold war against much more entrenched ideologies, while having corrupt leaders and they didn’t do it well.

And while - which I, personally, think is the biggest reason - starting from pre-capitalist economies, thus materially having to do what capitalism did (rapid industrialisation, disenfranchisement of peasantry, accumulation of capital), and ultimately following what Marxism would have guessed: Their ideology forming around their material reality of having to accumulate capital from labour while trading on the world market. So it basically became its own kind of welfare state/social democratic capitalism, with a bit of "but communism will arrive eventually, we promise!"

Once that material dynamic is entrenched, no amount of ideological purity can simply correct it from the top, you can't change material society by implementing an ideal onto a reality. It has to develop materially and dialectically, through the process of the old system failing (in unbearable ways), necessitating revolutionary changes.

Personally, I like "Scaled" and "Hot" the most, but I also check "New" to discover communities that may otherwise get lost (and, to ban spam/bot/troll accounts along the way as well) - and lastly, I also have a look at "Top/Day" at least once a day, to see what's the "talk of the town".

It definitely feels like we had some growth in proper, organic activity. Just a few months ago, it definitely felt like "Top/12hrs" was the best one for the amount of content that was being posted. But for a while now, "Hot" and "Scaled" feel much better than that one.

In the same way biofuels are: Technically yes, but still not that great of an idea outside special applications. (One I could imagine would be someone wanting to live completely off grid using filtered frying oil in an old-but-ridiculously-sturdy diesel generator)

Okay, will do! Thanks for the heads-up.

Indeed, which is why I couldn't recommend it without caveats and I at least don't know of a search engine I could recommend without caveats at all.

So, this is not a proper answer to your question. (The closest I'd give there, personally, is DDG, Qwant or Ecosia, all with their own caveats). But, I've been evangelizing a bit in favour of helping Mwmbl develop further.

Basically, it is an attempt to do for search engines what Wikipedia did for encyclopedic knowledge. It's still basically just a dream with an interface that's experimental and a search index still being built, currently seemingly bottlenecked by available (monetary) resources.

Oh, and a matrix community, where the actual community work seems to be happening.

But even though it's an infant with not that much more than a dream at this moment - I think their project shows promise, in audacity to challenge search engine giants alone, if nothing else. Currently, I am using it as my go to "first search" search engine, helping with curating results if possible (although, truth be told, in the past weeks most searches did not give anything useful at all). I also have the index building web crawling script running on the same server as my Fediverse instances - but there is also a firefox extension for more casual volunteer crawling without a cli script.

I can't sell this as a "proper" search engine, but still, am happy in evangelising it to anyone interested in supporting what tries to become a proper, open search engine not just on FOSS software, but FOSS principles.