Wouldn't they just use a VPN? I know they're technically illegal in China but from what I've heard lots of people still use them regularly.
If you mean communists that support capitalist states like China, then yes, unfortunately. Better than being around nothing but liberals or anti-communists though.
#mastodonsocial and #lemmyml are both blocked however
Funny if true.
You can but it won't be respected. It will continue to default to their included Noto fonts despite whatever font you select. You can test this yourself. I'm sure they do it for some "privacy reason" but if I wanted that trade off I'd simply use the Tor Browser or one of those hardened firefox profiles.
Wikipedia doesn't replace books. In my comment at least that's why I was specific about "general information". I think everyone must be aware that when it comes to Wikipedia on history or current events, it will largely be from a liberal and pro-west perspective. Not all the time, and usually the references and further reading sections point in more interesting directions. But this is far more valuable than the most boring so-called Marxist wikis. If you want critical history, go read historians like Gerald Horne, read first-hand accounts from journalists like Edgar Snow and so on.
Besides the purely political, wikipedia is also good for overviews on technical and scientific interests. Even with the negatives of wikipedia, I'd take it any day over some decentralized spam fest where its a gamble if you found the best version of some article. Not to mention core issues of the fediverse, such as whether the hypothetical wiki instance you found yourself on will sustain itself long-term.
Some days I wonder if the core Lemmy developers have drifted further towards anarchist politics and philosophy..
Librewolf doesn't respect your choice in system fonts if you uncheck "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above". I don't use it for that reason.
I don't think a federated wiki is solving any of the problems of wikipedia. You've just made a wiki that is more easily spammed and will have very few contributors. Yes, Wikipedia is centralized, but it's a good thing. No one has to chase down the just perfect wikipedia site to find general information, just the one. The negative of wikipedia is more its sometimes questionable moderation and how its english-centric. This has more to do with fundamentally unequal internet infrastructure in most countries than anything though. Imperialism holds back tech.
I agree that it might be fine for niche wikis but again, why in the world would you ever want your niche wiki federated? Sounds like a tech solution looking for the wrong problem.
It's really weird to see how almost infantalizing the Israeli minister is towards the ambassador. Like he's correcting a child or something. I suppose when you're commiting genocide you carry that attitude with you everywhere.
From https://fediverse.observer/stats
Which seems to not at all come close to representing what you might actually see on Lemmy, not that Lemmy is tiny either.
Has there been any attempt to measure the total active Lemmy userbase? This would depend on the definition of Active but any working definition would be more useful than counting account creation. Something like "posted at least once this quarter".
I hate that projects name themselves "fed" as that word is permanently associated with, well, feds.
"Welcome to the Fediverse, we got pigs of all kinds"
This is an episode of the defunct podcast The Weekly REPL. It features Peter Seibel's talk from ILC 2010 in Reno, Nevada: "Common Lisp Standardization: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly". The talk ha
A fantastic talk about Common Lisp and its possible future, using history of CL's standardization process as a historical backdrop.
Would Lemmy be a good fit for adding individual "blogging" as a feature? What I mean is the ability for a user to create posts tied to their account instead of a specific community. The default Lemmy Frontend/webapp has all the basic features that would normally make up a blog: ability to make posts, markdown editor, hell even replies that you normally need to disable on blogs because of spam. I can imagine adding a section next to the "Communities" button that says "Blogs" where you could browse users blogs. Not sure if you'd want to federate the blogs but something I'm thinking about.
Not asking this as a feature request on the part of the developers. This should be something I implement myself. But I thought I'd throw the idea out in the wild and see if folks could either tell me "why not" or point out what might be problematic with this.
> On Tuesday, April 12, “Defiance actions’’ were organized by the Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS) across Swaziland. The date marks 49 years since King Sobhuza II, father of the current monarch, took absolute power in 1973. The key demand of the protests was an end to the absolute monarchy as well as the creation of a people’s government with a multiparty democracy and democratic ownership of the economy.
