…I’m confused. Who is this community for? Is this a fetish thing? A hippie thing? A csn’t afford socks and shoes thing?

GPS can go offline. If you’re handy enough to navigate from the stars, I trust that method much more than a gps service.

Hi, welcome! Sooooo, maybe this is new info. Maybe this you already know. Either way, as a Lemmy newbie, allow me to fill you in on some lingo and details around here.

So, subreddits are called communities, but it’s the same thing.

What’s not the same is the core functionality. Lemmy has potentially an infinate amount of servers. I say potentially because you can start your own Lemmy server right now.

These servers are called “instances”. It’s just a server where you can host your own lemmy account, or your own communities.

So, you can do whatever you want on your instance. You can tell all your friends to join your instance. I could sign up for an account and be hosted by your instance.

Now I’m not saying you need to do that, or even that you should do that. I’m just saying you can. It’s possible.

Now, let’s talk federation.

Think of each instance as a circle. Now imagine a line connecting two circles. That connection between the two circles means they are “federated”, or connected. You as a user on an instance can interact with all other federated instances. This is why you’ll see topics on lemmy.world and users hosted lemmy.ml.

Lemmy.world and Lemmy.ml are two different instances, but they are federated. So Lemmy.ml users can interact with Lemmy.world communities/topics/users.

Your instance is ani.social. I’m not firmiliar with which instances you’re federated with. Clearly federated with Lemmy.World.

But imagine you found a problematic instance. Like what if you found somethink like nazis.online for an instance. You might want to cut ties with them.

So now imagine that line between ani.social and nazis.online is cut. You don’t want to talk to nazis, and neither does anyone on your instance. So ani.social defederates from nazis.online, and now the nazis can’t see, nor interact with you, or any communities on your instance.

However, user@nazis.online can still ineract with Lemmy.ml, and ani.social can still interact with lemmy.ml. So you still may see users on other instances that you’re both federated with. In that case, you can block user@nazis.online.

And Lemmy.World, and Lemmy.ml are both Lemmy. But you may see users from an instance called piefed. What is piefed? Well it’s a totally different service, with its own instances, with its own communities, run by different people that can still federate with Lemmy and other instances within the fediverse. But how is this possible?

Well, the fediverse is all services that use something called activitypub. Now, I’m a bit out my own element in knowing the finer details, but the over simplified version is that if a service uses activitypub, it CAN be part of the fediverse. I say “can” because I’ve been told that bluesky does run activitypub, but they choose to limit their own federation to just bsky.app. Meaning there are no other bluesky instances, and no other service is federated with bluesky, even though they totally could federate with mastodon.

Bluesky is almost a 1:1 carbon copy of pre-musk twitter. Mastodon is more pre-musk twitter inspired, but also fully part of the fediverse.

Bluesky has limited interaction with mastodon. I’ve never tried it, despite having both a bluesky and mastodon account. I’ve heard you need to bridge the accounts, and it’s a whole thing. So I never bothered. I hear it’s clumsy, and not worth it.

And there’s a whole bunch of fediverse services.

Lemmy/piefed are like reddit.

Peertube is like youtube.

Loops is like tiktok.

Pixelfed is like instagram.

Friendica is like facebook.

And when I say all this, there’s one giant elephant in the room we haven’t addressed yet. Corporate interests.

Lets say you’re still on X for some god awful reason. Well, you probably notice that they push their own agenda on you. They make money by getting you to follow the agenda. On the fediverse, there are no owners.

Like I said earlier, you can run your own instance. If Sony wanted to advertise on Lemmy, it would be damn near impossible. Because they could advertise on Lemmy.World, but only Lemmy.World users would see the ad. Because when you interact with Lemmy.World, you personally are not on Lemmy.World. You’re on Lemmy.World via Ani.social. So you’re actually browsing all this from Ani.Social. You never actually leave there. And if you try to go directly to Lemmy.World, you’ll find you’re not logged in. Because they have no login credentials for you. But if you go back to Ani.Social, you’ll find things just as you left them. Still able to interact with Lemmy.World but still technically browsing Lemmy.World via Ani.Social.

I know thats a lot to throw at a newbie, but I promise it’s only complicated in the begining. Once you get it, it’s like second nature.

One last thing, despite being called the “fediverse”, there’s no need to worry. It has nothing to do with Kevin Federline.

I bought a seagate once. Brand new. 250gb back in the days when that was a lot.

Brand new, put it into my computer, turn on my computer. It sees it just fine.

30 minutes later, my PC started reporting errors.

Dead. Seagate would not honor the warrenty. That was 2003. I’ve yet to buy another Seagate since.

I assume your drives are dead, just based on it being Seagate.

While all of that is true…you get how politics work, right? It’s never a case of “here’s the bill, the only bill, and now we all move on.”

THIS bill attacks software. THIS bill isn’t able to attack linux, because of the nature of linux.

There will be more bills in the future. They don’t just give up. They keep attacking your freedom until ALL OF HUMANITY ARE LITERAL SLAVES.

It’s take a little here, and let the masses adjust. Then take a little more.

Seperate the masses by dividing upon themselves. Get them to attack and hate each other.

Now they attack the weakest side. Then they get the strongest side to fight each other. Then they attack the weakest side.

Repeat until all of society are slaves. This will continue as these people grab more power.

Oh, it sounds unrealistic??? Imagine 10 years ago I told you the plan was to let nazis and pedophiles into power, so they could have a secret police force kidnap legal citizens off the street wearing masks and armed with guns into unmarked vans. Plus murder and protesters who stand in their way.

Does that sound unrealistic? Go ask Rene Goode, and Alex Pretti if it sounds realistic. Oh wait. You can’t. They’re dead from protesting ICE.

So yeah. I think it’s perfectly justified to say they want 100% power, and they don’t give a fuck about you or anyone else. And it all starts by taking and taking and taking. In small doses. And getting away with it. So they take more.

Every year since 1992…but this time for realsies!

I’m not defending this guy. I know nothing of him, nor his story. I haven’t even clicked the link, or seen the screenshot.

All that being said, I can absolutely believe some service (in this case discord) would ban him without just cause or recoarse.

Back in 2018 I got banned by twitter BEFORE musk bought it. A pro-wrestler posted a funny video of herself. I replied “Oh man, that killed me!”

As in…that was very funny.

Twitter bots mistook that for a threat of violence. Banned.

In 2023 I was awarded on reddit as being in the top 1% of karma earners for 2022.

Then, later in 2023, they offered me the chance to buy reddit stock before it went public. Well, I was dealing with cancer at the time, and had $0 income. So I couldn’t.

Then after I declined they gave my account a strike for a comment I couldn’t figure out what was wrong. Like nothing about the comment even made sense what they were flagging.

Then it did it again the next week, just as the reddit IPO went public.

Then again a day later. Which banned my 10+ year old account. Someone on lemmy speculated that it was because I didn’t buy the IPO. Someone else speculated it’s because I used a VPN.

Either way, reddit’s official stance is that I was harassing users. When I asked what part of any of my 3 messages was threatening, the reply I got didn’t even address my question. Instead it just said my comments were reviewed by a team of humans who deemed my comments to be harassment.

To this day, I still don’t believe any human actually looked at my comments.

There is a very easy way to force linux users to enforce this. However, I won’t give it away here, because as far as I can tell the current law makers are clueless.

And I don’t want to give them clues.

That sounds exactly like what I’d expect from him. And I’m guessing the reason he did nothing is because it would involve effort and empathy from him.

Being alive in this time period makes me want to take a Bic pen, and just…violently jam it into my eye socket, until the tip punctures my brain. Then just swirl it around for a bit until I lose all senses and ability to process thoughts. Or I might die. At this point in the timeline, that’s fine. I really don’t have the mental strength to deal with 20 years of fascism. Because I know eventually the fascism will end. But it won’t be a quick thing. And that means I’ll be into my 60s as the country regains it’s ability to not be a massive dumpster fire. Which some would argue we always have been.

So to all of the young people reading this…I want you to know that it’s easy to just accept things as they are, as they always have been as just being how things work. When I was a kid/teenager, every year my dad got a free turkey from his work at Thanksgiving. Big 50lbs turkeys. Company with over 2000 employees. Every single employee got a turkey. So growing up, I thought that’s what adulthood was. New Years day is Jan 1st, Last day of the year is Dec 31st. You work for 8 hours a day Monday-Friday, and get the weekend off. Oh, and at Thanksgiving you get a turkey, and in December you get a bonus based on how long you’ve been with the company. This was just what all adults had. Except then I find out as an adult, no, that’s NOT normal. My dad had amazing Christmas’s, and he would give the turkey to his mother to feed a thanksgiving meal of about 20 people. Thats how big this bird was. And there were leftovers. I thought it was normal and everyones parents had this.

So I know it’s easy to accept things as normal, because it’s the only way you’ve ever been raised in. So I want you to know, THIS is not normal. The idea of a secret police running around the country kidnapping legal citizens in unmarked cars is NOT FUCKING NORMAL!!! If you feel angry at these things, THAT ACTUALLY IS NORMAL. I would argue that if you read the news, and see what’s going on in this country, the healthy reaction IS anger. Everything with ICE. Everything I’m reading regarding the FCC shutting down broadcast television. Everything regarding the CONSTANT tracking and monitoring of your every move. None of this is normal. We are at a point where it’s OK to cheer the assassins, because they’re the ones standing up to tyranny and injustice. So yes, I applaud Luigi. I applaud the would be trump assassins.

And if you need a frame of reference, there was once a guy who tried planting a bomb in the same bunker as Hitler. The plan would have worked, except last minute unknown to anyone they changed the meeting room. The old meeting room had concrete walls. Meaning the blast from the explosion would be mostly self contained, and the blast becomes more powerful inside that room. They changed the meeting to a log cabin with windows. This is important because the wood absorbed a great deal of the explosion. As well as the windows blowing out, and the bomb is no longer self contained. Now outside is part of the blast radius. So Hitler survived. But we don’t look back at the assassin as some evil person. He was trying to do the right thing. This is where we are.

So I need you to understand, no matter how used to it you are, NONE of this past 10 years has been normal, and I really wish you could have grown up experiencing a normal world without orange faced pedophile rapist terrorists being a constant presence in our daily lives. I miss when politics were boring.

Do you think he cares?

You think people under the age of 18 don’t smoke? When I was in 6th grade (so 12 years old) I used to make about $100 a week selling cigerettes individually for $1 per cigerette. This was in the mid 90s, so adjusted for inflation that would be like $270 a week today.

And all I did was walk up and down the sidewalks, and find half smoked cigerettes. Stole individual cigerettes from adults packs. And bought them from vending machines.

I don’t smoke, and never did, but it was easy money selling stolen cigerettes to 12 year olds. The only reason I ever stopped is I grew up. It would be a LOT more suspicious seeing a 42 year old today walking the halls of a school trying to peddle cigerettes to kids.

Plus, teens today see cigerettes as old guard. They’re all about vapes today.

Which is getting off topic. The point is, teenagers smoke. Teenagers drink. None of it is legal. Yet it always happens in every generation.

The only thing the youth of today do anything different from literally every generation before them, is they aren’t having sex with each other. Which makes me glad I’m 42, and was young 30 years ago.

Oh, I thought you were replying to thr other message. Still, it’s just below here, where I said she smokes 5-8 packs a day.

She also has this bag of loose tabacco where she rolls her own. She uses that when she can’t afford marlborrow.

STOP BEING RIGHT!!!

Exactly!

Exactly.

No no no. You’re missing the H.

Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

They’re number one in the hood, G!

I’ve seen her laying on the couch, asleep, sits up, eyes not open, reaches in the drawer, lights her own hair on fire, sits there on fire, smoking an unlit cigerette as the rest of us scramble to put her out.

Are you claiming that minors don’t smoke because it’s not legal? That’s what you’re going with?

About $8, but she smokes 5-8 packs a day.

It’s not. It’s just too new to have studies confirmed. These kids that are in their early 20s may have been vaping since as young as 14, but that still 8 years at most, and that’s stretching it in both directions.

I would say those studies won’t come out until they’re in their 70s, or maybe already dead.

Vaping will cause cancer just the same as cigerettes. You’re inhaling unnatural addictive chemicals. In the case of nicotine, it’s artificially added to some/most vapes. We know how bad that stuff is. A vape is nothing more then an unnatural liquid chemical compound, which is then burned and smoked. Tobacco is a leaf, vapes are a liquid. In both cases they add a shitload of unhealthy compounds.

Hell, at this point WATER is unhealthy! Tons of microplastics in all water.