No one knows what the story is yet?

Ah yep thx.

She also publicly thanked the founders of the Atlas network, a US right wing think tank and likely CIA front whose purpose is to funnel money to North Korean defectors, venezuelan opposition figures like herself, the Ukrainian military, the anti-communist Cuban opposition, the anti-lula brazilian opposition, and probably a lot more ultra-right groups.

He was a murderous imperialist and he should be tried for war crimes.

I feel like at least half of the peace prizes have been given to pro-western / color revolution “dissidents” since the 60s

Some Background: History conditions much of our thinking about our political systems and most Western democracies resemble Rome’s in 60 BC when, as Robin Daverman humorously says, three aristocrats–politician Julius Caesar, military hero Pompey and billionaire Crassus–formed a backroom alliance that dominated the elected senate. The oligarchs ensured that proletarii votes changed nothing and that the masses remained invisible unless they rioted or died in one of the elites’ endless civil wars. Two thousand years later, in Britain’s general election of 1784, the son of the First Earl of Chatham and Hester Grenville, sister of the previous Prime Minister George Grenville, and the son of the First Baron Holland and Lady Caroline Lennox, daughter of Second Duke of Richmond, offered voters offered a choice of dukes. Today, in many European countries (even egalitarian Sweden) ‘democracy’ is a mere veneer over powerful feudal aristocracies that still control their economies. American voters recently watched a former president’s wife competing with a former president’s brother being defeated by a billionaire who installed his daughter and son-in-law in important government positions and ensured that, as John Dewey said, “U.S. politics will remain the shadow cast on society by big business as long as power resides in business for private profit through private control of banking, land and industry, reinforced by command of the press and other means of propaganda”. Most Western politicians are related by marriage or wealth and have, like all hereditary classes, lost sympathy with the broad mass of their fellow citizens to the extent that, as American political scientists Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page found, ‘the preferences of the average American appear to have a near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy’: Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens

• Godfree Roberts

From here

It’d be great to see a coalition of countries oppose the US bombing campaign in latin america.

No they don’t use sql views, they’re built using an in query (which we still have to see how performant that’ll be, and is pretty much the same problem as subscribed communities, needing to sort and filter based off joined data)

You can see them in action here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/3521

Multi-communities are already completed in the back-end, and front end will be done shortly.

Are the russian bots in the room with you right now, contaminating your precious bodily fluids?

Community post tags will be in 1.0 . The back end is done, and the front end is in my list of next 10 or so things to do.

If he says anything even slightly negative about NYC’s police force, I could see him getting Huey Long’d pretty quickly.

To respond to some of these:

Lack of granular privacy / profile control

Fair, but also lemmy isn’t trying to be a facebook-style social network, but a reddit alternative. So the main action isn’t really following people, but following communities. GNU social and others probably do granularity and limited sharing better.

Poor content discovery / lack of niche communities / limited diversity

There are a few external tools to help with this, but @Nutomic also built in a feature for new instances to pull various popular communities, that will be in lemmy 1.0 . This should help with some content and communities being on new instances.

Fragmentation across instances / duplication of communities

This is a feature, not a bug. Many communities run by different people, with different userbases, is a good thing. [email protected] is going to be different from [email protected] and [email protected]

Bad User Experience (UX) / usability issues

There are like 10 different open source apps for lemmy, on every platform, with completely different UIs and experiences. This is a far better ecosystem than anything else I can think of (especially reddit), and if someone has problems with UIs on any of them, they can contribute.

Performance / reliability / scaling problems

Will always be an issue that needs work, but lemmy has scaled up to support ~40k active monthly users without too many issues. Most of our problems are database, not network related. Both problems can be solved solely by development resources.

Moderation, safety tools, and content-quality issues

Mods can remove all content at the click of a button, and users can report items. I’d need specifics on other things that are missing.

Search and archive weak/incomplete

Would need more specifics here, but we have a lot of search filters and capabilities.

Over-representation of particular content types (US-news, memes, agenda posts) and low content-quality

Somewhat unavoidable on anglo-net, and especially when people are drawing in large numbers of users from reddit, which suffers from that above. Also there are some servers that do no moderation on US content, and let it overrun every single community. Here we try to keep it on /c/usa unless it affects the greater world, and we also try to remove low-quality drumpf says type-memes that overrun reddit.

I’m betting on absolutely nothing happening to the NYC prison camp complex, especially rikers island.

It’s either the instance or the app.

These guys have the nuke codes.

You’ll need to take this up with markdown-it, which is one of the most popular javascript markdown libraries, and follows the CommonMark spec. They know what they’re doing and I’m sure have reasons for rendering it that way.

Edit: https://spec.commonmark.org/0.31.2/#emphasis-and-strong-emphasis

Some servers don’t seem to be doing any vetting, allowing a lot of repost accounts, bot accounts, and karma farmers (even though we don’t show karma in lemmy).

All we can do is report those accounts, block them, and if the servers keep allowing spammers, then block those servers.

The “progressive wing” of the controlled opposition branch of the single-party US state, trying to push a literal former abu ghraib (the US torture camp in Iraq) prison guard as a candidate.

All these muslim-murderers should be in prison for their crimes.

Seems the most likely explanation. They fucked around and found out, and this gives them a way to save face.