aasatru

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[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 4 points 3 weeks ago

They are aiming for a launch of the re-write towards the end of the year. Let's hope it goes well.

[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 28 points 1 month ago

I think there's a lot of high-quality content coming from a few impressively active users on here. I wouldn't want to be without it. Then again, each to their own.

But it seems wiser to me to just block whoever bothers you.

[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 6 points 1 month ago

I'm Scandinavian, so I come from a country defined by workers unions in the post-war era. The Norwegian post-war social democratic agenda was defined by a group of socialists while locked in a nazi concentration camp. They were locked in there not for being centrist.

Recently, the labour parties of Scandinavia have moved towards the centre, so I am alternating votes between the socialist left party, the communists when it makes sense (they have a problem of ageing ML members, but their younger people are mostly fine), and the Greens. The Greens are in some ways further to the centre than the Labour party, but they have their reasons to compromise.

The labour party is, however, still left of centre. We're a representative democracy with four parties in parliament describing themselves as the centre, so it's not very hard for us to make the distinction.

And recognizing that capital can be a useful way of organizing one's economy under controlled conditions is different from capitalism.

The whole take is just stupid, and always made in bad faith. It doesn't take American relativism for social democracy to be a left wing ideology. The generations before me faught like hell against the capitalists in order to give me rights, and implying they were not leftists because the social democrats left the comintern is ahistorical.

Furthermore, there is no "to be fair" in relation to sending your political opponents to labour camps to basically have them killed. This is something tankies will never understand.

And Anarchists need to read about the Spanish Civil War and learn to keep the fuck away from tankies. I love you guys, but just because you're right on a fundamental level doesn't mean you can ignore history.

[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 3 points 1 month ago

It did originate from Twitter. Somehow Twitter at the time considered it wise to split it into a separate entity, and Dorsey was fine with not controlling it. And then Twitter was sold, and Dorsey and Bluesky grew apart from each other.

[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 4 points 1 month ago

Case in point.

[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 20 points 1 month ago (6 children)

non-sectarian "left-unity"

Lol. I'm a social democrat. They'd send me to a camp if they had the chance to.

Then again, when put in charge of things they sent each other to camps as well, so maybe this is what tankie unity looks like.

[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I often see people say that pointing new users towards instances with a lax attitude to defederation is a good idea. I kind of understand the rationale, but I'm not sure I agree. Pointing new users to an instance federated with Hexbear seems to me to be a terrible idea.

[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 38 points 1 month ago

It's a pretty bold move to launch an open source service like this, especially one that is as complex as a video sharing site. One would think a gradual increase of user base would be easier to handle than a sudden influx of people at a moment when one has been scrambling to meet a deadline.

Good thing they/he is not afraid of postponing the release and making sure it's ready. And if it works well it will be one hell of a release. Fingers crossed. :)

[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 2 points 1 month ago

I think this makes a lot of sense. We don't want the instance hosting, say, football communities to be defederated anywhere on account of its users behaving poorly. In general there's just no reasons to have the users in the same place as the community.

[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 3 points 1 month ago

I'm sure the Irish call it football when they speak English, but what about in Irish? If Google translate to Irish is trustable,

English to Irish Football = Peil

But also Soccer = Sacar

So maybe there's two accepted variants. But where does Pail come from anyway? Let's translate it back to English:

Peil = Very big potato

So most of the world plays football, some strange corners of it play soccer, and the Irish play very big potato.

I'd love if a native speaker could confirm this. #Irish #Gaeilge #football @gaeilge@a.gup.pe @football@a.gup.pe

[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I had a feeling that would be an issue!

On the one hand, football@soccer would be a good compromise.

On the other, we're right, the Americans are wrong. Simple as that. So I sympathise with the lack of willingness to compromise on the matter.

[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 18 points 1 month ago (10 children)

I think this sounds like a good idea. A problem when starting a community is that one wants to find a stable home; it might make sense to set up camp at, say, hardware.watch, but without knowing who operates it it might feel more uncertain than lemmy.world.

And then, as a result, if lemmy.world ever disappears or has problems, it'll take way too many communities with it.

If these topic-specific instances had some sort of collective ownership, I guess we could more effectively guarantee for their continued survival, and it might be more tempting for existing communities to move over there.

I'd be interested in hearing the thoughts of some admins - would !football@lemmy.world be interested in moving to [!football@soccer.forum](/c/football@soccer.forum), given the right organization?

And a piece of constructive feedback: Vague community names like !main@soccer.forum is probably less likely to attract attention than something specific like !nba@nba.space - when searching for a community, people look up the community name rather than the domain.

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