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[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

This trial is a huge event in France. Hopefully it will lead to some real cultural change, and with any luck the rest of the world will be able to learn something as well.

The bravery of this lady for going public and beating on the pots and pans as loud as she can is incredible.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It's a crisis! Let the wannabe sun king do whatever he wants, it's a crisis!!

He just wants to fuck up the country enough that it'll be beyond repair by the left by then.

I just hope the left gets strong enough not to have to depend on Melanchon. I hate him as much as Macron. Maybe more.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

It seems it shut down over Kbin developments. I guess it could have done its users a favour by changing to Mbin, but still... Fair enough. I'm hopeful :)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That's great!!

I love PieFed - hopefully this instance will be a success! It's nice to see something other than the flagship. PieFed seems pretty flexible, so it'll be fun to see what another instance makes of it.

I would warmly recommend checking it out!
(That's https://feddit.online and https://piefed.social)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

I guess a large part why I liked them was that I was really only active on one or maximum two, and I was happy just embracing the community there. It was also in my native language rather than in English, which feels excotic in retrospect.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Great post!

I would be curious to know how many people on here have found memories from BBcode-style forums.

Personally I kinda skipped web 2.0 - I had some accounts, sure, but I hardly interacted with anything else than direct messaging. However I used to hang out on phpBB for probably hours every day before Facebook took over, having been lured in by needing help progressing in Pokémon on my GameBoy Advance.

I guess I'm a minority around here in never having used Reddit much. But I'm wondering if we're, in general, a bunch of ageing nerds who are nostalgic to web 1.0, or if we're a more diverse bunch than that. ;)

Edit:
Oh, and speaking of nostalgia, I'm sad LemmyBB is not maintained any more! It makes perfect sense that it isn't of course, but what a blast it would be.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 weeks ago

Initially I was convinced Biden had the right intentions, and somehow I still like to believe he does. But his political weakness in this conflict is inexcusable, and will hang as a dark cloud over his legacy.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Flipboard's Dot Social is pretty great: @dot_[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

It's a bit hard to imagine the fediverse crowd being huge on a tiktok-like platform. I think it's an important development, even just as a proof of concept, but it would have to attract an audience from a whole different target audience, and one that might have less patience for technical hiccups.

I think video content is also fundamentally more asymmetrical - from a few influencers to a large number of consumers. Which is probably what the fediverse is heading towards as well, but it's not what it does best at the moment.

I don't think I'm the target audience of this, and I'm not sure it'll be a success. But I think it's a very interesting and important development anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Probably more realistic, I was just working out of the premise that history would repeat itself.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

Little more than four years from now, the insurrectionist crowd will be chanting "hang JD Vance". And JD Vance will chant along.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Does anyone know if he has given any sign of life the last few months?

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