Linda R

I would say both are evil, you’re just quibbling over which one is more evil.

Yes, that is correct.

The point I’m making is that the difference doesn’t matter much in the grand scheme. Both are wrong, neither should be accepted.

What’s important is that the status quo in US politics is evil and needs to be rectified. If Democrats win big time, the evil status quo will remain as it is and it must be changed. If Republicans retain much power, the status quo will change into a much more evil one yet. And it must then be changed, first back to the 2026 status quo, after which we can do what could be done immediately if the Democrats get a landslide victory.

There’s no sense in going through the detour of even greater evil and wasting years to that instead of getting going from the current status quo. But I am worried that many people who could stop things from getting full-scale fascist (the current concentration camp system expanding hundredfold, etc, as happened in Germany) will refuse to vote, thus bringing us past a point of no return where any sort of resistance is made physically impossible.

When one side winning just ends it all and the other side winning means we still have a fighting chance to topple it, it feels horrible that there are people who are willing to accept 1941 Germany reincarnating in the form of USA in order to hold to their principles. Last time we got lucky and they lost their war for world conquest. There’s no being sure we’ll get that lucky this time, so we really should not try!

Enshittification is a result of commercialisation.

The Forumverse cannot be commercialised. If an instance starts showing advertisements, its users will migrate to ones that don’t.

I don’t think this network can enshittify.

It looks like the technology behind this forum is not well-understood by you.

If you create an account on http://piefed.zip/ , you will see practically all of Fediverse, basically regardless of defederations. You have to go the settings there and specifically click some buttons to unblock a group of instances most people don’t want to see. But it can be done and you’ll get what you’re looking for.

I’ve come to the conclusion that @parallelminds@lemmy.world assumes a defedation splits the network into two islands completely isolated from each other. They don’t seem ti understand that a defederation only affects the two instances themselves, nothing else.

You don’t need an account for every defederated instance. The network is still one and whole. Defederation only hides the two instances’ activities from each other’s users, but you can use piefed.zip that doesn’t defederate from basically anything.

You will see all content defederated from lemmy.world and you will also see all content from lemmy.world.

If you use piefed.zip, you will get precisely the result you are describing you want. You will have all the Forumverse content behind one login, seamlessly.

I did not understand properly what you meant with this comment. Could you paraphrase, please?

Why do you then not move to an instance that offers that to you?

Then why are you on .world? There are plenty of instances that are widely federated.

No communities I want to see have ever disappeared. Just choose your instance wisely and all is okay.

Fecesbook does. Over there, communities are called “groups”, but it’s the same thing. I’m surprised if LickedIn doesn’t do the same.

what happens when instances defederate over ideological or other differences?

Their users get a better user experience.

Also, is there any centralized forum that is more active than the Threadiverse (Lemmy/Piefed/Pylova/Mbin)?

Fecesbook, Shitter, and LickedIn came to my mind first.

Then there are Reddit and Tumblr and a couple more.

But all of these are worse experiences than the Fediverse. And I believe that’s because the Fediverse is federated.

What are you talking about?

What fragmentation? I have had zero problems like that. Yeah, there is content that I am not directly seeing, but that is some seriously bad-quality content and if I want to fry my brain, I can always go to the home instances of the idiots and see their crud there.

The most important reason why federation is needed is that it’s the only known way to keep a forum non-commercial for good. You try adding advertisements to a Fediverse server, you get an exodus of users to other servers that show precisely the same content. If you try adding a mandatory ID check for a Fediverse server, users will migrate to servers who don’t have that.

Any non-federated social media will get facebookified/twitterified once it becomes seriously popular. You simply cannot sustainably run a forum without federation.

Well, one party wants to make trans people feel miserable. The other one wants them dead as soon as possible.

Both are under par, but one is very very bad, while the other one is unambiguously evil.

They are doing the same thing, both being right to far right parties, but there’s still an immense difference in the magnitude.

More or less so, yes 😕

Absolutely agreed!

What other weapon might he have had available in some situation where he might get overcome with random vicious anger?
And in a way where the beginning of the violence is mostly accidental.

I don’t think any other weapon than a car would have been able to bring him into this heinous deed.

I wouldn’t say I hate him. He’s just a Pope and it feels illogical that a pope would not vote for the party whose main point is enabling important people to have sex with minors.

The Pope’s Catholic, after all, isn’t he? Why is he not supporting the main hobby of the Catholic clergy?

I was thinking the same. But that means he’s voting against his own staff. We know the hobbies of Catholic priests :(

I would actually say that one of the parties is less hostile to the poor and minorities than the other.