That single satellite is toast at the start of every major conflict

Be a good user. Post great content. Start awesome communities. Make Lemmy a great place to be on and users will come. You can’t convince users to switch networks just because of some technical details. But if the best memes are here and Reddit is drowning in a sea of bot reposts, people will notice. If you google for something and the best answer to your question is not on Reddit, but here, people will notice. If cool people are hanging out on Mastodon and not on X, people will notice. If the one place on the internet to discuss some niche topic is on Lemmy, people will come.

So don’t go preaching, do cool stuff here!

I think that we need to talk about the history of software and social software here, because the current status is kind of crazy:

• Most of the big platforms didn’t invent what they are currently doing. Reddit is basically a forum. They had a great innovation with their voting idea, but functionally there is little difference between the many webforums we had before and Reddit
• Twitter is a microblog, which already tells you about its origins. There were blogs before twitter, on their own servers, talking to each other with pingbacks and RSS
• YouTube, well, basically just shows you videos, which of course was done before by people on their own servers

So basically most fediverse is not emulating existing platforms, but trying to go back to an internet we had before the big platforms took everything over. And with ActivityPub we have the protocol to ease some of the pains that the decentralized internet before the web 2.0 era had. F.e. you had to create an account for each individual webforum, which really sucked if you just wanted to ask a question or share something. Reddit with its one login totally took over, because you could participate in many subforums. It was easier to just hop into /r/cooking to ask a question about your lasagna then to find the relevant lasagna forum and register there.

I could totally imagine a clothed pig sitting in front of a computer

Main german Lemmy is at www.feddit.org . They have a few communities that might interest you:

!dach@feddit.org & !deutschland@feddit.org for general news !technik@feddit.org for everything about technology !geschichte@feddit.org and !die_reklame@feddit.org for history !ich_iel@feddit.org for memes

The fediverse offers a noncommercial alternative and that can be a draw. A “normal” Reddit user might not want to join us, but there will be users fed up with all the ads on Reddit, some of Reddits policies, tolerance of nazis and abuse and so on. Mastodon always was in the shadow of Twitter, a nice, but blew up when Musk started to destroy it. It offered a way out and that is worthwhile. And if Zuckerberg is starting to transform Instagram into a rightwing horror show, Pixelfed is there as an alternative. And if you want out of YouTube, PeerTube is working and ready for you.

So - which Euro government hasn’t collapsed in the last year?

Populisten & Nazis sind hervorragend darin, auf medialem Weg, über stetige Propaganda, Probleme dort zu schaffen, wo es sie gar nicht gibt. Die Juden in der Weimarer Republik waren auch einfach nur ganz normale Menschen und keine weltumspannende Verschwörungselite, aber das hat die Nazis auch nicht abgehalten so zu tun. Selbst in einem komplett Biodeutschen Deutschland ohne Ausländer würde die AfD also trotzdem irgendwas finden, gegen das sie hetzen kann. Das ist deren Geschäftsmodell und wir sollten nicht so tun als ob sie damit aufhören würde, wenn wir ihr bei ihrem ersten Feind genau das geben, was sie möchte.

It’s not only about the pollution: Cruise ships are also bad for cities as cities. A cruise ship will vomit 5000 people into your city center. Most european city centers are quite small, so 2-3 cruise ships will totally overcrowd the city. People might buy some tourist shit, but they will get their breakfast & dinner on the cruise ship. That’s bad for local restaurants. They will not stay overnight, which is bad for local businesses, hotels etc. And they will push out other tourist, because who wants to stay in Dubrovnik when the experience is like this?

It really does make sense for cities to ban cruise ships and advocate other types of tourism, where the tourists are “doing” more for the local economy.

This can start a death spiral - the more cities & ports are banning cruise ships in the Mediterranean, the more traffic the other cities will get. That will increase the problems there, leading to demands to also ban cruise ships there and so on.

Americans want and have spyware in te very core of our infrastructure. Look at what happened when they offered to help Greece with their comms for the olympics, they killed a network designer who found their spyware.

Source?

It really doesn’t make any sense at all - there is nothing in this whole discussion that makes any sense at all!

That’s good news and that is a lot of money that is not going to some fossil fuel dictatorship.

Both of them are idiots. Both are spreading lies and propaganda. It’s totally obvious that Hitler was not a communist. He murdered thousands of german communists. He campaigned during the elections of the 20s against them. He waged war against the USSR. Musk and Weidel are dangerous idiots.

This looks like it could also be great for old people

TBH: We kind of know that Trump has dementia. He is babbling incoherent stuff since years and the media should stop repeating everything

You don’t understand: Private oil companies are good for Trumps biggest campaign donors.

Das ist kein Schild aus Deutschland

Dude, what are you talking about?

You know that “Germany” is not one person doing stuff, right? And that the current government is different from the one when the Tesla plant was approved and that that was also in big part done by one of the federal states? And that that was long before Musk bought Twitter and fryed his brain?