Well, you have Orbán. That’s what an autocratic leader causes. There might of course be other reasons additionally to that. Wonder how it currently goes in Poland, Czechia, or Romania?

But has that been happening more in this time frame than before?

I don’t think that explains what we see on this map, even though what Keskusta is doing to our countryside is horrible indeed!

This looks like a very good thing, actually!

It means that costs of living, and, hopefully without a very big delay, also the income, are getting closer to one standard level around the EU.

This looks like the gap between “eastern block” and “western European countries” as they were in 1980’s is being bridged.

Only NL worries me here. What the hell is going on over there?!

I really like the ability to downvote. It enables me to say “this was badly argumented and a waste of my time” without spending too much effort for that. I’d write it anyway, but probably using impolite words that would be worse for the Fediverse than my downvotes are.

I dont remember where I’ve seen the stats, but I make about 10 upvotes per one downvote. I strongly believe at least my downvoting behaviour does more good than bad for the Forumverse.

When I was looking for a good instance for myself, Blåhaj seemed like an excellent fit, but when I noticed the downvote button was missing, I changed my mind. I would be annoyed if that feature disappeared altogether.

At least on PieFed’s Matrix chat there has been very constructive conversations about whether and how to allow downvoting. To my eyes, the solutions they came up with seem very good.

Not that I’d remember off the back of my hand what the hell they decided in the end. Maybe someone will tell? :) @rimu@piefed.social @wjs018@piefed.social

I find that a good thing. It’s a bright red flag that tells me to direct my attention to other people who are able to behave themselves.

It’s good that exceptional-level bigots have a way to visibly out themselves as bigots!

Break the egg on a plate,add a little salt, break the egg-yellow and mix it with the egg-white. Put the the plate in a microwave for one minute. Stir the egg on the plate with a fork, put into the microwave for another minute. Repeat until ready.

Doesn’t get easier than this.
Just remember: if you let the egg-yellow stay whole, it’ll cause a mess. And if you let the egg warm for much longer than a minute without stirring it in between, it will cause a mess.

The closest thing is Friendica, and it’s very buggy and the UI would need to be completely remade. Also, its groups are not the same thing as Facebook’s groups.

It has a lot of potential, but fails to really fulfill it.

I’ve come to the conclusion that the closest thing to a Facebook replacement out there is… PieFed. Which you are using right now. You do need to combine it with Mastodon to get all you were doing on Facebook, but PieFed and Mastodon together do actually fulfill what at least I had as my purpose to use Fecesbook.

There is a plan to “some day” add good support for Mastodon style messaging here as well. But that might easily take a year or two.

I really wish someone could make a racing game akin to NFS II. The track design is incredible because they were able to completely skip all realism. Nothing ever since has achieved quite the same. Okay, Mario Kart and similar come kind of close, but what I really liked about NFS II was the combination of kind of serious cars, and absolutely exaggerated scenery.

What I was missing on KDE was a way to switch between programs without going through a bazillion windows. At one point I had five Firefox windows open, plus four file managers, and getting to GIMP ended up requiring a lot of keypresses: Firefox -> Firefox -> File manager -> Firefox -> File manager -> GIMP. I would have much preferred just Firefox -> File Manager -> GIMP. Is there a way to switch directly between programs and not between individual windows until I happen to land upon a window belonging to the program I actually need and can then Alt+Tilde to the correct program?

(Also, I think “Tilde” here does not really mean “AltGr+^ followed by space”, but instead some other button; probably the one overneath Tab?)

I mean that if I have four Firefox windows open, three file manager windows open, GIMP open and Steam open and press alt+tab, I get cycled through four things: Firefox, File manager, Gimp and Steam. If I want a specific Firefox window, I first Alt+Tab to Firefox and then use Meta+Tab to cycle between the different windows of Firefox. That is incredibly convenient!

On my other computer I’m currently trying OpenSUSE, and its version of Gnome does not have the option for enabling this in the keyboard shortcuts. Not really sure if my Ubuntu really uses Unity or something else, but anyway it’s something that has a feature that makes the workflow much better.

I haven’t really found a DE that I like more than Unity. Basic Gnome gets close, but the ability to separate switch between programs and their windows is a big thing for me.

But, because of snap packages being annoying, I would really like to migrate away from Ubuntu. Meh.

Yes on Piefed those are called communities.

Let’s explain it this way: Microsoft has programmed a web service that is able to receive, view and send emails.

And Google has done the same, from scratch.

Email itself is merely a way different server softwares communicate with each other.

The same goes here. Some people developed a server software for receiving, viewing and sending ActivityPub content and called it Lemmy. Then other people figured it would be a nice project and did the same, from ground up, and called it PieFed.

They are the same thing. They also don’t have more content or less content. They have the precisely same content. I am writing this on PieFexd, you are reading my comment in Lemmy. And then there is also Mbin.

It doesn’t really work very well as that. It’s buggy and it’s difficult to really understand. PieFed/Lemmy/Mbin works much better for the purpose intended by OP.

This does mean you’ll need to have separate accounts for Mastodon and Forumverse, though. At least for now. I tried using MBin to combine the two, but in practical terms the user experience was lacking, because Mbin is not quick enough in implementing new features that Mastodon gets. Or ones that PieFed and Lemmy get. Especially the images inside Forumverse posts showing as mere links bugged me like hell! And quote toots on Mastodon not working either.

@116280023545064493@hear-me.social , you accidentally wrote your comment in a place just like that. See here: https://nord.pub/c/fediverse/p/127183/fediverse-is-there-any-platform-in-fediverse-where-individuals-can-join-groups-just-like-fac

This thing called PieFed or Lemmy is not the same as Mastodon. @fediverse@lemmy.world is not a username, it’s actually what you would call a group. You sent that toot of yours into a group called “Fediverse” on a server called “lemmy.world”. On PieFed/Lemmy/Mbin groups are called communities, though. But indeed, do click the link above and browse the site that opens.

I linked through my instance, nord.pub, which is mainly meant for people from Nordic countries. If you prefer something else, try piefed.social, piefed.zip, or somesuch :) But of course you can also create an account on nord.pub regardless of where you are from. At least if you know English or some Nordic language. And English you do know!

But indeed: Do browse this thing. Join some communities (that is: groups) that you like. I enjoy PieFed a lot, and for me it has healed that tickle that you’re complaining about :)

I had no idea something like this actually exists. Thanks for enabling me to know!

I think I’ll copypaste my comment from the Linux Gaming comm to here as well… So, here goes:

There are a bunch of jokes in this game that I absolutely am not okay with.

Yeah, the whole point of the game is the main character being a horrible asshole.

But then, the game for example makes jokes about a black woman ending up a slave. She ends up as a slave not because the main character is being thoughtless. Yes, his actions affect the result, but it’s a pure coincidence he could not have reasonably predicted. The joke boils down to “look, we dare to be this inappropriate.”

Some of similar jokes could maybe read as commentary on horrible bigots who really do behave towards other people in the way the protagonist of this game does, because technically the bad things happen to those people because of the protagonist’s behaviour. But when the same things sometimes happen to them kind of “just like that”, it puts the rest of the jokes in a very different context: The developers of the game actually are making fun of the fact that black people used to slaves or that women often experience sexual violence.

And then there’s also the transsexual who turns out to be the worst stereotype of a transsexual that a MAGA person ever could imagine. And, and, and.

Some of the jokes are kind of more neutral: At one point the protagonist needs to feed some ten-ish children to a monster, camouflaging them as hot dogs and covering them in ketchup and mustard. And then the children do indeed get eaten and the game progresses. I mean, okay, it’s super inappropriate in a way, but it’s not perpetuating hate speech. But a surprisingly large share of the jokes are punching at various minorities.

I’ve never seen as much bigotry in a game as I saw in the Deponia trilogy when I played through it.

Well, at least it isn’t a third of a century or anything!

But if you follow enough users, won’t you start getting quite a good amount of that? Plus, you can probably just browse the local of some Misskey instance and then, if you want to comment or upvote, open it from within your own instance? It won’t be perfect, but I would imagine it will do the job just fine for a student.

If it federates, what does that matter? Just read the Japanese Misskey content.