sparky@lemmy.federate.cc

Join them all, for now. I think Lemmy desperately needs a mechanism for “meta communities” or something so you can view a merged feed of say “gaming@everywhere” instead of separately seeing “gaming@beehaw” versus “gaming@lemmyworld” …

(Be kind, not trying to start a flame war) I keep seeing this thrown around, what is a “tankie” and what’s it got to do with that Lemmy instance?

This is one of the big pitfalls of the two party system in the US. If you fall in the middle, you don’t have an obvious choice of party, or you have a few issues where your party of choice doesn’t represent you.

An example- in Oregon you’ll find many people who are generally very liberal, socially progressive and such, but who don’t support blanket gun restrictions due to the traditions of hunting, trapping and outdoorsy stuff that Northwesterners are into. In a parliamentary democracy, you may have been able to find the “smoke pot and have a hunting rifle” party, but in our model, you have to pick one or the other.

What you’re describing kind of exists here in Portugal, the transmission lines are owned by the state but the actual electricity generation / internet service / whatever is left to private companies. So you can go onto a web portal and change your supplier to a different electric company or ISP or whatever, without needing to physically do anything at your house. Just maybe exchange a router or something like that. But no builders coming out to the property or whatever. And where I live near Lisbon there are like 8-10 available suppliers.

I am a Social Democrat in the European sense. There is nothing wrong with the free market per se, but it is the responsibility of the state to intervene with regulation where necessary (e.g. safety), and the responsibility of the state to provide a stable system of social services, e.g. health care, education, housing.

I’ll point to Austria as an example, where social housing is widespread and high quality and public health care is exceptional and pensions are reasonable. With this backdrop, the market economy is appropriate.

I don’t think the unregulated capitalism of countries like the US is sustainable nor would I want to live under that dysfunctional system.

Ask it to do something illegal, then wait to see if it starts its reply with some version of, “as an AI language model…”

/s

I, a human, am also here, doing completely ordinary human things, like buffering, and rendering. Have you defragmented your boot partition lately, fellow human?

We’d pour out a few bottles of rubbing alcohol somewhere with a “streak” back to where we were standing and then light it on fire. Basically catches ablaze for 5-10 seconds and then it’s gone, with minimal to no burning to stuff underneath. So obviously it’s not safe exactly. But we’d pull pranks with it. “Bro your bike is on fire, look!!”

That might be what I was looking for, thanks a lot!

Yea, understood. In this case I was looking for a less heavy-handed option, blocking just the communities in question rather than all the users on the instance. We’re a tiny instance so we don’t get too much inbound traffic, it’s just me and a few other people interacting with the wider Fediverse for now. So something in between defederation and complete tolerance would be great if they add that in the future.

Thanks. So I guess no real recourse for the moment.

From a fellow instance administrator; does anyone know if it’s possible to block a single community across your whole instance rather than defederating it? E.g., is it possible for me to block “HateSpeechCommunity@*” or “HateSpeechCommunity@domain.ext” as opposed to defederating all of “domain.ext”?

Specifically, we would love to ban “The_Donald@sh.itjust.works” from our instance without having to blanket ban the server, as there are some communities on this server (e.g. gaming@, etc) that we do actually want to interact with.

I’m aware that I can block the community on my own user account, but not sure if I can block just the one community from showing up on my instance altogether.