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Ah yes the "enlightened" democracies (lemmynsfw.com)
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Germany forces Pro-Palestinian media outlet red.media to shut down. (thered.stream)
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Germany forces Pro-Palestinian media outlet red.media to shut down. (thered.stream)
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No investigation, no right to speak (lemmynsfw.com)
 

Quote:

If your first instinct as a westerner is to criticize and lecture 3rd world communist movements, instead of learning from their successes, then you have internalized the patronizing arrogance of the colonial system you claim to oppose.

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Oh well (lemmynsfw.com)
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The western condescension for actually existing socialism (lemmynsfw.com)
 

Those who enjoy the wages of imperialism are more likely to have disdain for, or disinterest in, the complex struggles for national liberation in the periphery, which is dismissed as “the savage barbarism of the East,” in the choice words of Max Horkheimer.

This chauvinistic attitude has become so foundational to Western Marxism that theorists in this tradition often behave as if there were no need to actually study the history of socialist states in any serious manner. In fact, the attempt to do so is often looked upon with suspicion, as a sign that one might be a boor siding with the slaves, rather than a professional intellectual with a keen sense of what is worthy of scholarly inquiry.

  • Gabriel Rockhill - From the introduction to Losurdo's Western Marxism
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Pakistan to respond ‘forcefully’ to India’s ‘act of war’, says prime minister after attack – live (www.theguardian.com)
Please consider supporting Lemmy development in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Drag hopes their financial system becomes desperate enough, and enough people say it’s about lemmy.ml, that they realise they have little choice but to take lemmy.ml offline.

The goal is becoming clear. Western-supremacist redditors will not tolerate any communist-friendly spaces on the internet that oppose US foreign policy goals. They can shut our communities down and kick them off reddit, but doing the same on the fediverse is proving difficult. Censorship and anti-communist witch-hunting is their life goal.

For the record, I would never wish starvation on anyone, regardless of ideology. No one should have to be in a "desperate financial situation", regardless of who they are and what they believe.

Please consider supporting Lemmy development in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

They’re asking for donations because they lost the donations they were already getting.

Nope, not even the tiniest bit. We know how vital lemmy is, and want to secure its long-term future by being entirely sustained by donations. We never at any point reached that goal, and given that nutomic had a new baby, this is more important now than ever.

hemorrhaging donation money

I have no idea what this means. We're paying our daily living expenses so we can comfortably work on lemmy without having to find other work. The costs are food and rent.

this whole operation is a way too flimsy if it’s depending on these two people, alone, forever.

I'd love to be able to grow our co-op, and add more developers! Donations make that possible too, especially if they exceed 2 average dev salaries (we're a long way off from that).

What happens if they finally get another developer that really knows Rust and wants to join the project but doesn’t “fit in”? How are they actually going to expand the team so this project can grow and not be so dependent on them when they have the reputation they do?

It's clear you've never tried, because we've never and would never reject code contributers for petty reasons like "not fitting in". If ppl don't want to work with communists, that's on them. Personally I'd never reject someone for their ideology, especially if what they're doing is FOSS, which serves the common good.

I would like to see this platform expand beyond them,

We don't stop people from forking lemmy and never would, that's entirely their right.

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U.S. will be absent from Vietnam's war anniversary parade. (www.npr.org)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
0 comments fedilink
 

Losers uninvited themselves this year.

Happy reunification day to Vietnam!

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Trump Tariffs: What products do China and the US buy from each other? (www.aljazeera.com)
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U.S. State Department confirms new sanctions against the International Bank of Yemen (IBY) alleging financial support for the Houthis, also claims Chinese military aid to Houthis via satellite images (xcancel.com)
Communism is when capitalism in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thank you for your work in this thread comrade, its going to help a lot of people.

Why am I still faster than you? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Even lower-midrange level road bikes are now at least $1k. Its a ridiculous market.

Why am I still faster than you? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Kinda sad that e-scooters (as of like 1-3 years ago), are now cheaper than a decent bike for the same price.

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Lemmy Release v0.19.11 (join-lemmy.org)
 

Lemmy Release v0.19.11

What is Lemmy?

Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top.

Changes

This release fixes a security vulnerability which allows an attacker to delete images uploaded by other users. You can read the details in the security advisory. Thanks to @Nothing4You for discovering and fixing it.

A new donation dialog is shown to users once per year, to help fund Lemmy development.

There are also various backports from the development branch. Importantly the "Private instance" setting can now be used with federation enabled. This way only logged-in users can browse posts and comments, which stops AI crawlers from overloading the server. Also moderators can now view votes in the post/comment options.

Backend

  • Remove unnecessary pictrs purge calls (#5566)
  • Donation dialog (#5559)
  • Send out email after registration denied, email confirmed (#5553)
  • Change private instance setting to allow federation (#5530)
  • Proxy post.url if it is an image (#5545)
  • When creating community copy allowed languages from creator profile (#5490)
  • Include image alt text in post search (#5449)
  • Add config option to enable json logging (#5471, #5557)
  • Embed images in RSS feeds (#5488)
  • Fix federation of sticky posts (#5593)
  • Deleted user shouldnt break federation outbox (#5443, #5573)
  • Fix some image embeds by escaping alt text (#5506)
  • Properly federate distinguish comment (#5586)
  • Increase default registration rate limit to 10 per hour (#5600)
  • Remove debug ratelimit being used in production (#5551)

Frontend

  • Implement donation dialog (#3034)
  • Hide images in private message reports (#3053)
  • Dont render images in private message (#3043)
  • Changed checkbox text "Only moderators can post to this community" from legend to label on the Create Community page (#3046)
  • Trigger toast error on community request failure (#3045)
  • Add local link next to fedilink on posts (#3033)
  • Add banned badges to post and comment listings (#3030)
  • Linkify user @ mentions (#3029)
  • Adding ability for mods to view votes. (#3027)
  • Upvote, downvote, view source, and favorite icons become larger when pressed to improve visibility on grayscale screens (#2960)
  • Improve colour contrast of the mini-overlay in the top right corner of link or image post thumbnails (#2961)
  • Improve screenreader accessibility by adding a main element to more pages (issue #2891) (#2944)
  • Using input group for allowed and block instance buttons. (#2905)
  • Moving totp and delete account settings into their own cards. (#2907)
  • Hide NSFW field for create post form, for NSFW communities. (#2887)
  • Modify the logic for appending the URL after uploading an image, placing the image URL after the cursor. (#2804)

Upgrade instructions

There are no breaking changes with this release.

Follow the upgrade instructions for ansible or docker.

If you need help with the upgrade, you can ask in our support forum or on the Matrix Chat.

Thanks to everyone

We'd like to thank our many contributors and users of Lemmy for coding, translating, testing, and helping find and fix bugs. We're glad many people find it useful and enjoyable enough to contribute.

Support development

We are able to develop Lemmy as an open source platform free of tracking and ads thanks to the generosity of our users. Once a year we ask you to consider donating to support our work. Financial security allows us to continue maintaining and improving the platform. If you’d like to make a one-time or recurring donation simply use the links below. Thank you for using Lemmy.

Nutomic and Dessalines, Lemmy Developers

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Cory Booker Demands that congress fund Israel in Wake of Attacks from Palestine - October 2023 (www.booker.senate.gov)
post straight facts, removed as misinformation UPDATED in c/[email protected]
2025-03-15 Unplanned lemm.ee downtime in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

We've been dealing with these too at lemmy.ml, don't sweat it, we'll figure it out. Happy bday! Hope it was a good one.

Apparently correcting someone who thinks you're from a different country than you actually are is being "offensive"? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You going on racist rants, calling spanish speakers arrogant (which you've done twice now), is not anything we will ever allow on lemmy.ml.

Also the absolute gall of someone calling spanish speakers arrogant, when it's the US who's trying their best to exclude them from a designation they call themselves.

Apparently correcting someone who thinks you're from a different country than you actually are is being "offensive"? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

For anyone interested, here's the modlog , and to recap:

You get corrected by a Brazilian correctly saying they're also American, and disagree with the US's imperialist co-opting of that term to exclude the majority of Americans.

You respond to them by denigrating "arrogant spanish speakers" (Portuguese is the language spoken in Brazil btw), and get banned for a week.

You're even continuing to do racist rants in this very thread, like this comment of yours below

The Latin Americans complaining about the use of the term “America” to refer to the country of America were the most arrogant, rude arseholes I had come across.

Be the change you want to see in Lemmy in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

If something's subpar about it, then do what's recommended in this post. Open an issue on the repo, or contribute to a fix. It's open source software.

Be the change you want to see in Lemmy in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Unfortunately the people advertising lemmy on reddit and elsewhere rarely link join-lemmy.org, and direct people to join a few large instances. So we'll likely keep having centralization problems for the forseeable future.

I think we might know where all the missing Dem ballots went - Denise Wheeler in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

This was a few months before trump took office, and shows the Biden skyrocketing the funding in the 2020s. Again, why is your party funding this genocide?

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