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Cake day: March 14th, 2023

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  • I think overall it’s not a bad suggestion, and yes Photon looks very sleek, and I have even contributed a language translation for it.

    However, my main concern is: what would happen if the main dev loses interest and drops support of the interface? Lemmy backend may add a new feature that either breaks Photon, or Photon can’t make use of it until updated. If the development of this frontend could be more integrated with the Lemmy project team and funded, I would be less concerned.


  • Send out a mailer periodically to everyone in the world say how your government helped you and your family this week.

    Pay a bunch of influencers to speak nuanced praise. Yes, it’s a propaganda machine, but without one, disapproval would arise based on completely non-factual bases.

    Institute a fair taxing system, that allows successful people to get reasonably far ahead, to a limit, but does not leave others behind at their expense.

    Train up a large joint military exclusively in de-escalation and disaster response. Squabbles between belligerent parties would just be flooded with this neutral force to mediate the issue and ease tensions as quickly as possible.

    Tackle worldwide issues of health and disease, climate change, food security, shelter, social mobility, education, transport. Each country would be incentivized to make their own countries’ resilient, but other neighbours would chip in resources if one is falling behind or is hit by disaster. Institute worldwide minimum safety standards for all labourers and empower individuals to report unsafe conditions.

    Slowly modify religion (release new versions of the Bible, Quran etc. that remain mostly true to their origins but emphasize the “be nice to each other” parts and remove the “kill anyone that doesn’t believe this/doesn’t follow these rules to the letter” parts). Bring leaders of these religions together to discuss promoting inter-religious peace.

    Hold annual community pride, national pride and world pride days, to celebrate humanity’s accomplishments, establish unity and comradery with your neighbours, and an opportunity to give casual feedback to your local authorities, national authorities, and me (before they hit the disapprove switch, hehe).




  • Unpopular opinions get super-duper downvoted here but don’t “disappear” as often as on Reddit (not including rule-breaking submissions).

    I enjoy talking with the local and Lemmyverse regulars and also with most users. Reddit is so big you get lost in the 10000 comments, however many bots are copying top comments from a past repost you wouldn’t know. Lemmy is a good size now, if anything it should grow out instead of up (revitalizing more niche communities).

    Topic niches served well by Lemmy: Linux, being upset at capitalism, Startrek, LBGTQ-friendly crowds on blahaj and beehaw, pcgaming, buying local and quality products (there are fewer suggestions but your average reply is better in quality than Reddit), Woodworking, DIY offgrid living (solarpunk), and a bunch more.




  • If you’re talking about yesterday’s events being the start? I don’t believe so. Very few people in the US have so little to lose and still a lack of collectivism that they would not be willing to give up their life for a chance to improve things for everyone.

    HOWEVER, this event may open people’s eyes to look at each other and realize culture wars are a distraction, the wealthy are the ones after our ability to sustain ourselves, not immigrants, trans people, rural people, urban people, or religious people, conservative or liberal etc.

    Violence is an option, but it doesn’t have to be this way. We saw it got Anthem to reverse course, but I’m certain the same thing would happen if everyone switched away from Anthem at the same time during this open enrollment period.

    If this doesn’t spur the beginning of a mindset towards collective action, we will be left waiting until the next high-profile murder. Again the solution doesn’t have to be violent with guillotines and the whole 9 yards, but organize organize organize into a movement and change can happen when y’all put aside differences and do it together. Modern society going so fast has made everyone perpetually tired and makes it hard to wield their share of power. Still there is immense power in numbers and it is up to us to use it for good. An unbreakable bond between people can’t be defeated no matter what the billionaire class may spend to try to discredit it.



  • Ngl, it’s kind of cool! I put one of the two public facing images I have published of myself and it’s trying to guess some details, some right, a few hilariously wrong.

    A human or AI sleuth could probably figure out where I live within 10km with information on the internet, but I just have to live with that. It’s a tricky balance between putting enough out there to show you’re not just an AI vs. not giving out so much info that an AI could convincingly impersonate you.

    Information about me is scattered across the Net like horcruxes, and you’d have to know someone I know to easily piece things together. I am worried that AI has the ability to analyze these large datasets faster than ever before, whether it is my writing style or anything else, but it will still be computationally intensive with a large dataset to be able discern any details with confidence.