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Cake day: July 23rd, 2023

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  • Really useful. Thanks!

    I’m a bit confused by what that tool says though:

    By default, communities on Lemmy/Mbin are not federated due to the inherent limitations of ActivityPub.

    When you create a new community, it will only be available to your instance. To make it accessible to other instances, at least one user from each remote instance must follow it.

    This tool automates this process by following your community from all remote instances until it gains at least one real-user follower.

    And yet when I go to any instance’s webpage and look for any community - even a brand new one - I find it. So is the tool referring to something else?










  • Basically Finland asked for military assistance from Nazi Germany to keep the Soviet Union at bay. German troops fought the Soviets on Finnish soil. And then when the war turned sour for Germany, Finland turned against Germany and kicked them out - more or less at the behest of the United States.

    Finland’s problem has always been its gigantic aggressive neighbor to the east - and it still has that problem today. It explained its cozy relationship with Nazi Germany by the need to keep a bigger problem at bay. And it was completely true and completely rational.

    But what was also true - and I know it for a fact because I talked to Finns who lived through the war and housed Germans - is that the German troops behaved impeccably in Finland and left a very good impression, even today. The Finns aren’t too proud of that but it’s a fact, and it’s even understandable from the point of view of individual Finns of the time.

    After the war, not wanting to lose a potential ally in the newly-established Cold War, the US sort of accepted Finland’s rationale and let it slide. Kind of like they did with France too, which equally deserved a lot more flak than they got.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland_in_World_War_II


  • Oui je suis bien au courant 🙂

    Le Français est comme le Finnois - que je suis toujours en train d’apprendre: il y a le language écrit et le language parlé non-soutenu est complètement différent. C’est comme devoir apprendre deux langues. L’Espagnol pour comparaison est bien plus simple: c’est plus ou moins identique parlé et écrit. Enfin pas vraiment mais pas loin.