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I need to give it a spin! I had my Zeppelin period back before Spotify, and as a teenager with limited means (in a forest with no internet) I only managed to get my hands on I-IV, Houses of the Holy, and Physical Graffiti. Which was already a good haul. But it’s weird to me that there are still parts of their discography that I simply haven’t listened to, despite how important to me they were back in those days.

Then again, I guess having to play the living hell out of II was why I came to love it so much, rather than having my attention fragmented between all the music in the world as it is nowadays.

Anyway, thanks for the suggestion! I’ll see if I can find the record somewhere.

He was a democratically elected leader from the left in Latin America. Not being murdered in his sleep could be considered special concessions.

That sounds like it would get very expensive very fast.

Ah, yikes - that’s what I thought. Never imagined a French software company could lower themselves to M/D/Y haha.

Misskey is an unprecedented forking party. Sharkey is one of the many forks. Maintained by the Blåhaj folks, if I’m not mistaken.

Iceshrimp is another one to watch. Specifically Iceshrimp-NET, a full rewrite to fix the performance issues that probably play some role in why these forks often meet such sad ends.

I thought it was released more recently, but you’re right, the first version was published in September. Still, it seems like a huge bump in users for the release of an app that currently has just north of 1k downloads on Android - and it’s strange that the growth is so contained within one month. I think there’s probably something going one here related to how users are counted.

The Fedidb graph of active Peertube users shows a huge bump from September to October - an increase of more than 10 000, coming from just over 20 000 in September.

Does anyone have any idea what happened there? Did Peertube change how active users were counted?

Sadly, the nature of some of the biggest Peertube instances makes the whole thing a bit less joyful. The fourth largest instance is obviously dedicated to gore, based on its name. I’m care about my eyes too much to check out the others on the list, beyond libre.video which is fine.

According to ths post it will be opt-in, on the instance side.

So smaller instances where there-might be risks associated will be opted out by default, while large instances that might want the attention and where individual users stand out less can opt in.

Ah. That’s a fun idea.

I think it’s too much effort though - you can get upvotes easier than that. But I’m sure content is already stolen from here for some uses, and it’ll only get more common as time goes by. It’s in the nature of posting things online, I guess.

People have their preferences, and that’s fine. I certainly think we would benefit from different instances making use of different user interfaces by default, appealing in return to different kinds of people.

I’ve heard some people are not into Piefed because it’s too bare bones or something. For me, that’s exactly why I love it. Besides, they have even added (optional) support for decorative drop shadows - it’s futuristic as fuck, as far as I’m concerned.

Not well - at least in Lynx, content doesn’t load at all. You basically get the sidebar.

Piefed looks great though. Obviously not the feel of a native terminal app, but seemingly fully functional and everything makes sense.

Fun fact: if you’re an artist on Spotify receiving less than 1000 streams in a year, they won’t even bother paying you. You also need a minimum number of unique listeners. That number is secret.

Spotify is good for those already rich, and bad for those who isn’t.

They also have Joe Rogan and Gwyneth Paltrow on their payroll, and they actively lobby for more relaxed AI legislatiolegislation in the EU.

If you have a subscription, the best thing you van do is to cancel it, get your music from the high seas, and instead donate $12 per month or however much it costs directly to artists you enjoy by buying their music or merch online.

AntennaPod is good for podcasts.

Yeah, generally people need quite a bit of nudging before they get off their asses.

So now seems like a good time to start - no reason to wait for things to get even worse. This is why I stress the community building - it only really requires people to fight back, but it does require people to fight back.

She’ll be happy to hear that it has worked on numerous occasions throughout history! After the fall of Fascism in Europe, people in many countries got together and created strong welfare states in the post war period. Some were more successful than others, but even in the ultraconservative UK they managed to create a national health service that hs proven difficult to kill off.

Sadly, I’ll have to break to her that the fight never ends. The second you stop fighting for progress, some asshole will pop up and try to instill feudalism again. After a generation or two people tend to forget the ongoing nature of this threat, and it seems we haven’t managed to come up with ways to permanently get rid of it, despite our best efforts following the French and American revolutions.

Maybe the time has come to go back to the drawing board, and rethink some of the decisions that were made back then. Jefferson said every generation should have its own constitution. Maybe he was right.

If your friend is willing to make the effort to combat this, she should get organized. She should find like-minded people, act locally to gain political power, and create a stronghold where the illegitimate government will face resistance. She should base this around ideological lines, rather than willingly subscribing to what experienced members in established political elites in her country are trying to make her say or do. She should write down whether values are and make sure to keep them close at all times, knowing that she just might be successful and that power corrupts.

She should not give up hope, but she should give up the belief that others will change anything for her. She needs recognize that her country is already broken, and she needs to act to be the change.

She needs to recognize that she’s not powerless. She can make a difference.

Likewise, she needs to recognize that it’s a long and painful process. It needs to start locally, and it might always stay local. But that is fine.

She needs to realize strength is in the community. Building the community of like minded people working for local action is crucial. She’ll be disappointed in them at times, but she’ll just have to keep going. There’s power in community.

At least that’s what I think I’d advice her. But I don’t know your friend or her situation, obviously.

American capitalists are really, really good at cracking down on any civil attempt at unionising and/or improving society at the cost of the ultra rich.

You could recite the extensive history of violence, but honestly the greatest achievement is in the propaganda. Solidarity seems to be commonly understood - by all classes - as having to take the bill for somebody even poorer than yourself, and nobody seems to be comfortable with the idea that they might themselves one day benefit.

Americans can’t have good things before they start fighting back. Read up on union history. Organize. Educate. Teach people what solidarity is and what the Battle of Blair Mountain was. Learn what was taken away from you, and help others understand as well. Begin locally.

Either that, or keep watching the fascists take over day by day, as they have been doing for decades.

My impression is that karma matters less here. But I never used reddit much and I have never used Lemmy either, so I’m a bit of an anti-expert.

I think the bots are set up by people who simply wanted to see the content. I don’t think anyone is trying to farm anything here.

Ideally they should all be tagged as bots, which would make them less problematic.

If you’re this principled you should be boycotting Amazon anyway. If you’re not, give the driver $5 if it costs you nothing.

Oh wow. They’re taking their sweet time.

Pretty useless then. Oh well, I’m European, and I am not aware of anyone in my network using Threads. So I can’t say I care all that much.

Fediverse users are sceptical, so for now threads uses can only find users who willingly intact with people on threads. They’re taking a carefcareful approach.

I assume if threads users follow fediverse users the content makes its way to their feed as normal.