Muyal_Hix

Functionally there’s no difference.

The person I replied argued that you are obligated to donate if you want to keep Lemmy free. Right now the Lemmy developers are asking for donations, and people are saying no.

The developers are openly communist, and if you want to use Lemmy you’ll have to learn to live .ml, it’s not going to change.

Ironic considering the pinned post on .world is the admins asking for donations and pretty much everyone is saying “no”

Oh boy, where do I even begin:

1. Federation. People have no idea what it is, which means that they have to familiarize themselves with all these technical concepts just to create an account.

2. Servers. Most mastodon servers are locked, and you have to petition the admins to let you in, which often implies waiting more than a day. In other sites, you can create an account in 5 seconds, so mastodon is at a disadvantage.

3. Lack of an algorithm. This implies people won’t see the content they like, which means they have to go and actively look for content. Most people don’t want to spend time doing that, they just want to log in, laugh at funny memes ans look at pretty pictures.

Make mastodon more accessible then.

Yes. People don’t realize algorithms are one of the main reasons decentralized sited haven’t taken off. Most people don’t want to spend time looking for their content, they just want to log in, laugh at funny memes and look at pretty art

There are a lot of artists on pixelfed, but lack of an algorithm makes finding them very difficult

He definitely has. A few years ago, San Salvador was known as the murder capital of the world, but nowadays it’s one of the safest places to live.

“Tankies”

The irony with this is that Lemmy was founded by communists and it follows a lot of communist principles.

The real reason is that German unification was done poorly and it benefited West Germany in a very disproportionate manner.

Most people and jobs migrated to west Germany and East Germany was left to rot.

Couple that with the fact that communism/socialism became a big taboo in Europe and capitalism’s faults were completely ignored, even when it was visibly failing.

When you ban and stigmatize the left so much, people will turn to the only side that actually acknowledges something is wrong, and in this case, only the far right has done so.

People expect to pay a carpenter or a plumber for their services, why shouldn’t entertainers and content creators be allowed to get paid for their work?

It is kinda bad. Especially when it comes to finding content or getting noticed

If you want Chichen Itzá to turn into a quiet library it’s not going to happen.

It’s one of the seven wonders of the modern world, you have the same experience if you visit the Vatican or the pissa tower.

There are many other sites in Yucatan that don’t receive as many visitors like ek’ balam and mayapan. Those are usually less crowded.

All of these had to be closed off because jackasses who tried to take away a piece of the monument, or because they didn’t tread well and fell down.

I’ve been there many times.

“My objection is to the authorities who have permitted this kind of presence at a heritage site”

Not allowing them would wreck the local economy. It will not happen.

No matter how much you try, Chichen Itzá will never be tranquil, it is visited by thousands of tourists every day, so it will always be crowded and full of voices.

Vendors are usually local indigenous people, and selling to tourists is their only source of income, it would be silly on their part not to take advantage of the situation.

Stucco is much more fragile and degrades rather quickly.

That’s why it usually hasn’t survived in these monuments and why it usually isn’t restored, it would cost way too much on maintenance.

If something bad came from the Soviet dissolution (besides the extreme decline of living standards in many of those countries) is that it completely killed any left-wing ideals in the west. Unions, welfare and common good were seen as “defeated” ideas, because capitalism had won. People still haven’t recovered from the “capitalism won” mentality, so anything that comes even close to left wing is immediately shut down

They have it more much difficult right now, because Mexico’s president is Jewish, so they are basically calling her a race traitor

The worldnews subreddit is absolutely seething right now

Democrats were more then happy to demonize people who supported Palestine.

In fact, they were happily denying the genocide and telling everyone to shut up about it