This news article has a video showcasing very well what kind of tear gas the police uses in Finland. The gas is used on the video from 1:10 until 1:40.

So, of if you deploy a lot of external plugins, Facebook can be made kind of worthwhile? That’s aa little funny :)

Yeah, for what I know I my family used to post a lot there as well. Facebook just mostly stopped showing any content from them some years ago. But when nothing really comes out of it, they don’t bother. They post something, I see some commercial content instead.

I post something, they see some commercial content instead.

I’m a bit surprised to hear Facebook works for some people like it worked a decade ago!

But also, Finnish culture is very different from US culture in how we talk and when, so maybe the algorithm just doesn’t recognize the Finnish kind of engagement and considers us utterly uninterested in each other? Or maybe I’ve just been lucky and FB had been hiccuping? Dunno, there’s no meaningful difference between PieFed and the little of what FB fed me that was not crud.

Facebook hasn’t worked that way for me for years. I’m surprised to hear it still does to some! Almost everything in my feed was all kinds of random groups I’m not even a member of. And a lot of content promoting Russian military vehicles in a very ridiculous manner.

I like this text very much!

People should concentrate more on what’s important in life :)

Do you have them on Facebook, then?
I kind of do, but Facebook hasn’t shown me anything from them in years. Makes their being there largely irrelevant.

Just keep sending them cool memes from here or from Mastodon. Some will find them interesting and join up. Most won’t. Also, you’ll need some interesting group they will want to be a member of on Signal or Matrix or XMPP. That way, they also have a chat platform available for their friends as well.

And if you link to something in the Forumverse, link them through an instance you’d like them to use. So, even if the community is on some Lemmy instance, link to it through something such as piefed.social, if that’s what you think would benefit them the most as a choice for a home instance!
It’s a pity this does not work on Mastodon, though, because Mastodon always tries to push users to the instance where the message was written from, if the user is not logged in. Complicates things unnecessarily when the domain is different in every damn link! But with a widely federated Forumverse instance this problem doesn’t exist, because you can link to everything through that. And the people opening the link don’t need to understand anything about Federation. They just see this thing called piefed.social, and that there’s plenty of content you keep throwing at them. Without telling them to join.

Not just any random escalation, though.

The narcissist has a plan they are following their game. If that escalation is part of their plan, that’s is absolutely not how you deal with them. Escalate, by all means. But only in a way that benefits your situation.

EPA could absolutely just ignore the law when making regulations. It wouldn’t even need any congressional authority. It just makes the law and when someone sues them, the judge says “nah, it’s okay with me” and that’s it.

You’re here. For me this has been a good replacement for whatever I was earlier using Facebook for.

What is there on Facebook that PieFed or Lemmy don’t cover?

You need to follow some PieFed or Lemmy communities and you’ll see their content. But not in a way that works very well. I really like the idea behind Friendica a lot, but it’s also clear that its developers have lost the track of their own code and do not completely understand what the program really does anymore. The idea is that there’s something like PieFed that understands also several other protocols than just ActivityPub, so you can use one thing to follow almost all of your social media. Which is an awesome idea! But, it doesn’t really work in practical terms.

It looks like there is no well-thought architecture behind its programming code, and instead they just add features atop other features without thinking about consistency or clarity of the programming code.

Typically when the UI is as convoluted to use that of Friendica is, there are also a lot of security problems in the program. I assume that it is possible to breach any Friendica account using some bug that has made its way into the code.

At least Wiktionary completely agrees with you!

That’s the same as saying there’s NO ONE on PieFed.

FenderStratocaster, you are on Friendica yourself. Your comment saying there’s no one on Friendica is visible on Friendica – therefore, you are there just like you are Lemmy, PieFed and mBin.

(But yeah, my use of Friendica mostly ended after two days, because it’s clunky as hell! I had a feeling that whatever little thing I want to do, I need to first fight the UI like a mouse trying to kill a dragon.)

If the driver turns evil, put a towel on your eyes. An evil catsplatter beast from Ford will assume that if you cannot see them, they cannot see the road. And then, something. But don’t panic :)

Literally it’s more like “non-speakers”, though, isn’t it? Nie + mowić = Not + to speak.

So, maybe in contemporary Polish the word has been polished to mean “mute”, but could be that they were “those damn non-speakers [of our Polish] across that river-thing!”

If you have enough space, or can create enough space, for a new partition in a better format, you can always move some files to the other partition, then shrink the NTFS partition to make space for extending the new partition, copy some files once again, and continue until done.

Or, you borrow a large hard drive from someone, copy all files on it, nuke the NTFS partition, create a new partition in another format, then copy the files from the borrowed hard drive back on the new partition.

Or a combination of these two.

That’s why you pay attention when choosing what instance to be on.

Not in US politics. If you have 51% of votes of whoever is The Party at the moment, you can make decisions without others impeding on them.

If one party got 51 % of votes, then that means 26,01 % of all votes is enough to decide about the all of the country’s things alone.

At least I don’t want to spend much of my brain power deciding what individuals to block. I prefer there’s a moderator who thinks roughly the same way about things things as I do. It’s better not to be overzealous with the moderation: I am okay with a little bit of manual curating of my feed, but the things most obviously unacceptable to me should be banned by the instance.

Also: If a lot of people see the messages of ICE, I am not really likely to ban them either, because I want to know what is going on in the world around me. But if I know they are being banned by a lot of people because whole largish instances are banning them, they no longer are goin on in my part of the world. At that point it becomes more of a choice to want to hear them.

If it’s connected to the rest of BlueSky, all of its data to any other servers goes through that of BlueSky’s. Even if user on private server A communicates with a used on private server B, the message is routed so that BlueSky’s main moderation team can always affect it – they can block it or they could technically even add to it if they wanted to.

No other servers on BlueSky have that right. Except servers that are completely detached from all servers connected to that of BlueSky. And their separate network has their own central server, then.