In the past I have very much bought the content legally, by the normal means. The issue of giving to the creators directly I don't know though.
OpenStars
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This is what it seems like every instance admin has not wanted to acknowledge: that tolerating the intolerant will destroy us.
Fortunately v0.19.4 has some new features that look like they may help - particularly the ability to label a community with a warning, like : "⚠️ You are about to enter the cesspit of human behavior that actively defends genocide (by mods removing all contrary facts), so long as it is done by the Right people (Russia, or ironically also Left, China)."
It's like the tiniest step that could possibly be done, and it leaves the ability for Lemmy.ml users to place comments in every post across the Fediverse too - unlike a bona fide instance block, although to my knowledge there are no major instances that actually defederates from them.
Yes it's in your settings, the Export/Import JSON file, easier done with a desktop - in case you ever need to give it a try! :-)
My problem is that I tend to keep up multiple accounts at a time, bc random server issues creep up (like Kbin.Social that I had to abandon; and then StarTrek got extremely slow and 75% of the time I try to make a comment it would fail). So probably I should make use of this feature more to keep the blocklists more updated:-).
One thought is to try user blocking Lemmy.ml. Unlike an instance block a user one is not sufficient bc you can still view the comments, and I'm pretty sure that they can still downvote you (occasionally they have been known to coordinate mass downvoting campaigns on Matrix too, people say), so all it really does is block communities from those instances from showing in your All feed, and if someone replies to you then you won't receive a notification to that effect. Otherwise it's back to blocking users one by one...
I wish there was a major, known instance somewhere that defederated from Lemmy.ml. Even Kbin.Social does not though.
It will indeed be interesting to see how Sublinks will improve things.:-)
I thought it meant that only some lives matter, somehow?
/s
Someone is already working on it...
One pixel at a time, apparently.
I will let you decide how and whether this fits in here...
Not necessarily - e.g. if you've been shitty to people in the past (I say "if" but we've literally all done that:-P) then that's a natural process of growth to recognize that, hopefully make reparations and move toward healing, at least on your side but again hopefully on both.
Then again, your "actions" are not always up to you - e.g. if traffic made you late somewhere then that's at least partially out of your control - but you can only accept your own portion of responsibility there (reasonably anyway).
Be careful with "Everything, always" language bc it's always a lie:-|. e.g. I bet you could find a single instance, somewhere, where you did not do that. Perhaps find it and start to move forward from there?
Oh wow, good points!:-)
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It isn't just a language, but it is a language - as it eventually gets around to saying, but it starts off by saying that it isn't, then later corrects itself to say that it is, etc. I feel like the focus of this ignores the historical context of what C was written to be for - at the time there was like Assembly, BASIC, Fortran (?), other long-dead languages like was it A and/or A* or whatever, there was a B language too! (developed by Bell Labs, if Google can be trusted these days), etc. - and C was developed to be better than those. So saying that like it lacks type conversions is very much missing the point - those were not invented yet. A lawn mower also lacks those, but it's okay bc it doesn't need them:-) I am probably nit-picking far too many points, I suppose to illustrate that the style of the article became a hindrance to me to read it b/c of those reasons. But thank you for sharing regardless.
A reminder that this is not about Beehaw - this is about Rin, and their own personal preferences:
Each person may have their own idea as to what is "comfortable", for them. If Beehaw works fine just the way it is, then that's fantastic!
More broadly across the Fediverse though, individual users have to put in a lot of effort to curate their experience. e.g. not going to political communities is insufficient, when people (including myself:-D) bring up political matters or adjacent philosophies to many types of discussions - memes, about freedom to enjoy the Fediverse, technology, etc.