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  • Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace

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  • I didn't say it was. An important aspect of promoting the adoption of any product or service is having a brand name that is easily pronounceable to facilitate word-of-mouth promotion. It's something that's all the more important for a Fediverse service, given the lack of means to promote Flohmarkt with paid advertising campaigns.

    While Flohmarkt works as a brand name in German, it's not immediately clear how to pronounce it in English, versus the easily pronounced Lemmy, Mastodon, Misskey, Pixelfed, Loops, and Friendica. For that reason, 'Flohmarkt' should be kept as the platform's name in German-speaking countries, but be localized as 'Flowmarkt' or 'Flowmarket' in English-speaking ones.

  • Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace

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  • I think an English localization as 'Flowmarkt' or 'Flowmarket' might be more catchy in English-speaking countries, since the intended pronunciation for 'Flohmarkt' isn't clear at a first glance.

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    Wikipedia rewrites the history of the Myanmar coup

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  • "Use your memory" doesn't make for a great reference in trying to dispute a statement made in a well-referenced encyclopedia article.

    The article itself has an abundant number of reliable references. Reviewing details throughout the article such as the Junta taking an anti-Ukraine stance merely to stay on Putin's good side in terms of weapon shipments, selling out to China as yet another source of weapons, India engaging in the same sort of war profiteering that they've done with Russian oil by providing them with yet more weapons, and the Junta proceeding to use all of those weapons on its own people, at times intentionally targeting civilians, any sympathy towards the Junta seems difficult to comprehend.

    As an analogy, many far-right extremists have framed the January 6, 2021 storming of the US Capitol Building as a valid protest of a "rigged" election, but their unsubstantiated claims neither change the fact that the 2020 US presidential election hadn't been rigged, nor that the violent MAGA protestors deserved the prison time that they were subsequently sentenced to.

    In a political landscape as heated as Myanmar, there were bound to be protests regardless of who won the election, but protests alone don't invalidate election results. So, unless you have reliable sources to base your claims off of, "memory" isn't a valid reference on Wikipedia.

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    Wikipedia rewrites the history of the Myanmar coup

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    Failures And Successes Of The Paris Agreement

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  • Why do you think the U.S. decided to withdraw

    Trump was elected.

    what role did concerns about economic burdens play in that decision?

    Those were the only concerns taken into account.

    Do you agree with the argument that the agreement was unfair to the U.S.

    No.

    do you think it was a necessary commitment to addressing climate change?

    Yes.

    How do you think the withdrawal impacted global efforts and international relations

    It'll discourage other countries from living up to the targets of the agreement, whether they continue participating on paper or not.

    It makes China's environmental efforts look good in comparison, so the logical thing to do (if lobbyist bribes weren't holding us back) would have been for the US to outcompete China in that field too, since being a market leader in renewable energy is getting more and more valuable with each passing year.

    did it weaken the collective fight against climate change or influence other nations’ decisions

    Undoubtedly.

    Should economic concerns ever take precedence over environmental responsibilities in agreements like this?

    For long term economic success, those environmental responsibilities must be fulfilled to account for the negative externalities of any industry that pollutes the environment. Ignoring them offsets those costs onto others, artificially increasing short-term profits.

  • Lots of people asking questions about the fediverse over at /r/fediverse

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  • Then they're likely just auto-assigning you to a server, likely based on geographic proximity.

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    Is there a "normie" or more mainstream instance for Lemmy?

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  • Although I'd agree that lemmygrad, lemmy.ml, and hexbear are far-left, with only one specifically right-wing instance that I can think of, I don't think that most of the remaining Lemmy users on lemmy.world, lemmy.dbzer0.com, lemm.ee, beehaw.org, or any of the other big Lemmy instances are particularly extreme in their views.

    On average, Lemmy users do seem to be more left-wing than right-wing, probably due to right-wing Redditors being less likely to mind Reddit's monetization of its userbase, and more likely to mind Lemmy's far-left instances.

    While I don't think Lemmy should encourage far-right users to join, given that racism and bigotry degrade any platform that allows such speech, I do think that those on the right who are not extreme and are capable of having thoughts independent of the MAGA cult should be welcomed on any instance, given that echo chambers only serve to propagate existing views, rather than foster discussion.

    The key part in joining any instance are the instances that either block it or are blocked by it, so perhaps one that blocks lemmygrad, lemmy.ml, and hexbear by default, while minimizing the number of instances that in turn block it, would be optimal to have access to as many communities as possible.

    Here's a list of Lemmy instances by number of instances blocked and blocking, for reference. Seems to not be quite up-to-date, and can't find the instance I'm on on the list, but it should still be somewhat helpful for comparing. Personally, I prefer being on an instance with as few blocks as possible (implementing those blocks instead on a user level as a means of curating my all feed), since the Lemmy community is already small enough as it is, but new users might not want to have to configure those blocks themselves.

  • Democrats in denial over Trump defeat, voters say: ‘Haven’t learned the lessons’

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  • After that same guy didn't tear down the system the first time, rather giving into lobbyist interests far more than any other 'career politician' in modern American history, such as in beating the record for inaugural bribe collection he himself set eight years ago, you'd think more people would at least recognize that Trump's promises are either smoke in the wind or just a means for private interests to enrichen themselves at the expense of the American people.

  • Democrats in denial over Trump defeat, voters say: ‘Haven’t learned the lessons’

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  • Counting deaths alone in Gaza and the West Bank ignores all the Palestinian refugees that have been forced to leave Palestine altogether; in either case, Israel wants to settle the rest of Palestine to cement their claim to it and control over it.

  • Google encourages "protecting your business against costly state regulations"

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  • It'd be great if California's consumer privacy protections could be applied at the federal level, but as long as the Republicans retain the presidency, either house of congress, or the Supreme Court, it would either never get passed or simply get struck down and returned to the state regulatory level.

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    Let's try it again: This post from #Mastodon can reach the whole #Fediverse, #Bluesky & more. That's #Sharkey, #Pixefeld (hence the pic), #Mbin, #Lemmy, #Friendica, #Hometown, #Akkoma... How far can

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  • Checking in from Lemmy 👋

  • ‘There are a lot of bitter people here, I’m one of them’: rust belt voters on why they backed Trump again despite his broken promises

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  • A functional voting system that allowed for the success of third parties in the United States would be great. Unfortunately, without ranked choice voting, voting for a third party candidate just means splitting the vote for one's next-preferred candidate. The most recent example of this would be George H. W. Bush's re-election loss in 1992, due in part to Ross Perot's popularity as a third-party candidate.

    As things stand, the pragmatic choice is therefore to vote for the lesser of two evils. While I'd vote for a third-party candidate in a heartbeat if they had a realistic chance of winning, when the choice is a isolationist, corrupt, bigoted felon or anyone else, the easy choice is anyone else.

  • ‘There are a lot of bitter people here, I’m one of them’: rust belt voters on why they backed Trump again despite his broken promises

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  • They complain about jobs being industrial decline due to the outsourcing of manufacturing jobs, but then blame inflation on efforts to increase the minimum wage to a living wage, rather than corporate profit-gouging.

    While many of them might not mind living in a country with a class of underpaid manufacturing workers—presumedly the undocumented immigrants they simultaneously want to deport—the better option is to invest in economic development that bolsters the country's modern service economy, or specialized manufacturing facilities that can compete without needing ineffective tariffs.

    And when Trump implements those tariffs, rather than recognizing their role in inevitable price increases, those same people will instead blame underpaid workers, inevitable counter-tariffs, or anyone else but Trump.

    They also won't recognize that any economic growth in the next four years won't benefit them in the slightest, but rather go straight into the pockets of those responsible for outsourcing jobs in the first place. All the while supporting them, with anyone else just needing to 'pull themselves up' with imaginary bootstraps.

  • New USB logos will simplify branding on hubs and cables

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  • Featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry Series and New Funky Mode

  • These 9 states are cutting income taxes on Jan. 1. Here's where taxpayers will get a break.

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  • As a condition of receiving federal funds, states with budget deficits shouldn't be allowed to cut income taxes; it's essentially passing off those costs to taxpayers in other states.

  • How about during the signup process(step) the user gets instance allocated randomly?

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  • Not if the admins of an instance want to maintain their echo chamber by shepherding discussions towards extremist viewpoints.

  • Firefox CTO Responds On Collecting User Advertisement Data

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  • Legislation like that might happen in places like the EU, but in the US at least, unless lobbying rules are amended, consumers stand next to no chance against the commercial interests of advertisers.

  • Firefox CTO Responds On Collecting User Advertisement Data

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  • If you're the one paying for internet access, you should also have the right to determine the content that you're paying to have access to. While something like pi hole could be used to metaphorically take down most of the billboards without impacting the ground below it, even everyday users should be informed about the data advertisers are getting from them, whether it is anonymized or not. Hiding an important setting about data sharing near the bottom of a page in settings doesn't help anyone but the advertisers.

  • Ocasio-Cortez Loses the Democratic Socialists’ Endorsement Over Israel

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  • The communist leader in Germany before Hitler took over said that failure of the nazi government would help convince people to vote for communism in the next election; he was subsequently killed in a concentration camp.