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Not really unlikely. He’s been trying to get on the ballot for years. There’s a lot of stuff like this that never makes it on the English speaking Internet. I’m also surprised that he is still alive, but I wish him all the luck in the world

I’m actually genuinely surprised that more people don’t know about uBlock Origin.

Nope, didn’t say anything like that.

They’re not compatible in YOUR opinion. In my opinion they are. Both countries were full of people who wanted independence. Both countries saw USSR as a bigger threat to them then Nazi Germany. As tragic as the Holocaust is, normal grunts like you and weren’t aware of it, so it was completely irrelevant to the decision making. Both countries needed help against their enemy. Both went to get help from the enemies of their enemies.

Nazis were bad. But at the time we didn’t know that. It was just another country. We can take lessons from that about being pickier about our allies, but at that time, to those people, Germany just seemed like someone who could help against the Russians.

If you think that anything in my comment was talking about those 11 million people, then you have very poor reading comprehension.

Can’t argue with the iron curtain of that logic.

The part where none of that shit matters if you’re stuck between two tyrants who both want your land and want to kill you for it. So you want the guy that has been killing you, or the guy that might kill you later?

The Nazi party, just like the Communist party don’t give you many choices besides joining.

Shades of grey. Finland were technically “Nazis” during WW2 because they also were resisting the USSR. An enemy of my enemy, and all that.

At this point I treat every article and ruling that have anything to do with “the children” as being done with an ulterior motive.

So far that’s been the case every single time.

Or, they’ll bake it into Chrome, thus controlling all advertising.

In that case. It’s terrible! I hate it!

I realize that now. Well done!

XKCD is amazing.

Just checked my medicine cabinet and my Acetaminophen bottle is 500mg per tablet. Ad. I’ve definitely taken two before. I might take less now.

What??

I know you can’t block an instance as a user. I understand why you would want to. It would make things easier for us and I think it would be a good feature to add on the user side. Or perhaps an “opt in” to a block list that is kept by your instance.

In my opinion, blocking the individual users and instance communities is good enough for now. If a problematic member of another instance starts causing trouble in a community on your instance, then I believe it’s the job of the moderators to block them if they’re breaking the community rules, and outside of that it’s my own job to block individuals I don’t like.

This is my understanding:

Every instance is like an email server and every account is like an email address. I’m NAME@lemmy.sdf.org and you’re NAME@lemmy.world. I think where people (and I used to) get confused is with how Communities play into this. Both of our instances have a “cats” community. And we both can see and post to each others “cats” communities. Our community could have a rule that also allows dogs, and your community could prohibit dogs. So, when you post you have to follow the rules of the community that you’re on, and those rules could be influenced by the instance admins themselves. So, kind of like how subreddits operate. So, the instance and the community moderators can control the content that is hosted on their own instance. So, you can have an instance that moderates only what’s happening on their own server, and that’s it.

Now, if lemmy.world decides to de-federate from lemmy.sdf.org, then as far as you can see, the other “cats” community doesn’t exist, I don’t exist, I can’t communicate with you, and you can’t with me. And the only reason you would do this is to make the moderating job easier. If you want, you can disconnect from from every other lemmy instance and then you don’t have to worry about outside people coming in and having to also moderate what they say on your forum, but then it changes from being an open forum to just being a “friend group”.

Also, I think the problem of “reddit supermods” is repeating. Lemmy.ml and lemmy.world are the two largest instances and at this point if they choose to de-federate from a smaller instance, it can basically kill that instance. And it can also be used to control the narrative. There are a few people making choices for many.

You can block users and communities yourself. Go sort by “All” and start blocking everything you don’t want to see again. After a short time your feed will be cleared up.

That’s incorrect. Mods need to moderate the content hosted on their OWN instance. Not stop the people on their instance from having access to outside information.

I don’t know if it’s their policy, but it’s against the spirit of the organization. This is where I’m at: lemmy.sdf.org

I actually saw it on this list: https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances You can look at their list and find instances that show 0,0 for BI,BB (blocked instances, blocked by).