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Because D.C. wants it that way.

I really like the ability to downvote. It enables me to say “this was badly argumented and a waste of my time” without spending too much effort for that. I’d write it anyway, but probably using impolite words that would be worse for the Fediverse than my downvotes are.

I dont remember where I’ve seen the stats, but I make about 10 upvotes per one downvote. I strongly believe at least my downvoting behaviour does more good than bad for the Forumverse.

When I was looking for a good instance for myself, Blåhaj seemed like an excellent fit, but when I noticed the downvote button was missing, I changed my mind. I would be annoyed if that feature disappeared altogether.

At least on PieFed’s Matrix chat there has been very constructive conversations about whether and how to allow downvoting. To my eyes, the solutions they came up with seem very good.

Not that I’d remember off the back of my hand what the hell they decided in the end. Maybe someone will tell? :) @rimu@piefed.social @wjs018@piefed.social

I find that a good thing. It’s a bright red flag that tells me to direct my attention to other people who are able to behave themselves.

It’s good that exceptional-level bigots have a way to visibly out themselves as bigots!

The closest thing is Friendica, and it’s very buggy and the UI would need to be completely remade. Also, its groups are not the same thing as Facebook’s groups.

It has a lot of potential, but fails to really fulfill it.

I’ve come to the conclusion that the closest thing to a Facebook replacement out there is… PieFed. Which you are using right now. You do need to combine it with Mastodon to get all you were doing on Facebook, but PieFed and Mastodon together do actually fulfill what at least I had as my purpose to use Fecesbook.

There is a plan to “some day” add good support for Mastodon style messaging here as well. But that might easily take a year or two.

“Oh, that’s a big one!”

If that was here in Finland, I would of course be scared because you need a lot of explosives to produce a mushroom cloud, and that would probably mean that:

1. our military has been storing a sizable part of its munitions in one place AND
2. one our eastern neighbours has apparently developed a will to rid our army of its munitions.

…which would mean that some country would be planning to attack us soon.

So, I would probably start preparing for a war. Maybe go buy a lot of food, at least?

In some country further from the Russia I would probably assume it’s something non-military. Maybe some form of a very large fertilizer storage? It would be kind of less scary, but of course that would mean a decreased farming output for the next season, and that would be shitty.

Yes on Piefed those are called communities.

Let’s explain it this way: Microsoft has programmed a web service that is able to receive, view and send emails.

And Google has done the same, from scratch.

Email itself is merely a way different server softwares communicate with each other.

The same goes here. Some people developed a server software for receiving, viewing and sending ActivityPub content and called it Lemmy. Then other people figured it would be a nice project and did the same, from ground up, and called it PieFed.

They are the same thing. They also don’t have more content or less content. They have the precisely same content. I am writing this on PieFexd, you are reading my comment in Lemmy. And then there is also Mbin.

It doesn’t really work very well as that. It’s buggy and it’s difficult to really understand. PieFed/Lemmy/Mbin works much better for the purpose intended by OP.

This does mean you’ll need to have separate accounts for Mastodon and Forumverse, though. At least for now. I tried using MBin to combine the two, but in practical terms the user experience was lacking, because Mbin is not quick enough in implementing new features that Mastodon gets. Or ones that PieFed and Lemmy get. Especially the images inside Forumverse posts showing as mere links bugged me like hell! And quote toots on Mastodon not working either.

@116280023545064493@hear-me.social , you accidentally wrote your comment in a place just like that. See here: https://nord.pub/c/fediverse/p/127183/fediverse-is-there-any-platform-in-fediverse-where-individuals-can-join-groups-just-like-fac

This thing called PieFed or Lemmy is not the same as Mastodon. @fediverse@lemmy.world is not a username, it’s actually what you would call a group. You sent that toot of yours into a group called “Fediverse” on a server called “lemmy.world”. On PieFed/Lemmy/Mbin groups are called communities, though. But indeed, do click the link above and browse the site that opens.

I linked through my instance, nord.pub, which is mainly meant for people from Nordic countries. If you prefer something else, try piefed.social, piefed.zip, or somesuch :) But of course you can also create an account on nord.pub regardless of where you are from. At least if you know English or some Nordic language. And English you do know!

But indeed: Do browse this thing. Join some communities (that is: groups) that you like. I enjoy PieFed a lot, and for me it has healed that tickle that you’re complaining about :)

Hab in nem jewissn deutschen Bundeshohptstadt ehnige Jährchen jewohnt, janz im Osten dessen.

“Essieben na Hohptnohf, zobite!” Det kan man wohl nua liebn!

Oßadem: wenn ick dieset Dings “spreche” werde ick öfters jfracht ob ick ohs Öhsterrroisch komme oder der Schweiz, da wa mit finnischm Akzent bahliniat, wird anscheinend zum Ledahosnträjer. Dat ick meene letzen 6 Monate dort damals für ne Firma ohs Linz jearbeitet hab, hat ooch sehnen Effekt jehabt.

No kurienes tev zināt, ka neesmu vinkarši izmantojis tulkojuma aparātes? :)

Eble vi devus usi telefonon en paroli kun mi. Mi ne scias.

Pero, quien quiere, puede me llamar por exemple con Matrix. У початку просто думав, що й так ніхто мене вірятіме, якщо віряті не хоче. Und wer meenen Wörtern glohben will, tut es ja eh. So is halt det Leben.

Aber jut, nu är nånting skrivits :)

One of the languages I am not sufficiently fluent in, yet, is that of Australia and USA. What does “Diction needed” mean in this context?

Haha, there are 7000 languages on our planet. Would be a looong list :)

Finnish, German, English, Ukrainian, Estonian, Swedish, Latvian, Dutch, Lithuanian, Russian, Polish, Spanish, French. A little Italian and Portuguese as well. I did manage to explain some simple things in Czech some days ago, and I can read south-Slavic languages surprisingly well. And often decipher the main point of a text in Romanian.

Almost no Hungarian or Mandarin, though very simple questions are possible anyway. And then of course I can read Norwegian and Danish reasonably well, because if you know Swedish, English, German and Dutch, you already know Danish. And for a similar reason, Slovak goes.

I can speak less than five words of Albanian, Basque, Greek, Welsh, Breton, any Gaelic language or any Sámi language. Those are something should probably learn a bit, at least.

Beside other things mentioned, by adding the hat on the Israeli guy, it’s also trying to make it look like Jewish people in general are siding with Israel’s atrocious behaviour. Many are, but those who have relatives who were in German concentration camps are of course strongly opposed to genocides, including the one committed by Israel.

The meme is trying to create anti-jewish sentiments, and that’s not okay.

I upvote when the argument is good or I want to give a little more visibility for the argument expressed in the comment. And if it’s a joke, to show that I enjoyed the joke.

I downvote if an argument is in bad faith or not thought of thoroughly at all.

He is, just not with the profile he meant to use for that.

Dum-dee-dum. I requested notifications for some semi-quiet communities, but now I haven’t actually had time to read them, so they are kind of piling up:

What’s the connection?

Here’s something, at least: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhp-FTYSGe8