communist (PSL ☭) unix nerd who likes to unplug
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savoy@lemmygrad.mlto
Comradeship // Freechat@lemmygrad.ml•What's your favourite song at the moment?English
2·3 years agoAnd I have no shame in saying it’s I Can See You by Taylor Swift!
I adore Void; it’s been my daily driver for about 5-6 years now. Simple, fast, easy to configure, and the Void Handbook does a great job of detailing Void-specific items that you wouldn’t necessarily be able to find in the Arch Wiki, for example.
> the package manager’s command to install stuff is kinda hard to remember but does its job well
xbpsis incredible and very fast, but if you’re having trouble remembering the commands or just don’t want to have to type the chain, I’d recommend looking atvpm. It’s a very apt-like way to manage it e.g.vpm updatevsxbps-install -Suandvpm searchvsxbps-query -Rs
This shit happens all the damn time where I live. By the end of the day it’s a trash pile as high as the container
savoy@lemmygrad.mlto
Linux for Leftists@lemmygrad.ml•OpenKylin becomes China's 1st open-source desktop operating system (OpenKylin 1.0 released)English
2·3 years agoIt’s great to see AES countries beginning to adopt Linux and FOSS, even if it’s approached less from an ideological standpoint of
FOSS == socialismand more from staying away from proprietary Western technology (Microsoft, Apple). If it’s solely the latter, that’s still the correct course of action.> “What’s happening to Russian open-source developers gave a warning sign to Chinese developers,” one user commented on knowledge-sharing website Zhihu.com, referring to many software makers being blocked from the open-source community just because they are Russian or not supporting Ukraine. “Software without borders is just a dream that will never come true, and China needs to build its own open-source community.” > … > “This new version signifies that we have gained the ability to lead the OS’ development by ourselves,” Zhu said. “I hope more users will try our new version and give us feedback.”
This is great to hear!
savoy@lemmygrad.mltoLeftist Infighting: A community dedicated to allowing leftists to vent their frustrations@lemmygrad.ml•Raddlers losing their minds over Lemmy
01·3 years agoRaddle is the distillation of the anarchist into the most concentrated form of brain-wormed online anarkiddie that spews the most toxic, vile, and backwards bullshit seen in any realm of “leftism”.
Thank fuck they’re contained in their echo chamber.
savoy@lemmygrad.mlto
GenZedong@lemmygrad.ml•More hilarity over lemmy.ml, I gotta say libs do add a lot of entertainment value to the siteEnglish
0·3 years agoAnd we’re the ones who want to exist in self-affirming spaces? Liberals can’t see the hypocrisy of decrying the far-right yet acting exactly like them.
Even more reason to use Linux now 😎
savoy@lemmygrad.mlto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Does Anyone Host a Discord Alternative? Like a Matrix/Synapse Server?English
1·3 years agoFor Matrix, I’d recommend
conduitoversynapse, with the expectation that all of synapse’s features haven’t yet been added (most notably support for spaces, which may or may not be a dealbreaker).It’s incredibly easy to set-up and very lightweight. I never self-hosted synapse due to how resource-heavy it is, and constantly had issues with
dendriteracking up resources as well.conduithas honestly been the easiest thing I’ve self-hosted.
savoy@lemmygrad.mlto
Comradeship // Freechat@lemmygrad.ml•Seeing libs seethe about “too many tankies” is really funny.English
0·3 years agoYes, both are run by the devs who are of course communists. These were the two original lemmy instances: lemmy.ml was the “standard” flagship to show what lemmy was capable of, while lemmygrad was the communist space
savoy@lemmygrad.mlto
Comradeship // Freechat@lemmygrad.ml•Seeing libs seethe about “too many tankies” is really funny.
0·3 years agoUnfortunately the more invested and “hardcore” Redditors still tend to be libertarians, although a lot of run-of-the-mill liberals are now included in that group.
So what happens when you get tons of them leaving a platform en masse? They’ll bring their reactionary toxicity with them, claiming “no hatred” or “bigotry-free”, while enabling pro-rulling class rhetoric and blanket-banning/defederating with communists. At least this split on Mastodon isn’t as heavy as it was already filled with a lot of “leftists”, and as there aren’t really any explicitly ML instances available, a lot of communists are intermingled in left-leaning spaces.
Here though? They can push all their ire onto lemmygrad.ml, alienating a pretty big chunk users if they defederate, even worse if they eventually do so with lemmy.ml given the admin crossover.
People who complain about “censorship” and “authoritarianism” while espouting the benefits of “freedom of speech” are exactly the type of people you don’t want around.
If there’s been discussion on lemmy.ml about this topic, I haven’t gotten around to seeing it. But from what I’ve noticed from witnessing this type of discussion all over the web is that these calls always come from either the most reactionary users or enablers i.e. those that would rather sit on the sidelines and either let it happen or put up a weak front because they have a right to “free speech.”
Unfortunately, this libertation-esque ethos runs deep in so many online spaces, where they’d rather have vague notions of freedom that obviously benefit them at the expense of others. Spaces like lemmy are not for them, and while there’s nothing lemmy can do about it, going against the grain and purging that type of vitriol is the best way to keep it from turning into the shitholes ranging from Reddit’s “enlightened centrism” to outright fascist spaces like *chans or gab.

























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