This is written as if you’re trying to imply the other party is offering to dismantle ICE.

Surely it’s better than a constitution that promises to be bad, like the USA one? https://youtu.be/2gaZLNvutcE

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male only spaces could be a clutch until men get better at talking with women.

You’re not really making a good case for the inclusion of women in those sessions.

non-judgmental, but by women and men alike.

But it’s understood that the men in these spaces are already non-judgemental, or they wouldn’t work. But your comment makes it very clear who you put the blame on. As long as men right now are able to feel safe among other men and not in mixed groups, men’s groups should be encouraged.

Yes, the support group teaching masking is teaching a toxic culture, but if it’s necessary, it’s also teaching survival. It’s okay for any individual man or group of men to want to keep their head down and not be the driver of societal change.

That first link is dead.

Murdering civilians is what Russia does.

Which side made a post stamp out of blowing up a family car with kids onboard >_>

You’re adding a zero to the total number dead, and also conflating those killed by Iran with those killed by Daesh and Israel. The larger portion is those killed by Israel/USA/Allies since they’re the ones using terrorism tactics.

https://nitter.net/mikepompeo/status/2007180411638620659

It’s so obviously and unashamedly driven by the empire, so why do you give the empire’s news reporting any weight at all?

No worries at all. I absolutely don’t expect most people to pick up on it. (That’s why it’s a good dog-whistle). Even in Iran they’d just think you’re outdated. But it’s a very common thing in the diaspora who long for the monarchy when there was a hierarchy of peoples and theirs was at the top. VOA/RFA operated Iranian-language media has been very good at pushing this narrative of going ‘back to tradition’, to a time when minorities ‘weren’t stealing resources from the majority’, or ‘demanding affirmative action’, etc.

If I can use DeepL to translate Persian, so can you, yanks.

In English, the language is called Iranian. Some people use Farsi, which is Iranian for Iranian.

If you see someone insist on Persian, don’t listen to that person. They are a Nazi every single time.

I don’t think you are a Nazi, but I’m convinced one has your ear and has been successful in pushing away Iranians. I know you’ve heard someone say “Persian, Iranian, it doesn’t matter, they mean the same thing”, and that’s at first a very convincing argument, no reason to keep looking for patterns. But when you look for patterns, it becomes undeniable. It’s like people who insist on saying Burma or Rhodesia or Saigon.

The reason those people prefer the name Persia, is because it implies that the country belongs to one ethnicity and culture. It’s trying to lesser the other peoples of Iran.

“Farsi” is technically Iranian for “Persian”, so when translated it might seem like that’s already happening. But the difference is that people in Iran understand the context and history, and so while they use that name to describe the language, since that’s an accurate description of what the language is and how it came to be the lingua franca, people in Iran wouldn’t use it to mean the country or the broader Iranian identity.

Can you explain how it actually works on a technical level?

Lemmy has limited federation with Bluesky and Threads. Lemmy itself isn’t being given with a non-commercial license so if any Lemmy instance grows large it’ll likely monetise and become a corporation.

if you have any specific suggestions for better images I would be happy to replace them.

Okay. I will give this some thought.

(tags) dont exist in Lemmy itself, and the ones defined on joinlemmy are practically unmaintained.

It’s unmaintained but at least it exists. I’m sure you’d go through the effort of updating them if an instance owner asked, right? So they’re probably still close enough. You do have data to present and it’s better than nothing.

For a normal user it shouldnt be necessary to understand federation before signing up.

But then what decision are they making? Both what decision are they actually making and what decision do they think they’re making? Knowing that they can interact with all* the instances is hugely transformative to your heuristics.

Number of linked/blocked instances

Number linked is good, but blocked has the problem of confusing narrow scope and being vigilant against spam. An instance might federate with everyone* but because it’s more maintained they also block more.

Is there any other information you would like

Cloudflare is useful to know for our privacy-consonous userbase. It might be kinda technical but if there is one or two stats visible the user cares about or at least understands then I don’t think having one they don’t understand matters. They essentially don’t understand “users” and that’s the main thing presented right now.

Extra clicks are not a big deal. You go through the wizard once. Extra cognitive load is the problem, and it’s abstracted as clicks or steps. But anyone who sees a language selector understands what is being asked of them and which language they need to pick.

Ask the user if they want to give Hitler a medal or a bullet. Medal redirects to .world and bullet to grad.👍 (This is a joke).

I think the colour scheme and dark-mode screenshots contributes to it looking daunting. You even have Matrix (the film)-text in the open source banner photo. The website looks like it’s trying to sell the Lemmy software instead of the Lemmy user experience/community. I think just changing those photos to gentler more iconographic or symbolic ones would go a long way towards making it lighter to process. In fact in-fact, those concepts don’t really need pictures to make them easier to communicate, but the features list probably does. There’s a paste-icon and then it says “Clean, mobile-friendly interface.”. I think just having a mobile screenshot would communicate that way better.

As for helping the user find an instance: If you can find a concise way to communicate what federation is, that’ll probably take some of the anxiety away. I don’t really know how. What do people think about maybe showing like a “80% federated” type stat? Tags would also help, because right now you’re basically going by the logo and name, and only when one catches your eye do you read the description. (You might immediately read the description of the first few presented). I think users probably want to compare by seeing structured information so the differences stand out. Since the description is free form it’s not 1-to-1 like tags would be. The current presentations makes user count seem by far the most important. And then once you’ve made that assumption you’ll probably make another assumption that user count determines how much content you can interact with.

On the internet imperialist English has been considered the default language. The join-Lemmy page is English to begin with.

I disagree with this. Anything to encourage other language use is good. And for me it builds confidence to see the selection. Both because I think the community is large enough to exist in other languages and because it signals the developer’s priorities. If there were good options in my preferred languages I would absolutely have joined a non-English instance instead. That’s not going to exist if the UI buries the option.

Trump and Putin sure, but also everyone whose ever had a leadership role in the USA military. Obama is still alive. Bush is still alive. And ideally to a more trustworthy court.

If you have an open browser tab, it can pull info from it.

Please elaborate on what you mean here.

I feel the same way about smartphones but it’s now completely normalised. Glasses are less paranoia-inducing since you can clearly see where it’s pointed and it’s at eye-level. I’d rather discourage smartphone use than smart-glasses use.

“Oh don’t worry, ChatGPT can just type that text in for you when you need it”. /s