I've seen some blogs using threadiverse posts as their basis, and honestly I don't se many downsides. The content can be spread around the fediverse if people find it interesting, markdown allows for all kinds of text, it's long form by nature, and the comment section is integrated into the whole thing.
Pixelfed is for pictures, not blogs. Write.as would be a more natural (but probably less social) alternative.
I never had problems with Comaps or Organic Maps, and in my experience they are particularly good outside of cities.
I don't use voice guide though, but my advice would be to give comaps a shot and see if they fixed whatever bug you were having.
I really don't like the user experience of OsmAnd to the point where I find it unusable. I use Comaps all the time and love it. Each to their own I guess.
If a bolt is loose you might lose it.
Obviously Whitney Houston's version is amazing and her voice is incredible, but for me Dolly's version feels more real and somehow hits me harder. And obviously she sounds incredible as well. I probably heard Dolly's version first so that might play into it.
https://bird.makeup/ should allow you to follow twitter accounts from the fediverse. Obviously interactions don't make it back to twitter, but could be useful nevertheless. See for example @franceskalbs@bird.makeup. Unfortunately twitter is full of trolls, so many instances block bird.makeup to avid spam from seeping through.
It's not an alternative to xcancel as it doesn't allow you to read feeds you don't follow, but it's good if you want to keep up to date with what users post.
I don't read him as worrying primarily about the immorality. As far as I remember his problem is more that atheism is amoral, if anything. The main concern is the lack of meaning. Humans crave rituals and spirituality. Now that we killed God we have nothing to turn to; how do we bury our dead now that God himself has died.
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?
It's hardly one-sided when you consider what Nietzsche had to say about religion. Take Christianity:
Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life.
Or more generally:
As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.
His father was a pastor whereas he had a profound distaste for the church. Presenting him as a defender of religion is not accurate at all. I guess it's easy to misrepresent him because there are a lot of nuances going on, and his writings also don't always align perfectly.
For anyone unfamiliar, his sister was a Nazi, and after he died she managed his legacy in the worst possible way.
Nietzche had an interesting relationship to Jews and Judaism, informed over time by his own personal relationships in ways that probably didn't influence his philosophy for the better. Parts of his work is about what he considers to be strong cultures, at which point he praised Judaism for being a particularly strong culture. Later in life he was less positive.
This of course comes on top of his thinking about religion, which is less one-sided than often portrayed: God is dead, we killed him, but importantly that was in all likelihood a huge mistake.
So the Nazi connotations are partly a result of his sister's management of his legacy and unfinished/unpublished works after his death, part how Nazis ended up using his works long after his death.
He ended his life living with his sister in a rather fragile state, with his great writings behind him. Judging him by his death bed would be doing him and his work a great injustice. But even then there's no evidence to indicate he was some sort of proto-Nazi.
Also as illustrated again and again, from ICE hunting down good people to cops stalking women because they are pigs, surveillance is not safety. It's rather the opposite. I want privacy so that I can remain safe.
I don't think anyone who ever lived in a totalitarian regime would describe it post fact as having made them safer.
Sex and porn are very different things. A lot of young men enter into sex imitating porn, and the results tend to be terrible.
In reality good sex is more about communication and trust than about being able to pull of crazy stunts. And once you have a good connection with someone exploring stuff is part of the fun, not something you'd like to outsource to a professional.
Of course sexologists can play an important role and people can take inspiration from wherrver, but it is really about something completely different. Porn does a lot of harm in general.
Though leather belts stretch over time, the only belt I ever had that actually broke did so after more than a decade of heavy use when the metal buckle eventually gave in.
I have a textile hiking belt (Fjellräven) that I am not particularly happy with. It doesn't really stay firm over time when walking for hours and hours, and adjusting it underneath the backpack is a pain. An elastic belt with a normal buckle would probably have been better.
Of 42 ships in the Global Sumud Flotilla, one made it into the waters outside Gaza. It remains unknown whether they made it to Gaza or if they have been arrested by the Israeli navy just when they were about to enter.
~~While not officially confirmed, the following footage allegedly shows their arrival in Gaza:~~
~~syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17/115304225699538245~~
edit: It seems this post has been taken down, it was probably a video from another occasion.
Other sources claim that the Mikeno too has been captured by Israel: https://mastodon.social/@Al_Quds_News14/115303483176696689
According to Israel via Al Jazeera, they have seized "all but one" of the vessels carrying aid:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/9/2/live-geta-thunberg-once-more-on-board-sumud-flotilla-sailing-for-gaza
This could refer to the Marinette, which is still just north of Cairo, or to the Mikeno, whose status is not confirmed:
https://globalsumudflotilla.org/tracker/
In either case these people are heroes. The person on the right side (their left) top row is the Fediverse's own @Vegard@fribygda.no, who is also the source of this image: https://fribygda.no/@Vegard/115299846437410236
Bonus picture: https://fribygda.no/@Vegard/115299851567351974
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Update:
It is with heavy hearts and sadness that we announce the Global Sumud Flotilla vessel "Mikeno" was seized by the Israeli Navy.
The captain, a hero, defied direct Israeli orders to shut his engine down and seize progression. He then went completely dark, shutting off all electronics and maneuvering past their blockade. The "Mikeno" made it within 7NM of the coast of Gaza. The ship was then intercepted, seized, and boarded by naval commandos deployed from multiple Israeli warships with drones flying overhead.
Source:
https://t.me/gsfnews/217
Whenever I go through a slideshow of pictures in a community in tile view, such as !photography@piefed.social, the behaviour is a bit janky for me.
On Firefox in android, swiping right moves one picture at the time, but sliding left (and forwards in the slideshow) sends me through a bunch of pictures making it difficult to navigate.
On Firefox in desktop (Linux) and moving to the right using arrow keys, the picture display slowly drifts to the left: After going through 20 pictures, half the image on display is outside of my screen. With every new picture it moves further to the left.
In both cases the X button moves along.
Precisely how much of this would you want to eat?
I have seen sources claim it's a form of meat.