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[reference to the person who took a sword to counter-attack a BLM event and got beaten until their limbs almost resembled a swastika : CW blood]

Watermarking is great when there is a strong enough community to make original content. I'm sure there are communities like that, but I'm not in many of the hobby communities here.

Not sure if you've already checked, but here's how your post looks to us on Lemmy:

https://lemmy.world/post/40939309

That's true.

On one hand, there are often ways to change the settings to make things more like how they were on Windows,

On the other hand, sometimes there's a good reason for it to be different, so I always try to check why it's different before changing it. An example is some window managers putting the taskbar panel at the top of the screen or on the side instead of the bottom (top panel is more convenient with a mouse, side panel takes up less space on a wide/landscape screen).

I don't think it's helpful to pretend there's a contradiction in the definition. I'm already sick of explaining to libs that a state governed by a vanguard party isn't claiming to have established a socialist MoP the day after the revolution.

Always good to try out a few distros before settling in for the long run. As much as I love Mint, there are always cases where one distro has issues with your hardware where another doesn't.

Copy paste did take a while to get used to.

Which part, the highlight-middle click part or something else?

Also the default screenshot tool doesn’t automatically put the snip on the clipboard.

In Mint? You've made me realize that would be convenient for me so I looked into it, I believe copying straight to clipboard is a default keyboard shortcut option I didn't know about.

I budget my donations so I make an effort to see who I think need it the most. For example, I use Tor daily, but they have huge institutional funding. My to-do list app doesn't.

There are also some worthy candidates who simply reject donations, like Handbrake.

A few I haven't seen mentioned:

• Small websites anyone can use for FOSS services, like (e.g. Private.coffee, Disroot, Nadeko, Riseup)
• Any of the 5 remaining Invidious instances, Google has put effort into killing off other instances. Same with other social media alternative frontends.
• Someone mentioned F-Droid, I don't know what I'd do without the Google Store alternatives like Aurora.
• yt-dlp devs
• Lemmy and various instances
• Your operating systems, incl phones and servers if relevant
• Codeberg
• A few FOSS softwares used for non-fediverse sites I use. Look at all the sites you use and think about which ones are probably underfunded. Don't be afraid to ask if they haven't said anything.

You can’t just say “The USSR was bad because of communism, end of story”, for example. It was never communist, and I would argue it eas never trying to get there.

On one hand, I know you're right that socialist rhetoric is abused. It's vitally important to be alert to it, and fascists have a proven history of trying to exploit socialist sentiment, given their rise in response to a string of 1920s socialist uprisings in Europe.

On the other, I can't look at the decades-worth of writings and actions of the RSDLP and Bolsheviks and conclude they weren't honestly trying to build a vanguard party with the aim of building a communist society. I'm open to critique of whether or not Leninist theory has been shown to be right or wrong, but I struggle to see how Lenin could have been pretending to be a communist full-time for 20 years at extended self-sacrifice. An opportunist wouldn't have chosen a path with such little opportunity. The Bolsheviks were evidently a vanguardist party trying to eventually achieve communism - a 'communist party'.

You’re using all these fraught terms like “socialism” and “liberalism” incorrectly

I'm using them in a way consistent with political dictionaries.

Fascism is, openly, anti-liberal. This is not a contested fact, they say it openly. It's one of the few consistent parts of fascism, along with being anti-socialist ('socialist', in this context, meaning in support of social ownership of the means of production - a very standard and common definition in English dictionaries and encyclopedias alike).

Summary of nine dictionaries all with similar primary definitions of 'socialism'

You accuse me of using those terms incorrectly, so what would you consider a correct usage?

The Nazis rose out of National Bolshevism, after all.

No, they didn't.

A cursory look at the Nazi Party's history clearly shows their utter disdain and scapegoating of Bolshevism as a grave evil. The Nazi Party founder (Anton Drexler) was an anti-Marxist. Drexler emphasised the only thing 'socialist' about the party was social welfare for those deemed Aryan. The Nazi Party considered nazbols to be a strand of Bolshevism and therefore part of a Jewish conspiracy.

No, fascism and communism aren’t “opposites”

I don't believe politics is simple enough to allow opposites, but if there were such a thing, those two ideologies would be pretty close. Fascists are ideologically anti-communist and communists are always among the first they mass murder. Communists (along with anarchists) are consistently the foundation of anti-fascist action.

while communism is a highly ideological philosophy that’s never existed

"Yes, and,"

This is where terminology plays tricks:

• A communist society is the ultimate goal of the ideology called 'communism'.
• You're absolutely correct that no country has a communist society; in fact, it's a contradiction, since a communist society is stateless by definition.
• The countries that are labelled 'communist' (by themselves and others) are states with a communist government in power. This strategy of vanguardism is strongly debated among communists: many would agree with you that it's a contradiction, while others consider it a necessary transitional phase in order to defend from capitalist counter-attack. If we assume that the vanguard government is not corrupt (and we shouldn't assume that without evidence!), then it's a government that aims to create the material conditions that would cause itself to wither away, piece by piece. Obviously none has succeeded in that goal, but it's not wrong to call those governments 'communist', in the same way a person who supports socialism is called a 'socialist' - it's about a school of thought, about ideology, rather than describing the current situation they govern over. And to characterize authoritarian communists as fascist is ignorant about how fascist systems develop - fascism works to kill socialism and liberalism with the backing of the owning-class. No matter how many similar characteristics one may try and find on the surface, the two concepts are foundationally incompatible and opposed, and will act very differently. It's fine to hate them both, but they are not related.

I read an old thread documenting the opinions of Lemmy maintainers

For what it's worth, that thread is openly biased with many of those examples being strawman quotes and misframing events, like a non-sequitur troll post ban being framed as "support for Ukraine". And frankly, some of those points are cm0002 themselves intentionally trolling, like dubiously reporting a political meme as "Propaganda".

Personally I think the main devs are terrible at forum moderation. I'm aware that they're chronically overworked, and that .ml is not intended to be a neutral or liberalist general-purpose instance, and I'm aware that it's very normal for moderators to be bad at moderating, and yet that doesn't detract from my belief that they're technically bad at moderating a forum. For example, simply writing "rule 1" as a ban reason allows people to misinterpret bans as we're seeing here. Automate that shit, prefill ban reasons with the rule list! Make clearer rules and FAQs describing how memes and talking points considered normal in the US are actually chauvinistic propaganda!

As for a fork or rewrite, like others have said, alternatives already exist, but I also don't think this is a case where maintainer opinions are harmful to the user or project (even if I disagree with some). They're devout anticapitalists, which makes their FOSS and anti-enshitification positions clear, I know it won't sell out in five years. They only have power over their own instance, which one is welcome to not join or block.

Yep. Like many arts, gamedev is something people do for free, so it's very difficult (or torturous) to do it for profit.

I found it fun to do amateur gamedev, for my own little enjoyment (e.g. making a super-basic FPS with a gun that shoots a thousand cubes like a shotgun, then making it shoot a thousands spheres that explode on impact like a grenade launcher). Lots of engines are accessible that you don't need to learn much/any programming skill to make something fun. You can do plenty with free assets, I never paid for anything, but if you are willing and able to pay small amounts for premade assets, then it will be even faster and easier to make something more pretty.

I've also done level design (and LoC) for some open-source FOSS games. This is easier for some games than others, but it's also rewarding. I was particularly known for making experimental or puzzle-like levels, so it was nice to get feedback from others and improve. I've mostly grown apart from games these days, but I don't regret the time I enjoyed making them.