And more than just realizing that, we need to find a realistic path to take that power away from them.

Why?

To expand on your second point in case anyone isn’t sure what you mean:

Different browsers render webpages slightly differently, because they use different “engines”. The most popular browsers are Chrome or Edge, both of these which use the Blink engine, whereas Firefox uses a different engine called Gecko.

Web developers want their websites to work for most people, so they develop websites that are optimized to run in Blink, which means they sometimes don’t look as intended on Gecko (Firefox). It’s not Firefox’s fault that developers are doing this – of course developers want to reach the most users possible. There’s nothing wrong with Gecko, either – if it were more popular, then developers would build sites for it instead of for Blink. But, this issue of sites breaking can sometimes turn people off.

(Conversely, I develop for Firefox first, so sometimes webpages I make don’t render properly in Chrome/Edge. That’s not ideal, but I don’t care much. I think Gecko is the better + more consistent engine, and I’m not interested in chasing mass appeal.)

No we’re not. Why are you speaking for other people?

That’s not how the burden of proof works. Regardless of what they’re doing, you’re also making a claim, and are refusing to back it up.

Source?

Rebranding to a 2 syllable name can be a good idea, without it being the main factor in determining a platform’s popularity.

Also, I think Misskey’s name is more confusing because the use of “Miss” and the way it was marketed makes me think it’s a space for women (and possibly furries).

People talking about sex is not torture. Get a grip.

there’s no fucking handbook for what we’re going through right now

There are literally thousands of books about how to resist fascism. It has been a mainstream topic for decades now.

For starters:

• Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook

• On Tyranny

• Fascism Today

The history of boycotts shows us that sustained boycotts can be enormously effective. During the civil rights movement, the Montgomery and Tallahassee bus boycotts ended racial segregation on local bus systems. Sustained boycotts were also instrumental in ending apartheid in South Africa.

Maybe we should give more credit to people doing imperfect things than to those doing nothing other than pointing out how imperfectly those things are.

Criticism is essential to building stronger movements, and any organizer worth their salt can handle criticism without an emotional outburst.

People doing things imperfectly can be more harmful than just not doing them at all. One-day boycotts damage the reputation of boycotts as a whole, which makes people more reluctant to participate in them because they view them as pointless and ineffective.

I disagree. Posting and ghosting still helps people keep up to date with any news about the organization.

I’m not going to go out of my way to check a bunch of different org’s blogs (and I’m not a fan of RSS), and prefer to be able to get news through social media. I only get news outside of aocial media when I want to properly study something in depth.

For some reason your comment appears uncensored to me, but the top commenter’s is censored.

But it does show the importance of losing the stress and having a meal before an exam. :)

Babes no it doesn’t, you’re smart and love physics lol. Don’t get delulu about it

“Emo” is one hell of a name.

it predicts toxic masculinity 20 years before it became a widespread phenomenon

20 years before it became a widespread phenomenon

err… toxic masculinity has been mainstream since the beginning of recorded history.

Males in Athens who in adult life willingly submitted to anal penetration were derided as kinaidoi, a term of abuse which had the connotation of effeminacy.

-Professor Paul Cartledge

So you, a normal person, join and instantly when a meme or comment allude to being altruistic, you leave?

Lol, the lack of self-awareness in your comment is astounding. You immediately jumped to interpreting them in the least charitable way possible, instead of just asking them to clarify like a normal person. You are exactly the type of leftist that pushes a lot of people away from using Lemmy.

Who needs conservative saboteurs when you have leftists to do their work for them?

I play Morrowind on Linux all the time, running OpenMW (bought from GOG) on Lutris.

It’s been implicitly assumed that

Society seems to be built on a lot of obviously untrue assumptions.

“It’s possible” is a god-awful basis for a political strategy that involves electing a known fascist.

Or it could be like ww2, where it gives the world a common enemy to defeat.

Who cares? Having a common enemy to defeat isn’t a “good” thing, this isn’t a superhero movie. It’s a sign that evil people have become too powerful. Millions of people died in WWII as a result. And fascism is still going strong around the world.

There are a lot of very clearly known things, and accelerationists ignore all of those in favour of a crackpot theory of social change.

Why are you equating the people who criticize non-voters and Trump voters with the Democrats? I will criticize non-voters and Trump voters all day long, but I am not a Democrat; I am not even American.

Your framework suggests that only Democrats have agency (and you also rhetorically equate the party and its voters, which isn’t reasonable), whereas non-voters and Trump voters don’t.

In reality, everyone has agency, and everyone is affected by large-scale social forces. I see lots of people on all sides doing everything to limit their side’s responsibility. Everyone is responsible for the role they played in this election.

I know plenty of supposed leftists (really these are people who spend 90% of their time criticizing liberals and calling them “shitlibs”) who are relieved that Trump is in office, say that he is better than Kamala on Gaza, and believe that America’s descent into fascism will spur a revolution that will save humanity.

Don’t underestimate people’s stupidity.