JubilantJaguar

European. Linux enthusiast. History graduate. **I never downvote reasoned opinions** and I do not engage with people who downvote mine (which may be why you got no reply). Low-effort comments with vulgarity or snark will also be ignored.

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2026-03-05 20:01:50 UTC

Seen in Vallecas, a suburb of Madrid.
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2025-11-01 20:26:28 UTC

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Since when did I claim to be "passionate" about anything? My proposal concerns *new users*, it's in the title. I'm not a new user any more and I have a bunch of post and comments to my virtual name (not that it's important, sure). But I now see that it would have been better if I had been pushed to another server when I signed up. Hence the proposal.

2025-11-01 20:08:36 UTC

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You're just saying I should practice what I preach and get off LW, is that it? Can't be bothered, but fair enough. My proposal here concerns new users.

2025-11-01 19:48:39 UTC

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Since when am I proposing a utopia? I'm proposing that people *talk to people in their physical communities*. Nothing more ambitious than that.

2025-11-01 19:38:27 UTC

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>People not wanting to see hate speech or propaganda does not mean they are in echo chambers.
You know that bad guys are now calling *your* ideas "hate speech" and "propaganda", right? And they believe it as much as you do. How do you propose to get out of this mess if not by talking?

2025-11-01 19:28:58 UTC

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Well, if the true nature of the fediverse is to *encourage* people to silo themselves into echo chambers where they never have to deal with others who don't already share all their values and opinions - if that's truly the point of this thing - then yes, apparently I'm wasting my time here. I still hope there's a better way.

2025-11-01 18:10:58 UTC

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>There’s only one mexican instance
Join it and make it better.
>it uses a whitelist and it fucking federates with grad
Change that fact, or accept it, or use blocking features (which are not lacking).
Sure, these won't be popular suggestions, but IMO social media should not be just another form of shopping, where we pick exactly what agrees with us best, and annoys us least, and then lock the door to keep everything else out.

2025-11-01 13:02:05 UTC

There is perennial discussion about what fediverse servers (Lemmy or otherwise) to recommend to new users. I have a proposal, perhaps not very original but I haven't seen it made often.
**Let's just recommend that newbies pick an instance that is located close to them geographically. That's to say: their country, their region, or (ideally) their town.**
Some context. Personally, I am not totally sold on social media, federated or otherwise. The evidence is now pretty clear that it causes major social harms. One way it does this is by fuelling polarization around hot-button national and international debates, at the expense of local issues. **Reviving democracy is going to mean boosting communities at a local level.** This could be a small way to do that.

2025-02-28 11:17:31 UTC

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But who's making these "updates"? Who's doing the actual work of keeping the software secure? Mozilla is.
If everybody moves to a free-riding fork, Mozilla goes to 0% and there will be no browser let alone updates.

2025-01-21 13:48:29 UTC

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Legtimacy? The guy won the popular vote. Like it or not, legitimacy there is.

2025-01-15 12:50:05 UTC

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> I think often people find it easier to write their own code than to make changes to other people’s projects
A rarely mentioned weakness of open source, and it can only be getting worse given the narcissism of younger generations.
I regularly see cases of multiple projects with *exactly* the same goals. All that duplication of effort just to serve the vanity of the respective project leaders. The wasted potential for good software has to be huge.