Eh that looks more like just a custom color palette, I’m thinking of something way deeper than that

I’d always think about how neat it’d be if there was a Lemmy frontend that did theming, then themed instances could take it even further, like an LCARS interface for startrek.website

I don’t think it can, it’s a flagship because it’s the first instance, being run by the main devs as a demonstration of Lemmy’s capabilities so it’s always on the latest beta version at least.

But, they could just stop using it as a tool to further their own political stances and have it actually be a “generalist” instance. For that though, they’d have to give up being the admins of it, which they’ll probably never do.

It is of concern yes, but maybe if the wider Lemmy-verse defeded from them, like they did Hex and Grad, it would at least be easier to say that their views are not shared by any of us to any newcomers/outsiders by being able to point to a clear and visible action like defederation.

Hmm yes, how dare I pushback against authoritarian misinformation, propaganda, censorship and toxicity. I do what I can within my power to prevent (or rather having it get worse I should say)the Lemmy-verse from garnering a rep outside for being “That Tankie Place” or worse, Voat 2.0

I’ve already seen it on Reddit and testimonials here (from those that actually tried to give it another shot, who knows how many won’t ever come back) “I tried that Lemmy place, but it was just a bunch of tankies” is not a pleasant comment to read outside the Lemmy-verse

What I’ve documented on !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works is but a mere fraction of the crap they pull and focused on just .ml

Btw, tankies are authoritarian “communists”

Hex and grad are tankie instances that are very in your face about it and don’t carry the honor of being “the flagship” instance and as a result were easy to widely defederate from which led to most people here not having strong opinions on it

.ml admins are hardcore tankies, but try to maintain .ml as the flagship and thus are more subtle about their tankieness. Instead opting to just censor any dissenting opinions before things get crazy in threads.

As a result many instances are way more hesitant to actually defed from them like they did the rest of the Tankie Triad, thus leading to more widespread visibility and in turn more widespread dissatisfaction of them by most.

Checkout !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works (for those on a .ml account you’ll need to use this link because, ironically, .ml admins censor that comm from you: https://lemmy.world/c/meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works ) for documented instances of their behavior

Then this is for you!

Nahhhh according to the tankies of .ml, Russia is just trying to export humanity-saving peace, love and socialism but has just been continuously beaten down by the big bad US :(

You have been banned from Lemmy.ml

Predicted .ml tankie response when they get here:

“This is just WeSTeRn pRoPaGAnda, Putin is just having COURAGE to break from the US no matter the consequences and has done NOTHING absolutely NOTHING wrong and absolutely isn’t profiting in it like you LibERals think.”

You have been banned from .ml

It’s called “context”. That’s like someone saying “cringe” on a post about volunteering to punch Nazis, I wouldn’t need further explanation to determine someone to be, at a minimum, a Nazi sympathizer because of context

I’m open to hearing how else I could interpret the comment “cringe” on a post about donating flash drives for piercing the NK dictatorship digital wall

Ah, you must be one of those “NK isn’t actually run by a brutal dictator, that’s just western propaganda” .ml tankies LMFAO

https://hackaday.io/project/167446-diy-inkjet-printer

Laser printer and probably brother, it’s worth the extra up front cost 10 fold

For an old color Dell Laser printer I got from a thrift store years ago I can find 4 color sets of toner for it for $40-60

@roofuskit@lemmy.world 2028!

Medium is proprietary and publicly traded so is on the enshitification train full speed ahead

Who said that? I did a search in the thread and no Ody said anything about that that I saw

Basically, slammed the source code door shut after making promissory statements like “Don’t worry, we’ll always be open source” for years. With little/no notice they relicensed everything and pivoted to a closed source paywall model.

No discussion with the community or contributors, no alternatives explored, no polls or surveys. Just woke up one day to a “Sorry, but we’re going closed source because moneyyyy” blog post

Jellyfin was born right after, forked out of vengeance.

In retrospect we should have seen it coming when they would do odd little things, like keeping the build scripts closed source n crap, but eh hindsight and all that lol

They’re not just closed source, they started as the open source project response to Plex. It was promised that they would be open source forever. They lied, slammed the source door shut a few years later and pivoted to a paywall.

There was no discussion with the community or contributors, no alternatives explored, no surveys or polls.

Just a “Sorry we’re going closed source” blog post, Jellyfin was forked from them in vengeance.