Allero
@Allero@lemmy.today
- Comment on The only one country 2 minutes ago:
I understand how confused they were!
Medics are absolutely not prepared to see something like this. Your case is very much out of the ordinary, and honestly, I didn’t know you can have outer passport without an inner one. Doesn’t the consulate provide one? Or did you just never bother to?
Glad that the situation worked out fine, though
- Comment on The only one country 1 hour ago:
I’d say Russian medics are less angry and more tired and overburdened a lot of the time. This does reflect on their attitudes, but that’s not out of bad intent.
But yes, what you said is true, and that’s how it should be. Honestly, I’d rather just have emergency medical service get free of all that insurance paperwork and just do their thing. It’s not that they’ll ever deny medical service anyway.
- Comment on The most unrealistic part of Odyssey is the journey taking 20 years 7 hours ago:
Also probably not in New York
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
You’ll notice that most of the fediverse is talking about Tesseract, not piefed.
Only because Tesseract drama is more recent. People were showing their anger all over the place when both blocklists and vote limits were implemented. A drama there was arguably bigger than the current one.
A prefilled set of defaults
Defaults is something that is easily changed through the same avenue as all the other settings, and comes from technical necessity. This is a deliberate attempt to manipulate visibility of content on the Fediverse, strongarming the dev position.
There is always another instance
For all I know, there is exactly one PieFed instance cleared of this, quokk.au. For that, they had to fork the project, because not all of the changes are as easily reversed as the blocklist. For ideological reasons, plenty of users would rather avoid it, and so boom - they’re out of options. Most PieFed instances wouldn’t be able to maintain a forked project by themselves.
Sane (to most people) starting point for admins
Did you consider the Fediverse demographic? I wouldn’t say most people here necessarily share Rimu’s points, and his attempts to bulldoze it in favor of his views are rightfully seen as a deliberate attack. He uses his power to project his view on a community which, at large, doesn’t stand for the same values.
You still try to build equality between your (and Rimu’s) views and sanity. Plenty here would disagree.
It’s a 3 word SQL query
Which only admins can manage. And let’s not forget the blocklist is not the only controversial decision. As I already mentioned, some require forking the project outright, and it’s a giant mess. Admins do not know what to expect of Rimu next, either.
A) fuck you. B) I’m perfectly happy being hostile to those types.
And this is the gist of it that I was trying to highlight to you. As long as you align in views with Rimu, you don’t see it as that much of a problem. But remember this can be turned against you the second you don’t agree on something. Shutting people up always ends up poorly, especially for those supporting it. Don’t be surprised when it happens.
I find it makes for a much more pleasant fediverse experience.
And that’s why such list should exist. The problematic difference is not the existence of the blocklist, it’s the fact it’s forced upon everyone. A perfect option is making a block list opt-in on a user level. You want to cut out whatever you find unpleasant about the Fediverse? Power to you, here’s a list, just agree to use it and enjoy the same amazing experience. But if you want to see something Rimu doesn’t approve of, you’d rather be able to. Let’s not willfully give up user freedom to the whims of random people.
NOTHING on that list makes the world a better place.
That’s a…heavily opinionated take. To provide a politically neutral example, how did WikiLeaks make it into the list? Did it not do any good, forcing accountability and opening up human rights violations, genocide, and more? There’s so much more to unpack about the list, but it will inevitably result in us going through polarizing political opinions, and, as you mentioned, it won’t get us anywhere.
And if there is one, single take I want you to carry from this conversation: supporting censorship and giving someone to decide what other people can see always ends up very badly, even if that censorship (for now) aligns with your views. People fall for this trap over and over, and never seem to learn.
Farewell.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
There are very small dildos that are, like, barely bigger than your index finger. Start from that, use a lot of lube, and eat good amount of fiber.
Make sure you are relaxed enough. If you clench your ass like a guillotine, you won’t enjoy it. Let it slip in gently, naturally, effortlessly. It may still feel weird at first, but then you’ll learn to do it and you’ll have plenty of fun!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Most people found out about the blocklists existence when shit has already hit the fan, and Rimu got to stand his ground. In this sense, it was the same rude awakening.
My point (and largely that of Lemmy) is not that filter lists are bad. Plenty of instances benefit from them, whether it’s a safe space or just something tailored to make your experience better. The point is, they must be applied on the instance and/or user level. Not some messiah dev who decides what all PieFed instances serve to their users, especially not when such dev simply uses it to project his political opinions on a larger part of the Fediverse. People manipulating public opinion and cutting their access to information is everything Fediverse stands against, and this is why it caused such a backlash.
PieFed already did offer user choice: I remember registering to one of the instances (piefed.zip if I recall correctly) and being offered, as a user, to remove things like Musk and Trump posts etc. This is a good approach, as it empowers the user to tailor their feed. But what choice does user have now, when major instances have this baked in list? None.
It’s also an absolutely unnecessary and unwelcome headache for admins. Instead of opting in to whatever admins deem essential, they have to clear the thing of whatever Rimu’s up to next. Standing up for this mess is like saying “Microsoft ain’t that bad, you can remove most of the telemetry and forced apps by clicking switches here, here, and here, and changing these registry keys”. You shouldn’t have to jump through these hoops in the first place, this is hostile development.
You aligning with Rimu politically contributes significantly to the tolerance of such behavior, because it doesn’t largely affect you…yet. But consider this: plenty of people who want to make this place and the world at large better are being shut up by the dev who thinks he knows better. He uses his position as a developer to make choices for all PieFed users. Instead of giving admins the choice, he hardcodes his personal choices (not only blocklists, but also vote limiting and other things that are not as easily removed) into software used by thousands of people, many of which disagree. Does this align with you?
- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 1 day ago:
The more I know!
- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 2 days ago:
Most important features of physical media are transferability (you can give the game to someone else and it will run) and independence (you can run your game even if Sony or simply your Internet connection go down). Piracy typically checks both of these boxes.
It may not hold a collector’s value if that’s what you’re after, but I’d argue this is secondary anyway. And if you simply want to hold a bunch of game disks, you can always buy an empty disk and put the game in there.
- Comment on Anon tries dating apps 2 days ago:
Meeting girls on the Internet absolutely works, it’s just that you should do everything except what you’re told.
Do NOT use dating apps. They are, for the most part, designed to keep you hooked and never actually find a worthy person. If you find your love, you stop being their client.
Use regular social media/weird and obscure places crafted with love/communities by interest/whatever, just not dating apps.
I found my girlfriend in an online chat, and we’re together for 2 years. She moved in with me, and we couldn’t be happier.
- Comment on Anon tries dating apps 2 days ago:
I bet someone did just that and succeeded
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Should it matter? As the saying goes, “first they come for tankies…”. Moreover, the blocklist covers pretty much the entire political spectrum, except exactly Rimu’s beliefs (classic liberal, strongly pro-government). Like, I invite people to just follow the link you gracefully provided and explore for themselves. It’s not just Nazis or transphobes, it is all things left and right, WikiLeaks, and more.
Last time I checked, the interface doesn’t allow to just remove the whole blocklist in a click of a button. Removing 4000+ entries one by one is a very, very questionable endeavor. Moreover, such things must be opt-in, not opt-out. Does
MicrosoftRimu understand consent? - Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
PieFed (the software, so this relates to every instance) blocks links to certain websites, it is hardcoded and without a fork, you’d have to manually reallow them one-by-one (and there’s like 4000 of them).
A lot of them are blocked due to political motivations, and Rimu himself said software shouldn’t be politically neutral.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Honestly, if you feel concerned about the state of the Fediverse and the good vs ugly about it, suggest a filter list!
Let users/instance admins decide whether they want to implement such lists or not. If you genuinely believe such filtering makes for a better experience, users will love it.
Just don’t force your decisions onto them. It’s that easy.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Developer of Tesseracts front-end for Lemmy has hid a blacklist without an announcement.
This blacklist contained various Lemmy instances (particularly leftist/anarchist ones, and also blahaj.zone, known for protecting LGBTQ+ rights, and particularly a place trans lemmings unite) and users.
This was quickly uncovered by db0, since their instance had Tesseract front-end available and they got in the blocklist, making the front-end unavailable for them. They quickly forked Tesseracts and ringed the bell.
Following was blocked users bragging about getting in the block list like a badge of honor, and others being sad they didn’t make it into one. This was pretty much a hot topic around these places for about three days straight. Some also apparently bombed Tesseract dev’s inbox with things ranging from “why?” to “go fuck yourself”, which seems to trigger the dev to leave the space entirely.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
a hidden core of users that I should try to make more visible amongst all the rage
Good riddance. If there is any lesson anyone should take, it is that Fediverse does not tolerate when one person decides what others get to see.
This is why we got Fediverse in the first place.
- Comment on thoughts and prayers for science 5 days ago:
Not in the sense of “oh, He’s almighty, He can bend and break laws of nature at will, He just never ever does this in a controlled experiment to accentuate the faith element of religion”.
Otherwise, they come in an extreme contradiction just about everywhere.
- Comment on Teserract may be opensource, but adding myself would feel disingenuous 6 days ago:
Chaotic Russian
- Comment on How to summon a group of gym bros (100% working tutorial 2026) 1 week ago:
All fine! No one’s gonna look at the carpet when they already look at you, gorge ~
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It mostly comes from the exhaustion of video game companies making big announcements and then pretending for years they never happened.
Be it Cyberpunk 2077 (that didn’t even have the actual concept when they originally planned to release the game), The Witcher IV (remember we’re promised that?), or, like, you know, The Elder Scrolls VI from that same genre (announced almost a decade ago).
Companies attract attention with big announcements, and then just take the easy path, making remakes of remakes of remakes, occasionally bringing in a little bit of content into their older titles.
It wouldn’t be problematic with the old games if they actually tried to make the new ones for once.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Eh, same way Skyrim Anniversary Edition or Oblivion Remastered were.
Still milking the same cow because it’s easier and lower risk.
- Comment on How to summon a group of gym bros (100% working tutorial 2026) 1 week ago:
Absolutely, that’ll do
- Comment on sit down! 1 week ago:
“Dig guano, it’s a great fertilizer and will provide you with plenty of food”
Thanks, you might be a lil’ late for that one
- Comment on I prefer mine with the bone 1 week ago:
Same in Russian, and I believe this is the original source of confusion :)
In some languages, hard seeds and bones are described by related words
- Comment on How often is normal to masturbate? 2 weeks ago:
20s man here, 2-3 times a day is perfect, but sometimes down to 1
Gf can do anything from once a month to twice a day depending on the horniness
- Comment on Is Denuvo's Dominance Finally Beginning to Crack? A New Linux-Based Breakthrough Suggests It Might Be 2 weeks ago:
It’s not removed, it’s a hypervisor workaround. And until now, these largely had issues running on Linux
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 2 weeks ago:
Not really, though.
Prefering anime characters comes with understanding of who they depict. Yes, it can later detach somewhat, but the initial point of attraction goes as “nice woman, wish those would exist” - at least, that’s the way I can comprehend it.
Or is it more like furry fans who fall for something that doesn’t exist in the first place?
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 2 weeks ago:
Repeat after me now:
👏USING👏HAND👏CLAP/STAR/WHATEVER👏EMOJI👏DOESN’T👏MAKE👏WHAT👏YOU👏SAY👏MORE👏IMPACTFUL👏
There’s a very clear gap in knowledge that is being raised here, and it’s genuinely unknown whether fictional materials increase or decrease the rates of abuse. Judging by more general examples, it is most likely to decrease, but we need more data.
Also, pedophilia is not classified as mental illness. Pedophilic disorder is, but that requires specific criteria to be filled, namely being an active danger to children (getting into child abuse or consuming CSAM involving real children) and/or having distress about being a pedophile (for example, hating oneself and being suicidal).
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 2 weeks ago:
I’m genuinely curious as to what would make someone a lolicon lover but not a pedophile.
It’s kinda clear why pedophiles would like loli characters - they are the fictional embodiments of children, but without that, what drives people to like it?
Not trying to contest your claim in the slightest, I do believe not every loli fan is a pedophile, but curious to how it works.
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 2 weeks ago:
Literally every medical classification nowadays:
-Do you abuse actual children or watch CSAM materials involving real children? -Do you feel bad about who you are?
If the answer to both is no, congrats, you’re healthy and it’s just a sexuality quirk, do whatever you want, fap to all the lolis you want for all we care
Look up ICD-11, DSM-V or whatever is relevant to your area - they’re pretty much all on the same page here.