Dessalines

If something’s subpar about it, then do what’s recommended in this post. Open an issue on the repo, or contribute to a fix. It’s open source software.

Unfortunately the people advertising lemmy on reddit and elsewhere rarely link join-lemmy.org, and direct people to join a few large instances. So we’ll likely keep having centralization problems for the forseeable future.

IMO its a good idea to cross-post to many communities across the fediverse, but as @davel pointed out, it can look like spam if its to a lot of only tangentially related communities.

The foreign policy legacy of democrats: https://dessalines.github.io/essays/socialism_faq.html#whats-wrong-with-barack-obama

This meme basically:

To OP’s point tho, I think the fediverse is a lot more ideologically diverse than reddit or other corporate platforms. The fact that you can say something positive about the Palestinian resistance without getting banned, or say something positive about a country on the US-enemy list, is a testament to that diversity.

Sure, there are many servers on the fediverse that are anti-communist, and orientalist / western supremacist, and block leftist ones, copying reddit’s moderation policy. But on the US-run corporate platforms(FB, reddit, twitter, bluesky), you aren’t given any option: that’s a non-negotiable default that you must accept. Here you can always join a server that’s willing to federate with leftist ones, and is okay with ideological diversity, even if you don’t consider yourself one.

I think its very possible to do with any native apps, where you can bundle in a small torrent librar. Maybe not iOS, because I think they don’t allow torrents, but android and all desktops its possible to load / preload things like images, audio, and video inline. Its not too possible via the web, because most webbrowsers don’t have any bundled torrent libraries.

I have my own thoughts about webtorrents (they didn’t really survive, while the regular torrent network is still strong). It’d be possible to do with webtorrents solely to solve the fact that browsers don’t have regular torrent support, but seeders would be hard to come by, so I don’t think it’d work too well.

I did add torrent magnet link support to lemmy-ui and jerboa (I think its not deployed yet for jerboa tho). But yes I agree, inline or inplace torrent viewing (for images specifically) is something that ppl should absolutely be working on.

This is a completely solved problem for 24 years now (static data distribution), via torrents.

Use the report button also to report transphobia, so we can get to it asap.