I’m not sure I agree with the take that blahaj.zone has a facism problem. They’re explicitly anti-tankie and anti-nazi, which are the authoritarian end of the political spectrum. It’s a very left leaning space, and I think anyone in the lower left quadrant, e.g. libertarianism to anarchism and socialism to communism, would be well received.

I’m not sure why you would need accounts on all those different platforms. Isn’t the whole point of posse that you just post it once and then anyone, regardless of platform, can see it? That’s what already happens (with the caveat that some, like lemmy, won’t show you certain types of posts, like notes).

And people following you on one platform but not another sounds like more of a desire for multiple identities, each one a fragment of your actual identity. That’s another concept, that stuff like socialhub try to implement.

I’m not sure I understand how this isn’t already possible. Create an account on some federated platform, such as your own self hosted one, and people from any federated platform can now follow you. Isn’t that already POSSE?

I mean hey, by all means if you think a community is too hive mind-y or echo chamber-y then by all means don’t join. That’s the beauty of small highly customized communities - it can be moderated in a way all the members agree with, and anyone who doesn’t like it can find or found a different one.

I don’t know what exactly you’re imagining such a community would disallow, but I feel like whatever it is, I’d agree with it being disallowed. Disagreeing with someone is typically fine in most communities I’ve seen, it’s just hate speech or any -ism or -phobes that aren’t. And that’s fine.

I probably should’ve clarified its the last few that I felt were relevant to this post. I understand it sucks when you feel like anything you say may get you banned due to someone else’s interpretations, but in practice I don’t think it really becomes an issue.

Perhaps be a bit more careful when first joining a community as you learn how the community tends to act and behave, and where the lines tend to be drawn, but then after that you should have a general sense of what’s allowed, and if you do go over the line the mods are much more likely to just give a warning instead of a ban if you’re a regular.

A ttrpg called .dungeon got a remaster recently and I keep coming back to one of the screenshots on the store page, because I’m such a big fan of the rules for community moderation it enumerated:

You’re correct, I am unfamiliar with driving in the US - I’ve lived here my whole life, but have made it into my mind 20s without a license. Needless to say, I don’t live in a particularly rural area (I live in a suburbs where I can ride my electric bike to nearby stores or the train to commute downtown). I wasn’t trying to suggest people pass on the shoulder though. I hadn’t thought of winding roads, but that’s a fair point where there could potentially be two lanes but it’s still not safe to pass. For the single lane scenario I still don’t think it makes sense to suggest a giant RV regularly move into the shoulder (if it’s even present), especially not “any time there is a car behind them” as has been suggested elsewhere in the thread.

Regardless, in general I think it’s more important to strive for systemic solutions rather than expecting/hoping for/pressuring all individuals to act in the way you want. In this case, since we’re talking about rural areas, I think fixing our broken rail network would help immensely. Building the network and corresponding culture around trains for inter city travel would be cheaper for individuals and the government, better for the environment, would allow everyone on board to relax, and it’d even be faster than driving. For popular vacation locations the frequency could even be high enough to eliminate the last barrier of it being on a sometimes inconvenient schedule! Now, of course the locations themselves may not be easily traversable without a car (and trust me I’m aware of how often that applies), but if you’re trying to escape concrete jungles anyways then perhaps walking around was the goal anyways. Otherwise, you can probably rent a car (or a bike!) and still save money compared to the fuel and maintenance cost on driving the vehicle there.

Did you know we throw away more food than it would take to feed the hungry? That there are more empty homes than homeless people? Capitalism incentivizes scarcity, so it is artificially created. The only thing stopping us from achieving post scarcity immediately is working out the logistics, but those in power don’t want that to happen, as they are currently high up in society.

I don’t think that’s what the previous commenter was suggesting, but sure slower vehicles being in the rightmost lane makes sense and is also taught in American driving schools.

Hell even in a car there’s a car behind you most of the time. I can’t believe your suggesting they literally detour at every single moment. That’s adding a hell of a lot more than 25% to the trip duration

So how frequently do you think rv drivers should pull off to the side of the road to let cars pass them? I find it hard to believe they’ll be having meals, restroom breaks, or naps with the frequency you desire. Also, I’m not sure what kind of road has room for you to pull off to the side of, but not an extra lane for passing. I also am not sure what roads you’re talking about where an emergency vehicle is going to be stuck behind an RV for a long enough period for it to matter - if there’s no closer hospital, then by the point an RV would make a difference between life or death they’re probably just going to send out a helivac.

Just to be clear, I’m not an RV owner and I sympathize with your IBS. In fact I have no vehicle, and support plans for public transit and similar ways of reducing congestion and improving people’s lives (like a lane solely for busses, taxis, and emergency vehicles, like several European cities have had success with). I just don’t see a need to blame RVs for their slightly slower speeds, over systemic infrastructure issues that are the primary reason for congestion.

Are you suggesting rv drivers regularly take random detours so as to not “inconvenience” other drivers? Dude, just let them get to where they’re going

That looks pretty cool! Especially since it looks like they’re recently been working on docs for self hosting it. The obsidian integration also looks really interesting - I need to get better at actually using obsidian as a “second brain” rather than just a glorified TODO list haha.

I’d really really love for matrix to take off and to effectively replace discord, with continued development so things like stickers are supported in more clients, and to let servers be leaner.

However, if the friends and communities I want to talk to are all on discord, it’s hard to pioneer the alternative chat.

I’ll keep my matrix account and use it when I can, but discord will have to be on all my devices for the foreseeable future

I don’t want to defend meta here, but I’ve heard this or similar about literally every social media site ever, when it first opens. It’s way too early to tell if threads will be proactively moderating hate speech and other dangerous content.

That looks pretty cool, although it doesn’t appear to be FOSS. If I could use an app like that and self host the server or use next cloud to sync it that would be very cool. I noticed in their FAQ they’re going to stop supporting nest and Google home voice commands, so if it were foss and you could integrate the server with home assistant that would’ve been super cool.