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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • I don’t think forking lemmy is a good idea honestly, let’s stick to what we have and what currently works well. The beauty of lemmy is that, you can make an account on a hexbear/lemmygrad instance to see what’s up, and switch back to your main instance with more reasonable, less extreme content. But also I vibe with some of lemmygrads less delusional communities. I’m on dbzer0’s server who federates with hexbear but not with lemmygrad and i find that to be a nice balance of content. I find it reductive to say that anything on hexbear/lemmygrad is “tanky” shit, because there are some legitimately great communities in either one (hexbear, for instance, has communities about socialism and marxist philosophies, which I find to be intellectually stimulating and not at all radical, though some would disagree. And chapotraphouse has got some spicy leftist memes )

    True, sympathizing with terrorists and supporting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a bad look, but there’s good info on the radical leftist corner of the internet. Of course some people post insane shit to get attention and that’s unfortunate. But I believe these instances at its heart safe spaces for Marxists, Marxist thought and the growing global leftist movement which I personally believe is a harbinger for change in the world.

    I say let’s cut the bad shit and preserve the good bits instead of throwing out the entire block of cheese
















  • People have spare pc’s or laptops they can sacrifice as a SearxNG instance. I too have a homelab & i have not paid a single penny to have a hobby SearxNG instance on my old hackbook pro that I share with friends.

    I feel like, the internet is more than just paying your way for services. It’s about creating and sharing services and decentralization. If Kagi takes off then we have another evil Google that wants to profit at the cost of users, but its name is Kagi. It might be an impractical answer, and it does take some work to create a better internet. End of philosophical rant about the true spirit of the internet