My work Microsoft account doesn’t work at all with Thunderbird. With my previous employer it did, but now my only option has been webmail.

I really hope this fixes that. Haven’t looked into it yet.

What is this post?

It seems to be an RSS feed showing this post, which is then bridged back to the fediverse by web.brid.gy, which then posts itself back into the fediverse.

Could this create a recursive loop? Whatever is going on here it looks a bit messed up, but if this post itself makes it back to the RSS feed and then becomes bridged things get messy real quick.

@anewsocial@mastodon.social - this might be worth for you guys to be aware of, even though I guess the bridge is technically working as intended.

Bluesky hardly challenges the establishment as far as I can see, they’re just more venture capitalists waiting to enshittify.

What I hate about it is that this unwillingness to be in a position of power is so correlated with actually being suited for it.

I also recommend reading Eugen Rochko’s own post about it, as Andy Piper linked to as well.

I love and hate how Eugen starts this whole project, leads it into being something truly unique and wonderful that directly challenges some of the most evil and wealthy people on the planet, sets up institutional guardrails to make sure it will not be corrupted by any one individual gone mad with power, gives away his position after 10 years once he’s sure the organization is in good hands, and then concludes in reflection that he does not “have the right personality” for running a project like this.

I hope it has not been to hard for him, and that he’ll look back at it all as a positive experience in spite of the negative interactions. I don’t think any sane person has a personality that is “right” for the kind of abuse public figures receive on the internet. But from the perspective of Mastodon and the Fediverse, it seems pretty clear that he was exactly the right type of personality for the job—including by stepping down when the time felt right.

If you get banned from Lemmy.zip and you think it’s unjust you’re probably better off moving to another instance where you’re more aligned with the moderators. :)

I guess you could always send them a PM and ask what’s up, but the main idea here is that you find an instance with a moderation policy that suits you. Since karma doesn’t really matter here there’s not much value in having an old account anyway.

Yeah, moderators of a community can only ban you from that community, server admins can only ban you from their instances. The only ones with the power to ban you completely are the lemmy.zip admins.

There are some power tripping happening here as well, but you’re a lot less vulnerable. Just don’t be a jerk and you should be alright. :)

Karma points is not really meaningful here, so I’m not sure if there’s a way to view it from Lemmy.

Expanding on question 1:

Yes. You signed up from Lemmy.zip, who have their own set of rules for what is appropriate (as linked by trashcan). If you break them you’ll likely be kicked out.

Furthermore, the sites and communities you interact with can ban you from talking to them: If the admins on the site I’m on (piefed.social) find your content to be inappropriate, they can ban your content from reaching users over here. That wouldn’t affect you as much as being banned by lemmy.zip - it would just keep you from interacting with users and communities hosted at piefed.social.

Moderators of individual communities can also ban you, if they find that you break the rules in their community. If you’re banned from a community you cannot participate in it any more.

Last, users can block you if they don’t want to see your posts.

There’s less of the funky shadow banning that Reddit does here, where your posts are rendered invisible to anyone but yourself without you knowing. I don’t think that can happen at all.

There was also the practice of giving people a new name upon arrival in Ellis Island, establishing pretty early on what kind of names were considered “American”.

I guess it worked wonders, at least if the stereotype is true that they managed to transform the Irish into a bunch of racist cops.

But yeah, you certainly had a lot of German Americans voluntarily backing away from their cultural heritage in the 30s and 40s.

It’s pretty fascinating considering the history of the US that Americans tend to be worse than the English at pronouncing various European languages. You’d think at least some people would cling on to the correct pronounciation of their own name, as the bare minimum.

I don’t really care how Americans pronounce their own names—if anything I think most Europeans are happy to be easily distinguishable from Americans with shared ancestry at this point—but it is a bit striking.

Historically death camps tend to start out as mere camps, but then suddenly they are full of people who are deemed unwanted anyway and keeping them alive is expensive and difficult so why bother.

On its current trajectory there’s no US camp that shouldn’t be expected to turn into a death camp. And as others have pointed out, thousands “missing” from a huge, poorly managed camp in the middle of a swamp is worrying to say the least.

Americans today are like Germans in the 30s, watching the trains roll by.

I’d say the Clash were simultaneously highly mainstream and true to the spirit of punk. Dead Kennedys as well, albeit slightly less mainstream.

Honestly I’d say there’s a lot of punk bands that enjoyed something close to mainstream success without being sellouts.

I’d say he’s imitating the 60s more than the 70s, but he writes some good tunes nevertheless. :)

I guess human perception is very subjective. To me the W3 is very obvious, but I have a hard time seeing a penis.

This comment sections is one of the weirder moments I’ve seen on Lemmy.

I disagree that the new one is too abstract. The w³ part is pretty pronounced, and then there’s design elements that reminds me of surfing.

I like the old one because I like the W3C, but when you see it you do get the impression that they were important in 1995 and probably haven’t done anything since.

I like this one. Positive change in my opinion. :)

Move to a different area if your current area it’s not pleasurable to you. Find a higher quality group of friends or become someone that can enjoy their own company. I could keep listening, but I’m not going to make this thread too long.

I guess a lot of people people don’t have this opportunity because they need to work boring jobs in order to feed themselves. They should be plotting a revolution, but instead are exhausted by work and get pacified by brainless entertainment the few hours they are not either working or sleeping.

For whoever can afford freedom there’s plenty of things to do in the world, yet a bunch of them end up bored anyway. I agree that they could often escape their boredom if they were braver.