It fails to capture the difference between a conservative German not approving of Merz because he’s a bit of a dull bore and a marginalized American disapproving of Trump because his rule is literally threatening their life. You won’t see no king protests against Merz. He is not so unpopular that he might realistically put an end to Germany as we know it.

It doesn’t show that threatening the entire working class will make you lose elections. It doesn’t have a class dimension at all, it just says how many people actively like their leaders in a handful of countries. Neither Macron nor Merz were particularly popular when they were last elected, they are just strategically positioned within their political systems.

It measures what it measures. We have seen again and again that leaders can be democratically elected and re-elected while fucking over the working class.

US President Donald Trump ranked just ahead of Erdoğan in 10th place from the bottom, despite launching military operations in Iran. Some 38% of Americans said they were satisfied with his work, while 57% were dissatisfied.

If the survey was to indicate anything, it’d be that Germans, unlike Americans, are not absolute tools.

Nobody approves of Merz, but few people disapprove of him as much as reasonable people disapprove of figures like Modi and Trump.

This is measured as the percentage of the population in the country who disapproves of the leader. So Trump comes out alright because a bunch of Americans still approve of him. That doesn’t really reflect badly on Merz. It reflects badly on America.

That said, if Merz started saying he would deport non-ethnic Germans or some shit like that his approval might grow by this standard because he would at least have some sort of base. Right now he appeals to nobody.

So in short, it’s a bit of a shit indicator.

The survey is conducted by Morning Consult, who received $31 million in funding from James Murdoch in 2020 and another $60 million from some group named Advance Venture Partners in 2021. I don’t think they do bullshit research by accident.

My intrusive thoughts usually revolve around yeeting my phone off a bridge or a boat. I’ve managed to contain myself so far.

As for storm drains, I lost my keys down a deep one a few months back. Went to the hardware store and bought strong magnets and a wire and got them out after a lengthy fishing expedition.

To find jobs in Norway, try searching for the word “jobbportal”. At least some of these sites allow you to sort for English language jobs.

If we can have fewer nazis at the price of a slight inconvenience for users who were born in 1988 and for some reason want to have their birth year in their user name…

Yeah, I’ll take fewer nazis, please.

I’m fine others may disagree, but let’s at least be honest what we talk about when we talk about “controversial moderation”.

It seems Ernest recovered, and just decided to step away after his health got better!

Unfortunately, due to personal circumstances, I had to step away from actively working on Kbin and leave its further development to the community. Nevertheless, I am happy to see the project thriving, with a dedicated group of users and contributors who continue to push its vision forward.

Open-source has always been important to me, and while I am no longer involved with Kbin, I still believe in the power of community and the potential of open technologies to shape the future of the internet.

Again, what exactly are you talking about?

Which computer software is ever not implemented on a “code level”?

The lead developer recently started a thread in the Piefed meta community specifically to open for people to ask questions about these things. In full:

I have received word that there are people combing through the PieFed code looking for anything that might be harmful. This is excellent and can only make PieFed better and less harmful.
  We appreciate their interest in PieFed and look forward to answering any questions and showing people around the code. Please join us at https://chat.piefed.social/ or https://matrix.to/#/#piefed-developers:matrix.org.

There’s no need to listen to rumors and amateur speculation when we’re right here and happy to help. Come on in, the water’s fine!

Nobody in the thread managed to come up with an even remotely critical question. I’m not in the chat so I’m not sure if there were any interesting discussions there, but it’s safe to say it’s hard to find the weird conspiracies floating around reflected in the actual development.

If you have an issue, ask in !piefed_meta@piefed.social. If the community agrees your concern is valid I can guarantee you it’ll be addressed.

There’s also the question of what exactly would constitute controversial moderation. If we could hard code out fascists, stalinists, and misogynists, I would be entirely in favour. There’s no need to supply these people with tools for their nonsense. My only issue with it is that it’s not realistic without generating false positives. I don’t speak for Piefed here though, just my personal opinion.

Also multi-communities is a pretty central feature. A list of differences with Lemmy is maintained here.

Piefed is Lemmy with cross-posts collapsed to one thread, and controversial developers (moderation defaults)

Would love to hear which moderation defaults of PieFed are so controversial. Your phrasing seems to indicate that Lemmy developers’ support for Putin and Xi Jinping is no more controversial than Piefed developers’ preference to silence trolls and fascists.

The rules for Piefed.social are available here. The software Piefed ships with some default moderation options enabled, which can be disabled should the server admin choose to do so. I think having stricter moderation enabled by default when people set up a new server that they may or may not know how to manage effectively is obviously a better choice than to set the default to “anything goes”.

I paid for the lower plan for a while. It didn’t have nearly enough searches included for my use, and the higher plan was too expensive. Especially since I just wanted search, none of the other products they were busy developing.

Search results were good. Recently I’m using Qwant and I’m happy with that as well, so right now I don’t miss having access to Kagi at all. With the limited number of searches it was more of an inconvenience than a benefit the period I was using it.

There are some questionable things about Kagi. A few years ago the CEO reeked out this tweet showcasing how their AI could call out the BBC for being too mean to Elon Musk, which is honestly enough of a red flag for me to steer clear.

Amazing, thank you so much! Will check it out!

I travel to Italy by train pretty often, and it’s a shame to pass by northern Italy without stopping for a hike. :)

Do you go hiking? Do you have any favourite areas or refugios to recomend? Any good areas for wild camping where it is tolerated?

I’ve been doing some fantastic hikes in the Dolemites and Bergamo, would love to do more of it.

First they murdered him, then they killed him again by building his memorials. Give him a memorial in DC and a day in his honour, but god forbid anyone finds out he was a socialist. The whitewashed narrative of MLK is a way of erasing him.

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Large userbases, and the “somebody is wrong on the internet” effect. If we like something we see we’ll possibly like/upvote it and move on with our life, if we see a problem we’re far more likely to jump on and interact. So a hundred people might read something and be neutral towards it, and it’s enough to have one asshole react poorly to ruin the mood completely.

The same dynamic works for reply guys, and sadly the fediverse is in no way immune. But hopefully there are more people on here who are aware that it’s a community building exercise, and who make an effort to leave a positive footprint. :)

I moved to Denmark a few years ago, and have been picking up a line of cutlery whenever I see stuff I need in red cross stores. I have small tea spoons, big tea spoons, and one tiny cake fork.

I prefer the smaller tea spoons not only for ice cream cake, but anything served with ice cream. So typically that’s also a lot of pies. The fork is better for dry crumbly cakes, but the spoons are better for creamy cakes. I wouldn’t eat a tiramisu with a fork if I have a spoon available.

The bigger tea spoons I mostly only use for yogurt and stuff like that.

I’m so tired of open source developers being treated like public persons of whom relentless criticism for any character flaw, big or small, is fully justified. I’ve been guilty of this as well.

We’re talking about a bunch of highly qualified nerds who have decided to give away their work for free. Of course many of them will have some quirks. Everybody has bad days, and on the internet a few moments of weakness will haunt you forever.

It’s of course worth keeping the questionable things in mind, but the FOSS community also needs to get better at letting people enjoy things. Most of us are only human.

I think the user you responded to misread “piracy” for “privacy”. I did too at first.

Can’t rally add anything helpful, except that if I were to do piracy I would want privacy. The way the wind is blowing it’s a matter of time before windows starts snitching on its users.

You’d think this was a safe prediction, yet here we are.