How so? Mussolini did that exact process in Italy, as did Hitler and Franco.

I’d love a source on that

Appearances do matter. It’s how fascism comes to power.

https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/63502/understanding-how-fascism-showed-that-direct-government-is-not-same-as-self-gove

While this is good, everything you say here and ever said on reddit are absolutely in a database that is being formatted and scraped. These are all public forums. Assume you’re being tracked, fingerprinted and profiled.

And throwing away the meager posessions of the unhoused so that the wealthy aren’t bothered by the guilt.

Just like in Russia, appearances will matter. Show pony elections are often the norm in totalitarian states.

Democrats will wonder how they could have possibly lost to JD Vance.

Lost to Trump. He’s running for a third term and he’s tearing down as much infrastructure as he can to do it. This isn’t going to be a representative democracy if Trump and the goons behind him stay in power. Infighting and implosion is all we can hope for.

The new FCC and the hobbled Consumer Protections Board is allowing for accelerated enshittification with AI and data harvesting. Palintir is gobbling up all that data to further fuck you over.

https://archive.fo/ilgwS

Archive link

More like 1000

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Bologna

Can’t wait to read about the Palintir FAA merger

Ugh I hate how video interviews, camera on, are required for remote work now.

Check ani.social (that’s the instance of the first user you couldn’t see) to see if they’re defed from aussie.zone

That’s the problem with that site it’s one way.

Yup. However I’m trying not to add any bias. I did forget about beehaw and I’ll edit my post to include that. Thank you for the reminder.

This is an instance by instance list which is great thank you. I guess I was thinking there was a full list as a map I guess.

This requires you to know the name of an instance to check against.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/

https://slrpunk.net/

https://sh.itjust.works/

Those three are a good place to start with sane defaults.

For absolutely no filter there’s https://lemm.ee/

There is also https://lemmy.world/ which is so generalized as to come under fire from the far left and the far right.

More exclusive than the above but more inclusive than aussie.zone are the following.

https://hexbear.net/

https://lemmy.ml/

https://beehaw.org/

Your mileage may vary.

A full list of who’s federated with who doesn’t yet exist to my knowledge. However you can use https://defed.xyz/ to check specific instances

https://what3words.com/

Hacking is using something in a manner in which it was unintended by hacking parts of it, as with an axe.

Good discussion of it here with etymological references.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/70658/what-does-the-word-hacking-or-hacker-come-from

I’ve been online since usenet. I try to use the current meaning of words. I fully understand that trolling has been coopted by bad faith actors.

Originally it was a fun little bit of sarcasm or an inside joke that became a proto meme or some copypasta to share around.

Now it’s a path to the US presidency.

We have a different definition of troll I think. To me trolls are bad faith actors hiding racism and other disinclusive speech behind humor.

Then why are you here? Are you also a troll?