admin 1y ago • 100%
Mastodon has all the censorship and defederation problems of Lemmy.
Nostr doesn't
admin 1y ago • 100%
The server problems started again when we upgraded from 18.3 to 18.4. I spent a few very late nights trying to keep them up without success.
So I would prefer to invest my time in the future (censorship resistant and user owns their I'd) rather then pouring more time into the Lemmy platform where censorship and defederation are growing in popularity.
admin 1y ago • 100%
Cool, share your address so we can follow you
admin 1y ago • 100%
Added.
Thanks for the recommendation.
See you on Nostr
admin 1y ago • 100%
I will use yours for the time being and see how Nostr evolves
cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/765290 > Two years ago when I launched Exploding-Heads, Lemmy offered a way to let me play a small role in fighting back against: > - censorship > - deplatforming > - propaganda > - Big Tech tyranny, and > - to help spread suppressed stories. > > I knew Lemmy had its challenges, but I hoped it would evolve for the better. Sadly after 2 years, the culture of censorship through defederation has only grown stronger. > > Meanwhile a better alternative has sprung up in the form of Nostr: > - it lets you own your own profile - if you move to another Nostr app or site, you still keep your content and followers > - it makes censorship very difficult > - it is not perfect, but is evolving for the better very quickly. > > As a user you should not be at the mercy of instance operators who are > - petty tyrants, or > - benevolent dictators (who may turn tyrannical at any moment) > > I do not feel I can alter the tyrannical direction Lemmy is heading in and I want to dedicate my time and resources to a better alternative. > > So Exploding Heads is moving to Nostr. > > Exploding-Heads.com will go offline August 31st 2023. > > Please join us on Nostr. > > Exploding Heads address on Nostr is npub1qprptnnuwnqc6h6wxc2q07rfwcmj7cfc6g4r5dgnlkxaysmpr0mqc5365p > > Sounds complicated, but it is pretty easy. Here is what I recommend to get started > > Amethyst App > - Lets you follow people > - Lets you follow #hastags (I have been using communities as a substitute for #hashtags on Lemmy > - Has evolving support for communities > > Habla.news > - a Nostr alternative for Medium for long form content > Damus app (Apple IOS) > If you have any questions about getting up and running on Nostr, please ask them here https://exploding-heads.com/c/nostrblog > > In closing, I sincerely apologize to all of you who are going to lose their profiles and content (please get anything you want off by August 31st), but it proves my warning about the problem with relying on benevolent dictators. > > Please make sure to say hi to us on Nostr. > > I hope the majority of our wonderful Exploding Heads community will make the move to Nostr with us.
admin 1y ago • 100%
Yes we are moving to Nostr.
Please join us.
Two years ago when I launched Exploding-Heads, Lemmy offered a way to let me play a small role in fighting back against: - censorship - deplatforming - propaganda - Big Tech tyranny, and - to help spread suppressed stories. I knew Lemmy had its challenges, but I hoped it would evolve for the better. Sadly after 2 years, the culture of censorship through defederation has only grown stronger. Meanwhile a better alternative has sprung up in the form of Nostr: - it lets you own your own profile - if you move to another Nostr app or site, you still keep your content and followers - it makes censorship very difficult - it is not perfect, but is evolving for the better very quickly. As a user you should not be at the mercy of instance operators who are - petty tyrants, or - benevolent dictators (who may turn tyrannical at any moment) I do not feel I can alter the tyrannical direction Lemmy is heading in and I want to dedicate my time and resources to a better alternative. So Exploding Heads is moving to Nostr. Exploding-Heads.com will go offline August 31st 2023. Please join us on Nostr. Exploding Heads address on Nostr is npub1qprptnnuwnqc6h6wxc2q07rfwcmj7cfc6g4r5dgnlkxaysmpr0mqc5365p Sounds complicated, but it is pretty easy. Here is what I recommend to get started Amethyst App - Lets you follow people - Lets you follow #hastags (I have been using communities as a substitute for #hashtags on Lemmy - Has evolving support for communities Habla.news - a Nostr alternative for Medium for long form content Damus app (Apple IOS) If you have any questions about getting up and running on Nostr, please ask them here https://exploding-heads.com/c/nostrblog In closing, I sincerely apologize to all of you who are going to lose their profiles and content (please get anything you want off by August 31st), but it proves my warning about the problem with relying on benevolent dictators. Please make sure to say hi to us on Nostr. I hope the majority of our wonderful Exploding Heads community will make the move to Nostr with us.
Two years ago when I launched Exploding-Heads, Lemmy offered a way to let me play a small role in fighting back against: - censorship - deplatforming - propaganda - Big Tech tyranny, and - to help spread suppressed stories. I knew Lemmy had its challenges, but I hoped it would evolve for the better. Sadly after 2 years, the culture of censorship through defederation has only grown stronger. Meanwhile a better alternative has sprung up in the form of Nostr: - it lets you own your own profile - if you move to another Nostr app or site, you still keep your content and followers - it makes censorship very difficult - it is not perfect, but is evolving for the better very quickly. As a user you should not be at the mercy of instance operators who are - petty tyrants, or - benevolent dictators (who may turn tyrannical at any moment) I do not feel I can alter the tyrannical direction Lemmy is heading in and I want to dedicate my time and resources to a better alternative. So Exploding Heads is moving to Nostr. Exploding-Heads.com will go offline August 31st 2023. Please join us on Nostr. Exploding Heads address on Nostr is npub1qprptnnuwnqc6h6wxc2q07rfwcmj7cfc6g4r5dgnlkxaysmpr0mqc5365p Sounds complicated, but it is pretty easy. Here is what I recommend to get started Amethyst App - Lets you follow people - Lets you follow #hastags (I have been using communities as a substitute for #hashtags on Lemmy - Has evolving support for communities Habla.news - a Nostr alternative for Medium for long form content Damus app (Apple IOS) If you have any questions about getting up and running on Nostr, please ask them here https://exploding-heads.com/c/nostrblog In closing, I sincerely apologize to all of you who are going to lose their profiles and content (please get anything you want off by August 31st), but it proves my warning about the problem with relying on benevolent dictators. Please make sure to say hi to us on Nostr. I hope the majority of our wonderful Exploding Heads community will make the move to Nostr with us.
admin 1y ago • 100%
V18.4 introduced problems.
The only way I could get the system back up was to roll it back to a backup a day earlier.
Sorry
cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/739484 > Emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop show that he made continuous efforts to airbrush his image and the Wikipedia articles associated with his Ukrainian benefactors. > > The outreach by high-priced consultants making stealth edits to Wikipedia, for a period, paid off.
dailycaller.com
During the summer of 2020, at the same time thousands of BLM protestors were taking to the streets of Washington, D.C. and covering public spaces with paint and chalk, two pro-life activists were arrested for chalking the words “Black Pre-Born Lives Matter”on a public sidewalk. The Frederick Douglass Foundation and Students for Life of America, who organized the pro-life protest and filed the lawsuit over the arrests, “plausibly alleged” that the statute’s enforcement was viewpoint discrimination, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia found.
cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/736182 > - Asking for Phone Numbers Is ‘Conspiracy’ > > - Encouraging Voters to Watch Television Is ‘Conspiracy’ > > - Grassroots Campaigning Is ‘Conspiracy’ > > - Reserving Rooms Is ‘Conspiracy’ > > - Seeking Signature Verification Is ‘Conspiracy’ > > - Encouraging Someone to Attend a Hearing Is ‘Conspiracy’ > > - Encouraging Special Legislative Sessions Is ‘Conspiracy’ > > - Phone Calls to Lawmakers Are ‘Conspiracy’ >
cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/736182 > - Asking for Phone Numbers Is ‘Conspiracy’ > > - Encouraging Voters to Watch Television Is ‘Conspiracy’ > > - Grassroots Campaigning Is ‘Conspiracy’ > > - Reserving Rooms Is ‘Conspiracy’ > > - Seeking Signature Verification Is ‘Conspiracy’ > > - Encouraging Someone to Attend a Hearing Is ‘Conspiracy’ > > - Encouraging Special Legislative Sessions Is ‘Conspiracy’ > > - Phone Calls to Lawmakers Are ‘Conspiracy’ >
- Asking for Phone Numbers Is ‘Conspiracy’ - Encouraging Voters to Watch Television Is ‘Conspiracy’ - Grassroots Campaigning Is ‘Conspiracy’ - Reserving Rooms Is ‘Conspiracy’ - Seeking Signature Verification Is ‘Conspiracy’ - Encouraging Someone to Attend a Hearing Is ‘Conspiracy’ - Encouraging Special Legislative Sessions Is ‘Conspiracy’ - Phone Calls to Lawmakers Are ‘Conspiracy’
Plummeting birth rates in the United States have essentially wiped out huge numbers of potential Disney Plus watchers. Their parents just never bothered to create them. Worse, Disney movies — and its feminist, pro-abortion, girlboss executives and princess stars — actively encourage women not to become mothers. Snow White is not allowed to fall in love and marry the prince — if she did, she might not get to run for Senate, or even live her dreams as a mid-level marketing manager in Disney Consumer Products. Disney is suffering from a problem it helped engineer. Classic princess movies used to inspire young girls to want to find their prince and get married one day. All those traditional and therefore bad messages have been “updated” to “reflect the world we live in now,” of course. Welcome to the dystopian, child-unfriendly world Disney helped create. It made this childless bed, and now we all have to lie in it.
- By the Government’s Own Definition, It’s Censoring - Government Officials Treated Internet Monopolies Like Their Subordinates - Judges Likened Government Behavior to Mobsters - Censorship Is Election Interference - Democrats Want Free Speech for Themselves While Banning It for Their Enemies - Today’s Internet Is Still Massively Rigged
More likely they will run a RINO to try and hurt Trump. Good old bait and switch.
www.zerohedge.com
cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/735571 > Some of the most dramatic CCTV footage acquired by The Epoch Times showed the disabling of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died the day after the Capitol protest and riots of Jan. 6. > > Mr. Sicknick, 42, of Springfield, Va.—a 13-year U.S. Capitol Police veteran and central New Jersey native—died late on Jan. 7, 2021. His cause of death was two strokes. It was ruled a natural death by the D.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Mr. Sicknick was buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia after lying in state in the Capitol Rotunda in February 2021. > > Federal prosecutors charged two men with assaulting Mr. Sicknick with pepper spray: Julian Elie Khater, 34, of Somerset, New Jersey, and George P. Tanios, 41, of Morgantown, West Virginia. > > The video shows that just after 2:20 p.m., Mr. Sicknick and two MPD officers charged out into the crowd of rioters, who had been pulling over security barriers with a thick freight strap. > > In the center, however, an MPD commander fired numerous bursts of pepper spray from a high-velocity tank that snaked 20 feet or more into the crowd, the video shows. Both the stream of pepper spray and a plume of cast-off caused by stiff winds passed near the left side of Sicknick’s face, the video shows. > > Mr. Sicknick quickly retreated from the scene, just ahead of a rioter who charged at him and an MPD officer. He rinsed out his eyes near the inauguration scaffolding, then climbed the southwest steps to the upper terrace. He remained on duty but collapsed at about 10 p.m. after officers noticed him slurring his speech. > > Mr. Khater was sentenced to 6 years and 8 months in prison on a plea deal for assault with a deadly weapon and other charges. Although he was initially charged with 12 criminal counts, Mr. Tanios pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors and was sentenced to time served, one year of probation, and a $1,800 fine.
cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/735411 > He faces absurd charges of spying, when he never spied. His crime was to embarrass the US government by selectively releasing information that Washington had tried and failed to keep secret. > > I do not think this is a crime, here or there. Claims are made against him, by supporters of the extradition, which I do not think are true. > > He took considerable care not to release material which would endanger or compromise individuals, and if he were an American citizen he would certainly be protected by the First Amendment to the US Constitution, which safeguards journalists – as Mr Assange is – from the anger of the state.
He faces absurd charges of spying, when he never spied. His crime was to embarrass the US government by selectively releasing information that Washington had tried and failed to keep secret. I do not think this is a crime, here or there. Claims are made against him, by supporters of the extradition, which I do not think are true. He took considerable care not to release material which would endanger or compromise individuals, and if he were an American citizen he would certainly be protected by the First Amendment to the US Constitution, which safeguards journalists – as Mr Assange is – from the anger of the state.
www.thegatewaypundit.com
cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/734783 > Unless these criminals are held accountable, we will get more of the same. > > Trump betrayed the nation when broke his promise to prosecute Hillary Clinton for her crimes, which is one of the reasons we are in such a terrible state now.
Unless these criminals are held accountable, we will get more of the same. Trump betrayed the nation when broke his promise to prosecute Hillary Clinton for her crimes, which is one of the reasons we are in such a terrible state now.
www.thegatewaypundit.com
cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/734671 > Soros-funded Fani Willis’s indictment includes Trump asking his supporters to watch One America News.
cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/734671 > Soros-funded Fani Willis’s indictment includes Trump asking his supporters to watch One America News.
Soros-funded Fani Willis’s indictment includes Trump asking his supporters to watch One America News.
admin 1y ago • 100%
Because we do not enforce the approved narrative.
Rather we welcome independent thought, diverse opinions, discussion, and debate.
www.wcdispatch.com
cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/728281 > You may remember the story from the 2016 election cycle: the Uranium One scandal that rocked the Clinton campaign. > > An anonymous informant came forward with credible intel that linked the Clinton Foundation to a Russian company's acquisition of Uranium One. > > This controversial deal allowed Rosatom, Russia's state-owned atomic energy corporation, to gain control over about 20% of the U.S.'s uranium extraction capacity. The sale required approval from nine federal agencies, including the State Department then headed by Hillary Clinton. > > Allegations arose that the approval was directly influenced by donations to the Clinton Foundation by individuals connected to Uranium One, sparking accusations of a "pay-to-play" scheme.
admin 1y ago • 100%
And the lawyers
admin 1y ago • 50%
Your definition of "educational purpose" could include virtually anything. There are greater educational needs for that taxpayer money.
Consenting adults are different from kids. Society has always protected kids from inappropriate activities where possible.
admin 1y ago • 50%
What dies it gave to do with education?
Is it worth the risk kids will be exposed to inappropriate activities.
It is grooming pure and simple.
Why is the school board spending taxpayer funds allocated to education on this? Could the money not be better spent on school supplies?
admin 1y ago • 100%
I am watching the community he has set up and I have preemptively warned him.
admin 1y ago • 100%
Good idea, but it is up to the Lemmy Dev team
admin 1y ago • 100%
I have 2
npub1qqrg3uhx27ha2zd2ckpdg4z4skpkqprdv7qze3w6476uk38m6xhqgum76f
npub1qprptnnuwnqc6h6wxc2q07rfwcmj7cfc6g4r5dgnlkxaysmpr0mqc5365p
admin 1y ago • 100%
In plain site.
Anywhere else would be futile
admin 1y ago • 100%
I don't waste my time engaging with tyrannical crap.
They all know users can block communities the user does not want to see, but they do not want to give the user that power.
admin 1y ago • 100%
Sorry gang, I upgraded to v18.4 yesterday and the CPU spikes are back.
admin 1y ago • 100%
Ramaswamy is a lot of flashy talk who seems to change his views as the winds changed.
DeSantis has proven to have a steel of spine and stand up for what is right.
admin 1y ago • 100%
Fi fi for fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman