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  • What are some common things people buy that you would never buy?

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  • You can find these old / used / open box pretty cheap now.

    I got a 2+ year old model that originally sold for like $1500 USD, for ~200.

  • What are some common things people buy that you would never buy?

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  • The best pourover kits in existence cost like $25 USD max too. There's no reason to not learn how to do it right.

  • What are some common things people buy that you would never buy?

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  • Streaming subscriptions. I swear the average nowadays seems to be like 4 per person because ppl don't know how to torrent anymore

  • Who are prominent figures vilified by Western media and where can I learn from them in a different light?

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  • Got memory-holed by google, not much we can do about that (apologies for the orwellism)

  • Zohran Mamdani Just Inherited the NYPD Surveillance State

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  • If he says anything even slightly negative about NYC's police force, I could see him getting Huey Long'd pretty quickly.

  • The biggest problems with Lemmy right now

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  • To respond to some of these:

    Lack of granular privacy / profile control

    Fair, but also lemmy isn't trying to be a facebook-style social network, but a reddit alternative. So the main action isn't really following people, but following communities. GNU social and others probably do granularity and limited sharing better.

    Poor content discovery / lack of niche communities / limited diversity

    There are a few external tools to help with this, but @Nutomic also built in a feature for new instances to pull various popular communities, that will be in lemmy 1.0 . This should help with some content and communities being on new instances.

    Fragmentation across instances / duplication of communities

    This is a feature, not a bug. Many communities run by different people, with different userbases, is a good thing. [email protected] is going to be different from [email protected] and [email protected]

    Bad User Experience (UX) / usability issues

    There are like 10 different open source apps for lemmy, on every platform, with completely different UIs and experiences. This is a far better ecosystem than anything else I can think of (especially reddit), and if someone has problems with UIs on any of them, they can contribute.

    Performance / reliability / scaling problems

    Will always be an issue that needs work, but lemmy has scaled up to support ~40k active monthly users without too many issues. Most of our problems are database, not network related. Both problems can be solved solely by development resources.

    Moderation, safety tools, and content-quality issues

    Mods can remove all content at the click of a button, and users can report items. I'd need specifics on other things that are missing.

    Search and archive weak/incomplete

    Would need more specifics here, but we have a lot of search filters and capabilities.

    Over-representation of particular content types (US-news, memes, agenda posts) and low content-quality

    Somewhat unavoidable on anglo-net, and especially when people are drawing in large numbers of users from reddit, which suffers from that above. Also there are some servers that do no moderation on US content, and let it overrun every single community. Here we try to keep it on /c/usa unless it affects the greater world, and we also try to remove low-quality drumpf says type-memes that overrun reddit.

  • Who are prominent figures vilified by Western media and where can I learn from them in a different light?

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  • @Cowbee has a great reading list here that goes over many of these. Any anti-imperialist historical account is going to give you a better view

    Here's a few documentaries about different leaders:

    And I keep a study guide here.

  • Zohran Mamdani Just Inherited the NYPD Surveillance State

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  • I'm betting on absolutely nothing happening to the NYC prison camp complex, especially rikers island.

  • Italic and bold markup should output italic and bold text, not emphasized and strongly emphasized text

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  • Increased Spam on Lemmy Recently

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  • Some servers don't seem to be doing any vetting, allowing a lot of repost accounts, bot accounts, and karma farmers (even though we don't show karma in lemmy).

    All we can do is report those accounts, block them, and if the servers keep allowing spammers, then block those servers.

  • No thank you for your service

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  • At least in western cinema, only sci-fi can get away with anti-imperialism. Star wars (the rebellion = vietnamese communists), lots of Star trek episodes especially in DS9, Dune (the book first, then the film), and pry a lot more I can't think of right now.

  • VoTe BluE

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  • The KHIVE is here to correct the record on her prison slave labor scandals, defense of white supremacist cops, disproportionate jailing of black people, and staunch support for Israel.

  • VoTe BluE

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  • Kinda crazy how democrats now are just like: "Yeah, I eat a plate of shit. I don't like it, but they told me that was the only option. So I did it, I'm proud of it, and anyone else should be ashamed to not be eating shit like me."

  • No thank you for your service

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  • Obligatory US troop copypasta

    You see american choppers in the bright blue sky, hundreds and hundreds of screaming american soldiers drop from it, you look across the field and see the tanks rolling in. You hear a loud explosion and realise that the shrine you have protected for thousands of years with tooth and nail is destroyed by the empire, you come to the realisation that this is very probably the end of your people who’ve struggled to survive all these centuries.You realise that very soon there is going to be a river of blood of your people here; white phosphorus and depleted uranium will be shot very soon, deforming babies for decades to come, and millions of your people are gonna be killed. Your millennia old language and religion will be wiped out, you’re very likely the last of your kind.

    Suddenly, an American soldier kicks you down, puts his foot on your neck and aims his standard ar-15 on the side of your head all while screaming; you realise you’re gonna die, and you won’t have to see the destruction of your community that you fostered so carefully all these centuries for.

    Just before he pulls the trigger, you think to yourself, “To be fair to him, he probably had a low GPA in highschool and didnt have a health-care, those are notoriously hard to get in America”.

  • When the material reality starts breaking into the liberal fantasy world

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  • https://redsails.org/china-has-billionaires/

    The PRC commands the heights of the economy. The most important point, is that capital is deliberately permitted and restricted, only allowed in some sectors, and not allowed to rise above the state or organize as a class, as in capitalist states:

  • When the material reality starts breaking into the liberal fantasy world

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  • VoTe BluE

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  • This thread is being targeted by a lot of no-content "correct the record" fediverse accounts, upvoting pro-genocide US democratic party and Israeli talking points. Please report them so we can ban them ASAP.

    Thank you to all the posters below doing great work debunking them.

  • VoTe BluE

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  • If Harris had won the 2024 election, do you honestly think she would be mass deporting immigrants without a trial, starting a trade war with China, attempt to cut funding for FEMA, etc?

    Of course, look at her predecessor. Obama massively increased ICE, deportations, and did a pivot to asia.

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  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Thanks, I really needed that ad

  • Rust Programming @lemmy.ml
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    This Week in Rust 609 · This Week in Rust

    this-week-in-rust.org /blog/2025/07/23/this-week-in-rust-609/
  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Operation Condor

  • Jerboa @lemmy.ml
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    Jerboa Release 0.0.80

    github.com /LemmyNet/jerboa/releases/tag/0.0.80
  • Rust @programming.dev
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    This Week in Rust 608 · This Week in Rust

    this-week-in-rust.org /blog/2025/07/16/this-week-in-rust-608/
  • Rust Programming @lemmy.ml
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    This Week in Rust 608 · This Week in Rust

    this-week-in-rust.org /blog/2025/07/16/this-week-in-rust-608/
  • Rust Programming @lemmy.ml
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    Helix Editor Release 25.07 Highlights

    helix-editor.com /news/release-25-07-highlights/
  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Helix Editor Release 25.07 Highlights

    helix-editor.com /news/release-25-07-highlights/
  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Alienation

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    "They're the same picture"

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    The tragedy of the commons

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Never ask

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Apology

  • Rust @programming.dev
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    Scooter - An interactive search and replace for the terminal.

    github.com /thomasschafer/scooter
  • Rust Programming @lemmy.ml
    Dessalines @lemmy.ml

    Scooter - An interactive search and replace for the terminal.

    github.com /thomasschafer/scooter
  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Scooter - An interactive search and replace for the terminal.

    github.com /thomasschafer/scooter
  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Hand it over

  • Rust @programming.dev
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    Ubuntu 25.10 Switches to Rust-based Sudo

    www.omgubuntu.co.uk /2025/05/ubuntu-25-10-rust-sudo-rs-change
  • Rust Programming @lemmy.ml
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    Ubuntu 25.10 Switches to Rust-based Sudo

    www.omgubuntu.co.uk /2025/05/ubuntu-25-10-rust-sudo-rs-change
  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    First time?