It looks like it's all orchestrated by Iran. Hezbollah, under Iran control, Hamas and Yemeni rebels. Hamas shooting at Israel in a way that they clearly knew would necessitate a massive response. What I'm wondering is what they gain from this. Perhaps solidarity from other powers in the Middle East, causing hatred of Israel? I'm also wondering if this is all covering action for China to tie down the US while China attempts to take Taiwan. We might be living through what in the future textbooks will be under the heading of factors leading up to.

Joined yesterday coming here from Reddit. My favourite app no longer works (Reddit is fun) and I just can't get myself to use the official app. Lemmy seems pretty cool so far, only missing a few subs that were not super large on Reddit but are not really viable here due to a small number of users. Hopefully that will change if the number of users keeps growing so fast.

China never imposes its will on other countries, nor does it slip any selfish geopolitical agenda into the initiative

Hahahaha. Sure. Except when they cancel trade deals with Australia and bully small European countries. I'm SURE this is just free money out of the goodness of dictator Xi's heart.

Now we just need Reddit is Fun for Lemmy.

Chinese government nowadays is just as fascist as Mussolini was back in the day. Revanchist and extremely nationalistic tendencies are strong. They think they are the future superpower and are salivating at the thought of oppressing the entire world under their yoke. I'll take that they call "US hegemony" over the Chinese oppression any day, don't need to think about it.

If he keeps going like that, Uncle Sam might soon throw in free room and board for him.

Lemmy is Fun? 👍

We really don't have disdain for the Americans. Most Americans I've met have been great.

He's afraid Prigozhin will run.

Ahhh right so the information is there publicly available just not in the existing clients. Interesting.

He wants to increase the threshold of where you start paying 40%. The title of this article makes it sound like it's 45% but it's not. Currently this threshold is at about £50k. So this would make the biggest difference to exactly the middle classes.

Yeah Reddit won but the Reddit users lost. Lost access to awesome apps most of all. I personally think it's fair for Reddit to charge for API access but it seems hardheaded to charge orders or magnitude more per user than they make on their own platform through advertising. I currently only use Reddit on desktop because I'm not going to use their crappy official app. Indeed I lost out, congrats Spez on your victory. In the meantime I'm on Lemmy more than I used to be and I hardly ever comment on Reddit posts anymore.

Yeah agree I am not sure that's a feature I'd want either tbh if it wasn't already there. But seems like it is in some form.

This is almost certainly nothing to do with gaming but rather with preventing China from building up their own chip industry and using US chips in things like AI applications.

Tried sync and seems pretty good so far. In the absence of RIF.

I did this. I didn't initially realize there is such a thing as instances (I thought I was joining Lemmy). Came from Reddit so didn't expect this. Now I only use my Lemmy.world account, the other one is doing nothing (should probably get around deleting it at some point).

That's really interesting. How do we know this?

Thanks for the tip

Outright lying about the numbers is very different from just not allowing downvotes though.

Cool, thanks for the explanation. TIL

Never heard of Hexbear (kind of new around here). Why were they defederated? I'm actually on Lemmy World.

If they were to apply to rejoin, as well as joining the Schengen and the euro, I'd want them to have a minimum 60% in favour in a referendum (not just in the polls). Something like a membership of the EU, a political project, requires strong public support.

I see yeah indeed that works! Although it looks like it only shows a subset of all votes.

Somebody should make an app that uses the anonymous Reddit JSON API to copy the popular Reddit posts and post them over here.

Oh wow. After reading the announcement I'm glad they got defederated.

I use Google Play Music and it's been pretty good. Haven't noticed any shenanigans, no ads or anything of the sort.

If junior doctors are paid so badly wouldn't a better response to this be to quit and do something else or move to a different country? You help yourself and eventually the NHS has to realise that only paying a gazillion bureaucrats whilst having too few and too badly paid doctors isn't going to work out. To be fair this is already happening, many doctors have left and we have 22 month waiting times... Time is approaching where NHS, the huge bureaucratic behemoth, is dismantled and replaced with something better.