Fuck Hamas. They are a blight on the Palestinian cause.

Edit: Typo

I am confused by the way this is reported. Did he mistake his son and his ex-partner to be officers who had come to evict him and shoot at them? Or did he hold them responsible for his looming eviction?

Anyway, US really need better gun control. Looks like any nutjob can get a gun there. It is tragic to see a young life ending this way.

Mozilla has set up an instance on Mastodon. But it is understandable that they have presence on mainstream social media websites since that is where most of their users are.

Everyone in that Telegram group, including her, needs help.

There is nothing dramatic about it. Defederating from problematic instances is nothing new for federated platforms.

Self-hosting your own instance might be the best way for you. You can surely use kbin for this. But I would recommend you to check out Pixelfed, which is focused on image sharing and is a part of the fediverse. A dedicated pixelfed would meet your needs really well.

Ahh yes, the conservative liberal communist!

Firefox has had a Reader View feature for a while now. But adding the 'Bypass Paywalls clean' filter on ublock origin in Firefox for Windows and Firefox for Android works the best for me. https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters

Its nice to see all the bigots popping up in one place. Makes it easier to block them. And we really need to get some instance level mods.

As a user of the fediverse, I appreciate you for doing this.

So much lives cut short by mindless violence..

Yes, that one could be misinterpretation. But there are also more problematic behaviours listed in the lawsuit:

The legal action, filed in Los Angeles on Tuesday, includes allegations the dancers were "forced to endure sexually denigrating behaviour" and were "pressured into participating in disturbing sex shows" between 2021 and 2023.

Among the claims against Lizzo - whose real name is Melissa Viviane Jefferson - are that she "pressured Ms Davis to touch the breasts" of a performer in a nightclub in Amsterdam, and Ms Davis - after resisting - eventually acquiesced "fearing it may harm her future on the team" if she didn't do so.

The case also alleges that staff working for BGBT scolded dancers for "unacceptable and disrespectful" behaviour while working on the tour, without specifying what that behaviour was.

The dancers allege that "only the dance cast - comprised of full-figured women of colour - were ever spoken to in this manner, giving [the dancers] the impression that these comments were charged with racial and fat-phobic animus".

Additionally, it alleges the dance team's captain, Shirlene Quigley, pushed her Christian beliefs on performers and derided those who engaged in premarital sex.

She is also accused of openly discussing one of the former dancers' virginity, and posting about it on social media.

When the Twitter migration happened, a lot of folks got overenthusiastic about the idea of the fediverse and started setting up their own Mastodon instances, despite having little to no experience with selfhosting before.

A lot of such instances have since shut down as they realised the amount of efforts that actually needs into hosting such a platform, especially instances with open registrations. However, a large number of them did survive and are now thriving.

Has the growth rate slowed? Sure, just like it is expected happen after a sudden influx. But it is false to say that Mastodon growth has stalled. Instead, the phrase I would use is 'stabilized'. Mastodon growth has stabilized into a healthy level as user growth is now happening more organically. Some stats below:

12,808,214 accounts +217,864 in the last week

Stats on most active instances:

By number of users:
https://i.postimg.cc/fb6FyY89/Screenshot-20230625-121432-Firefox.jpg

By number of posts:
https://i.postimg.cc/cCWbM0y1/Screenshot-20230625-121509-Firefox.jpg

How can anyone look at these numbers and say that the growth has stalled?

Most Palestinians alive today were born into what is practically an open-air prison that is cordoned off by Israel. Being oppressed is all they have known. Its obvious that they hate their colonisers. And all these bombings will only fuel that hatred.

Israel has already taken over and profits from Palestine's oil and gas reserves

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/6/21/palestines-forgotten-oil-and-gas-resources
https://unctad.org/news/unrealized-potential-palestinian-oil-and-gas-reserves

Should be a credible legal defense /s

This is either going to fizzle out in the next few days or get really ugly.

Yes

Lee Yoon-seop advocated for unification in his piece that was published in the North's state media in 2016, South Korean media report.

He wrote that if the two Koreas were united under Pyongyang's socialist system, people would get free housing, healthcare and education.

You omitted the key point here, the poem advocates for all of Korea to be united under the North Korean regime.

Discord is not FOSS and is a privacy nightmare.

This is terrible news! I am going to struggle to find a replacement for the gallery app.

There is a real need for a discussion on the publish or perish culture in academia as it seems to be having a negative impact on the overall quality of research.

Until kbin.social servers are fully upgraded, such delays will occur. Even afterwards, it might happen if the other instance is running on slow servers. We are still in the early stages of this platform, and there is no huge corporate throwing money at us (it is so early that there hasn't even been an actual 'Release' yet). These quirks are to be expected as kbin develops.

Japan has a lot of work to do when it comes to gender equality

Yikes! Sounds like something straight out of the fash playbook.

I like this rule

I guess we will have to wait and see. This can't have been good for the morale. And this was also the first time that the Russian citizens would have felt vulnerable about their security.

Since when did Edge become a good browser?

Those links are working fine. Kbin is federating well with those instances. A bit of latency is normal.

I have no idea about the context of that painting, but I don't think the children are being sexualised in it. The under-age content that will be posted on lemmynsfw (fictional or not) will definitely be sexual in nature, and that is deeply problematic and might also be illegal in several countries. They can do whatever they want with their instance, but the users of kbin.social shouldn't have to be looking at such content.

Maybe the government should listen to the people?

That is too much effort for a site I don't really care about.

I still use them for my TV and AC remotes, flashlights and wall clocks.

I never realised that many people don't need to use it anymore.

But the instance owner has been acting pretty defensive about it, and seem to be going ahead with it.

Its always good to see more instances coming up! Maybe contact Ernest to see if you can get it listed on kbin.pub?

Will CCP also start following the core values of socialism now?

The Great Emu War.

Comparing the defederation of an instance for allowing underage sexual content with the very real discrimination faced by LGBTQ+ people is one of the shittiest takes I have seen.

The number of users are just stabilising. This is expected after a sudden spike in users.

Too fragile. Too expensive.