I love this - anything that makes people feel more awkward about driving a Tesla is fantastic. We need to get to a point where anyone not interested in being slightly harassed all the time will avoid buying a Tesla.

Nevertheless, I believe that detaining European journalists for simply showing up indicates that the regime is more nervous now than it has ever been.

I agree Trump is normalizing authoritarianism, but I’m not sure he has had much of an impact on Erdogan. Erdogan has been leaning into authoritarianism for ages now, but few have protested as the economy has been strong. Now that he has destroyed the economy as well and people are protesting, he has nothing except the authoritarian textbook to protect him.

TL;DW:

• Old fashioned earplugs and passive headphones are good
• Electric headphones are bad as they generate feedback - worse than nothing
• Riot shields combined with earplugs/headphones are great
• Flip a riot shield around to reflect the sound back and target the operator. If you aim right it’ll get worse for the operator than for you

Oh damn, you’re right!

But sometimes on the fediverse there’s a “copy link to post/comment on original instance”, which I sometimes find to be useful. But this is already pretty great!

That’s true - it would be useful to have a “copy direct link” option in the menu bar for each comment. @rimu@piefed.social

I just put together my first feed today, collecting more than 60 US protest communities into one feed: https://piefed.social/f/50501

In the drop-down menus on top I can choose between either the communities I’m subscribed to, or the feeds I subscribe to. I can subscribe to public feeds compiled by other users, including users on other PieFed instances. I can also make a private feed if I don’t feel like sharing it.

It’s pretty great. Would absolutely recommend.

There are two main instances:
https://piefed.social/ and https://feddit.online/
There’s no mobile app/APK support at the moment, but it’s coming soon.

One criticism is that in some models the manual release of the back seat doors is near impossible to find, rendering them a death trap.

I think everyone is always interested in improving, but there are a billion different ideas of what improvement looks like. Especially with content moderation.

What is a brilliant way to handle some issues might cause new problems that may or may not be difficult to predict. A lot of people have a lot of ideas, and people feel strongly about it. And most importantly, it’s a lot of work to implement and typically not the most fun work for developers who tend to be be underpaid at best anyway.

It seems every fediverse service that gets big enough has people chanting about a hard fork because the developers don’t care enough about content moderation. I believe it’s probably more that it’s extremely difficult, and that developers facing the reality of the situation might come across as dismissive when responding to ideas and suggestions.

The Lemmy developers initially included a filter for numerous slurs - I have a hard time believing they don’t want content moderation to be their own vision of as good as possible.

In the end our strength is in fragmentation. I believe, no matter how little moderation tools improve, the small instances I’m on will never get as awful as Reddit. And if they do, I’ll migrate to another one that’s more trigger-happy about defederating. :)

That said, not sure whether you’re wrong and absolutely not correcting you! Just my five cents.

Mbin is very community oriented in it’s development, collective decision-making and all that. Lemmy is more subject to the ideas of it’s creators, for better or for worse.