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Also to add to this, Reddit blocks used to work like they do on Lemmy now, and the decision to change it there got a lot of negative feedback.

I just tried a Lemmy instance and there’s clearly a “Next” button to press after x posts to load new ones. I assume you have that toggled to an infinite feed through some setting, so just reverse that.

If you want proper paging, you can switch to Mbin. No need to abandon the idea and community of Lemmy to get away from infinite feeds. Edit: alternative Lemmy frontends might help as well.

I would, if my carrier didn’t drop support for it. For some reason Google Messages RCS doesn’t work with some people for me (even though they have it enabled), so I literally can’t send them images anymore.

Switzerland here.

Constitutional amendments are very common and easy here, but they need to go through the people and require a double majority (majority of the people + majority of the states). So the government can’t just abolish democracy, to use the example from your comment, without convincing regular people to agree to it.

As for the danger of the head of government ignoring the constitution like what Trump is doing in the US, that would be a lot harder here due to our “head of state/government” being a collective of seven people from four parties. So if any of them wants to ignore the constitution, they have to get the others to agree.

Imo numbers are the best comparison, because just like with kanji, a number has multiple readings and a meaning.

A “2” can be read as “two”, “twe” or “seco” depending on how it’s used (2 vs 12/20 vs 2nd). Just off the top of my head.

Kanji aren’t really hard, there’s just a lot of them. And I can’t learn that many at a time. So it takes ages to get to the point where you can actually read stuff, just in terms of volume. At least with my limits.

That said, one issue I’m noticing is that kanji with the default internet fonts are usually too small for me to make out the differences in the more complex ones. I often need to increase the font a bit with a userstyle to actually make stuff readable.

The “real” hard part is numerous readings (depending whether it’s paired with kana or another kanji, reflected from kunyomi & onyomi plus nanori when applied in people’s names).

Just don’t learn all the readings from the start. When the kanji is used alone as a word directly, there’s just one reading used for it. Other than that, you’re dealing with vocabulary.

We learn “2” as reading “two”, not “twe”, despite that reading being used in “twenty” and “twelve”. We learn the latter two as separate vocabulary words that simply include the “2” character. The same should be applied to kanji. Learn one word for the kanji, and the rest through vocabulary that uses the kanji.

Wanikani iirc takes this approach where they usually teach you the primary onyomi with the kanji, so you can read most vocabulary words right away, while only having to learn one reading. All of ther other readings are taught through vocabulary items indirectly.

There’s also Mbin for Reddit-likes.

Unlike Piefed and Lemmy, Mbin also has dedicated support for microblogging in addition to threads. But iirc that is on Piefed’s roadmap as well.

Swiss German is my native language, and I’m fluent in English. My English pronunciation is garbage though.

Theoretically I can also speak German, but I’m extremely rusty in it and lack confidence, so practically I turn into a stumbling mess that can’t say anything without running away to either one of the above two mid-sentence subconsciously.

Mbin supports microblogging and following users. I’m following quite a few Mastodon users. Also, upvotes are publically visible.

Piefed has multi-communities, though I forgot their name.

I started out with forums primarily. And Youtube.

I then tried out Facebook, Twitter, and Google+, but didn’t like any of them. My school for a time also mandated Netlog iirc.

Eventually I moved to Reddit and joined Discord.

When the blackout protests came around, I went looking for alternatives to Reddit I could try out while the subreddits I cared about were dark, which is when I saw people suggesting /kbin. Which I liked a lot more than Lemmy based on first impressions, so I joined it.

When /kbin died, I switched to Mbin. I’m still active on Reddit itself because I originally really only joined as a temporary measure. I liked it enough to stick around, but Reddit has not become that unusable yet that I would leave it for good.

Never used Instagram, Tiktok, 4chan, etc.

I’m Swiss, German-speaking, born 1996.

Why would that be weird? I assume that’s about banning federated posts from them, which makes perfect sense imo.

But there’s zero information gained from a self upvote. If I didn’t like my comment, I’d either delete it or edit it until I do.

Of course I like my comment if I keep it up, so a self upvote adds nothing. The only advantage I see is to make this place look more like Reddit, which isn’t really something I care about.

Might have to clarify that my instance (or rather Mbin in general) doesn’t do auto upvotes.

Though it doesn’t really change my stance. You can swap it around to removing the auto upvote, I don’t really see the point behind that being possible either.

If you like your content, keep it up. If you don’t like it, either edit it until you do or delete it. Upvotes and downvotes are for judging the content of others, not your own. So be it adding one when there’s zero, or removing the upvote automatically added by your instance, I don’t see the point in either being possible.

In my opinion I shouldn’t even have the ability to upvote my own comments. I don’t really see the point behind doing so.

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They aren’t. The restrictions are mandated by Microsoft, not governments.

They do have to take action in regards to their own Realms servers, but that’s it. Restrictions on random unaffiliated Java servers are either for brand image or other selfish reasons. For example, someone here mentioned chat for UK teens, that one is almost certainly to force ID verification into the game, not to actually comply with anything. It’s for data harvesting.

I’m not a lawyer and haven’t had such a situation before, but isn’t the burden of proof supposed to be on the accuser, not the accused? They’re the ones who need to prove the files have been illegally obtained, not the other way around.

I think the US naming themselves after America isn’t really any different from the European Union naming itself after Europe.

It’s “United States OF America”, not “United States that are America”. It’s a bunch of united states that exist in America, not the states that make up America.

Please assume that stale carrot man isn’t in office and that the U.S. is currently being a reasonable and humane country that actually stands for democracy, liberty, and freedom.

It’s not like the US was a leader in those things before Trump. He didn’t invent the issues, he just made them more visible. The US has always overthrown democratically elected governments to install dictators, and people have complained about its own election system for ages. There’s a lack of consumer and labor protections, and the fact you only have two right-wing parties and anything left of center is considered extremist opinions doesn’t help at all. It’s honestly hard to imagine the US actually standing for democracy, liberty, and freedom, beyond empty propaganda.

Don’t forget the Lemmy Federate step, otherwise that would be the obvious answer to that last step. Especially if you’re on a smaller instance.

Other instances won’t get your community and posts therein automatically, only instances with subscribers do. Lemmy Federate automatically uses a bot to subscribe to the community from various instances that have opted in to the service, allowing your community to reach those instances from the start.

Switzerland has Fedlex. For example here’s the constitution.