They know. Unless you run some advanced stuff they can tell the packages match the frequency of torrenting.

Nah I’ve been watching wave / ship videos since like 15 years and this video is obviously fake. It’s just far too exaggerated.

Same :)

Grevious yes, but there is a point to be made that some rebels against the republic were fighting against an overstepping republic for independence without grasping their movement was being co-opted by the Sith.

A lot of them seemed more like leaders of various independentist movements who allied with others without really grasping the overarching political project.

This seems like a really good project. Frontend/UI agnostic, open dataset that can be used for basically all future OSS map type projects. Kudos to the devs and other volunteers.

That actually happened WTFFF??? I thought it was a meme.

ActivityPub devs as well 🥰

Late stage financialisation

Surprised that managed to get published given the academic environment in mainland China.

This kind of social media censorship is what we are heading towards if we keep regulating who can use social media as opposed to who can own it and how much power they have.

Might be worth looking around for pics to add to the article in wikimedia commons.

If you view the establishment as just the west, yeah sure, but by that logic you could call RT and SCMP anti-establishment which I really wouldn’t.

I guess I conceptualise the establishment as the main news actors that set the narrative inside and outside the west.

(btw I’m not saying Al Jazeera isn’t valuable as a source, I’m just really sceptical of calling it alt media unless you’re taking a purely western perspective on what is alt media and what isn’t)

Curious why Al Jazeera is included as alt media?

Surely it is part of the global media establishment. The biggest state owned international news website in the middle east.

I think there should be instances that block ML. But personally I prefer using the piefed instance block feature.

It’s weird that there’s no instance that has a default block of the triad with good uptime. lemmy.cafe worked great back when I had an account there maybe 1.5-2 years ago. Didn’t know it’s had major issues since.

Here is the chart the article is about

https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/GtAtA/1/

True but the real fix is bringing back the wealth tax.

Interesting thanks, my 45-35k is basically the same shorthand in my head might have been a bit optimistic.

Obviously people have been saying this for ages, but I think it’s worth recommending instances that don’t federate with the triad. Personally I prefer to make my own federation choices hence being on an instance that federates with basically everyone. But I remember my first lemmy account being on ML and it being an absolute horror as a new user. I wish someone had sent me to lemmy.cafe or something at first haha.

And Lemmy might have caught a bad name, so perhaps I guess we might have better success recommending piefed.

Yes. And this has been known for a while even though travel to China is being normalised in the west.

Oh yeah the vast majority has left, but that’s always the case, even sites like reddit have an order of magnitude or two more accounts than active users.

But people are acting like MAU has significantly declined over the past two years which it hasn’t really.

We’ve been hovering around 40k MAU in the threadi for 2 good years now.