It’s one thing to tweak a browser that comes in kit form from Mozilla’s code. It’s another thing altogether to continue maintaining it if Firefox ever dies. I don’t know if any of these clones have the kind of teams needed to do all the work Mozilla have done for them.
The “I don’t care if you go broke, give me what I want” stance I’m seeing online seems short-sighted at best and narcissistic at worst.
Good point. I think doing nothing at all is always a bad idea.
And even with hindsight I still don’t know if it would have been better to do the stuff, some of the stuff or nothing.
By Grabthor’s hammer, I have to agree.
Oh dear. I’ve just seen your comment history. I don’t think we’ll be agreeing on much. Good luck.
You can only laugh from a place of privilege. Please educated yourself on the Indian Act and progress with existing treaties. Your comment is at odds with the reality in Canada.
The irony of a nation of colonial land thieves complaining about immigration …
Canadians should settle their debts with First Nations and honour their treaties, like good immigrants before judging others.
This is great 🙏
Oh, this is wonderful. I’ve just subscribed. Thank you!
I like DW and used to follow the Inside Europe podcast, but they had a lot of British and Irish people presenting the shows which sort of dampened the feeling of escapism I had been enjoying.
Thank you!
I’m not interested in the languages themselves. Just looking for different mindsets and temperaments. By different perspectives I don’t mean different politics (although that would be a symptom) but maybe varied worldviews on life.
There’s a TED talk by Lera Boroditsky on how different cultures see the world very differently based on their language. I would ideally like to hear from the people she is talking about, especially indigenous people, but in English. https://www.ted.com/dubbing/lera_boroditsky_how_language_shapes_the_way_we_think?audio=en&language=en
I agree with all that and I don’t blame you for leaving there if that’s the experience you had. I do think even the best moderation will have bias. It’s also a thankless job. I’ve done it before on Facebook and the amount of work it takes to resolve a conflict it a bit crazy for an unpaid gig. The medium of text isn’t well suited to it unless you’re retired or something and have lots of free time. And that’s also the people who in good faith genuinely feel they’ve been wronged for not being given carte blanche in the group.
Automoderation can be helpful in detecting patterns and alleviating work from the moderators so they can spend time with their families* etc. I would say to anyone who is frustrated by that to think of it from the moderators perspective: “if I’m still in the automod queue, they must be really under pressure”. That kind of empathy online would make the role of moderator a bit more appealing to someone like myself, at least.
I agree with you about federation. It seems to be a really good solution, although it’s in its infancy and discoverability and accessibility are still an issue.
Thanks for asking. The podcast would need to be in English, yes. I’m actually open to all topics except Anglo culture and politics. So, anything from Europe, Africa, Asia, Baltics etc.
Topics could be art, environment / nature, culture, sustainability, mythology, degrowth, decolonisation, cooperative businesses, music and entertainment, local news, books and literature, languages (explored through English), local community and climate.
Maybe I don’t frequent enough to notice that happening.
At least he has made the code freely available for others to host their own instance with their own moderation rules/style.
I’ve subscribed to both based on the background info you gave so thank you again. I do find those histories a bit bleak, having grown up in the (relatively distant) aftermath of it. But if those voices are represented then I think I’d be interested.
That sounds like an exaggeration to me, but the place is healthier than most. Maybe he’s banning the right people.
I’d like to listen if you don’t mind sharing some links or search terms.
The pixelated look is fashionable at the moment. I wonder if that’s the reason.