What a depressing view of “socialism” you have.

Wouldn’t they just use a VPN? I know they’re technically illegal in China but from what I’ve heard lots of people still use them regularly.

So classic anti-communism then.

If you mean communists that support capitalist states like China, then yes, unfortunately. Better than being around nothing but liberals or anti-communists though.

You can but it won’t be respected. It will continue to default to their included Noto fonts despite whatever font you select. You can test this yourself. I’m sure they do it for some “privacy reason” but if I wanted that trade off I’d simply use the Tor Browser or one of those hardened firefox profiles.

Librewolf doesn’t respect your choice in system fonts if you uncheck “Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above”. I don’t use it for that reason.

I don’t think a federated wiki is solving any of the problems of wikipedia. You’ve just made a wiki that is more easily spammed and will have very few contributors. Yes, Wikipedia is centralized, but it’s a good thing. No one has to chase down the just perfect wikipedia site to find general information, just the one. The negative of wikipedia is more its sometimes questionable moderation and how its english-centric. This has more to do with fundamentally unequal internet infrastructure in most countries than anything though. Imperialism holds back tech.

I agree that it might be fine for niche wikis but again, why in the world would you ever want your niche wiki federated? Sounds like a tech solution looking for the wrong problem.

It’s really weird to see how almost infantalizing the Israeli minister is towards the ambassador. Like he’s correcting a child or something. I suppose when you’re commiting genocide you carry that attitude with you everywhere.

I hate that projects name themselves “fed” as that word is permanently associated with, well, feds.

“Welcome to the Fediverse, we got pigs of all kinds”

What is the general vibe on here towards actually existing socialism as well as the ideas towards reformism?

I can only speak for myself but so-called AES is just capitalism. It can be capitalism that is far far better than the U.S or other imperialist countries, but I’m not a communist that cheers for improvements to Capitalism. And what is there to speak of with “reformism”? It’s a dead end that doesn’t lead to Socialism and is the norm.

As an aside, both Lemmy.ml and Lemmygrad are largely full of what I’d called revisionists, meaning simply the refusal to acknowledge that Socialism has been defeated and supplanted by state capitalism where it once briefly existed. The actual communists (i.e they at least agree with Leninism) in imperialist countries are largely revisionists so it’s not surprising that’s what you see online among English speakers. However, Lemmygrad is a dogmatic echo chamber. If you want to hear nothing but pro-AES sentiment and walk on dogmatic egg shells, that’s the instance you want. Lemmy.ml is ran by good people (the developers) and seems to have decent moderators despite my political differences. I at least come across a variety of positions and whatnot.

The main thing that has prevented me from using Logseq is the general slugish or delayed feeling of the GUI. It’s not significant but enough that after using it for 2 months I swapped back to org-mode in Emacs. Even though I love org mode for general project planning, task management (gtd) and such, I have never found a comfortable workflow for actually writing non-code/non-markup in Emacs. The logseq experience of writing notes was immediately comfortable for me. Just wish it was fast.

Appreciate the clarification.

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At least for me it’s not a tech problem. I don’t think p2p and blockchain really address the issue directly. The issue is of western state power, and the combining influence of private capital. That affects all tech.

The most interesting project to me revolving around p2p has been peertube because it doesn’t require anything special for end users beyond JS. It can help distribute bandwidth without third party services. For blockchain, I have never seen a single useful thing involving it. I’m not even trying to exaggerate.

If you have projects share them though. I could be wrong and narrowly looking at both p2p projects and blockchain.

Privacy is not the concern here. Rather, the threat model is censorship from western hegemony. There are legal/economic considerations (sanctions) for where the company is operating as well.

incognet: based out of the U.S
xUID: Unknown, seems to be advertising hard to shady operations.
NJALLA: Nevis

NJALLA seems to be the most promising. The only slight concern comes from 1337 LLC, the company behind NJALLA, being based out of Nevis. A quick google search shows the government there is in support of NATO-aligned power: https://www.sknis.gov.kn/2022/03/08/st-kitts-and-nevis-joins-international-sanctions-against-russia-and-belarus

I’ve been thinking more and more about western power/influence of internet infrastructure, especially the simple cases of censorship. DNS and Domain Registry are big ones, another concern is of hosting and such with AWS.

I want to start looking into infrastructure (that technical people can use) that is in regions more hostile or less likely to waiver to western fuckery.

I don’t think that’s realistic. They will undoubtedly get exposed to socdem and liberal content, youtube or otherwise. What to do instead is prep people and expose them to the various ways liberal ideology can be covertly distributed, which is done consciously and unconsciously by media outlets/figures.

In addition to more overtly ML video content, there should be a more deliberate propaganda line about joining ML organizations/parties and organizations/parties of other militant Marxist forms. The major thing I see missing in a lot of Marxist mass media (youtube in particular) is the emphasis of organization, which is unfortunate.

I agree with this 100% and that’s why I think it’s a bad move to not be on major platforms.

You have to look at what Hakim and others are doing: non-personal use of broadcast media. The major threat model they might face eventually is that of censorship, so the right response is to distribute their content on as many forms of broadcast media as possible.