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Cake day: November 15th, 2023
  • Maroon@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Substack promoted a Nazi blog againEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Note that the largest Nazi groups today are in the “allied” nations that “won” WW2.

    I read a piece (can’t find the source now, sorry) that blamed this squarely on the lack of education and remorse given to the colonial backdrop in which WW2 was fought.

    Most parts of the world view WW2 as very much a European war that was imposed on unwilling global participants. The axis powers lost and Germany has since tried its best to reinvent itself while acknowledging its chequered past (check out: Vergangenheitsbewältigung), but the allied powers failed to recognise their colonial atrocities. For example, British history textbooks will loosely allude to the British empire saying that they were once a dominating global entity, but will make absolutely no mention of the numerous massacres and genocides for which they were responsible.

    When wars are framed as competitions rather than tragedies, you will see the emergence of false victors instead of acknowledging lost generations. This directly results in a poor public understanding of how bad ideas can fester and hollow out any society.

  • Maroon@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Guides for hosting sites in Fediverse and federating?English
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    10 months ago

    Oof, I wish there was a nice unified way or a common pipeline to install fediverse services.

    I began looking into mastodon (a Perl-based app), but realised that Gotosocial (a Go based application) was better suited to my needs as I could run that off a Raspberry Pi 2 zero. I can use it exactly like Mastodon, meet and interact with folks on Mastodon, but just through another service. For all practical purposes, I find no difference in the experience between the two (I have a mastodon account on the general server as well).

    As another commenter said, each service comes with its own technology and innovation (some strive to be minimal, while others try to be feature rich). You have to pick and choose per your needs.

    To host all three, you might need a decent server with 16 /32 GB RAM and 2TB drives; particularly if you’re going to host a lot of high quality videos.

    For mastodon, check out Masto.host as it makes the setup a whole lot easier.