Give your oil to the US

You must Imagine Sisyphus a happy pirate

The whole idea is to spread to different instances. Some have a geographic focus (US, Canada, Europe, …), some a political leaning or other topics like queerness, literature, traveling, …

I recently joined anarchist.nexus but don’t really use it yet. On the join page of every instance, you see a list of I think all instances with a description so you can choose which one fits best for you:

https://anarchist.nexus/auth/instance_chooser

Also, from my experience on lemmy, it doesn’t hurt to have more than one account until you decided which works best for you. It’s not that you lose any followers like on mastodon.

Piefed and mbin (I think kbin is dead and mbin the successor) are on the level of lemmy in the sense that they are the software and there are different instances of them. So you don’t just join piefed but you join one instance of piefed.

From my understanding, neither is even a lemmy branch but both are their own software using the more general fediverse protocol (that also includes mastodon and others) so they are compatible, look similar but have different developers.

And protocol refers to the data exchange format in a way. Think of it as a chess computer that outputs moves in the standard notation. Two computers can play chess together no matter how differently they are built and programmed inside as long as they agree on the communication. Same here. You have posts, comments, up and downvotes, … but that’s just the protocol. The program can work very differently. It’s even possible to post from mastodon on lemmy (not the other way around tho because mastodon doesn’t allow it, not for technical reasons) that’s how different software can be and still communicate.

I hope that makes sense.

Oh, it’s been a week on my side, sorry.

Do you see u/Ofiuco@piefed.ca’s comment? Because they made quite a good argument. Software isn’t as neutral as I made it look. There are features like blocking entire instances that can benefit different instances differently and I don’t think it’s coincedence that they promise and don’t deliver on it. Also they do claim donations for software and hosting but how much they need and how much they get is anyone’s guess. This is all basically a TLDR of this comment.

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I think what you got mixed up is the software side and moderation. You can use the same software as .ml and have nothing to do with it. It’s called instance and there are many. This isn’t just front end. There are different front ends (apps, web, …) as well but that’s a different story.

You are on pawb.social as you most certainly already know. That’s hosted and handled by different people than .ml. It’s just the same software and the software isn’t the problem And since the software is free, no one profits from it. As an instance, it can choose to federate with .ml and even if (as my instance does, don’t know about yours), there is no guilt by association in my opinion. Being federated means you can see their content and they see yours but yours is moderated by your mods alone.

So they technically aren’t forks since the software is the same but they are still handled by different people because they are exact copies software side. I hope that makes it clearer.

I personally don’t need discussions on .ml and there seem to be more people who feel that way

Oh, I love srsly wrong! I remember listening to this episode back when it came out and it’s great

I appreciate your work

Israel’s genocide for 40+ years

Needless to say that the genocide started earlier. In terms of weapon supply, Germany was number one in the 50s until the US started to see the usefulness and overtook us by far.

you will literally never convince me that it’s not the most important player.

I never said that. The US is the biggest player outside Israel by all metrics. What I’m saying is that it’s not the only player. I’m still convinced that it wouldn’t be possible to the degree it is done today without Germany and many others.

focus on the only one who openly calls for the genocide to continue

But that’s quite a few, including in Europe. In Germany, you can be deported for denying Israel’s right to exist. Annalena Bärbock, the former “feminist” minister of foreign affairs, said that civilians lose their privileges when they are used as human shields and she’s expert in international law so she knows this isn’t true. She later denied that she ever said it after being elected into the UN which is even worse since there are records of that.

The reason why I focus so much on Germany is that I happen to live there. There is no reason for me to focus on a government I have no influence on. I’m not going to protest a government on the other side of the pond and I have reasons enough to boycott the US already. The little influence I have, I have on my government. There is no use in finding the worst and ignoring the rest. There is more than one battle to be fought.

Germany voted for ceasefire and for making food a human right in 2024.

That’s the difference between killed children on 0 kcal per day and killing children on 500 kcal per day. A temporal ceasefire is no end of genocide.

the US is fully in charge of the situation.

No, Israel is in charge of the situation. The difference of the US and Germany is one of quantity and not of quality. Germany never paused weapon supply.

It’s not one single villain but many people who could stop it and the problem is colonialism and imperialism. We shouldn’t individualize the topic but think in systems. Even if Netanyahu wasn’t in charge, someone else would continue the genocide with support of the Western World, what ever that might mean.

I’m pretty sure, Netanyahu could have stopped it as well or other people in Israeli government. Also, while the US is the largest supplier, it’s far from the only one. The second largest is Germany and the whole German political establishment is Zionist, including the Green Party and parts of The Left. Since the genocide, there have been 2 government coalitions and in total 4 parties each of them could have vetoed German weapon supply.

I’m not saying Biden or the US are innocent but it’s not only them. Israel is part of the broader Western imperialism.

I think they are talking about Gaza. Biden didn’t start the genocide there but without US weapons, it wouldn’t be possible

Thanks for this nuanced and elaborated contribution. I think all of us learned a lot from it

Property is robbery, especially intellectual property

So your comments had nothing to do with the topic I was talking about, yet you expect me to engage with every detail of your offtopic comments, I see.

If you are interested: Gelderloos argues in Worshiping Power (worth a read and you find it on theanarchistlibrary.org) that decentralized guerrilla tactics are very good at defending, while being bad at conquering. If this would be enough to withstand between two imperial powers is very doubtful. I never said that anarchist movements in the broader sense are stronger, I would say tho they are worth fighting for. But you are aware that the Soviet Union doesn’t exist anymore either, right? And other Bolshevik adjacent movements were crushed by the USA. The line of argument you are using against anarchism can be used by liberals against Marxism Leninism. If you want to join the winning team, it isn’t any kind of socialism.

don’t put those words in my mouth.

Well, I would read less into your comment if it was clearer. I explained the concept of prefiguration with Rojava as an example and you brought up that they have the same interests as the USA. So what is the implication or relevance here? Are you saying they wouldn’t have made it without the USA, that the USA helped them build the structures before the revolution or during or after? Or that it’s a USA backed coup? Which is it? You can’t write obscure comments and whine for being misunderstood.

Would you say the same about the Zapatistas? Or the Makhnovshchina. They fought against the Bolsheviks so in your black white thinking, they are evil, right? But back to West Asia: the common interest they share with the USA is to fight the IS or Islamism in general. The USA supported islamists when they fought against communists. Isn’t this “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” logic that made the US support Islamists until they didn’t and now Rojava got a little support but that doesn’t mean any ideological alignment as you seemed to imply.

Also, it’s not a state but I don’t expect tankies to get that.

Take Rojava as an example: they built a system of councils that didn’t yield any real power until their day came (2011 if I’m not mistaken) and after the revolution, there was no power vacuum but this decentralized system took over. Same idea is anarcho syndicalism: they do union work now but are ready to run the factory/company when the opportunity is there.