What is link aggregation? Just combining network connections of a cloud? What does that have to do with lemmy?

Think reddit, you post links to articles, videos, etc. for the majority of posts.

Why would there by different servers in the first place doesn’t that make the social media smaller for everyone?

Instances can talk to each other, like email. gmail accounts can talk to yahoo accounts. You have a Lemmy.world account, but are talking to me on a Lemmy.ml communiity with my Lemmy.ml account.

What is an instance?

Kinda like a server. Your instance is Lemmy.world, mine is Lemmy.ml. Instances are their own websites with their own communities, but can see other instances they are federated with. Local browsing is your instance, all browsing is for everything you’re federated with.

Isn’t the point of a federalized social media to be better connected?

Yes and no. Not everyone wants to be connected with everyone.

Can I use my account I just made for Lemmy in something like Mastodon?

Sort of. You can interact with Mastodon users, but not in the Mastodon format.

How can I access content from different social media?

Not sure what you mean. Lemmy is a link aggregator, and you interact via Lemmy.

Right now we are on the lemmy.world server, can I take my same account and go to another one?

Lemmy doesn’t support true account migration, but you can open new accounts.

Why would I change my server when there are already different communities here? Isn‘t changing your server more tedious than just clicking on another community?

Some instances are themed, like Mander.xyz is themed around science, Lemmygrad.ml is themed around Marxism-Leninism, etc. Scrolling locally can curate your experience. Lemmy.world has defederated from some instances such as Hexbear.net and Lemmygrad.ml, so you can’t see their content from your account, while I can from Lemmy.ml. It’s worth checking the vibe of an instance before joining for the long term.

Well-said. LLMs do have some useful applications, but they cannot replace human creativity nor are they omniscient.

They were and are fully Marxist-Leninist, you can read about this particular group here on their website.

Yes, always have been, including this group according to their website.

This group is Marxist-Leninist, according to their website.

While not immune, moving to FOSS, federated social media helps by removing the profit motive.

It’s clearly a color revolution with heavy Mossad and CIA influence. The “Ghaddaffi treatment” ruined Libya, there’s no chance of this turning into a socialist state right now.

It’s actually called the Human Rights Foundation, actually. It’s a real thing founded by a Venezuelan gusano.

From your own link

The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is a non-profit organization that focuses on promoting and protecting human rights globally, with an emphasis on authoritarian regimes.[2] HRF organizes the Oslo Freedom Forum. The Human Rights Foundation was founded in 2005 by Thor Halvorssen Mendoza, a Venezuelan film producer and human rights advocate. The current chairman is Russian opposition activist Yulia Navalnaya, and Javier El-Hage is the current chief legal officer. The foundation’s head office is in the Empire State Building in New York City.[2][3][4]

The Human Rights Foundation was founded in 2005 by Venezuelan human rights advocate and film producer Thor Halvorssen Mendoza in response to the alarming rise of authoritarianism in Latin America,[5] particularly in Venezuela.[6]

His family’s deeply personal experience with political repression—his father was arbitrarily imprisoned and his mother seriously wounded by security forces during a protest—shaped HRF’s early mission to boldly defend individual rights in closed societies.[7] HRF’s founding council included figures such as Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel and former Czech president Václav Havel, who called the organization “an essential voice for freedom” and later chaired its International Council until his death in 2011.

Initially focused on Latin America, HRF worked on legal advocacy, international litigation, and public campaigns on behalf of political prisoners. It later expanded its focus to the global stage, taking on cases in countries such as North Korea, Russia, and Saudi Arabia. Today, HRF runs campaigns and engages in bold, unapologetic pro-democracy advocacy around the world, with a laser-sharp focus on countries classified as authoritarian or hybrid authoritarian.

Essentially, a gusano that lost out when Chavez nationalized the oil industry among others for the good of the people made a non-profit to deliver US State department propaganda around the world about the US Empire’s geopolitical enemies. They also shill for cryptocurrency. They’re a far-right think-tank.

I guess Venezuela is full of “Gusanos” as you call them because 7.9 million isn’t a small number hermano.

It is and was, but also has had people flee due to economic problems caused by the US Empire sanctioning them, not a fault of Maduro or Chavez.

Not denying Operation Gideon either, but can you please point me to where Biden did this? According to your own link the operation was primarily planned by Clíver Alcalá Cordones (retired Venezuelan major general) and Jordan Goudreau (a canadian american mercenary).

It was supported by the US government, and is merely one of many attempts by the empire to undermine Venezuelan socialism.

Venezuela was never socialist. Hell, the US is more socialist than Venezuela. Venezuela is more of a marxism-leninism when it comes to the government it has.

Marxism-Leninism is socialist, but Venezuela is closer to reformist socialism than Marxism-Leninism. The US Empire is capitalist, the large firms and key industries are privately owned and capitalists in charge of the state. I don’t know what you think Marxism-Leninism is, but if you want a primer, check out section 0 of the intro ML reading list I made.

Lastly, what Trump did is an illegal act of war both in the international laws side and in the laws of the united states as he didn’t even get congress to sign off on (not that this would make it OK either). However, the point isn’t that the US is good or bad (because the US currently has a corrupt and out of control government at the moment), it’s that Maduro did not get elected.

You haven’t proven that Maduro didn’t get elected, though, you’ve just posted that the majority of western countries and compradors believe him to not be. The majority of the world upholds Maduro as legitimate and the constitutionally recognized president of Venezuela. The US Empire has always been corrupt and “out of control,” Trump is just the latest in a long line of imperialists.

The nonprofit human rights foundation said it was fraud, the majority of south america said it was fraud even countries aligned more to China than the US. Source

Your source is the Human Rights Foundation, a US State Department - mouthpiece known for manufacturing consent for regime change. What’s actually true is that Maduro is the internationally recognized president of Venezuela.

Lastly, if the elections of Venezuela where legitimate and Maduro was the “good guy” as you appear to paint him as then why do we have a Venezuelan refuge crisis? Source

Gusanos fled Venezuela when their assets were nationalized. Continuous emigration from Venezuela is due to the economic act of war from the US Empire, including sanctions, blockades, and restricting trade with Venezuela. The working classes support Maduro in Venezuela, which is why the US Empire is relying on AI generated videos, older videos celebrating Maduro’s election in 2024, and so forth to pretend Venezuelans are celebrating his kidnapping.

Bonus: No one has ever told me that Biden stole the election in the US and also said Maduro stole the Venezuelan election, I don’t listen to propaganda networks like Newsmax or Fox News.

Biden is an imperialist, just like Trump. Operation Gideon happened under Biden, where the US Empire tried a Bay of Pigs style invasion of Venezuela. Desire to overthrow the socialist government of Venezuela has existed since Chavez nationalized the oil industry. You do listen to propaganda, likely CNN, BBC, or New York Times.

Edit: Not directly funded, but a mouthpiece nonetheless.

Maduro was democratically elected because the election was widely observed as fair, Maduro won 51% to González’ 43%, and because surrounding nations such as Bolivia, Cuba, Colombia, etc. recognized it as legitimate. The fact is, the same people that claim Biden stole the 2020 election are now telling you that Maduro stole 2024 in order to justify kidnapping him and his wife and steal Venezuelan oil. This is a tried and true tactic of the US Empire.

This is being pushed by US-funded “Human Rights Organizations,” while the CIA and Mossad are active within the anti-government protests. We need to be especially critical of news like this.

Agreed! They take issue more with the argument style to dismiss the substance.

It’s a real thing, for sure, but more often than not is used as a conversation terminator.

Always claims of sea-lioning, but never any evidence. You’ve had me blocked for over a year now, why continue this crusade?

Sure, there are a lot of bad-faith critiques going around. I do think that your point using me as an example doesn’t really work if your example is out of context. The thing about propaganda is that anyone pushing a particular view is propagandizing, but that doesn’t mean it’s inherently misinformation. Identifying bias is important, as is developing media literacy to see where people are being less than truthful.

I don’t really think this is true, I engage with the entirety of what people say. As far as I know, you have Lemmy.ml blocked on your piefed account, and we haven’t interacted in years, so I’m not sure where you’re getting this idea from.

Oh hey, it’s worth noting that that particular screengrab is taken out of context and was deliberately intended to make me appear that way. I even concede that one can disagree with Marx and Engels, my point was more against those who claim to agree with them but strongly disagree with the socialist market economy of China. I oppose anyone that tries to treat theory like gospel, that’s why I usually don’t reference theory directly unless it’s directly relevent like it was in this case.

That’s the thing, people propagandize about us as well, like the MeanwhileOnGrad crowd that took that snippet out of context. You’re doing the same here, by extrapolating an entire behavior of me from a single, out-of-context snippet hosted in a Nazi bar. What’s important is that we actually pay attention to what others are saying, because everyone is guilty of thinking they are correct.

Why is she so cute?