What do you mean “useful”?
I can understand being useful to a community, if you’re an expert and expertise is sought-after, but idk what it even means to be useful to Lemmy as a whole unless you’re developing Lemmy or apps for it.
Bee useful to a community, but don’t try to be useful to everyone
Don’t look for a specific moderate instance, instead block extremist instances. I’m not positive but I think that also blocks you from seeing posts by users of those instances even when they post to other instances, but I’m not 100% sure
Ok in what works is Antarctica not a continent???
The production and distribution of much media means that it’s practically impossible to avoid.
I try to avoid media when my consumption of that media significantly benefits bad people, and there is a reasonable alternative.
For example, I don’t consume Harry Potter content because fuck jk Rowling. She is a key creative and a key beneficiary of consuming that media. There are alternatives within that genre I can read instead.
But I do use audible, despite them being terrible, because that’s where my collection is and thats where new releases are.
If you’re getting a VPS I’d generally recommend getting pangolin. It’s basically like cloudflared tunnels, but self hosted (on the vps). It works the same, you use it to map your subdomains to IPs on the other end of the secure tunnel.
It has things like user access controls for each of the subdomains, the ability connect it to an identity provider, rules governing which paths need authentication and which don’t, etc.
It can optionally come preconfigured with crowedsec, but I had problems with it falsely classifying my normal traffic as an attack and banning my IPs.
Just be aware that even if your service has a login page, you first need to log into pangolin to be granted access to the service, and although that’s fine on the web (especially if you’re using an sso), some native apps don’t like the extra login. Homeassistant handles it better now, but I haven’t gotten jellyfin native android app working yet.
I agree except crowedsec. The apps I use were frequently phoning home, causing all my devices to get banned by crowedsec. Setting up rules around it was just too painful so I got rid of it.
Gonna look into if I can set up fail2ban with it instead
Becoming old
Sometimes I can be kinda pedantic
An addendum to 4:
We could be one of the first, so life is unusually sparse during this period of time.
The universe is old, but it takes a lot to build up the components needed for life as we know it. The first two generations of stars wouldn’t have created the exotic materials in quantitie we needed to seed a world with the requirements for life.
And life couldn’t have realistically happened much faster in a 3rd generation system than it did in our system.
There are some very old 3rd Gen stars, but it’s less common and iirc they’re not close to us.
Tldr
This is early phases, life is going to get more common over the next few billion years.
Literally why I started off my comment talking about the difference between peaceful and fair.
Because many people would consider “peaceful” to mean “without physical violence” in this context - so I described what that could be. Something china is actually actively in the process of doing.
Idk how that means I have my head up my ass. One of us is using the wrong definition for that idiom.
You have a crazy definition of “advocate”.
Apparently if you describe it, that is considered “advocacy” even if you explicitly denounce it.
Why are you conflating “peaceful” with either “act of peace” or “good”?
I explicitly said it wasn’t fair, eg that it’s unethical and I don’t support it.
All I’m saying is that China has a clear path to stop the world from getting involved if they do decide to invade, and that China has had recently success taking over countries with little violence.
So your framing this as though I’m a Gretzky supporter is kinda wild.
It’s almost like you intentionally misunderstood my comment to make a point.
Would it be an act of peace? Absolutely not.
Would it be peace_ful_, if you ignore everything else I said in my comment? Absolutely not.
But if OP is looking for the most peaceful (least bloodshed) way of “unifying” Taiwan and mainland China, then this is how. Remove Taiwan’s value to the west, propaganda tf outta the next gen, come in with overwhelming force as the world looks on and does nothing, install pro-china govt officials, ramp up propaganda, withdrawal blantant military force.
I explicitly said this was not fair eg it would be bad and unethical so this isn’t something I support obviously.
Peaceful or fair?
For peaceful, I think that China needs to make it so the world doesn’t depend on them for high end chip manufacturer, so the USA stops caring about them because they’re not a critical strategic national interest.
Then they just invade.
The world isn’t doing shit about Gaza, the world is barely doing anything about Ukraine. I think the world sits by and watches it happen, if they’re not a critical strategic interest.
Naw, I think a few of the original members are still there
So, not “technically” at all (see my user name)
Gardening stores should more commonly have seed packs of hearty local plants that make good lawn replacements. People shouldn’t either be stuck researching and sourcing seeds or just giving up and doing clover.