Haha no worries, it’s nice to get some tips, thanks! :D

Good idea, should’ve done it haha. I no longer remember what website it was, but I’ve seen the same dialog appear a few times since.

Yes, that’s it.

That view being wrong, yes.

Could have been it before that comment, but you insisted. We have had a fruitful exchange, I learned something, don’t spoil it with meaningless pride. Hope you make lots of new friends here!

I’m a Marxist-Leninist, member of an organized group.

I believe countries try to shape and weaponize citizens’ opinions about other countries, so I refuse to defend or criticize them unless I can argue that doing so is beneficial to my ideas (i.e., not based on feelings or ethics). Thus, I’m neutral towards most countries and defend multipolarity.

I tend to doubt my ideas as much as I can.

So you think it’s morally wrong to be wrong? That’s an interesting perspective. It’s usually taken for granted that people are free to believe anything (religion, etc.). How would you tackle that if you had a choice?

It’s perfectly nice to say things I believe to be true and learn that they aren’t, why wouldn’t it be.

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Tht wasn’t quite nice on your part, but still thank you.

Thanks, I wasn’t aware of those actions by the army. Guess that gives me a different view of the incident…

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It’s impossible to systematically lie to an entire country’s population about the country itself. It’s never happened anywhere on Earth and will never do so with current technology. It is however trivial to lie about other countries, which I like to always keep in mind. Think for a moment what reason a Chinese person would even have to dislike their government, when they are clearly doing a good job and actually solving their problems. Even the victims of Tiananmen weren’t those often talked-about “pro-Democracy” students, most were anti-liberalization communist worker protestors.

Your concept of “failure” might not exactly fit everyone else’s, but I’m sure you can contribute to the conversation!

It’s 6 am here and I’m still awake lol, I’ll need hella coffe to get through the day.

Here you have.

Here!

It is, but unlike elsewhere, ML folks are usually not banned or defederated here, only if they break rules (like insulting other users).

Yeah, I fully agree. It should be something more along the lines of “sane defaults” (seeing all instances, automatic recommendation on signup, app-level migration) than “autopilot”, but I will probably discuss this more once I have the time.

Could be done in apps. Managing federation under the hood if the user wants so, I mean. I’m an absolute smoothbrain regarding all things web (or mobile lol), but I use my barebones, cobbled-together desktop Lemmy client sometimes, so maybe I could repurpose it for other users?