Interestingly, the European Union has been doing exactly this for about a year now on an experimental basis.
https://uk.pcmag.com/social-media/140088/eu-joins-mastodon-social-network-sets-up-its-own-server
I miss some of the more casual subreddits, and somehow Lemmy is even more of an echo chamber than Reddit is, but otherwise yeah, Lemmy is fine. Especially with the Photon frontend.
I just do not understand how you can simultaneously claim to be a British patriot and openly support the ideology of Nazi Germany.
Defeating the Nazis was Britain's finest hour and something we should all be enormously proud of.
Do these 'patriotic' neo-Nazis wish that Britain had lost?
The way that Musk is riling up and egging on these rioters on the world's biggest social media platform is really frightening and dangerous. The guy's in total control of the algorithms that control people's feeds - including the sorts of thugs and bigots turning out on these race riots.
I think we really are going to need a much more grown up national conversation about regulation of social media companies and the damage they're doing to our democracy.
There are also clearly some very profound community tensions which we're going to have to address on some fundamental level in the long-run through processes of deradicalisation, integration, education and community cohesion strategies. But that still seems like a discussion that's necessary to have but maybe after we've locked up these Neo-Nazis.
Yay. Photon is by far the best imo
Also strongly recommend Photon users change the theme to Catppuccin, it's such a lovely colour scheme
Appalling but antisemitism is becoming increasingly mainstream in Europe unfortunately
Plenty of people are scared of the two assasinations of MPs by right wing lunatics.
One of them was a far-right lunatic, but the man who assassinated David Amess was a London-born radicalised Muslim affiliated with ISIL
There’s a lot of simmering anger, resentment and frustration in many communities in this country. It’s been building for years. The stabbing of those poor girls at their dance class by the son of Rwandan immigrants seems to have been the straw that broke the camel’s back.
This isn’t just the EDL (an organisation which disbanded more than a decade ago), this is thousands of English people who are furious. We can try and understand the sources of that fury, and then begin the work to resolve it, or we’ll keep getting these sorts of horrid outbreaks of ugly violence.
Aside from the points made so far:
Expect it to be overwhelmingly very left-wing and radically progressive on social values.
You will get downvoted for expressing opposing or even skeptical opinions, often brutally. It doesn't really matter, Lemmy's 'Karma' system doesn't work like Reddit's does, but just expect that.
My account is like 12 hours old but I was trying out Lemmy on other servers well over a year ago. Nothing about that has changed.
You might feel similarly to the majority and therefore you'll have no problem.
If you don't, eh, well. There we both are.
Also, yeah, post links and create subreddits about stuff you care about. These sorts of alternatives only live if people engage with them.
They just need a hug
I'm glad about this. There's clearly major issues with traffic in that area, but why on earth would the solution be to build a huge tunnel so close to one of our most ancient and iconic heritage sites? Think of all the archaeological relics this might have destroyed.
Just build a new road further away from Stonehenge!
The sooner the Islamic Regime in Tehran falls the better. The Iranian people deserve freedom.