Realistically I’ll have to look into this before trusting a random comment and I probably wont because it’s half the world away from me and he’s dead anyway.

I am sure there is some subtly in personal culpability though because between Mao and peasants killing birds was a whole bureaucracy that evidentally thought it was worth doing (and idk how much is slavish obedience/fear).

Temujin personally killed a lot of people. Like personally ordered the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and his overall campaign was ~10% of human population at the time an estimated 40 million, which seems to be comparable to famine figures even if we personally blame both of them. Dude was a certified maniac and I think that especially given the overall lower population at the time and deliberate murderous intentions stands as histories greatest monster and most murderous person.

Like personally? I often feel like attributing famines solely to one person is a bit messed up, although there are cases like Bengal where specific government individuals were enthusiastic .

The party later distanced themselves from him somewhat, so presumably they thought his ideas could be improved on but I had thought a lot of china and USSR famines rested on really dumb ideas about industrial agriculture that were popular in many places + officials hiding bad numbers + desperate need to show immediate superiority of alledgedly better numbers + upheavals of massive civil was and ww2.

temujin? who claims he’s leftist?

CRISPR is possibly one of the most significant technologies invented this century lmao. It’s a technique for inserting base sequences into DNA at targetable sites, the idea being that you can attach their expression to the expression of another sequence.

It enables making transgenic organisms reliably. You can actually like order sequences and do it at home with a little knowhow.

Have a read about it, it’s truly one of the most exciting things of our lifetime.

If you are reading about vegan stuff, why is it important that people from a us politicalmemes community can come in and tell you you’re stupid?

Why is total federation necessary? vtc feds with many instances including some large ones like hexbear, dbzero, ml, and ee.

Good luck!

You will probably need to sticky a post in each thread automatically as very few people read the sidebar. You also need to be prepared for deliberate trolls.

I had wondered about the utility of a bot that automatically acts on reports from a list of manually selected good users, which moderators review the actions of as reports whenever they’re around. It’s a fair bit of effort to set something like that up as a system and maintain it, but if mods aren’t around dunk-cycles can tank productive discussions in a few minutes.

Reports also don’t federate properly btw, less an issue for you but anyone you invite who isn’t using a .world account won’t ?always? see them.

That level of reading comprehension absolutely tracks with some of the shit I’ve seen written about us lately.

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law

I don’t run vtc, and I think Hamid is probably more likely to eat his own teeth than refederate.

DBzero is federated, and a widely federated instance. The admin has a sense of humour at least so you could do worse than signing up there if you want to see world stuff.

dbzero is federates with both. They’re honestly not bad. I think there’s a bit of a moral panic around them because usaians aren’t used to seeing anti-usa opinions be mainstream.

The one thread I saw on hexbear about Russia for example was people lamenting how horrible it is for lgbt people there. Expressing frustration and anger at Putin’s regime, and expressing frustration at the role usa policy has played in his rise and the reactionary political culture there.

you might disagree with the degree to which the usa government is responsible but that hardly seems like a community where dissent against Putin is crushed.

Idk, at any rate the vegan communities are awesome. Mander is a good instance with good users, although I think it’s natural science focused and unsure if it’s appropriate for a vegan community. Dunno about the other.

I’m a boomer with insane takes like “having an account per forum is normal” and “handing over your entire digital identity to an untrusted third party is ridiculous” but I know we’re dying out.

Multiple accounts? I have like 7

I am hoist on mine own petard.

Yeah, I’m way too cool.

you know this might be my last chance to ban you and I’m kinda tempted to. Just one act of pure mod abuse, just for myself. as a treat.

You are a saint <3 seriously thank you.

Yeah, for carnist scum you were acting pretty decently ;)

Seriously though thanks, it is pretty discouraging to see hundreds of posts about how awful you/your goals are. Everyone who tried to present the actual facts and judge with an even hand has been greatly appreciated.

edit: phew, remembered to change accounts

ok real edit: how in the fuck is me saying thank you negative on votes? surely this is just spam behaviour?

vegantheoryclub.org is vegan run.

Also personally I’ve had issues with precisely one user on hexbear (the one who accused me of being db0 in disguise lol) and none from ml. I don’t always agree politically, but that’s true for every lemmy instance.

Tbh I have difficulty understanding the drama around them. Hexbear in particular is fantastic for vegans (vtc aside) as their COC specifically requires certain vegan-forward stances, which they recognise as part of a liberation struggle.

My most drastic mod measure I’ve taken @vtc is gently explaining to a user that some stuff about their posts were a bit speciest.

World seems to have an anonymously high proportion of users who just browse all and post without sensitivity to community and rules. I strongly recommend moving to an instance that doesn’t federate with them just personally.

Yeah… I still get flashbacks