The Friendica UI is terrible, unfortunately. Way too complex.

And more than just realizing that, we need to find a realistic path to take that power away from them.

To expand on your second point in case anyone isn’t sure what you mean:

Different browsers render webpages slightly differently, because they use different “engines”. The most popular browsers are Chrome or Edge, both of these which use the Blink engine, whereas Firefox uses a different engine called Gecko.

Web developers want their websites to work for most people, so they develop websites that are optimized to run in Blink, which means they sometimes don’t look as intended on Gecko (Firefox). It’s not Firefox’s fault that developers are doing this – of course developers want to reach the most users possible. There’s nothing wrong with Gecko, either – if it were more popular, then developers would build sites for it instead of for Blink. But, this issue of sites breaking can sometimes turn people off.

(Conversely, I develop for Firefox first, so sometimes webpages I make don’t render properly in Chrome/Edge. That’s not ideal, but I don’t care much. I think Gecko is the better + more consistent engine, and I’m not interested in chasing mass appeal.)

No we’re not. Why are you speaking for other people?

That’s not how the burden of proof works. Regardless of what they’re doing, you’re also making a claim, and are refusing to back it up.

Source?

People talking about sex is not torture. Get a grip.

there’s no fucking handbook for what we’re going through right now

There are literally thousands of books about how to resist fascism. It has been a mainstream topic for decades now.

For starters:

• Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook

• On Tyranny

• Fascism Today

The history of boycotts shows us that sustained boycotts can be enormously effective. During the civil rights movement, the Montgomery and Tallahassee bus boycotts ended racial segregation on local bus systems. Sustained boycotts were also instrumental in ending apartheid in South Africa.

Maybe we should give more credit to people doing imperfect things than to those doing nothing other than pointing out how imperfectly those things are.

Criticism is essential to building stronger movements, and any organizer worth their salt can handle criticism without an emotional outburst.

People doing things imperfectly can be more harmful than just not doing them at all. One-day boycotts damage the reputation of boycotts as a whole, which makes people more reluctant to participate in them because they view them as pointless and ineffective.

I disagree. Posting and ghosting still helps people keep up to date with any news about the organization.

I’m not going to go out of my way to check a bunch of different org’s blogs (and I’m not a fan of RSS), and prefer to be able to get news through social media. I only get news outside of aocial media when I want to properly study something in depth.

“Emo” is one hell of a name.

So you, a normal person, join and instantly when a meme or comment allude to being altruistic, you leave?

Lol, the lack of self-awareness in your comment is astounding. You immediately jumped to interpreting them in the least charitable way possible, instead of just asking them to clarify like a normal person. You are exactly the type of leftist that pushes a lot of people away from using Lemmy.

Who needs conservative saboteurs when you have leftists to do their work for them?

I play Morrowind on Linux all the time, running OpenMW (bought from GOG) on Lutris.

It’s been implicitly assumed that

Society seems to be built on a lot of obviously untrue assumptions.

Elliott uses he/they pronouns!

Yeah, well, they’ve done it, 95 million Americans didn’t vote. Now what?

Y’all really are unble to take any kind of accountability whatsoever. “It’s done so it’s not relevant anymore” is a textbook example of what abusers say.

Are we gonna point the finger at them, lay the blame at their feet

Yes, absolutely. Non-voters are neglectful assholes whose inaction has had devastating impacts for multiple different countries. You are all just typical abusers trying to escape accountability.

That would be cool!

you can’t join Signal there. I don’t know whether it’s due to sanctions or if the government is blocking 2FA SMS messages. In either case, it is impossible to join without a phone number confirmation.

What do you mean? You need a phone number to join Signal in any country.

I doubt I can successfully persuade 100+ people to migrate to signal just because of my political crusade.

Don’t know till you try! And if you’re playing the long game, you don’t need to convince 100+ people – the more individuals that join, the easier it will become to convince everyone else to make the switch too.

(oh btw “We are in X country which is not in N eyes” is just marketing)

Why do you say this? There are real data-sharing agreements between the Eyes.

Doesn’t even need some complicated backdoors or anything it just needs to find an OPSEC slip-up

This already happened with kolektiva, unfortunately, but from what I hear they’ve since strengthened their security.

The UI is fucking awful and way too complex, so it’s difficult to get anything done. I’ve tried two different instances and found them both to be unusable.

It’s a shame because Friendica is way more powerful than most Fediverse platforms – they leverage way more of ActivityHub’s potential, such as a system for calendars + events. But the UI needs to get sorted out before it’s ready for mass adoption.