Also @[email protected]

That powerlessness you feel is by design, and every state technically wants you to feel some form of it, with varying intensity. It keeps people from trying to make things better without actually having to put effort in to preventibg them.

But there are things we can do, and we are not powerless. Get involved in your local communities while there is still time to organize: https://infosec.exchange/@tinker/113589807117870451

That’s how everything in history has ever changed for the better.

Our only hope is to direct pur collective efforts into building horizontal egalitarian structures in society that can permanently replace our existing insertions.

Getting involved in your local communities is the first step: https://infosec.exchange/@tinker/113589807117870451

Hopefully more workers in other industries and areas that traditionally aren’t unionized take the risk to unionize, perhaps with the IWW’s help.

You didn’t mention guerilla warfare in your other comment, you said the US isn’t that much more militarized than anyone else, and that there isn’t much disparity between small and large weapons.

Could America sustain a resistance similar to The Troubles? I think so. But any sort of conventional warfare, like along the lines of the Russian or Spanish civil war, is quite unlikely, which is what I thought you were implying.

I mean, thousands of international volunteers traveled to Spain to help during the Spanish Civil war. The same is true for Ukraine and to a lesser extent, Rojava.

Try taking a look at [email protected] or [email protected] for a while, watch some Ukraine war footage, and realize that as bloody and horrific that war is: Both side are nearly at parity in military strength, and neither side is capable of air superiority.

Now imagine civilians with hand weapons going up against the most advanced, funded, and well trained volunteer military in the world with an unlimited budget and legendary logistics.

Your suggestion is only remotely possible if the military and the industial complex behind it fractures and joins the rebellion in a sizeable amount, otherwise it’s suicide.

Union dues fund a strike fund that is used to pay workers while they strike, that’s why unions are so important to be able to strike.

Hm, isn’t Airvpn based in Italy?

You bet it is.

Cheers for sharing that!

For those needs, an old used thinkpad off ebay would be pretty ideal. Affordable, well built and reliable. Only downside is I think the smallest model is a 12"

Perhaps a Chromebook known for being compatible with being flashed with Linux?

I would argue the next step that would really make a difference is economic warfare, such as ceasing purchases of any nonessential goods, and a national general strike. That would have a dramatic effect.

In the meantime, the best option is to organize in your local community to lay the groundwork for such a thing to happen.

Our leadership sure ain’t courageous… Like at all. Pretty dang spineless.

This feature has been available to all kbin/Mbin users since the beginning, btw.

I want to mention that Sillydrawingrequests is one of my favorite communities, thank you for creating it and keeping it going, Lazy! ^^

I’m afraid that I have slipped into dropping links without commentary, it’s a bad habit to get into, but sometimes I lack the energy or time to personalize my link posts when I have a number of them lined up for my communities :(

Greenleaf is pretty massively exaggerating about the extent of defederation, as only a handful ever get defederated regularly, certainly not enough to call it ‘wars’.

As for UX, there’s definitely room for lots of improvements, especially in making it easier to explore another instances local communities from within your own insinstance without explicitly subbing to them all or using lemmyverse.net.

But I don’t think the very concept of different instances is truly a barrier or bad UX, that other user is just giving lazy excuses for not switching away from Reddit.

If that was a legitimate issue, MMO’s (which also often have servers the player needs to choose) wouldn’t have the userbase they do. Nor would Email have taken off.

Even if Lemmy was one big simple centralized server, that user would just come up with another reason they couldn’t switch.

“Oh, it’s too small, my niche communities aren’t there”

“The UI isn’t as nice”

“The mod tools aren’t as good”

Etc.