My initial reaction is that automated posting, even if moderated, fits into the spirit of the Bot tag. If it’s not a human creating the posts, votes and comments, then it should be flagged.

I honestly don’t personally know any real-life person who acts like that - they’re either just not scared of cool infrastructure, or they’re the occasional ‘patriot’ freak who’s nationalist/racist enough to consider Japan a threat too.

Leave the straw-man circlejerking to the rightoids, comrade.

Linking to a reply I posted in this thread because it talks about a relevant aspect, which other (correct) comments haven’t named: hypodescent.

https://lemmy.ml/post/47987898/25930253

Blackness/Whiteness is an interesting concept - it’s remarkably fluid, especially with changes in time and place. Race isn’t the same as ethnicity or genetics, or a direct result of it, although racists often try to claim it is - a stark example of this in Western societies like the US and Australia would be how they categorize Italian and Greek peoples, Slavic peoples, or ethnically-Jewish peoples - the idea of whether or not each of these is White has largely shifted over time, often as a group stops being the current biggest immigration demographic. The USA even had a concept of “Black Irish”, which originally meant a post-Famine Irish refugee. Human races are ultimately just social classes, not a biological concept.

Another aspect, related to this thread, is hypodescent. In some societies (it’s not a universal thing!), if a child has a Black parent and a White parent, is the child Black or White, or another label entirely? As mentioned in that article, some US states used to legally define someone as Black even if only 1 of their 16 great-great-grandparents were Black.

Tempted to try the Traffic Light Reactuon, but I don’t know how safe it is to store something that alkaline in a regular glass bottle long-term

The proper stuff is expensive (~$1USD/ml), NileRed’s recipe is 2chem4me, but the cheaper ferrous suspension methods might be workable…

Anything in the ballpark of “working class ownership of the means of production”.

Any more examples of socialist democracies?

Since you mentioned India, Kerala is does not currently have a socialist mode of production (that’s a specific way of saying, their economy isn’t socialism) but they have been led by socialist parties (parties which are trying to implement a socialist mode of production), and it shows.

Socialism is defined by “the ownership of the means of production by the working class, in a transition to communism”.

This is a definition specific to certain communist ideologies. Valid, but not general.

Is there a way I can upload the entire steak scene in The Matrix in this reply?

Despite my disagreements with local anarchists, they are objectively helping people and are lightyears above the Online Left. I will take comrades of almost (almost!) all tendencies over the Online Left.

You could also use something like Tampermonkey (?) to make your own minimal CSS style for Lemmy, making it minimal, lean and blocky for you.

chans

Plenty of smaller, interests specific ones. Some even ban frogposters on sight or only allow politics in a containment thread. I think /comfy/ board is still alive somewhere. There are also a few larger openly-left ones, like the infamous /leftypol/ (split into leftypol.org and leftychan.net, each with their own pros and cons) and GETchan (famously upload some great music compilations). I was about to suggest lainchan but you already have. Nukechan is probably too slow but has some high-quality threads.

Erischan and plus4chan are interest-specific and not explicitly left, but have left tendencies.

The chan format (not merely the minimal aesthetic of English language chans) has a big impact on their culture. I don’t really believe in just putting a Yotsuba B skin over Lemmy. There are federated imageboards (I don’t believe it’s fediverse) but moderation is probably a nightmare.

In between the posts.

On top of what’s already been said:

plus bizarre slang

I can’t think of a single dialect which doesn’t have that.

Speaking as a Marxist who sees the PRC and the CPC as a current progressive world force - why are all your posts so aggressively-ridiculous strawman slop, as if its aimed to alienate working people? It’s the flavor I see in dirtbag-left online circlejerks and never among communists I’ve seen in real life, and I’ve met thousands of us.

Perhaps even hockey with referees replaced by boxing refs. (yes, it’s impossible to find that video without loud music)

Perhaps its too late for the largest instances, but the idea of a site like this being a spectator activity, about consumption, rather than creating communities. Some smaller instances, and even some larger ones, have an actual unique atmosphere and have larger projects across the instance. When we suddenly got a flood of reddit users escaping from the third-party API fiasco and the Luigi bans, that was huge enough to dilute some of the communities with large amounts of people used to simply voting and commenting, or having a website premade for them.

What’s the actual point of holding someone back from joining your online community if they don’t have enough “points” on their comments or posts?

It is a legitimate anti-abuse tactic. Like you’ve mentioned, there are obvious flaws, but it does help prevent brigadiers, advertisers and other bad actors from easily spinning up throwaways to harass or manipulate a community.

Another way to do this could be account age testing, but this can be defeated by pre-registering empty accounts.

Codeberg works for me. I used to use a couple of indie instances of gitea for various smaller project, but both have either gone down or been at risk, so I mostly use Codeberg which is more organized and failsafe.