This is admittedly A Take, but it's genuine and I hope it will be engaged as such.
I noticed the language here refers to "minorities" in regards to race often. I think that should stop. It isn't demographics that are responsible for racial oppression, it's power dynamics and ostensibly anti-racist language should reflect that.
Some might try to point out that in some areas, non-white communities are literally minorities. I only think this is true from the viewpoint of majority-white, European colonialist countries, and that isn't a viewpoint which should be assumed or taken for granted, given they are the oppressors in this situation. Globally, no single race constitutes a majority. Locally, "minorities" quickly become "majorities" if you draw boundaries appropriately—for example, a given group may be 20% of the population of a given city, but in certain neighborhoods of that city they are 60-90% of the residents.
I'm pointing this out because in general decolonization is neglected in "people of color" spaces so that racially oppressed people strive to become equal participants in a racially oppressive system rather than destroying that system altogether. It would be nice if that did not happen here.
https://annas-archive.org/md5/bf5119e0037a6cd76ddbc816c1b769e1
https://annas-archive.org/md5/bf5119e0037a6cd76ddbc816c1b769e1
https://times.mw/scholars-mourn-historian-kings-phiri/
!politics so far largely features topics on the internal politics of the united states. I don't see any statements from the Beehaw team suggesting this is intentional or explicit (feel free to correct me if I missed this), so I think it would be good to have such posts mostly go in a separate subcommunity, something for which there's a precedent with !socialism.
I don't interpret this as a ban on anything about the u.s. being mentioned in the general space, just like I don't interpret the existence of !socialism as banning discussions around socialist politics in the general space. I just think it would be an improvement. Curious what others think.
I'm usually unable to access new communities or instances using the typical process described of putting the handle or URL into the search bar. I noticed this from the beginning, but I waited a couple days to become more familiar with how it worked properly, and in a couple cases things seem to have improved somewhat. But the problem in general remains.
I understand that this could be a general problem not exclusive to Baraza, but I thought I should mention it here in case there are some special or unique conditions applied that I did not know about.
I made a post to beehaw.org which got multiple comments and I didn't get notified for any of them. But I have gotten notifications for posts I've made to lemmy.ml. Anyone having similar issues?
cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/588624
Hello everyone! I wanted to share a tool that allows you to find communities that you are interested in.
Link: https://browse.feddit.de/
You can search for a community (say, "solarpunk"). Then copy the link into your Lemmy search bar and subscribe to the community! It's posts will then show up on your subscribed feed automatically.
Alternatively, you can use a list of communities. I have created such a list:
Link: https://midwest.social/post/382481
I hope this has helped! Comment if you have any questions or want a recommendation.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1215308
Hello,
If I open: https://lemmy.world/c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml and https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support in 2 different tabs, I don't see the same posts at all, even with the same sorting option selected.
Is it just because the servers are overloaded and there is some delay in the synchronization?
Thanks for your help trying to understanding the fediverse inner working.
So that if you paste a link to one of those big social media platforms, it offers to replace it with a working alternative front-end.
@yaspora
@baraza.africa