STAR Voting fails the Later-No-Harm criterion, which makes it a no-go for me. Any voting system that can have lesser ranked candidates siphoning off support from higher ranked candidates is, for me at least, a fundamentally broken system that ultimately just reverts to FPTP when people start bullet voting to avoid that flaw.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_electoral_systems#Compliance_of_selected_single-winner_methods

We lost the .ml domains. Defederation happened.

Looks to me like lemmy.world still has lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml linked. I can see this post on All at least.

Mostly, yes. I don't have enough other stuff to warrant storing it separately in a garage.

Then there is the tankie Left, which also started with good intentions but seem to have confuse the recipe-book of slogans and the Party über alles discipline invented in the late 19th century and early 20th century by middle class intellectuals to inspired the near-illiterate masses of the time to create an utopian leftwing world (which didn’t work) with the actual thinking Principles and Intentions from which the rules were made.

The "tankies" are absolutely not utopian. There was a great big schism about this very question more than a century ago, with Marxists roundly rejecting the utopianism of the libertarian socialists (Anarchists). Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Engels is a good starting point.

well that's a big gif-turned-webm -__-

There’s a reason all irl votes are private.

That's odd. I can see my representatives' voting records plain as day.

Because in real life, it’s (relatively) easy to have both anonymity and trust.

It's cute that people still believe this.

I use Kagi:

https://kagi.com/

You gotta pay for it, but I've found it worth paying for so far.

And then someone starts talking about dining philosophers...

same, I’m on Sopuli and their Blocklist is pretty short but has the worst ones.

they are really, really bad and some are straight up illegal in some countries.

Mostly far-right ones, straight up terrorism (seriously there are people with RAF and other terrorist organization’s logos on their profile pics there), nsfl gore videos (like people dying and being tortured type of stuff), and nsfw ones full of underage anime girls in suggestive poses…

lemmygrad is probably the worst one out of all of them, just because of it’s size (tankie terrorist group)

Ah yes. There's far-right terrorism, NSFL gore, CSAM, but it's the commies that are "the worst one out of all of them."

I liked Kagi enough to use it as my default search engine back when I was regularly employed and could justify ten+ bucks a month for a boutique search engine. I don't know how they plan to survive though, given that they use Google's indices extensively. Google isn't exactly going to let another company eat its lunch.

Nooooo! One of my favourite XKCDs is now ruined!