It's a long running secret isn't it, the elites only noticed english discourse, this overlaps with the malay-only speakers (inc ppl like me... 🙇‍♀️) who only gives coverage to Malay issue discourse. In the meantime, this sort of thing happened before re: Sri Lankan civil war - I think it's an open secret how much the MIC ecosystem mingled with the Tamil tigers

Don't ask me details because I literally am just checking my fedi feeds today but the calckey rebrand has been unveiled and the new name is apparently firefish. Anyway was riffing on how it translates into Malay... Now, who's going to set up an ikanbakar.social or bellamy.rd or bella.my? (ikan bakar jalan Bellamy you'll always be famous)

Also the comment section damn nice 🥹 I think when the subculture isn't a cytro-infested space the convos are actually great

Oh no worries - I remember feeling so surprised... Then I observed how low-key ours is... 😂

I knooooo, Singapore content (gasp), but this is such an interesting post, esp to those literate in written Chinese https://social.coop/@konrad/110670337211553442. About different way Singapore is spelled in hanzi over the years

if you have the patience: https://privacy.thenexus.today/should-the-fediverse-welcome-surveillance-capitalism/

this is genuinely a good summary of the implications of Threads, but if you have any questions I can have a crack at it.

On the privacy thing, you have to remember, it's not apple-to-apple comparison, it's an apple-to-oranges. what your server needs to have from you in order the service you, is not at all the same as what meta does do as a rule, even as you leave the platforms. AP is quite leaky though, no doubt (i've raised this separately on kbin.social), but it's not the same issue, and is being worked on, because federation means someone is working on a solution somewhere.

but basically the contention is mainly on 3.5 areas:

• privacy and surveillance - as above
• market domination of open source standards - ask anyone running their own mailserver these days what's their rate of success sending anything to gmail or Office365 addresses (a lot of my work involve african IP addresses and institutions and they really kena)
• the protection of minority groups, both from infra pov as well as modding pov - meta famously do not give a shit; many ppl in fedi are from minority identities (2017-18 wave for example got onto mastodon because it was available as trolls attacking queer ppl got worse on twitter). infra pov is related to the privacy question; but smaller instances at least can jaga their members better and boot out haters and defederate from instances who won't control their members. this is the modding pov that is a critical difference from meta, which brings us to point 3.5
• capacity - small instances like this for example, got admin and mods who need to sleep. if trolls coming from diff timezones, how? belum lagi touch on traffic capacity issue.

sekian timakacih

Lol forgot to add - kbinauts like Derpy point and me and rakyat (on our kbin accounts) had been replying to monyet posts in the early days lagi. But federation still hinky, that's why I have alt here. Other masto account holders too I think.

Morning.... I had oatmeal. At least choco flavour.

Still awake because I just got back from Indy and also am lmao at the latest twitter news: https://mastodon.social/@BNONews/110639971384940348

Lemmy instances can't fully show off Kbin-based communities (aka magazines) they've federated with, so just giving a shout to the Microblog section of MagASEAN (which you can subscribe from here though !magASEAN@kbin.social) since the recent posts are full of makan posts: https://kbin.social/m/magASEAN/microblog

They're not scams per se, it's just their dividend payouts don't really come higher than market returns. Which makes sense then if you just go straight to an index fund. But we don't have those. The closest we have are mutual funds that acts like index funds.

Investment i do believe is something you ought to decouple from insurance. And seeing your answer I just want to emphasize that because your early 30s is the absolute last best time to get a good rate on your premiums so if you need to prioritize, priority should go to insurance (you're likely not to have chronic conditions, so they can't deny you coverage for preexisting etc. You want them on the hook for having to cover your diabetes for example, not give them the opportunity to deny this + you have to pay higher premium because higher risk)

I got some old, secondhand tools from Bulgaria. Feeling like want to layan my superstitious side for a bit - anyone got any small petua to make sure old things don't have any unsatisfied energy?