silent_water [she/her]

wait, no, this is how everyone does math. right? …right?

there are exactly 4 division algebras (over the field of real numbers): the real numbers, the complex numbers, the quaternions, and the octonians. you can’t add any more complex parts because you lost associativity with the octonians. I’m not entirely sure how the first domino leads to the last, though.

it’s been broken for 50 years

China also appears to be improving on this in real time, though official policy still lags behind e.g. Cuba.

idk, I just know that the old instance already have problems with power users and reifying that will make the problem worse.

I think this was always an intended feature (I’ve certainly been hearing about it for years as something people want/devs want to add), in addition to a user tagging system (i.e. users adding tags to their own usernames (e.g. pronoun tags). the main difference, though, was that it was something the poster or mods/admins could add and not something for the userbase at large to vote on. I think making it a voting system allows abuse. like consider a large group of transphobes adding tags to posts in trans comms, for instance.

a trusted user system is it’s own can of worms.

no, we don’t have downvotes on hexbear and this is what they looked like when we did. it means bad post.

nah, it was a politically conscious choice to set up something like reddit, outside the control of capital and the state. the devs have written about it.

nah, they’re just good at posting. up your game.

unfortunately other data is not encouraging , the number of servers is both down since the exodus and in the recent month.

this is normal. we’ll go through a lot of similar waves. people start servers, realize they’re a lot of work, and then abandon them. servers that foster a healthy community will survive. hexbear’s worst cycle involved losing the entire administrative team just weeks after a large percentage of the website left. don’t sweat the growing pains - work together to learn, grow, and change.

lol the US security apparatus is bad but it’s not that bad. you might get put on a watchlist though.

how can privacy ever be stripped of political content? it’s inherently about social forces - ie politics.

jesus christ read at least one book about the history of the conflict you’re describing before you confidently spout nonsense.

colonialism is also still enforced today - IMF loans that force austerity policies on receiving nations, coups that topple popular governments and replace them with dictatorships that are friendly to western interests, the fomenting of civil wars and conflicts that frequently genocide entire populations, the sale of arms and training to far-right militias. neocolonialism doesn’t involve direct rule but it’s merely the form that’s changed, not the character or the consequences.

it’s such an unfunny joke I had to read it three times to even understand what she was trying to say

if US support dropped overnight, reunification with the mainland would become inevitable. it’s a puppet state in the sense that it’s propped up by the might of the US/NATO military.