I truly love the idea that the reason Americans hate communism is their rigorous study of USSR and China.

It was just a temporary ban if I remember correctly. For more context, https://lemmygrad.ml/post/656428

Wow, it is a sad state, where every single comment of his has negative score, except the ones where he calls Russians orcs…

Here in the Czech Republic, almost nothing. Only a few stories about overthrowing of “democratically” elected president, and few comments from French. No one seems to care.

As someone mentioned, there is DS9 and even Voyager. For me, I couldn’t even finish watching the first episode. It just didn’t seem like Star Trek to me. It had more of a Star Trek movies (new ones) vibe, and I just couldn’t stand it.

And the whole “Russian/Chinese bots” things falls pretty flat when most of our conversations are amongst ourselves as well. Why would China/Russia pay/program all these bots just to simulate conversation in the hope that some random US liberal will stumble upon a 3 week old conversation, start an argument and then get an angry response? Seems like a poor use of their time.

I mean, I’ve literally seen someone argue that Dessalines is being threatened with murder by CPC. I wouldn’t put it past them.

I think that if there is one person here that I understand losing their temperament, it would be you. Reading the endless threads on lemmy I always wonder how you don’t lose your mind arguing with some people.

I agree, what I wanted to say with that is that if someone from other lemmy instances come here even with our reputation, there is a good chance that it is someone who is actually interested in what we have to say.

Yes, in this case it did work. But I wanted to use it as an example of someone who was originally met with a more hostile response, even if it wasn’t warranted. Personally, if I was in his place, I would just not want to engage with us anymore. I don’t want to say with this post that we are terrible etc. but at least in my opinion people who actually come here from another instances and are not trolls are prime target for education. That is the reason I think we should try to be more kind to them.

We get a huge volume of bad-faith interaction here. Especially when you sort by “new comments”.

Interesting, I rarely see that, apart from obligatory “China bad”, “Russia putler” etc. under some news articles. But maybe that is just due to the posts I read.

I agree that is not a huge problem and yes it is mostly not so harmful. I was not trying to suggest with this post that we are super terrible etc. Mostly I just wanted to say that I think we could be a bit better. In my opinion, these people are the prime target for educating. Overall, from what I’ve seen Lemmygrad has a pretty bad reputation on most Lemmy instances so if someone ventures here and is not a troll, I think we should try to be kind to them.

See our other thread https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/1166824

How are you making the distinction between trolls and good faith participation?

Sometimes it is hard to tell, and I do understand that it is easy to make mistakes, but we should still try to assume that not everyone is here just to troll.

Can you share an example from your post history where you’ve patiently educated an account seemingly engaging in bad faith?

Personally, the only example I can give of my post is this https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/438417, but I don’t post here that much. But I think that a much better example of this is: https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/1165246 Here, even if you disagree with the original statement, I would argue that someone was met with too hostile response and seems to have changed his mind after he was shown proof that he was wrong. I do agree that sometimes it is hard to not just make fun of people, especially with Uighurs and China in general, but we shouldn’t automatically assume bad intentions.

But why? I completely understand having fun with people who are here to troll/argue in bad faith. I also completely understand just not wanting to engage with those people. But why would you argue to not try to educate people who came here in good faith?

That would be interesting. Personally I mainly focus on local stuff and just sometime look on all but not sure which is more common, at least in web UI local is the default one. But even if it was all, Lemmygrad is a relatively small instance when compared with some others, so we would probably not be in many people’s feed anyway.

Most of the time yes, but from time to time I see someone post something and the only comments they get are pretty hostile. Even if later it turns out they were just genuinely asking questions and even admitted to doing so. I think this just pushes some people away, that we could educate instead.

Of course then there are troll etc. which are different story.

I am not arguing against reactionaries or people who are bigoted, arguing in bad faith etc. But I’ve seen multiple times here people just now knowing something, asking and the only responses they got were too combative. I understand that it is often annoying to deal with these people, but we should at least try to educate them, as long as they are arguing in bad faith or just don’t engage with them. And not being openly hostile to them.

To be honest, I am not really sure if this strategy makes sense here. I don’t think there are that many onlookers when you are arguing on Lemmygrad. If you are commenting on another instance that is a different story, but here, I doubt it.

Unfortunately, misogyny is extremely prevalent in popular media. And not just in media. I myself always only considered women as my equal and as human beings (it is terrible that this is something that needs to be said…). But even so, I always find that there is some deep-rooted misogynistic concept that I picked up and have to educate myself out of.

Sounds like Windows rewrote boot manager. It likes to do that sometimes. Basically your only choice is taking live USB booting into it and reinstalling grub.

The closest will be OnlyOffice, if you use something like Nextcloud you can even integrate it into online workflow same as with MS Office.