• PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
      25·
      12 hours ago

      https://chapo.chat/c/chapotraphouse?dataType=Post&sort=TopDay

      https://chapo.chat/post/4468515?sort=Top

      I did see the much more reasonable post from the site admin. That one was fine, I should have made that clear. I was mocking the users of the site freaking out, to broad and sustained applause, over how DNS is a capitalist plot when it is just about the furthest thing from it that exists on the modern internet.

      I also thought it was funny that they found some GNU tool that was a replacement, but then freaked out minorly because in the docs it talks about some issue related to censorship of the Chinese internet, and we are not allowed to talk about that, that is a bad thought, it’s not real it’s not real.

      Also, this is absolutely true:

      As an aside, this site has a way better layout and interface than all the other lemmies. Seriously the most comfortable way to browse and it even works well on mobile.

      I don’t know why it hasn’t been shared, or picked up by anyone else. Lemmy.ml if nowhere else. I never really browsed Hexbear on its own instance before today. It’s a little bit garish, on purpose, but not overly much and it all fits together and looks peaceful and attractive. It is not “show me the UX equivalent of a pile of unvarnished planks” like the default theming.

      Edit: Just in case it’s not clear, I am fully and sincerely saying that Hexbear’s theme looks really good. IDK what they did but they did a good job.

      • chickentendrils@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        6 hours ago

        Something’s wrong with you if you think Chinese censorship is denied anywhere… It’s just funny to contrast coverage in the west to how little discussion there is of our owners’ budget for counterrevolutionary activities and propaganda and sabotage and espionage against any country making its own decision. Let alone illegal sanctions, invasions, occupations… Or neverending examples of states which acquiesced simply being exploited by collaborators. As if there’s no reasonable historical explanation for such a censorship regime to have ever existed… As the US rolls out its own versions of Web censorship.

        • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
          11·
          5 hours ago

          https://chapo.chat/post/4468515/5913728

          That’s the thing in context. If someone made a tool for you to use, out of the goodness of their heart, but acknowledges the simple fact of Chinese censorship, and that disgusts you, there is something wrong with you and you’re trying to engineer the world and reality to conform to your dogma.

          Like DNS, GNU is some of the most successful communist-paradigm stuff that any of us ever interact with day-to-day. Singling it out for criticism and disgust unless it hews the line exactly of how you want to demand it contextualizes its true facts about anything, making excuses for a regime a lot more authoritarian than surely-problematic Western governments, is absurd.