Unfortunately despite its niceties, suburban living is harmful for the planet. Humans should limit their footprint by concentrating in cities.

Yeah, I do think some communists spend a little too much time defending the USSR’s controversies, but I think our time is much better spent focusing on the positives and asserting that this is what inspires us. Whether those human violations existed or not, we are not inspired by them and are irrelevant to what we believe.

Our support for the USSR comes from a place of wanting to learn from past experiences rather than glorify them. Unfortunately the USSR is gone, and we must do better today.

Lemmy is still in active development and there are some missing features, but it is very usable. Your friends’ complaints, some are a bit exaggerated and some are really not that big of issues that will get resolved eventually.

Gitea
Backups via rsync
Jellyfin
Piped for YouTube

Using gentoo Linux with raspberry pi 4B