[-] janWilejan@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

Yup. From the article:

Payments of the bonds to the descendants of creditors was only finalised in 2015 when the British Government decided to modernise the gilt portfolio by redeeming all remaining undated gilts.

Since 2018, numerous Freedom of Information Act requests have been sent to the British government and Bank of England for the names of those who were paid with the bonds, of which all were denied.

[-] janWilejan@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

Britain paid reparations to the slaveowners and their descendants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Compensation_Act_1837
The last check went out in 2015. So yes, people alive today benefited from this. directly.
If they want to make it fair, they should pay reparations to the descendants of enslaved people and/or take back the money they gave to slaveowners.

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I've reported a few posts on kbin and I'm not sure if they go anywhere. Who reads the reports? Does the report go to the magazine owner? What if hate speech is coming from the owner of a magazine?

[-] janWilejan@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

No. The death penalty is never the correct punishment. If restorative justice isn't possible, then life in prison is the worst punishment you should have.

In extreme cases like this, you want to keep these people alive in order to investigate earlier crimes. I doubt this is the first time these cops did this kind of shit.

[-] janWilejan@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

Owncast, a live video streaming platform, has fediverse integration.

[-] janWilejan@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think you're missing the forest for the trees here.

PeerTube accounts are for video makers, not video watchers. If I want to watch a PT video, I can do so without an account. If I want to leave a like or comment, I'll do so from my mastodon or misskey account. The reason Peertube servers don't tend to federate with each other is because they don't need to: they federate with mastodon/misskey/pleroma servers for the people who want to watch. (also, the https://spectra.video/about/follows page OP linked seems to ignore non-peertube follows?)

As for finding new videos on PeerTube, I recommend using sepiasearch.org

[-] janWilejan@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They're right; it is propaganda. It's corporate propaganda aimed at getting you to buy their garbage. Also known as advertising.

Edit: I'm getting downvoted for this, so I'll clarify: I don't think the movie is "demonic" or anything. But it is advertising and advertising is a type of propaganda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda#Advertising

[-] janWilejan@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

db2 can't tell whether this post is satire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

[-] janWilejan@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

@XOrgFoundation what are your thoughts on X corp using the X11 logo?

[-] janWilejan@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

I'd appreciate a content warning or marking your post as nsfw when you post gore. I did not want to see that last panel.

[-] janWilejan@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago

Oh great. A new flavour of regex, but it's less portable and more verbose. https://xkcd.com/927/

[-] janWilejan@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

Why does the thumbnail say "Can = 10 years in prison" while the description says "10 months in prison for stealing a can"? This youtuber does not strike me as a particularly trustworthy source of news lol

[-] janWilejan@kbin.social 106 points 1 year ago

For those who don't know, the strategy is called Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish. The phase comes from Microsoft who used this to (try to) crush competing document editors, Java implementations, browsers, and operating systems. Other big tech companies employ similar strategies.

Facebook coming to the Fediverse is the Embrace phase of this process and that makes Mastodon, Lemmy, Kbin, Misskey, and Akkoma the competitors.

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in what ways do you think kbin should strive to be different from Reddit?

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