Pamasich

Look, you’re free to keep replying, but I’m not going to further talk here. I’m just writing this last comment to clarify that, so you can stop wasting your time. I realize that you’re not arguing in good faith, so this is just going to go on endlessly otherwise.

and you don’t support resistance against genocide in practice

What I don’t agree with is that wording.

I don’t support this specific form of resistance against genocide in practice. What you wrote there most literally means I don’t support resistance against genocide in practice in general, which is what I can’t agree with. If we’re just talking about Hamas specifically, or the shape that resistance has taken in this genocide specifically, then I agree with the statement. But the way it’s written here and was written before, I can’t agree with it, it’s too broadly worded and easily misconstrued when taken out of context.

You’re really not arguing in good faith, are you? Not supporting hamas doesn’t mean I’m not in favor of resistance against genocide.

But just to clear this up once more:

• I am against genocide
• I support resistance against genocide
• I still hold resistance groups to certain minimal standards
• Hamas does not fulfill my standards

So no, I do not support Hamas. But yes, I do support Palestinian resistance in theory.

If that’s your point, you replied to the wrong comment of mine earlier.

When I said “I don’t agree on that claim, no.” I was specifically referring to the claim that I oppose resistance to genocide, period. When in reality I’m opposing the form that resistance is taking, not resistance itself. That’s why I said I don’t agree with the claim made.

You don’t seem to argue with that fact, you’re just arguing about my actual position. Which isn’t what I was denying.

That’s not what I said that in response to. This doesn’t mean I oppose resistance to genocide, this means I have expectations towards resistance groups. Not the same position. Opposing the form doesn’t mean I oppose the concept.

I don’t agree on that claim, no.

The modern left-right discourse is just so confusing to me.

I’ve seen authoritarians, supporters of war crimes, and support for terrorism and cruelty, all claimed as leftist positions. I can’t reconcile them with what I thought left-wing values were about.

I really think we need something with more dimensions to be popularized. The left-right system is just so loaded at this point. I personally can’t identify with either side at all.

You’re wrong, Hamas are in fact “the good guys” in this conflict.

Let’s agree to disagree there then. I wasn’t planning to convince you after all.

What I think they meant was that people here only think about the genocide and thus declare the perpetrators evil (which they are) and the victims the good guys (hamas are not).

One side’s atrocities don’t justify the other side’s. Excusing your own group’s actions because they’re the good guys is far right thinking.

In reality there’s more factors to this than just the genocide, and both hamas and israel are the bad guys in their own way. One is just worse than the other, but that doesn’t make the other good.

I mean, ChatGPT can do it. I just tested it. And if you run your own AI, you can probably remove most such rules anyway.

Nowadays people use OpenClaw agents which don’t really involve human input beyond the initial “fix this bug” prompt. They independently write the code, submit the PR, argue in the comments, and might even write a hit piece on you for refusing to merge their code.

For people who only go off headlines and comments and don’t read the article, here’s the important bits:

• This only affects some users, not everyone
• The issue is that comment sections are disabled and video descriptions claim to be empty
• The issue goes away with a refresh, you don’t need to turn off the adblocker, though you’ll have to refresh every video
• It affects all videos
• The link to adblockers is due to everyone who is reporting the issue being a user of an adblocker, and turning it off fixing the issue permanently until it’s turned on again
• There’s no specific browser or adblocker mentioned in the article
• It affects Premium users too

edit: added “the article” after “don’t read” to clarify

There’s Shoot as a fediverse alternative to Discord.

Otherwise, as others have said, IRC, Matrix, or Teamspeak are worth looking into. Especially the latter got a major refresh at one point, so it’s not the dinosaur you might expect from its age.

Perhaps it could potentially be forked from the already existing Lemmy?

I really don’t see the point of turning a discussion forum into an instant messaging platform. Like, the requirements are completely different. You might as well start from square one than trying to transform one into the other.