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[–] LastSprinkles 0 points 10 months ago

Oh wow. After reading the announcement I'm glad they got defederated.

[–] LastSprinkles 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Never heard of Hexbear (kind of new around here). Why were they defederated? I'm actually on Lemmy World.

Is is possible to see who upvoted/downvoted a specific comment? in c/fediverse

[–] LastSprinkles 1 points 10 months ago

Cool, thanks for the explanation. TIL

Is is possible to see who upvoted/downvoted a specific comment? in c/fediverse

[–] LastSprinkles 0 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I see yeah indeed that works! Although it looks like it only shows a subset of all votes.

With eyes on Taiwan, new China ban shows the U.S. may be learning lessons from mistakes with Russia in c/news

[–] LastSprinkles 4 points 10 months ago

I don't really see how having a nuclear base in Taiwan eliminates MAD. Similarly having 60% of the navy in the Pacific. It seems to me these mostly work well in case of a conventional conflict.

With eyes on Taiwan, new China ban shows the U.S. may be learning lessons from mistakes with Russia in c/news

[–] LastSprinkles 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah indeed strategic ambiguity has been the approach they've taken so far. If they decided to they could change the approach though. I think it's unlikely China would carry out the threat if a formal alliance was actually announced since in that case they'd be starting a world war. I think it's more likely they'd express outrage, protest and perhaps fly some fighter jets over Taiwan, take some steps short of actual war. My worry is that if the situation remains ambiguous China might conclude that the security guarantees are not real and that US would not respond. Having strong credibility there is essential for maintaining peace I think, especially if the intention is to actually respond.

With eyes on Taiwan, new China ban shows the U.S. may be learning lessons from mistakes with Russia in c/news

[–] LastSprinkles 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Nuclear base... Talk about hyperbole. Hope the weather is nice in Beijing this August.

Is is possible to see who upvoted/downvoted a specific comment? in c/fediverse

[–] LastSprinkles 7 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Yeah agree I am not sure that's a feature I'd want either tbh if it wasn't already there. But seems like it is in some form.

Is is possible to see who upvoted/downvoted a specific comment? in c/fediverse

[–] LastSprinkles 7 points 10 months ago

Ahhh right so the information is there publicly available just not in the existing clients. Interesting.

With eyes on Taiwan, new China ban shows the U.S. may be learning lessons from mistakes with Russia in c/news

[–] LastSprinkles 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Sure I agree when it comes to admitting them to the EU. NATO is only a military defence alliance though. If they'd been in NATO this war would never have happened.

[–] LastSprinkles 4 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I did this. I didn't initially realize there is such a thing as instances (I thought I was joining Lemmy). Came from Reddit so didn't expect this. Now I only use my Lemmy.world account, the other one is doing nothing (should probably get around deleting it at some point).

Do posts from instances that don't allow downvotes have an unfair advantage? in c/fediverse

[–] LastSprinkles 1 points 10 months ago

Outright lying about the numbers is very different from just not allowing downvotes though.