@lewdthewides@allison >transphobic banner I don't really see what's transphobic about it?
>anarcho capitalist punishing people based on what they believe (in terms of whether they're a communist or whatever) never sits right with me. I personally dont really give a shit
@allison@lewdthewides ngl sometimes this politics shit goes over my head ahaa I voted labour in the last local MP election, I don't think I'll do that again. I don't really have much of an interest in voting but i know it's important
@allison@lewdthewides like wtf even is all this shit I know literally nothing about it LOL
like are liberals the same thing as democrats? and would democrats be the us equivalent to UK's labour party?
whenever people mention owning the libs or whatever i've always just assumed they implied liberals were democrats because quite often those statements are said by people on the right, and obv the people who the right want to target the most are their opposition (the left wing, which makes sense) - same with left wing
@allison@lewdthewides ahhh ok I don't know how to describe myself in that sense, and I often don't feel like it because I'm worried about being ostracized based on whatever i say i think i am. like, my family are very much labour orientated, I think my parents have only voted conservative once. My dad is very anti-trump, and I always assumed he was pro-biden as a result, but recently I learnt he has issues with biden too, but whenever I talk to him about biden he seems to go on the defensive a bit and brings up trump. Seems like he really just doesn't like trump being there.
I for one don't really care about that. I should be more concerned about my own country than the US, even though US politics kinda strangles the internet wherever you go because the internet is very americanised/american centric.
The tories are definitely not going to see another 4 or 5 years in power after this next general election, methinks. Everyone's losing faith in them. Labour in my opinion was its best under Corbyn, despite the antisemitism people say was evident there, I don't believe Corbyn is against jews personally. Keir Starmer is too much of a wet noodle and I feel like if he gets in pretty much nothing will be done, same as the tories really. Lost confidence in my own country's politics.
Back to what I said about being ostracised though. I know obviously on certain spaces in society and on the internet if you mention you're right wing, left wing and other aligned people will not want to talk to you or have anything to do with you. Some of them will even go out of their way to harass or report you simply for voting for a right wing person or something like that.
What I want to know, and would hope, is that if I come onto a place like this side of fedi, which if I'm being honest seems to naturally have quite of a right wing orientation, I would hope that I don't immediately get people on my ass because I express "left wing" views. As if this happens, its hypocritical, because right wingers say its the left that's supposed to be "tolerant" and they meme about how it isn't tolerant to them
Question for anyone who has an instance of their own or has had experience making one: What would you say is the "hardest part"?
I was thinking making sure emails are sent and don't just go straight into spam is probably one of them. Also, do I need an S3 bucket to handle media etc or is there a way I can host it all locally?
I'm thinking of hosting my own instance at some point in the future and I wondered how I go about setting an environment up. (I feel like I should say this if it's not already obvious- I would be doing it entirely from scratch with no previous work in messing with any self hosted instance of anything at all) - do I have a system running Proxmox or something similar and then have the instance in that?
It's all quite new to me admittedly, and aiming to do some of this myself is probably something I hope to work towards...
@FUCKINGWHOCARESDUDE i'm thinking and I might just use a vps after all - my only hang up about it is because I'm in a country that is leaning towards being authoritarian (the UK) I was worried that any VPS provider I have would give in if the authorities wanted to get my information from them.
I won't be hosting anything morally questionable on the instance at all, but who knows, in a country like this, saying you disagree with how the prime minister does things may be illegal soon or some shit idk. Scary