koncertejo

joined 2 years ago
[–] koncertejo@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Some of the best advancements in Canadian social programs have been spearheaded by the NDP, pulling the Liberals to the left. The NDP have, on more than one occasion, held the balance of power and used it to support Liberal minority governments. Pulling support away from Carney in a leftist direction is in no way equivalent to what happened in the most recent American election. We don't live in a two party system, and I'd very much like to see it kept that way lest we become more like the Americans in yet another way.

[–] koncertejo@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Finally some leftist critique of what's been going on with the Liberal party lately. I feel like everyone got so swept up in the fervour of "oh my god, the Conservatives might not win a landslide this election, this is a miracle!" that they forgot that electing someone further to the right of Trudeau in an already centrist party is no win for leftists.

[–] koncertejo@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

My devices are named after planets from Doctor Who: mondas, telos, skaro, villengard.

[–] koncertejo@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 week ago

God yeah, what a frustrating sentiment to see. Very common among people who won't give the fediverse any modicum of good faith engagement. "This is different from what people are used to and is therefore bad" instead of understanding that maybe there's a reason it's built that way.

 

You can see it if you check https://fedidb.org/. Monthly active users have gone from just a hair under one million to somewhere around 1.4 million and still growing. How do we think this will go? How do we feel about this influx of new users? Has PixelFed done something different that Mastodon hasn't?

I feel like I didn't really recognize having different "platforms" like Mastodon, PixelFed, etc would give multiple opportunities for the fediverse to make a "first" impression with people.