yeah, Piefed uses ActivityPub so that should work, I’m talking more about login in to an app using a Piefed account to interact with the threadyverse.

PieFed is its own project (similar to how Kbin/Mbin is a different project). It just implements ActivityPub, and is part of the threadiverse, but not a Lemmy instance.

I finally watched this a couple of days ago and wanted to thank you for the rec! Very enjoyable (although the second cour/season felt a bit rushed, I wish they have had more time to explore the Earth subplot), I also noticed a lot of thematic continuities and narrative similarities to Utena (which I just recently watched as well). If you know of any other similar wlw stories send them my way!

I am a bit wary of diving deeper into Gundam because I’m terrible at watching long shows, but I will keep them in mind.

I was just wondering if there are any Android clients for PieFed. Lemmy has a ton, I have like 5 installed on my phone (Sync, Jerboa, Thunder, Summit…), but I don’t think there’s any for PieFed?

Is PieFed supported by any apps?

Could you expand a bit on how they don’t offer additional privacy?

How do they shush in greek?

I am Nicaraguan/live in Nicaragua. My experience at hospitals has been… great, I guess. Yes, we have universal healthcare that covers a lot of things, but my experience has been good because both of my parents are doctors. When I was a kid, and I had to go to the hospital, I would get to my appointment pretty quickly, doctors where responsive, attentive and thorough. My parents may have been friends with them or at least they knew each other, so they were nice.

My experience is not necessarily common. Nowadays when my friends share their hospital experiences, they always complain about their doctors: they are rude, lack empathy, are not thorough, misdiagnose them, and the hospital system is a mess. Doctors are overworked, and they are not able to provide the care that they would be able to if the hospitals enrolled in the social security system didn’t take on so many patients. Their medical personnel doesn’t grow, but their number of patients does, just so they can keep accumulating as much wealth as they can.

My parents’ experience with hospitals hasn’t been great either. When my dad quit his job at the Army’s hospital, he was not paid any of the compensation required by law. This was not uncommon at the time, at least one person made a complaint at the Ministry of Labor, but it was dismissed because… it’s the Army’s Hospital.

My mom worked most of her life at the same hospital, she developed chronic pain due to her work, and was fired after she requested fewer hours. She later tried to file for compensation for an occupational injury and was denied by the (state-run) social security system. The Army’s Hospital is not run by right-wing Somoza-era guards, it is run and owned by Sandinista generals.

I am sharing all this because well, you asked for awful hospital stories, but also to illustrate something that people hate to hear in Marxist-Leninist spaces: Nicaragua is not a socialist paradise, we also live in our very own brand of a capitalist hellscape. A hellscape flavored with Ortega’s desire to enrich himself, his family and his closest allies.

I also live with chronic pain, I sometimes go without sleep for days, but I was able to get a diagnosis and the proper medication because my parents are friends with doctors. Only working class solidarity will save us, not fake socialists in power. (I want to point out, unlike other countries, being a doctor in Nicaragua doesn’t necessarily make you wealthy, only until I also started working did our financial struggles eased up a bit.)

I hope you get the medical care and medications that you need soon, good luck with your appointment!! Not being able to sleeps sucks, it’s just trying to get through the day to finally get to bed… and then being unable to fall sleep, and repeat. It’s terrible.

Of course it is. How do these foreign companies own such large amounts of land in these countries? (Hint: US-sponsored coups). Why are these countries producing large amounts of a single crop via monoculture practices instead of solving for the nutritional needs of their own population?

This is indistinguishable from an IMF policy document, or a tweet from some of the 🌐 nerds, yikes

Is this watchable without having watched any of the other Gundams?

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Have you… read the news for the past two months?

Reading tarot cards IS labor.

Wondering why a move from Codeberg (non-profit, free software, self-hostable) to Github (propietary software, Microsoft)? Seems like Codeberg would be more aligned to the project’s values.

I don’t think which accounts or statuses someone has viewed/visited is public information. This is just a list of likes the account had, right? (Which is public and anyone can see without API access).

I think you have a pretty big typo at the end of your first paragraph.

But I agree with you, I hate that sub, and I don’t understand how people can stomach watching that as entertainment/a passtime. To me just watching videos of people being killed (no matter who they are) inevitably leads to dehumanization. Like, I’m glad Nazis were killed during WW2 but I don’t spend my day searching for pictures or videos of dead nazis.

I found it! Thanks, not sure how I missed it.

Yeah, Thunder is weird about their swipe to go back gesture. It works if you’re doing it over the post itself or if you’re scrolling through the comments (so while the comments are moving, swipe to go back).

Kinda crazy how many people use Liftoff when Thunder is so much better.