Lenin: The dictatorship of the proletariat means that the state uses its whole machinery of power to uphold and perpetuate “no-liberty” for the exploiters to continue their oppression and exploitation, “inequality” between the owner of property (i.e., one who has appropriated for himself certain means of production created by social labour) and the non-owner. That which, prior to the victory of the proletariat, seems merely a theoretical difference on the question of “democracy” inevitably becomes, on the day following victory, a question that is settled by force of arms. Consequently, even preliminary work in preparing the masses to effect the dictatorship of the proletariat is impossible without a radical change in the entire character of the struggle against the “Centrists” and the “champions of democracy “. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6672
Lenin: The dictatorship of the proletariat is the most determined and revolutionary form of the proletariat’s class struggle against the bourgeoisie. This struggle can be successful only when the most revolutionary vanguard of the proletariat has the backing of the overwhelming majority of the proletariat. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6673
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La vérité rougit l'œil, mais elle ne la transperce pas.
Proverbe sénégalais écrit sous une forme un peu différente connu en France depuis 1940:
«La vérité rougit l'œil , mais ne le crève pas.»
Comprenez que dire la vérité peut faire pleurer, mais ne blesse pas le corps de la personne.
|La vérité rougit l'œil, mais elle ne la transperce pas.|
L'arbre tombe toujours du côté où il penche.
Nous devons probablement ce diction au prêtre jésuite italien Paolo Segneri dans son ouvrage "La Manna Dell'anima" (1685).
Dans son commentaire sur le verset 3 du chapitre 11 de l'Ecclésiale, il a écrit:
Vous voudriez savoir quel sera votre sort, et de quel côté vous tomberez: c'est un mystère que la Sagesse divine a jugé à propos de cacher à tous les hommes. Mais après tout, ce que vous ne sauriez découvrir assurément, peut en quelque sorte vous devenir certain, par de raisonnables conjectures. Quand on coupe la racine d'un arbre, il tombe toujours du côté où il penche le plus. De quel côté penchez-vous? Est-ce vers le Midi ou vers le Septentrion? Vous penchez vers le Septentrion, et vous espérez tomber vers le Midi: téméraire confiance, qui selon toutes les apparences, sera confondue par un jugement sans miséricorde!
|L'arbre tombe toujours du côté où il penche.|
L'imitation est la forme de flatterie la plus sincère que la médiocrité puisse payer à la grandeur.
On doit la première version de ce dicton au périodique "The Spectator" en 1714. Une famille d'expressions similaires a évolué au fil du temps. En 1842, il a pris sa forme actuelle dans un article non signé. Oscar Wilde a utilisé des expressions de cette famille à partir de 1882.
Extrait de "The Spectator", Volume 8, Numéro 605 du 11 octobre 1714:
C'est une belle réflexion que j'ai entendu par un de mes amis: on peut être sûr qu'une femme aime un homme lorsqu'elle utilise ses expressions, raconte ses histoires ou imite ses manières. Cela procure un plaisir secret, car l'imitation est une sorte de flatterie sans art, et favorise grandement le puissant principe de l'amour-propre.
En 1842, le "Dublin Monthly Magazine" de Dublin, en Irlande, a publié un article faisant l’éloge du chimiste irlandais Robert Kane:
La Rochefoucault disait que «l'hypocrisie était l'hommage inconscient que le vice rendait à la vertu»; ne pourrait-on pas dire aussi que le plagiat est l'hommage que la médiocrité rend au génie?
Le 6 janvier 1882, le «Boston Daily Globe» de Boston, Massachusetts, a rapporté une remarque attribuée à Oscar Wilde qui assistait à une représentation de l'opéra comique «Patience» de Gilbert et Sullivan:
Lorsque Bunthorne entra en scène, de son pas affecté, Wilde dit à Miss Gabrielle Greeley, qui faisait partie du groupe dans la loge: «C'est l'hommage que la médiocrité rend à ce qui n'est pas médiocre.»
Merci à Quote Investigator!
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A First Post
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First post on Friendica
So I'm relatively new to fediverse, although I have already interacted with federated protocols (such as Matrix, but Matrix is way different from Mastodon/Friendica/Bluesky/Pleroma/etc).
I have been sailing through two Mastodon instances, but Mastodon's character limit is low for my needs. I'm a developer (JS, PHP, Python, etc) that also like to write poetry and chronicles, as well as interacting with AI to create artistic representations of the gothic and the dark supernatural. While it seems that Friendica supports more characters, I'll know it the moment I send this first post. It has 1342 characters in total.
I have a syncretic view over the reality, trying to converge scientific inquiry with the philosophical questioning and the metaphysical spirituality from all religions and belief systems (even when they seem to "contradict" one another; actually, they have more in common than people think, starting from the beginning of the existence from primordial waters from the amniotic liquid to the electromagnetic fields permeating the cosmos, but it's a subject for another future post).
One important thing for me to ask: does the instance allow AI Art (e.g. from artistic representations of daemons such as Astaroth and Lilith to mathematical concepts such as fractals; obviously these AI imagery would be marked as so)?
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@Daemon Silverstein This instance? I allow properly marked AI content, I would also suggest content warnings (in Friendica it's done with [abstract]content warning message[/abstract]
), but I count that more as a courtesy effort than something I'm going to really demand.
Friendica has no character limit set.
As Friendica isn't the friendliest user interface, if you do find you'd prefer Mastodon or Mastodon-like, there are many that have higher character limits.
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https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzgsBSEiEgLhn4vA5YER6ds57Zu12VfwD&si=99ybkfxy9ATFvMH4
Pt 3 is still in the works as this is a rework from 2020
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Sorry for the downtime
Housing situation has been a pain, still on the temporary server environment and been hitting major resources bottlenecks.
I'm hoping to get a place sooner, but I've hit some roadblocks that very likely will push it drastically further out... in which case I'll need to spend more money on this environment to return things to stable.
Reminder that I'm covering this entirely out of my own pocket and these constraints are because I'm between homes and can't use my own much cheaper hardware. If you appreciate this instance I would very much appreciate a donation.
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Friendica vs Mastodon
I tried Friendica previously, but never figured out what I wanted to do with it, and deleted it after a while. But after I'd read the excellent post @Elena Rossini wrote on her blog I realised I really should give it another chance, and decided to put a little more effort into it this time. So I created this account yesterday, and now I'm trying to decide how I want to use it. Some part of that uncertainty is because I haven't figured out all the bells and whistles of the platform, and I don't always quite understand what the help pages are trying to tell me. This is definitely mostly on me, having some preconceived notions and expectations, and getting a little confused here and there. This is not Facebook or Goggle+, it is its own thing.
For the most part though, just trying things out with one eye on those help pages have solved any questions I've had.
After I had signed up, I initially imported all the accounts I am following on Mastodon, but am starting to regret this. The two networks are obviously very different beasts, and I will act accordingly from now on. My current idea is to use Friendica, at least partly, as a sort of news aggregator, following accounts both on the fediverse and via RSS feeds, so a lot of those Mastodon accounts will be unfollowed here for a quieter experience and left on Mastodon. Just because you can follow everything everywhere on ActivityPub, it doesn't always make the best sense. But that, of course, is also the beauty of this, what doesn't make the best sense for me, might do for someone else. Different folks...
Occasionally I may even post something here, things that require more than 500 words, things like this.
That's what I'm planning to do right now, anyway. Who knows what I'll think tomorrow?
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@Jarulf @Elena Rossini welcome aboard! I'm definitely saving that article, might link it or one of the guides it mentions in the getting started welcome panel (... I should review that as well, I haven't looked at it in ages)
Also remember there's a helper group as you're figuring things out, just tag helpers@forum.friendi.ca (not tagged here because otherwise it'll share this comment to the group). I'm also happy to help out my users!
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I'm figuring things out as I go along, and I'm pretty sure I'm going to like it here. I'll be sure to ask for help when I'm getting too confused
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Long time no writing here
I started to digging into my latest hobby of #bookbinding (but it's not the only one i assure you)
And made several pamphlet, with also some custom design.
I recently made couple of handmade hardcover journals. One using a custom hero-quest character sheet, the other one is just a lined notebook.
More info for who is interested are available here: https://ko-fi.com/post/Two-more-bookbinding-projects-M4M511EWAN (don't worry all my posts on #ko-fi are free)
It also gave my a nice surprise of receiveing the first donation ever (even if it will be the last it still made me happy! :) ) Any opinion comment is appreciated.
These are couple of pictures of my latest works:
https://storage.ko-fi.com/cdn/useruploads/display/e25f68b4-5f59-4dd9-aa52-e93b11fe46e5_1000053442.jpg
any comment/critics is appreciated.
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Hey there, I'm Kees (they/them/their, ne/nem/nir), a 30-something bug living in California. I'm hoping to make this my public facing account to share my art and generally interact with the rest of the fediverse.
I'm an amateur naturalist (I like BIRDS and BUGS, especially parasitic wasps) and I do art in various media (digital, watercolor, acrylic), usually of birds or original characters from an ARPG I help run. #tokipona li pona. Aaand I don't know what else to put in here so I'll stop ha.
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Hola
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I'm an analogue digital hybrid who cares about mental health issues, music, photography and art.
I'm deeply suspicious of ducks (in a less than serious way) and although I exist on Mastodon I'm keen to migrate to Friendica.
Best wishes all.
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Mist and fog clouds over this domain. The thoughts of raceme flowers and pinnated ferns hang over my minds eye as I walk with covered pupils. The hard dirt feels rock like, with an occasional trip over roots.
Pulling me down a pathway of cedar and pine, nesting in its canopy, birds orientated skywards to a plateau of limitless sky. Just out of reac- war̓n̼͚͜i̴͈ng,͈͑̌ l͓̀o̩͋ͬw̦͊ b̵̍a̶͋͂t̫tê̾̍r͉̔͠y
O̪͉p͎e̜̽n̡ ỳ̬o̲ur̘̥ e̫͌yē͌ͅs̵͗̿, O̪͉p͎e̜̽n̡ ỳ̬o̲ur̘̥ e̫͌yē͌ͅs̵͗̿, O̪͉p͎e̜̽n̡ ỳ̬o̲ur̘̥ e̫͌yē͌ͅs̵͗̿.
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