it's been a while since i took ownership of @foreign_affairs > in the past, this magazine used to be a place for international news and politics - until it fell dormant when the former owner was no more active on kbin
i believe that kbin.social already offers well-established magazines which perfectly serve that purpose, e.g. @worldwithoutus, @worldnews, or @anime_titties
hence, the foreign affairs magazine will concentrate on larger debates, with opinion pieces explicitly welcome!
the first linked article in the re-purposed magazine is an opinion piece by former tuvaluan pm enele sopoaga on falepili, an obscene treaty which enables australia to cash in on the misery of tuvalu, an island endangered by climate change
in germany, currently many groups keep pushing to rigorously apply the ihra definition of antisemitism in the field of state cultural funding > this has already resulted in many cancelled exhibitions, cancelled funding etc
recently, german conservative politician michael blume joined the debate, declaring the following:
ich bin der auffassung, dasz es 1 fortschritt gibt & dasz es also gut ist, dasz meinungsfreiheit verengt wird; wir dürfen heute vieles nicht mehr, was wir vor 100 jahren noch durften: da durften leute diskutieren, ob frauen wahlrecht haben, ob menschen unterschiedlicher hautfarbe unterschiedlichen wert haben, ob die protokolle der weisen von zion echt sind, & ich bin sehr glücklich darüber, dasz das langsam aufhört, dasz steuergelder ausgegeben werden, um rassismus, sexismus oder antisemitismus zu fördern - ich sehe das als 1 deutlichen fortschritt
translation:> i am of the opinion that there is progress & that it is therefore a good thing that freedom of speech is narrowed; we are no longer allowed to do many things today that we were allowed to do 100 years ago: people were allowed to discuss whether women had the right to vote, whether people of different skin colors had different value, whether the protocols of the elders of zion were real, & i'm very happy that this is slowly coming to an end, that tax money is being spent to promote racism, sexism or antisemitism - i consider this a significant step forward
himself being a member of the german conservative party cdu, michael blume sticks to double standards: no other german party has been continuously supporting antisemitic key players, such as the hungarian orbán regime or the gop rightwingers in amurkah > the money spent by the german conservatives to further these cooperations on international level is tax payers' money > but when it comes to silencing criticism, german conservatives call for cutting of public funding #germany#antisemitism#bds#ihra
yesterday, i took ownership of the "workers' rights" magazine on kbin.social > you can find it here: kbin.social/m/workersrights
since i consider workers' rights to be of international importance, i try to get away from an english-only, anglocentric perspective > attempting to counter english dominance on the fediverse, i added the hashtag "hartal" ("strike" in many south asian and southeast asian languages), aiming at a better discoverability of non-english posts at least on this specific subject
if you send me the term for "strike" in a language other than english, i will add the term as a hashtag to the kbin magazine mentioned above > contributions from the global south are especially welcome!
differences between threadiverse folks and microbloggers on the fedi:
microbloggers boost a lot, but that's not big on the threadiverse
microbloggers tend not to like anything - neither the posts they keep boosting nor the replies to their own posts - whereas this is absolutely common on the threadiverse
microbloggers tend not to reply - whereas on the threadiverse, this keeps happening all the time
@Kierunkowy74
you are pointing to the blind spot: fedi microbloggers claim that they love to interact, whereas i see more interaction happening in the threadiverse #fediverse#threadiverse#microblogging
but there are some things which you probably would be missing if you start out with #writefreely > have a look at their own blog > no comments section ...
but just some days ago, news spread that a new fork is in the works which, among other things, will support visible comments
