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in reply to Aral Balkan

You seem to link to a lot (subjectively) articles from inkl, do you have a subscription there? If so, do you find it is worth it?
in reply to Inhji hat ein 🚲

Yep and yep. It’s not perfect by any means but it’s the least bad news app I could find so far. (Given the sewer of available options, that’s high praise.)
in reply to Aral Balkan

Okay, that sounds promising. I've been looking for an affordable and worthwhile news subscription, since most in-depth articles by big news site are sitting behind money.
in reply to Aral Balkan

Currently the Israeli side claims that armed Palestinians in that area reported of shooting down an Israeli soldier.

Would you consider it possible that in the midst of the darkness and chaos, the journalists with their helmets and bullet-proof vests (of different color, but it's dark) were accidentally confused for soldiers?

in reply to Aral Balkan

#ReallyBadStuff
Even if 5% are true . it can't be accepted.
#doublestandards same with turkey and #kurds
We were four journalists, we were all wearing vests, all wearing helmets,” Hanaysha said. “The [Israeli] occupation army did not stop firing even after she collapsed. I couldn’t even extend my arm to pull her because of the shots being fired. The army was adamant on shooting to kill.”
in reply to Aral Balkan

boosting this because people always forget about Israel. for some reason they get carte blanche from the US to do what they want.
in reply to Aral Balkan

I wish there was a lightweight Mastodon server that was specifically geared to single person instances.

Do you know of one?
#mastoHelp

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in reply to arkadi

Nope. But if you hear of such an ActivityPub server, please do let me know too. I’d be very interested.
in reply to Aral Balkan

Of course, there is an activitypub plugin for Wordpress, but WP being the bloated mess it is, that may not be everybody's cup of tea.
in reply to arkadi

what's the benefit of gearing an instance for a single person? A social activity feed for one seems counter intuitive unless I'm missing something.
in reply to mcneely

The fediverse is federated so you can speak to anyone on any other instance. An instance of one means that you don’t have to moderate anyone else, just yourself.

Take that as a core tenet and you have the #SmallWeb (which doesn’t have to use ActivityPub but could interoperate with it if desired).

ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-s…

in reply to Aral Balkan

basically the idea of a single user instance is trading moderation control for local (instance) interactivity and just planning to federate where you want?

I can understand the appeal in that

in reply to Aral Balkan

don’t you miss the local timeline for discovery and the “community” feeling? I’m new here, so not sure if there are alternatives for that.
in reply to Aral Balkan

Israel is doing very harm to Palestine. They are much worse than Russia.