Oh so cool! Are you native Morocco, or just visiting? I hear people there are so nice

Well, online English speaking communities are gonna have a bias towards native English speakers. Obviously some will browse these communities because they’re the largest, but while machine translation makes communication much easier, it’s still more difficult than with speakers of your own language. And most native English speakers who aren’t also native speakers of a language mutually intelligible with Hindi live in north America. (I’m excluding South Asia because a sizable fraction of the online South Asian communities communicate in the pre-colonization languages, mostly Hindi). Most such people have a shared cultural heritage that is largely European with a British slant.

When you think about it it’s not an unreasonable question, when you interpret it to be asking how many of us are outside of the cultural influence of the anglosphere

Oof, get well soon!

Yeah I went out, pretty much everything was open except for the street vendor I normally get my oranges from. I guess Christmas just isn’t as big a deal in China as it was back home - still saw Christmas decorations at a handful of stores and restaurants - my tea said on the cup “Merry Christmas” and had an explanation of what Christmas was on the back lol

In the US, the Government does not represent the people, but those who buy elections. The people who buy elections have no incentive to change anything, and nothing will change in absence of a violent communist revoution

Holy fuck I’ve been thinking about how annoying it is that I can’t search lemmy for a few days now - and here you are suddenly just handing the tool I want to me with features that I didn’t even think about. THANK YOU SO MUCH. Adding this post to my saved.

Shouldn’t be yet - for facebook (I’m not fucking calling them meta) to track you across the internet on websites you don’t use, they use a tracking pixel - a 1 pixel image that is included on the webpage which is loaded from facebook.com. To load this image your web browser sends facebook.com the cookies it always sends to facebook.com - i.e. your login information, and that’s how facebook knows that it’s you on that random-ass website that has nothing to do with facebook.

But note - you have to have cookies on facebook.com for this to work. So long as you never visit lemmy.facebook.com or whatever tf their federated instance is, they won’t be able to track you since they can’t associate you with your login via the tracking pixel - If I go to another lemmy instance, that lemmy instance has no idea that I’m actually @theblueredditrefugee@lemmy.dbzer0.com.

Well, this is based on my knowledge of how facebook tracking works. Maybe it’s changed since I worked there.

lmao I thought I was dumb for not understanding despite having a BS in CS. Distributed systems are just inherently confusing (and I took distributed systems in college!). Definitely gonna be something that I contribute to on github though, it’s just a matter of time before I learn what I need to learn