Wordpress 1,000% (probably coupled with WooCommerce but there are probably some other options)
I honestly don’t even know off the top of my head why you would use anything else (aside from some vague elitism connected to the large ecosystem of commercial crap which has tainted by association the open source core of it) – it combines FOSS + easy + powerful + popular. You will have to tiptoe around some amount of crapware in order to keep it pure OSS though.
He’s just trying to help you, dude. lemmy.world is by far the biggest instance; 3x the users of the next biggest instance and much more than most. But, lemmy.world is also defederated from some notable instances like beehaw and hexbear. Another instance which also has in the tens of thousands of users (enough to be subscribed to “most stuff”) might well give you better search results.
You may decide that the defederated-from-here instances aren’t worth bothering with, with some justification, but you came in asking for help, he’s trying to help you, and you’re lecturing him about what’s what. 🙄
Lemmy.world has by far the most number of users. OTOH, it’s defederated from some notable instances, so you might be better off using one of the dedicated search sites if you want to cast the widest net.
Headline’s a little misleading; the thrust of the story is that every search engine is getting worse under the absolutely crushing weight of SEO gaming the system, and they note:
Google’s targeting of SEO and affiliate spam appears to be the most effective, the team found.
I think it’s fair to say that rape is not an official government position. I think it’s also fair to say that some instances of rape of Palestinians by Israeli forces have been part of the outcome of the occupation of Gaza.
My being honest about the idea that, in the light of what I currently understand, I probably wouldn’t include rape in my comment and only the other crimes, doesn’t mean it’s suddenly not happening, or that Israel’s not responsible for turning loose in Gaza a force of people who in addition to other atrocities seem to sometimes rape people.
Get all condescending about “reality” if you like. It’s still happening. Tell me it’s not.
I literally just now realized you’re probably right.
All crimes they’ve committed? Yes.
If you expect the mods to remove comments like mine, I think we’ve hit the crux of the disconnect between us. All good.
Have a good night as well.
“Sir, you stand accused of kidnapping, felony theft, rape, murder, and arson. I’m going to have to take you away.”
“That a lie! I never stole anything!”
It’s definitely factual. That’s why I linked to some examples of rape. The occupying forces are committing rape. Want me to try to find more examples? Or do the same for occupation, killing, torture, and systematic dehumanization?
The fact that now that I’ve read up a little bit more, I think it’s genuinely pretty unfair to put that in there in the way that I did, and that context needs to be added, doesn’t change the fact that rape has occurred because of what Israel is doing in the Palestinian territories. It also doesn’t change the overall thesis of what my comment was in the slightest.
The wider point, that us being allowed to have this conversation is a good thing and that forbidding this conversation would be a bad thing, was more my point. I won’t claim to be perfect or right all the time, and I’ll be pretty honest about it if I learn something or realize I got something wrong. But if you want to talk about what Israeli forces are doing in Palestine I’m happy to do that and back up anything I’m saying or have said.
I’ll take your feedback under advisement.
Yes. I’m not irritated at how they found it. What I’m saying is, after it was reported, I’m irritated that they decided to remove it.
The mods are not required to remove comments that are reported. It’s their decision whether or not to.
I guess where we differ is that my comment is, to me, in no way shape or form “being a whiny little shit.” It’s commentary on what the government of Israel is doing, in a community for discussing world events. If you see my comment the way you’re describing it, and feel that removing it from a communication network is just the mods doing their due diligence and keeping the network the way it’s supposed to be, then I think we’re not gonna be able to see eye to eye about this.
Oh, I understood what you were saying. I think you missed the point that I was making in response, but that’s okay.
In the parent comment of your comment I was replying to was where I said that.
But, within the context of lemmy.ml worldnews, I don’t have the right to say this thing. That’s the whole reason we’re talking about this. Plenty plenty of times online and offline I’ve said some thing and everyone’s yelled at me about how I’m wrong, and that’s completely fine with me. Removing the comment is a different story. And yes, I got butthurt about it and came to complain about it. Is it legal? Sure, they’re not the government, so the first amendment doesn’t apply to them. Can I go somewhere else? Sure. Do I feel like complaining because the mod did that? Sure. And so, here we are.
If that behavior by mods doesn’t bother you once you read the context, then you’re not the target audience and you don’t need to care, no. That part is completely up to you.
Well, I made a decision for my user account to create my post, and followed it through. That also seems pretty fediverse to me. And yet, here you are, creating a comment criticizing me for it, publicly explaining why you disagree with what I decided to do. By your own logic…
Everything Wordpress is heavily infested with that. However you don’t have to let it impact you – it kind of looks to me like they pressure commercial vendors to put their stuff under the GPL if they’re wanting to offer a free version, so there’s a robust ecosystem of actually-FOSS tooling for it. My experience has been that it’s always worked pretty well in practice; you just have to keep your nope-I’m-not-paying-for-your-paid-version goggles firmly affixed. (Also, side note, GPT does an excellent job of writing little functions.php snippets for you to enable particular custom functionality for your Wordpress install when you need it.)