South Africa accused of ‘horrific’ crackdown as 78 bodies pulled from mine
South Africa accused of ‘horrific’ crackdown as 78 bodies pulled from mine
The Democratic Alliance, the second-biggest party in the governing coalition, calls for an independent inquiry.Al Jazeera
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I promise that we're not all bigots that think our shit doesn't stink, just most of us. But I just want to add that it's unfortunately not just white people. Look up the 'Marikana massacre' that likely happened under the direction of our current president, considering that he was one of the shareholders pressuring the police to take action.
This place is fucked, top to bottom. The real freedom fighters like Mandela are all dead and gone and we're left with businessmen and openly corrupt freeloaders. People that say things like "I didn't join the struggle to be poor" while being more than happy to sit back and watch as the country they supposedly fought for collapses under the weight of poverty.
VoxeLibre 0.88 – Back on Track is finally live!
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/23733414
This release took some time, but it's worth it! VoxeLibre is back on track with development.Minecarts are reworked and you can put them back on track; a new projectile system will make combat and adventure smoother; new original weapons (spears and hammers!) with unique functions will aid you there; and then you can enjoy a nice show of new fireworks on an improved sky... All the while farming mobs and plants, utilizing the improvements to their systems! And this is not the end...
Change log: git.minetest.land/VoxeLibre/Vo…
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VoxeLibre/0_88-the_back_on_track_release.md at master
VoxeLibre - VoxeLibre (formerly known as MineClone2), a voxel-based sandbox game for MinetestMesehub
Kamala Harris Paid the Price for Not Breaking With Biden on Gaza, New Poll Shows
cross-posted from: thelemmy.club/post/21467535
cross-posted from: thelemmy.club/post/21467534
Kamala Harris Paid the Price for Not Breaking With Biden on Gaza, New Poll Shows
cross-posted from: thelemmy.club/post/21467534Kamala Harris Paid the Price for Not Breaking With Biden on Gaza, New Poll Shows
Twenty-nine percent of non-voters who supported Biden in 2020 said U.S. support for the genocide was the top reason they sat the 2024 election, according to a survey by YouGov.Ryan Grim (Drop Site News)
Kamala Harris Paid the Price for Not Breaking With Biden on Gaza, New Poll Shows
Kamala Harris Paid the Price for Not Breaking With Biden on Gaza, New Poll Shows
Twenty-nine percent of non-voters who supported Biden in 2020 said U.S. support for the genocide was the top reason they sat the 2024 election, according to a survey by YouGov.Ryan Grim (Drop Site News)
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Dazzles Citizens with 80% Approval After 100 Days
Claudia Sheinbaum’s presidency continues to captivate Mexicans 100 days into her term. Her approval rating soars at 80%, a four-point increase from last month. This surge reflects the public’s satisfaction with their electoral choice.
Archived version: web.archive.org/web/2025011418…
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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Dazzles Citizens with 80% Approval After 100 Days - The Rio Times
Claudia Sheinbaum's presidency continues to captivate Mexicans 100 days into her term. Her approval rating soars at 80%,Juan Martinez (The Rio Times)
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Biden could have ended the genocide with a single phone call for 15 months.
The Iran Deal has to be the dumbest comparison Liberals have ever made.
You seem to have forgotten the office of the presidency isn’t actually unburdened by pesky things like “congress” usually.
I’d say tankies being trump supporters is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard, but it really doesn’t rank all that highly lmao y’all are some dumb motherfuckers.
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- YouTube
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
The admin team here has decided to quarantine all musk spam to one community, so that people can easily block it, and won't have to read his takes.
Use !enough_musk_spam@lemmy.ml for now, or the musk spam communities elsewhere. In the future we can re-evaluate whether to keep any communities for rocket jesus at all.
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There are still some problems, but at least something is being done
Seems like there are still some activities behind indeed.
I've told that to the lemdroid team already, but I feel like they are too small to manage one instance.
Would you ever consider moving the Android community elsewhere?
TikTok will completely shut down app in US on Sunday as ban looms
TikTok is reportedly planning a total shutdown of the Chinese-owned video-sharing app when the law requiring a ban or sale of the app takes effect on Sunday.
The roughly 170 million US users who try to access the app will be greeted with a pop-up message directing them to a website with details about the ban, according to the Information.
Users will also be given the option of downloading their data from the app, sources familiar with the plan told the outlet.
TikTok will completely shut down in US on Sunday as ban looms
TikTok is reportedly planning a total shutdown when the Congressional law requiring a ban or sale of the video-sharing app takes effect.Thomas Barrabi (New York Post)
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RedNote is just another corporate social media platform, so I won’t gush over it. But it is exposing Burgerstanis to regular people in China, which is a positive. I have no idea how the RedNote’s owners are going to respond to this. For instance, how are they going to monetize an American audience? Or at least recoup the costs? I doubt they had a plan for this, because I don’t think anyone could have predicted it.
The US government will likely censor this app as well. I think this falls under the same law that TikTok does.
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I wouldn't be surprised if China locked out US users before the US even banned it. Chinese are already telling US users that they are saying things that DEFINITELY should not be said on the app.
Here's a little Nostradamus... "I had the most best chat with Xi. He told me that Americans are superior to the Chinese, so they don't want to see us on RedNote anymore. But don't worry, I told you I would save Tiktok... introducing Trump Talk"
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Personally, I suspect the bigger problem for their platform will be handling the contrasting values of Western social media norms against their own.
Even sinophobic reactionaries have been pointing out for years that "[Douyin] Chinese TikTok is Wholesome, American TikTok is Corrupting our Youths!" with product influencers/grifters, rampant sexualization up to and including pornography, etc., albeit the reactionaries are interpreting the difference from a conspiratorial moral-panic viewpoint claiming it's weaponization by The Chinese Government to corrode Western society, rather than the difference being that the US TikTok is social media with liberalist freedoms combined with the capitalist pursuit of profit above society, and is in line with the content on Xitter, reddit and other familiar social media.
The point being, that people rise to the top of TikTok through sexual suggestion, flashing symbols of wealth and other normalized habits which I've heard are banned on Lil'RedBook (which sounds like a great decision!).
Are American iPhone users going to rediscover web browsing? tiktok.com/explore
Are American Android users going to discover sideloading? lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-use…
How to Use TikTok in the US, Even When It's Banned
Even if TikTok is banned, there are ways to access it.Jake Peterson (Lifehacker)
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VPNw
It's a little known FOSS project, it piggybacks on TOR network and several other VPNs. The "W" stands for wank, as unfortunately VPNw only allows porn through to the user's device, if a non-smut site is accessed VPNw injects millisecond flashes of tiddies n cacks full screen every 45 seconds. Highly recommended, can't ever be too safe out there on the digital seas....
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Users will also be given the option of downloading their data from the app, sources familiar with the plan told the outlet.
That’s nice of them. I bet Facebook and Twitter wouldn’t do that.
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"They" say they are banning it over national security concerns I think it's deeper then that.
They can't have a socialist like platform having an audience. Which in my opinion is why they wanted to force a sell or just ban Tiktok.
I don't think, that they will go after Rednote if it doesn't gain popularity the way that Tiktok did.
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socialist like platform having an audience. Which in my opinion is why they wanted to force a sell or just ban Tiktok.
This logic doesn't follow. What does forcing a sale have to do with being "socialist like" ? TikTok has been diluted into a sales platform anyway.
ByteDance is a privately-held global company, roughly 60 percent owned by global institutional investors (such as Blackrock, General Atlantic, and Susquehanna International Group), 20 percent owned by the company's founders, and 20 percent owned by its employees—including over 7,000 U.S.-based employees.
I'l try to break it down since some people seem to not understand what i'm actually trying to tell them in some of the replies I made to others replies.
Tiktok is a Chinese owned company. It's not owned by a u.s based entity, person in the same way Facebook is. China, will gladly allow any pro communist or socialist content flow. The u.s government does not want that. If it's owned by an American entity, they probably won't want that type of content to flow.
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[Fedi history clarification] The term “threadiverse” was never (intentionally) associated with Meta
I see this misconception a lot, so let's clear it up. The term "threadiverse" originally referred to the "threaded fediverse" — specifically platforms like Lemmy and kbin, which function similarly to Reddit with threaded discussions and link aggregation. Thus, Bluesky and Threads, on the other hand, are not part of the threadiverse because they follow the microblogging model, not the threaded link aggregation model.
It's also important to note that this usage predates Meta's "Threads.”
Timeline:
- June 4, 2023: First mention of "threadiverse" I can find on Lemmy (source)
- June 8, 2023: Meta announces upcoming codename “Project 92” (source)
- July 3-5, 2023: Meta launches Project 92 as "Threads," reusing the name of a previously discontinued non-fediverse product (source)
- March 21, 2024: Meta's Threads opens its integration to the fediverse (source)
Threads has entered the fediverse - Engineering at Meta
Threads has entered the fediverse! As part of our beta experience, now available in a few countries, Threads users aged 18+ with public profiles can now choose to share their Threads posts to other…Simon Blackstein (Meta)
Seeing some push back here on the idea of confusing things with more terms than just "fediverse". I get that. The problem is that that cat is very much out of the bag. Surely, for the vast majority of people that have any awareness of the fediverse, they think it's just Mastodon.Either way, "Mastodon" is a much larger "brand" than "fediverse" or anything else on the fediverse. So trying to get some conceptual branding going makes sense. It make things more clear, as the idea of the fediverse itself is kinda fuzzy and complex and probably best left out at the beginning. It's a little bit like the matrix, you have to see it with your own eyes, IMO.
So, my lame contribution ...
Threadiverse!: "Social media, but woven into threads, like Reddit or Forums, not like the chaos of Twitter, but all on the Fediverse so you can find anyone else doing anything else too."
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I want to give a shoutout to @maegul@lemmy.ml who invented the term here:
So, my lame contribution …Threadiverse!: “Social media, but woven into threads, like Reddit or Forums, not like the chaos of Twitter, but all on the Fediverse so you can find anyone else doing anything else too.”
Sorry your cool name got immediately swamped by the Zucc 😅
Seeing some push back here on the idea of confusing things with more terms than just "fediverse". I get that. The problem is that that cat is very much out of the bag. Surely, for the vast majority of people that have any awareness of the fediverse, they think it's just Mastodon.Either way, "Mastodon" is a much larger "brand" than "fediverse" or anything else on the fediverse. So trying to get some conceptual branding going makes sense. It make things more clear, as the idea of the fediverse itself is kinda fuzzy and complex and probably best left out at the beginning. It's a little bit like the matrix, you have to see it with your own eyes, IMO.
So, my lame contribution ...
Threadiverse!: "Social media, but woven into threads, like Reddit or Forums, not like the chaos of Twitter, but all on the Fediverse so you can find anyone else doing anything else too."
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Ha. Thanks … I guess! It was right there and I just happened to notice. It was definitely weird to see people using a word you made up though.
And yea, I stand by the idea of giving us forum like platforms a name against the weird Twitter obsession decentralised platforms have
I support Threadiverse for Lemmy/Piefed/Mbin
Twittoverse for Mastodon, Misskey and its dozens of forks
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There are 3000+ characters and the thread display is also a bit better there and not quite as jumbled as on Mastodon. In my opinion, the thread view is best in Friendica (apart from Lemmy).
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- on IceShrimp, you follow people or hashtags
- on Lemmy and Piefed, you follow communities
That's true, the -keys are certainly closer to Twitter than to Lemmy / Reddit.
But even Mastodon can follow hashtags, the interesting thing about the -keys are imho the Antennas / Newspicker, with which you can set up individual timelines with your own search word combination. This makes it less user-centred and more related to topics / content. And at least you can display ‘load conversations to replies’ in the timeline (in Sharkey). This means that the post snippets are not displayed without context, as is the case with Mastodon, but a part of the thread is shown in the timeline.
As a result, threads from Lemmy are also displayed somewhat better in Sharkey than in Mastodon, where all replies arrive separately.
That's super interesting, thanks for chatting about miskey, reading through your comments I learned a lot about miskey as a platform, it sounds really neat in the ways it differentiates itself!
Are there English miskey instances? I know it's primarily big in japan
"Are there English miskey instances? I know it’s primarily big in japan"
I have no experience with Misskey itself. You can filter by language on the project page: misskey-hub.net/en/servers/
For Sharkey et al. there is a list of instances where registration is possible: contentnation.net/en/favstarma…
This overview shows which functions differ: pancakes.gay/misskey-compariso…
Server List | Misskey Hub
Misskey is not a single service but a decentralized network where individuals provide services. To use Misskey, you need to create an account on a server that offers the service.Misskey Hub
June 4, 2023: First mention of "threadiverse" I can find on Lemmy
Yep, there had been zero discussions about it until that point that I had seen, which is why I posted that thread asking the question!
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It’s insane how much we have grown! I think I literally have memories of being there, seeing your very post two years ago and thinking “yo it’s the gal from the shark instance!”
And that post only has 32 upvotes to date. :0 I’ve now switched to an instance that doesn’t even interoperate with .ml anymore and time keeps flying. XD
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Error handling for thumbnail generation (ref #5196) by Nutomic · Pull Request #5298 · LemmyNet/lemmy
If theres an error during thumbnail generation log it and fallback to the remote url. Should be backported to 0.19GitHub
People have used the word “thread” on Twitter for at least a decade.
🧵(1/12) I’ll explain:
(Edit: I think instead of "was never (intentionally)" you meant "was not originally"?)
Regardless of who was first, Threads exists now. If we tell people on Reddit to come join us here on the "Threadiverse (minus Threads itself, except some instances might actually choose to federate with it, while others do not...)", isn't that confusing?
I wrote a post about this a couple months ago but ironically PieFed.social had major federation issues for the next week so barely anyone saw it (except those I discussed it with in other conversations). Anyway db0 suggested a really cool name: the Forumverse. 😎
And as @blaze@feddit.org mentions here, I too just call it Lemmy+PieFed+Mbin (& maybe +Sublinks someday we hope?
That said, atm >99.9% of communities are on an instance running Lemmy (for now), so whatever software you use to connect with it - perhaps an app like Voyager or Sync or Connect or Thunder, or Mbin connects with Lemmy (and presumably PieFed?), and PieFed connects with Lemmy too (here is the community !piefed_meta@piefed.social that I've already subscribed to from a Lemmy instance so you can immediately see it in action), the majority of the content across the Threadiverse (exclusive of that actually on Threads.net itself) is being funneled through Lemmy, like even if I on PieFed submit a post to !tenforward@lemmy.world, that's on "Lemmy" where it "lives" - right?
PieFed at least can have communities, as too can Mbin. Though one day Sublinks or some such could convert the existing database to something other than Lemmy... And also the Thunder app now has a fork that can nominally interact with PieFed, so the lines really are getting more blurry.
TLDR: Anyway, we need a cool new term!
And for our accounts I keep using "Fedizen", to be more inclusive than just Lemming, despite how cool that is - bc Mbin and PieFed (& one day Sublinks) are part of "us" all too, right!?
Hey Fedizens, what are we now?
Mbin in the last six months doubled their number of comments being sent out across the wider Fediverse. PieFed is making strides forward all the time. Sublinks hasn't seemed to keep up, but Lemmy.World has floated the idea of potentially moving to it at some point.So we are not all just "Lemmy" anymore. Though "Fediverse" seems far too broad a term, when it can include such diverse aspects as PixelFed (like Instagram) as well as Mbin or Xhitter as well as Lemmy or PieFed or Sublinks - see e.g. A lot of good stuff is happening in the fediverses!
So people have taken to calling us the "Threadiverse". Tbf that name predated Mark Zuckerberg's "Threads", but still that name now seems tainted by it? Though otherwise accurate & precisely descriptive as it emphasizes how people talk in topic-based conversations, rather than the user-focused approach of Mastodon and Xhitter.
So what I do (when I don't say that we are on the Fediverse) is simply list out all the possibilities - Lemmy, Mbin, PieFed, and soon Sublinks - though that gets cumbersome. Or maybe there's a new term that we could use? @[url=https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/db0]db0[/url] mentioned:
most people think of microblogging when they hear "Fediverse". Maybe "Nestedverse" or "Forumverse"?
Or I suppose we could say "Threadiverse except don't worry we specifically exclude Threads", whenever we talk about ourselves, especially to mainstream people (who don't use Arch btw!) e.g. to people on Reddit. (oh who am I kidding, ofc I mean @[url=https://feddit.org/u/Blaze]Blaze (he/him)[/url], who regularly tries to attract new users to here and deserves some kind of award like "Ambassador of Lemmy" - oh and there we go again, just what the heck are we!?
Also, it is up to each instance whether they want to specifically exclude threads.net or not - and one could in theory not do that, so that whenever threads.net decides to turn on its federation it would absolutely flood that instance with content, drowning out the source from Lemmy (or WHATEVER we are!
So it can all get so complicated - what would help simplify it? Just call it "Lemmy" and leave it at that? Unless Lemmy.World moves to Sublinks, that is where >80% of the userbase lies and therefore much of the content is coming from atm. Or "Fediverse" even if that is too broad? Or "Threadiverse" even though that's a loaded word now? Or something new? (ngl, I kinda REALLY like "Forumverse")
People will call it whatever they want ofc - I intended this to be a silly & fun question to provoke us into thinking about it:-). Especially since I'm posting to Lemmy from PieFed - which is fucking beautiful that none of those details actually matters and we all can just share the content and enjoy it, together!
Some people seem to REALLY dislike it, but possibly they are not numerically all that many? Which is why I initially wanted to write that post, and now there's this one also trying to correct the source of the misunderstanding.
Interesting comment from db0:
Ye it’s a problem term. I don’t know if it can be reclaimed, but listing all the software is also not great and most people think of microblogging when they hear “Fediverse”. Maybe “Nestedverse” or “Forumverse”? I don’t really have a good catchy term in mind.
That said, I keep using Threadiverse lately and nobody seems to be challenging it so perhaps its usage is not as problematic as I thought, or as you say here, as much as in the past? It might mainly be a consideration for someone promoting us to Reddit if they wanted to use the term.
I always just say Lemmy, it sounds much more appealing than the fediverse for the uninitiated. Also I don't really use any other fediverse platforms, so Lemmy is basically the entire fediverse for me.
But I still think the fediverse is a decent name/cool concept (federated universe), plus it's already got a decent amount of brand recognition so it would pretty rough to start over with something new. It's a fine name for people who are already familiar and have been using it for a while, it just sounds kinda weird when people first hear about it.
More than 715 athletes have been killed in Gaza by Israel
More than 715 athletes have been killed in Gaza by Israel
A ceasefire deal has been reached between Israel and Hamas, as Palestinian officials report that more than 700 athletes have perished during 15 months of devastation.Karim Zidan (Sports Politika)
Gaza ceasefire deal reached
Israel and Palestinian movement Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, potentially bringing an end to Israel's devastating war in the enclave.
The ceasefire will go into effect on Sunday.
Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani announced the deal on Wednesday during a press conference in Doha.
The Qataris, alongside the Egyptians, helped negotiate the agreement with Israel, while the incoming US administration of President-elect Donald Trump applied pressure on the Israelis, Haaretz reported.
Gaza ceasefire deal reached
Israel and Palestinian movement Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, potentially bringing an end to Israel's devastating war in the enclave. The ceasefire will go into effect on Sunday.Alex MacDonald (Middle East Eye)
because Israel always honours it's word
The Israeli government is expected to vote on the agreement on Thursday.
Sorry, a deal hasn't been reached until the bombs stop falling.
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Israel PM Netanyahu says Cabinet won't meet over Gaza ceasefire
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that a “last minute crisis” with Hamas was holding up Israeli approval of a long-awaited agreement to pause the fighting in the Gaza Strip and release dozens of hostages.TIA GOLDENBERG (AP News)
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Netanyahu compromises with Smotrich, Ben-Gvir to secure ceasefire deal
Israeli reports reveal that Netanyahu offered Ben-Gvir and Smotrich proposals to expand settlements and strengthen security measures to secure their support for future agreements.Al Mayadeen English (Netanyahu compromises with Smotrich, Ben-Gvir to secure ceasefire deal)
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Netanyahu knows Trump is going to be better for HIS Israeli right wing party. The cease-fire was going to happen either way, because his Israeli party is paying too much of an international and domestic cost at this point. Netanyahu waited to be sure to give Trump the win if possible because he knows Trump will capitulate to his party. It was going to go this way after the election either way. It was self-serving. Wait and see what happens after the “cease fire.” This was politics between like minded parties, not compassion for the people of Gaza.
Very convenient that Donald Trump did the thing Joe Biden could have done for 15 months. Ending the genocide with a single phone call.
Democrats have been gaslit into infinity. They now actually believe that the president of the USA does not have the power to stop Israel because Biden chose not to do so.
US Government Slammed Over Legislating to Impose Sanctions on the ICC
ICC facing sanctions from the US over stance on Israel's genocide
By imposing sanctions related to the ICC, the US is seeking to protect alleged war criminals who are responsible for the gravest atrocitiesThe Canary
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Me too, thanks. Except I know I'm blowing it.
I try not to think about "what ifs" like maybe I shouldn't have to worry about housing and Healthcare as much as I am forced to. There is no point. I don't live in this hypothetical better place. I never will live there.
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in reply to Alas Poor Erinaceus • • •Thx! I've transferred the community to you, so you can click on edit community in the sidebar, and add this icon.
Fellow buddhist here btw!
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in reply to Dessalines • • •Oh, excellent, thank you!
EDIT: Uh, but I'm not sure I have the know-how to be a moderator, or was that just so I could add the icon? I'll see if I can find a nice banner to add to it. It also looks as though Iainon is no longer with us . . . ?
EDIT EDIT: Any particular "flavor" of Buddhism that you subscribe to? I tend to the Theravada side of things, but am interested in Buddhism in all its many forms.
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in reply to Alas Poor Erinaceus • • •Yep, its because the original mod is gone, so there's no one who could add it. Adding a banner is entirely up to you, lots of communities don't have them.
I study mostly therevada also. But ya I agree, Buddhism doesn't (or its adherents shouldn't) have the same sectarianism that some other religions do, so we can be willing to learn from all branches.