Noooo! I don't care about Google play. I only use it from fdroid. It's the most important app on my phone! What will i do now?

I'm in a small town, so not much going on here. And while the protests should continue and I'm happy with their numbers, the media actually manage to turn it against the cause and increase the general population support for this kind of atrocity. When I see the news on the tv covering protest I'm afraid, because I know exactly what it will show and I'm always right. They usually don't even mention what the protest is about and the few people they give voice and the morons they interview are always just talking about how dangerous the protesters are, how "against peace", how pro terrorists, how they damage the economy and how they will eat your dog and rape your kids. Basically inciting the population to protest against the protesters.

I have never seen such biased and clearly controlled media as here, except for the US. It's amazing how powerful they are. I know that in most countries they usually just show the israeli side and just "forget" to show the other one. But here it's a clear propaganda and manipulation. So if anything the average person who doesn't look for more info will just defend the war point of view more with the protests being shown on tv.

And it shows. Even here, where people are more "leftists" (whatever that means) I see many "fox news" points of view. On reddit it's a lost cause. And talking to the average people it's the same. Everyone just knows that "israel is fighting terrorists".

It's what I complained about on my other posts regarding the military monuments. It's a fundamental part of australian culture and I see little hope of that changing. The countries that show some courage against israel have a whole history of not admiring the military and not being dogs of the US that often. Or being muslim based countries.

So I don't see how that can change any time soon but that doesn't change that I am being part of the problem being here, and that people are being murdered with my support.

Supporting help for palestinians is good and should happen, like the protests. But that won't fix anything and will just have to be something that needs to be done forever. Or until there is no Palestine left.

And I am complicit with this, and all the support Australia gives to US and israel by paying my taxes. As some @#$!#$ from the government said when censoring the protests, "Australia is a peace loving country".

Is there anything I can do other than just leave? I love living here, but this military fetish gives me constant guilt and anxiety of being here because I know I'm supporting that, and who knows how many people were killed using my work, to then later on get a monument erected praising the fact...

Thanks for posting this. The bias is stupidly obvious to anyone, but it's the first time I see inside coverage. I wish they could check the Australian news...

Without proper investigation it just sounds like conspiracy theory. Even as i watch Australian news I have trouble believing the bias control.

Thanks for the info. Though what I wanted to post was asking about the protests, which zero_gravitas answered.

The thing is, as someone who worked with photoshop most of my life, Krita is a much more capable image manipulation software than Gimp, really comparable to photoshop. While Gimp is, to me, really more like a toy. It's entirely capable if you just need to do something basic but it will quickly show it's limitations if you need to do professional work.

I guess that may be the issue, that Krita got the stigma of being only for drawing and art. Or, what I think, is just that Gimp is more famous. And since most people don't need a professional tool, they only try that and recommend it, not even knowing that there is something better.

And finally, almost every professional uses photoshop so they don't even know about either Krita or Gimp (and the ones who tried Gimp will give up on open source alternatives quickly). While 3D had a reasonable amount of options before Blender, so people were more willing to try something else.

Just my guess... I hope Krita gets the support Blender got, because they could change the industry in my opinion if they get more funding.

I wish I could do something about people using facebook/instagram.... What I can see is very limited. But thanks a lot! From the thumbnails I got the location. I will try to go. The APAN website seems to have better info. I saw that website before but got confused. There are many websites and it's hard to tell what's more "official".

Regarding posting here, I don't have the energy for that. I learned a lot from the last post, but it's very exhausting when I have a polemic opinion and I get a bunch of people against me. And like a guy said there, I may just be the problem. Either way with the links you gave me I now know where to look. So thanks again!

I don't know on mobile, but on desktop Krita is the Blender of art software. Superior to photoshop in many ways. Oddly i always see people suggesting Gimp, which is like a toy compared to Krita in my opinion.

Yes. And I'm considering that.

Lemmy is difficult. So much more than reddit... It could be like Linux. Something you try again and again and eventually get the hand of it or accept it. I spend many years going back and forth between using Linux and not using it at all until I got completely rid of Windows. And I do not regret it at all!

But it wouldn't have happened if people stopped trying to make Linux's transition easier. I don't believe I'm harmful to the Linux community. It could be that it would be the same for people on reddit. I hated being on windows, but I still kept using it until the alternative seemed viable to me.

Of course I could be wrong and the community destroyed. But then... a new community elsewhere? I'm an old man on the internet, I've seen this happening a lot. Filters after filters after filters and some times the end result is perfect.

To me, that part, just like the war, should be learned about, its consequences dealt with, and forgotten about and just shamed. This happened before anyone I know was born. We will live with the consequences but it's not their fault.

But unlike the wars, I don't see monuments for aboriginal genocide. Oddly enough, I don't see monuments remembering the murdered aboriginals either. Even though most of the small towns I've been to had a rich history of aboriginal massacres.

Since I just made an account, I've been wanting to give my opinion on this for a while.

I agree that the usual reddit people would destroy a nice community like aussie.zone. But I wanted to mention that the bad kind of people from reddit would not try to find an alternative. They are happy there. There are decent people who want out, but don't know where to or how. I am very confused with lemmy (not that I am a decent person, that remains to be judged), and I would have appreciated more help. So helping people dissatisfied with reddit might be helpful as they are unlikely to be bad (or at least not belonging to the normal reddit bad) and wouldn't harm the community.

I have some other opinions as well but that was the main point I wanted to bring every time I see this kind of comment.