Kichae

I have been told by multiple people (so, like, two. Maybe 3) over the years that things I have posted have changed their minds and their leanings on political topics. But these were not any of the people I was directly addressing. I think they may have all been before the rise of Big Social, too.

As per usual, the “free speech on someone else’s dime” folks think the people running the forums they feel entitled to shouldn’t have actual moderation tools. Shocking.

Once upon a time, people overseeing web forums used to have the ability to move posts, split topics, and even shunt comment chains into other, exising posts. But all Reddit allows is to delete, and so this space that apes some of the worst bits about Reddit thinks they shouldn’t do any better than the lowest of fucking low bars.

Probably 2, 6, or 7. I’ve always loved the V5/V7, but the liquid ink is messy, a bic is a classic for a reason, and the PaperMate flair has been my go-to felt-tip for a long time now. Though, the ultra-fine version is much better for writing than the medium one.

Maybe they’ll finally let me use Julia at work

Chainlink blanet’ll do it

I can’t wait until someone shuts this prick up.

Because it abandoned the idea of the site admins being responsible for moderation, in the name of expanding to unmanagable size.

On Reddit and Facebook, groups do not have a common moderation team, so they lack the right to dump a post in someone else’s group.

Hah!

Companies tried to make this a thing 20 years ago, and people just dropped the middle-men like hot potatoes. Bitly thinks it’ll be different this time because people have become used to using their service, but all of the pressures that had people using link shorteners in the first place have already fallen by the wayside.

This probably isn’t going to end well for them.

Downvotes are already a questionable design choice, which encourage passive-aggressive drive-by behaviour rather than engaging with and countering challenging ideas. They’re kind of a dark feature, which give the user a sense of participation, or worse, the sense of being a cop, while contributing nothing.

They are catharsis without praxis, and they almost certainly contribute to online toxicity.

Actually giving them forum or site moderation power is… Well, it sure is doubling down on that feeling like a cop thing.

And what are all cops?

Holy shit, it’s going gold!

Sorry, the best we can do is always showing you subtitles by default, and not letting you permanently change that.

I like the theory that Tesla had a long term roadmap before Elon scooped it up, and that he wasn’t able to do too much to disrupt that in the early years because he was focused on LARPing as Tony Stark on the Internet, and the team that developed around him to insulate the company from him were reasonably good at their jobs. But even the best can only hold back so few bad ideas while keeping up the illusion, and the result has been gradually diminishing amount of ass.

Until that roadmap ran out, and/or Elon stopped being distracted, resulting in them designing and building the Elon.

Free speech means the government can’t sanction you for unpopular speech. It says absolutely nothing about private citizens.

You’re not entitled to an audience, or to anybody else’s platform.

Pick a smaller, focused website and focus on Local. Then you can ignore what’s going on elsewhere.

Lemmy isn’t a community, it’s a technology. And ActivityPub is madw with the goal of letting anyone and everyone use it and participate. Just like HTTP. Griping because “the wrong kind of people are showing up” is the kind of thing the wrong kind of people do.

You don’t get to build your gate in the public square.

Rewarding the employer for underpaying the employees is not, in any way, the right direction, though? Not tipping is just telling the employees “I don’t care if you get paid, so long as I get what I want”

Business people will do almost anything to eliminate wages

The stockmarket crashes, stunting millennial economic agency, and ushering in the last 16 years of radicalization and fascist acceptance.

Numbers may rebound, but users having kicked the tires on other options means they’re less tightly bound than they were before. It’s up to us to create a welcoming and interesting environment in the spaces that they’ve looked at to get them to shift their usage.

No. The website you’re using doesn’t share them, and possibly doesn’t even track them. They don’t support downvotes, full stop.

There’s no Platonic “Lemmy” for you to see or access. There’s 1000 different Lemmys, as each Lemmy-based website on the network is it’s own thing, hosting both local content and remote content that is syndicated to it. You can only see what’s hosted and surfaced on the website you’re using.

You may as well be asking if there’s any other way of seeing Instagram posts on Twitter.

So many great things listed as negatives :(