Yes of course.
But by what method or algorithm does this DECENTRALIZED SOCIAL MEDIA system protect us from propagandists and censors?
What is a method in THAT?
Distributed tagging and voting? The grace of our benevolent moderators? Something else?
I mean, combatting propaganda and censorship is the #1 issue here.
How do we protect ourselves from propagandists and censors? Large, small, popular and individual.
Repeating “they are bad and dumb” ad nauseum is no way to inspire sane conversation. It’s just echo chamber circle jerk.
I find that the people who use terms like “right wing loser” are indistinguishable from the people who use terms like “left wing loser”.
That’s fair. But I actually admire the guy. And you people tend to witch-hunt like a bunch of Monty Python extras on crack. So you see where I’m coming from.
No. Can you link me?
EDIT
ok, watched the video. Ya, that’s a pretty fascist salute there.
This is mob insanity at work. There is no nazi.
He’s just waving at the audience for Christ’s sake.
I get censored here all the time.
It’s one example of a common disease. So I figured it bore discussion. Now put it back in your pants and zip up.
The best weird ideas are framed as hard science fiction.
Here are 3 good ones
Fine Structure by qntm ( https://qntm.org/structure . Free)
Friendship is Optimal by Iceman ( https://www.fimfiction.net/story/62074/friendship-is-optimal . Free)
Axiomatic by Greg Egan (it’s a collection of short stories. Nonfree. Google it)
I said that the word of an authority that I respect would do it.
And by “do it” I meant (in reply to TootSweet@lemmy.world) that it would justify anger at the accused.
That’s pretty far from truth. It’s putting my trust in an authority.
But to address your point.
To treat fiction and reality as equally real. And treat our responses to either as having equal substance. Seems deranged to me.
(Disregard that pm, wrong community)
The word of an authority that I respect would do it.
You mean like utterly totally zip? Surely not. Surely one is at least a little something. Like a fart in a wind, or a fart in a colander, or something farty like that.
Don’t take hearsay so seriously.
Don’t take the rabble’s judgment of great artists so seriously either
Hearsay constitutes weak evidence.
I’m not familiar. But ya, same idea.
I’d attribute it to that willingness to believe, but I’d take it a step further. An eagerness to believe. An eagerness to enjoy the high of a good anger. Outweighing any loyalty to reality.
I seriously doubt that. It’s rabble rousing.