@jonny Composable moderation does nothing. The company mod feed is built-in and you can't remove it IIRC.
@captainepoch @iwillbite I want to have kids but I'm worried I might pass on something bad to them.
I definitely want a wife/girlfriend though.
I definitely want a wife/girlfriend though.
@fbievan it would be cool to have an ereader again but I'd like it to respect me as a user
@PeterCxy Part of me wants to tag Linus but I have no involvement in Linux apart from using it on my laptop (Tumbleweed), phone (GrapheneOS), and server that isn't set up set (Raspberry Pi OS) so I'm not sure if I should get involved.
I've started to realize that people are taking me up on my offer to ignore or block me if they don't like effortposting because I'm not gonna stop.
Probably for the best.
But in my view, there's only a few reasons to have discussions online.
1. To yell pre-packaged platitudes at each other for sport
2. To try to help the hours of our lives to tick away faster
3. To try to make the entire earth correct by correcting people one at a time
4. To become mutually better through putting ideas through the gauntlet.
I've actually done some of these myself. When I was younger I'd happily argue online for sport, or I'd be bored and it was a good way to pass the time. When I was younger, I was even foolish to think I could help change the way the world saw things.
Today, however, the only reason that makes sense to discuss things online is to try to become better yourself and help better the people you discuss things with. We are all so far from what we could be, and I think that's been intentional by powers larger than ourselves.
I'm thankful to everyone who engages in good faith, perhaps especially people who push back and force me to better explain what I mean, or better understand what I'm saying. Recently there's been quite a few people who did well forcing me to think more about certain things I took for granted or forcing me to clarify something. @Hyolobrika often asks one piercing question on posts and it's like "Well, I can see how without clarification it might look like I'm saying something I'm not"
I'm thankful to guys like @amerika who spend a lot of time and effort helping to explain worldviews that are fully alien to me, because how can you agree or disagree with that which you don't understand? I don't always come away agreeing totally, but often I come away with my worldview changed by exposure to ideas I hadn't explored myself.
When people interact with me and get a big wall of text, it might be easy to assume I'm just trying to stonewall or filibuster, but often it's actually me trying to work through ideas publicly, and often there's a lot of actual research behind the wall of text. It might seem like it's a stop in the discussion, but what's the point of continuing to discuss if we don't actually take a deep dive into ideas that could change everything?
Probably for the best.
But in my view, there's only a few reasons to have discussions online.
1. To yell pre-packaged platitudes at each other for sport
2. To try to help the hours of our lives to tick away faster
3. To try to make the entire earth correct by correcting people one at a time
4. To become mutually better through putting ideas through the gauntlet.
I've actually done some of these myself. When I was younger I'd happily argue online for sport, or I'd be bored and it was a good way to pass the time. When I was younger, I was even foolish to think I could help change the way the world saw things.
Today, however, the only reason that makes sense to discuss things online is to try to become better yourself and help better the people you discuss things with. We are all so far from what we could be, and I think that's been intentional by powers larger than ourselves.
I'm thankful to everyone who engages in good faith, perhaps especially people who push back and force me to better explain what I mean, or better understand what I'm saying. Recently there's been quite a few people who did well forcing me to think more about certain things I took for granted or forcing me to clarify something. @Hyolobrika often asks one piercing question on posts and it's like "Well, I can see how without clarification it might look like I'm saying something I'm not"
I'm thankful to guys like @amerika who spend a lot of time and effort helping to explain worldviews that are fully alien to me, because how can you agree or disagree with that which you don't understand? I don't always come away agreeing totally, but often I come away with my worldview changed by exposure to ideas I hadn't explored myself.
When people interact with me and get a big wall of text, it might be easy to assume I'm just trying to stonewall or filibuster, but often it's actually me trying to work through ideas publicly, and often there's a lot of actual research behind the wall of text. It might seem like it's a stop in the discussion, but what's the point of continuing to discuss if we don't actually take a deep dive into ideas that could change everything?
I made an XMPP MUC about the politics of networked technology.
This MUC is for:
- Discussing moderation styles and their pros and cons
- Discussing the political implications of different networked architectures
- Discussing and sharing implementations of a particular technopolitic embedded in a P2P network, Freenet cryptographic contract, or client-server protocol.
This MUC is not intended for:
- Discussing regulation of tech companies
- Discussing government attempts to regulate people’s speech online But it’s okay for the conversation to get into that.
The scope is not just limited to social media but can encompass anything that connects people.
Probably going to copy the rules from xmpp:privacy-and-security@muc.loqi.im and modify them slightly but they are not set in stone yet.
@eemmaa I've heard about those things. Not very good at them myself. Know any good online courses on it?
@d9dba0e072bdb353dfb0020de159126af47e69e133ea91bbd48e8bede37320e2 How do you know that what you have to say are truths?
@d9dba0e072bdb353dfb0020de159126af47e69e133ea91bbd48e8bede37320e2 I did work through the description of Wikipedia's solution to the socialist millionaire problem once and basically satisfied myself that it was secure, although I may be fooling myself.
@d9dba0e072bdb353dfb0020de159126af47e69e133ea91bbd48e8bede37320e2 How do you know?