I'm concerned for the lgbt folks who actually did just want to live their lives who are going to get screwed over by the idiot militants who are destroying 50 years of goodwill taking stupid hissy fits.
Nothing you said really opposes my viewpoint.
You can be very emotional despite having a strong logical brain in my model, in fact the point is that most people are. The thing is that your logical side is stuck looking through the apartment door to figure out what the hell emotional brain is doing in there, but both of you ultimately control things. That's why logical people can be emotional and sometimes even irrational, and why often logical arguments aren't the convincing ones even if they're 100% rock solid.
You can be very emotional despite having a strong logical brain in my model, in fact the point is that most people are. The thing is that your logical side is stuck looking through the apartment door to figure out what the hell emotional brain is doing in there, but both of you ultimately control things. That's why logical people can be emotional and sometimes even irrational, and why often logical arguments aren't the convincing ones even if they're 100% rock solid.
We're learning now just how broadly manipulated twitter is. It was manipulated internally as we found when the Twitter Japan staff was fired and their site fundamentally changed, and also externally because there's an algorithm and money to be made manipulating that algorithm.
It's a fundamentally different thing over here. There is no algorithm, everything is organic, and so arguably there isn't even a benefit to having one message with lots of engagement unless you actually want to engage. Actress who played breakout character on popular TV show has the same play as the guy who posts racist ducks (except people really like the racist ducks, they're hilarious...)
But more importantly, dear God don't think that you're fleeing a "free speech twitter" that's scary and evil because people can say anything Elon lets them to and coming to somewhere that's more locked down and more likely to be free of stuff you don't like!
According to The-Federation.info, the fediverse roughly contains 13,815 individual servers running the better part of 100 different software packages (not all software packages support the ActivityPub protocol but are listed on the site because they support some other form of federation). New servers are created and old servers are shut down every single day. Server admins choose the TOS, they choose the rules, they choose how to enforce those rules, and there's literally every sort of person. Some servers are hosted on the most powerful computers known to man, others are hosted on parts scavenged from roadside signs, and everything in between. There's countless takes posted every second that would immediately get you banned from facebook, twitter, youtube, myspace, tiktok, instagram, or any other commercially owned service. The libre and distributed nature of the platform means that those takes aren't going anywhere, the closest you can get is hiding messages or accounts or servers as you see them.
It's a fundamentally different thing over here. There is no algorithm, everything is organic, and so arguably there isn't even a benefit to having one message with lots of engagement unless you actually want to engage. Actress who played breakout character on popular TV show has the same play as the guy who posts racist ducks (except people really like the racist ducks, they're hilarious...)
But more importantly, dear God don't think that you're fleeing a "free speech twitter" that's scary and evil because people can say anything Elon lets them to and coming to somewhere that's more locked down and more likely to be free of stuff you don't like!
According to The-Federation.info, the fediverse roughly contains 13,815 individual servers running the better part of 100 different software packages (not all software packages support the ActivityPub protocol but are listed on the site because they support some other form of federation). New servers are created and old servers are shut down every single day. Server admins choose the TOS, they choose the rules, they choose how to enforce those rules, and there's literally every sort of person. Some servers are hosted on the most powerful computers known to man, others are hosted on parts scavenged from roadside signs, and everything in between. There's countless takes posted every second that would immediately get you banned from facebook, twitter, youtube, myspace, tiktok, instagram, or any other commercially owned service. The libre and distributed nature of the platform means that those takes aren't going anywhere, the closest you can get is hiding messages or accounts or servers as you see them.
If aggressively lying was enough to ban a politician from twitter, there would be no politicians on twitter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnAX3-A_uN0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ru-HW5bFCo
This guy is screaming in my ear when I scroll past this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ru-HW5bFCo
This guy is screaming in my ear when I scroll past this...
Do you have a source for that?
And I'll only accept one of six newspapers as a source.
And I'll only accept one of six newspapers as a source.
One of the things I'm most worried about is that we just exchange one set of authoritarians for another. A victory that looks like that is like Sisyphus successfully rolling the bolder up the hill just to watch it fall down again.
My character limit is like 60,000 characters because I post long essays now and again. I want my ideas to be able to stretch their legs as required.
Why you gotta do my man ATI dirty like that?
Radeon graphics look way better than that!
Radeon graphics look way better than that!
I heard on the news that 75% of people want new mask mandates.
If that was true, why is it I go to the store and virtually nobody is still wearing a mask?
If that was true, why is it I go to the store and virtually nobody is still wearing a mask?
I have a theory of mind that says that you've got a logical and an emotional mind, and they are neighbours, not roommates. Everyone has both minds, and they both process information. More often than we'd like to admit, even logical and rational people are driven by emotional thinking.
From that perspective, I think the question is "How much did this hurt?"
For me, the reality of lockdowns was so much worse than what logic suggested that I'd be opposed to doing them again at all, even though I was open to them originally. I even heard about people wanting to do mask mandates again and that was a gut check for me, even though I was wearing a mask before mandates started at the beginning because I travel a lot on airplanes.
For a lot of people, I think the other key will be properly linking the pain that we experienced and the pain that we're still experiencing to the lockdowns. It wasn't painless, it wasn't harmless, they lied to us constantly, they threatened us constantly. It hurt like hell. That wasn't COVID, it was government that did that part to us.
From that perspective, I think the question is "How much did this hurt?"
For me, the reality of lockdowns was so much worse than what logic suggested that I'd be opposed to doing them again at all, even though I was open to them originally. I even heard about people wanting to do mask mandates again and that was a gut check for me, even though I was wearing a mask before mandates started at the beginning because I travel a lot on airplanes.
For a lot of people, I think the other key will be properly linking the pain that we experienced and the pain that we're still experiencing to the lockdowns. It wasn't painless, it wasn't harmless, they lied to us constantly, they threatened us constantly. It hurt like hell. That wasn't COVID, it was government that did that part to us.
Nextcloud in particular is just so good. The others are good too, but nextcloud is just on another level.
Yeah, and it wasn't even the admin of your instance necessarily. It was just some guy didn't like a thing some other guy said at some point.
Thoughtlessly giving up agency like that, letting someone else make moral decisions for you without putting any thought into it yourself, that's exactly what the guards on the rail cars to Auschwitz would have done. "We were told these people were an enemy of the people, we just followed orders"
Thoughtlessly giving up agency like that, letting someone else make moral decisions for you without putting any thought into it yourself, that's exactly what the guards on the rail cars to Auschwitz would have done. "We were told these people were an enemy of the people, we just followed orders"
Yes, those are good points.
International borders were wide open so some rich bugger could bring the disease in because we couldn't inconvenience that guy, but it was totally ok to inconvenience literally every man, woman, and child on earth with lockdowns. We didn't have it literally until some mining executive brought it in, and shortly afterwards it was everywhere. In hindsight, implementing border quarantine early on was the right thing to do. It would have been a far smaller disturbance of far fewer people's rights than what they did to literally everyone because we absolutely positive could not stop rich people from travelling for a few weeks.
The IP discussion is also a great one. Especially given the question of exactly how much public money was spent developing the vaccines in that first year? They want to put a windfall tax on most companies, but most companies didn't take nearly as much direct public money before, during, and after the development of their product. A couple weeks ago I made a post where I pointed out the corporate taxation question could be a moot one with respect to income inequality because if the government explicitly picks winners in this way anyway, you could tax the company that got all the taxpayer dollars and special treatment 90% and they'd still make more profit than a company with 0% tax that didn't get the same overwhelming level of state support.
International borders were wide open so some rich bugger could bring the disease in because we couldn't inconvenience that guy, but it was totally ok to inconvenience literally every man, woman, and child on earth with lockdowns. We didn't have it literally until some mining executive brought it in, and shortly afterwards it was everywhere. In hindsight, implementing border quarantine early on was the right thing to do. It would have been a far smaller disturbance of far fewer people's rights than what they did to literally everyone because we absolutely positive could not stop rich people from travelling for a few weeks.
The IP discussion is also a great one. Especially given the question of exactly how much public money was spent developing the vaccines in that first year? They want to put a windfall tax on most companies, but most companies didn't take nearly as much direct public money before, during, and after the development of their product. A couple weeks ago I made a post where I pointed out the corporate taxation question could be a moot one with respect to income inequality because if the government explicitly picks winners in this way anyway, you could tax the company that got all the taxpayer dollars and special treatment 90% and they'd still make more profit than a company with 0% tax that didn't get the same overwhelming level of state support.