HandwovenConsensus @ HandwovenConsensus @lemm.ee

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Well, as long as a distinction is made. I appreciate the information. I still feel that "decentralized" should be replaced with "polycentric," but I'll accept that "decentralized" is the standard term for a system with multiple centers.

Sorry about that. I tried to follow the instructions given in the sticky.

Thanks for asking. :) Have a good one.

Then what would you call a network where specific data isn't tied to specific nodes and lost when the node goes down?

Because it's polycentric. Each instance is a center. When an instance goes down, it takes all its users and data with it.

I know people around here aren't fond of cryptocurrency, but bitcoin is what I'd consider a truly decentralized system. Nothing is lost to the network when a bitcoin node goes down. As long as you have your private key, you can spend from any node, and you don't even need a node to receive.

I believe it's helpful to distinguish between the two types of systems.

I just said that lemmy is not a decentralized network...

macro?

I think "polycentric" is a better term than "decentralized."

Every instance is a center, and is vulnerable to failure and corruption like any service provider. But at least we have a choice of instances, and there isn't a single point of failure for the whole network.

Matrix? That's the open source and federated equivalent to discord. And it's end-to-end encrypted.

unless you were an actual celebrity

That didn't matter, because without video there was no easy way to prove it.

Ok, so I'm confused about what's being implied here. Is it that media makers don't care about making things sexually appealing to straight women? If there's profit in it, why wouldn't they?

Seems to me that women in general tend to base less of their attraction on visual or physical cues than men do. But what I don't understand is why there's an air of moral superiority around the ways that women judge attractiveness and a condemnation of the way that men judge attractiveness. Non-physical traits might be a better basis for a relationship, but we're not talking about a relationship. We're talking about fictional media.

If women responded to sex appeal in the same way that men do, I see no reason why media makers wouldn't include it. In fact, I would argue in media targeted primarily at women, they do tend to portray men with both physical and non-physical traits that appeal to women. But the fact that superhero physiques might be included mainly to appeal to men in no way counters the argument that it can lead to body-image issues.

Because society and our parents themselves gaslight us into thinking they're perfect. It kind of annoys me that not seeing one's parents as flawed human beings is treated as a failure of the child. I knew my parents made some bad decisions. It wasn't my idea to give them absolute power over every aspect of my life.Yeah, they're flawed human beings like me, but I'm the one who suffered because they wouldn't admit to their flaws and reconsider their decisions. It wasn't me who couldn't tell they weren't perfect.

I feel that privilege is a concept that should be applied to classes, not individuals. You can't just judge someone as privileged based on one aspect of their life.

The whole "punching up" concept just leads to it being accepted to make misogynistic jokes at white women, ablist and body-shaming jokes at "creepy" men, racist jokes at wealthy Asians, and so on.

Rather, I think the intent behind the joke, and the consequences of the stereotypes it reinforces, is what should be examined rather than the demographic on the receiving end.

I always wondered if they changed it so that the plural isn't pms.

Outrage bait. Too much of reddit was stories and videos of people acting badly.

I'm a fan. Go ahead and downvote me.

I was about to say I'd like to see something similar to Ask Science Fiction, but with more easy-going mods. It's fine for the sub to focus on the in-universe perspective while still allowing an out-of-universe comments where they enhance the discussion.

If only that was still true. Internet users used to be a niche counter-culture. Now they're just normal people.

There's one aspect of it that I didn't expect, and that's its exclusivity. Seems like this is a small, but vibrant, community of geeks, just like the whole internet was in the 90s and 2000s.

I'm not 100% sure it'll be able to replace reddit in the area of getting advice on niche topics, but I do believe I'll enjoy being here.

I like having a keyboard and mouse. Doing things on a smartphone is a last resort.