TheOrcWhoWrites @ HoneyMustardGas @lemmy.world

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It doesn't work. I've tried all the "restarts" they are either faulty in a sense of the don't work or they are dead and no one uses it anymore. It was shut down in 2022. The others are clones but I haven't found one that works for me or has anyone on it. It's dead.

The thing about moderation is that when someone has a vision for a community they envision it with their own values and since everyone has atleast slightly different values and opinions, they run their community how they want. (Granted everyone must still follow the basic rule of civility). Each instance is run in its own way, yet united/federated to work with each other, until one doesn't seem to work and then it gets defederated from the "network" of instances. But an instance is only as good as the communities that it is made up of. When one community allows too much freedom (if that is even possible) we decide to see what we want. Then, the ones moderating have a choice whether to allow it or not, in accordance with the instances ToS lest the community itself get in hot water.

So, their is a good place for moderation, in balance and yet moderators will still take liberties into their own hands and remove or ban at their own discretion within their own interpretation of the instances rules and their own set rules of the community they are moderating. This becomes a problem when it comes to the struggle between freedom of speech/expression and the best judgement of the moderators. It can become unfair, it can seem unjust but that is the point of having decentralized social media. Anyone can create their own server and run it as they please and, given the right moderation and governance, can remain connected to the other instances without fear of defederation.

So, it is not Lemmy but rather the instance that you choose that actually can matter in this sense. Other than that, I suggest joining an instance that aligns with your values. But it must be noted that their is a lot to be said about miscommunication and the difference between spoken word and that of written text. It is easy to misinterpret where a person might be coming from, easy for someone to express themselves haphazardly and easy for a moderator to see where a comment could be taken in offense. This is where the judgement of a moderator must either be trusted or at the very least, tolerated. Otherwise we have no civil rights on this platform.

Imagine if someone, meaning no harm said something yet another interpreted it in offense, or someone said something insensitive toward a particular group of people yet meant no harm, wanted it to be a lighthearted joke. But you have person B who has dealt with this hate or argumentative nature, which ever the case for their entire life. Now they have a choice whether to respond and defend or let go.

On one hand, they might let everything go and, if everyone did this, Lemmy would be this cesspool of the hostile and grotesque--something Lemmy never stood for. On the other if everyone defended themselves civily and without taking offense, then Lemmy would be perfect, but it is not.. We can choose to take offense, it can still hurt to get our comment removed, but we must know why it was removed. This adds more work to an unpaid moderator who has to put their extra time into discerning what to leave and what to remove.

As time goes on and rules become solidified by each person gradually testing a communities limitations, this is what brings Lemmy closer to either a utopia or a dystopia. So, each of us has a responsibility. Do we want Lemmy to be the Orwellian society that is like Reddit or do we put in effort to make it the community, unlike others, that promotes both freedom of speech, civility, innovation and information, connection and positive engagement that is most assumably the vision that Lemmy is supposed to be?

Edit: flow, typos.

The only correct answer.

Isn't Omegle dead?

sees a fully tatted vampire

"wow, look at that guy he's gotta just live in the sunlight. Too bad he won't be around much longer"

Thank you for pointing that out. Do you know any modern idioms? I couldn't remember any but sayings. I was looking up sayings but a synonym is idioms though they are not perfect synonyms. That last part was just a joke. Mind the lack of "/s". I do apologize for my "mistakes". However OP asked about sayings and those "terms" classify as such. I could not find any modern idioms so I went with sayings as per OP's request. Yet I have recognized the difference, I apologize secondly for not explaining myself clearer. As for the meanings, that is what is colloquial in my experience and that is how they are used sometimes, rather than just the origin, which I could have added in there. I apologize for not adding the true origins as I was going off of straight knowledge and experience using them and hearing them used. Sayings, like words can evolve over time. Thank you again for the observations.

So much work it must be fun. One day I will be one of those people who has two phones in service at a time for myself but for now let's hope they don't take away sideloading.

Note: never messed with Linux but one day I might, let's see where life takes me.

I don't think I'd ever quit Android unless they pull a move like, idk, banning sideloading completely.

Be careful what you wish for or say, it might actually happen sooner than not. We are getting closer and closer to an Orwellian society and that technology is already hopping on the bandwagon. If control of the market is what they want but cannot have it they will still use every tactic to improve that agenda. It's hard to notice but it is gradually happening.

(No I don't watch too much Black Mirror, it's not an addiction, it's just inevitable)

This type of humor is paramount.

Imagine a bunch of random and different birds in one flock...

Most have been true at some point. They all (most) have a reference to something that once made perfect sense.

For example: Pot calling the kettle black. Most kettles were black at one era in time. Now they can be different colors.

But here are some [more] modern ones:

'A 90s one: all that and a bag of chips' a slang saying originating in the nineties. however it can be classified as "true" since many people would get a free bag of chips with their meal and it was "sweet" or "cool" to get that hence someone who is all that and a bag of chips is "cool" or "sweet" in the sense that "sweet" is also a synonym for cool. The true origins being popularized by Public Enemy as a 'way to describe meals that black people used to eat' (Professor Griff

'The internet is dead' said when we get the nostalgic shock of an era no longer the golden age of internet. And it is true, many things that were great about old internet are now gone or modernized into a streamlined mess of paywalls and adblock-blockers. This one was explained to me at one point on YouTube.

They are called idioms in a sense because some of us can't help but feel uneducated when we cannot figure out what they mean or why that phrase would come to mean what it does. But it sure does make the past a bit more interesting. This last part is just a joke. I once heard a doctor explain what idiopathic meant to him as he stated "he feels like an idiot because he cannot find the out what the cause of something was" But Idiom means a phrase unique to language.

Edits: clarity and missing information.

This made me chuckle.

I think my life is stochastic enough. I need more predictability.

I agree.

No, I punched walls when I was a kid for fun anger. But it is understandable for a young person to be rebellious and malicious as we almost all were. There are different levels. the main thing is looking back and realizing it was wrong and wanting to change. There are no bad people in this world, there are just people who do bad things.

Yea, morality doesn't come into question when I buy products, it should, tho. This post made me rethink a lot of things though and the comments section. Thank the points of view of yourself and the other people who have commented for the fact that I might boycott these brands.

I agree with your point. it depends on what they did not what they support. I could care less what they support. If they did something that was horrible that is a different story. If a music artist committed a major crime, I wouldn't support them, but if they just support something I don't agree with, I still might support them knowing I like the music.

This is different for basic needs such as in corporations and needing cheap food such as Nestle which owns so many brands. I support many local and small businesses, I support many small artists.

It all depends on which priority is relied upon and in what circumstance. Is it taste or is it morality. Morality should be first and foremost but it depends on the severity of the behavior. I don't care if an artist lied to get out of a parking ticket but if they lied to get out of a DUI where they could have hurt someone or actually hurt someone, it is a different story. There are levels of "wrong". It isn't black and white, all or nothing thinking. There has to be a gray area to be fair.

No, it means you are responsible enough to look back and realize what you want to change in life. A bad person wouldn't understand that they did anything wrong. Also, we've all did mischievous things when we were young .

No, my point was if it is cheaper to buy the name brand vs the small business that charges more, ethics is less the question and more about separating the product from the creators, just like I separate the artist from the art. There are terrible celebrities who have made good music, what changes about the music, what changes about the product, your knowledge of it. But the product itself is still as it was, your perception of [the creator] is just different. Would you stop paying for recycled plastic if you knew it was once someone's trash. Ethics is about treating people better. I don't sit there and think, at the store, let me see who I can support today. No, I buy my groceries like a normal person and look for the deal. I am trying to save money. But that being said, although I still bought fair life, I bought it less after knowing that fact, it still influenced my decision and it was a little more expensive, I liked the taste. But coming down on people for what they support is just as wrong as supporting the thing itself.

The unfortunate thing is the taste is unchanged no matter what nestle did. My wife told me not to buy Fair Life milk products because they abuse the animals. It felt so wrong, but tasted so much better to drink their chocolate milk. That being said, it isn't always better to save money and buy the cheaper brand, than give up some more money trying to support a small business. However, we never know whether that small business will be the next nestle. It's hard to pick these battles but separate the product from the ones who make it.