Kichae @ Kichae @kbin.social

Astronomer & video game data scientist with repressed anger

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Corporations are financial supporters of politicians, though, and they do a good job of making sure any viable political choice is on their side.

It's false choices all of the way down.

I'm sorry, did you just compare the social sciences to children's toys?

Science isn't just test tubes and telescopes and super colliders. I'm sorry you're so incurious about the world that you apparently only care about the inanimate parts of it.

880k is probably more Olympic sized pools than the oil company execs own, eh?

Maybe they can dump the rest into their own drinking water, then.

Afraid we're a wavy household.

Kbin has instance blocking. Maybe you used a kbin-based instance in that universe?

Well, then they'll have consented, then. Ethical conundrum solved!

If we can get some more communities like this, I might be able to convince my girlfriend to leave Reddit

the appeal has been made to the lemmy.world admin. The admin will decide what to do, and that should be the end of it.

Why?

By that logic, your complaint has been made, shouldn't you shut up, too?

This.

If we don't want things run so as to squeeze every ounce of value out of users, then things can't be run by profit-seeking entities. They basically need to be run by altruistic people doing it for pro-social reasons, or we stay on the enshitification train.

If people are really invested in a community remaining a forever space on the internet, we just need to develop the features for migrating those communities to new instances, and then having that community shell out for their own host.

That is where stability will come from. Communities self-hosting.

And they're being sarcastic.

Ah, fair.

Nothing is federated with Threads yet, as Threads hasn't rolled out federation yet.

Moreover, while ActivityPub would grant Threads users the ability to interact with content from groups, the UI does not surface groups, and does not enable clean interactions.

Groups are incredibly spammy on microblogging UIs, and not really a fun experience, so the actual crossover between Threads and ActivityPub groups like Lemmy communities is going to be really small in practice.

You... Don't think Meta is a sketchy service provider?

Yes, but also that those tactics are clearly convincing for many.

And that's not to mention the fact that arguing the facts is repeatedly shown to be ineffective in changing people's minds.

He's free to not use his private jet. But no, woe is he who has all of the money in the world because he made choices that make him publicly visible.

His jet alone is doing harm to all of us. His personal impact on the global environment is orders of magnitudes higher than most of the rest of ours.

Him fabricating some stories so that he could publicly break a promise doesn't change any of that.

Oh, I disagree. This is valid context to the current discussion, and it raises the visibility of a real issue.

The merging of communities above a certain size should be discouraged for the sake of diversification and moderatability, and if already large communities are being merged without or evenagainst community input, that's an issue.

There is no reason the admins on the server with the locked community should play ball with the mods here. These are independent and unaffiliated websites, after all.

If you don't like it, you don't need to read it.

Being publicly viewable doesn't make it public domain. We each maintain our copyright. Our posts are our personal intellectual property.

We can't stop them from using them, but that doesn't make them theirs, and it doesn't mean we should just hand them over freely.

If they're going to use them, they can at least make the effort to take them.

They can take. That doesn't mean we need be ok with giving. Just because they're ok with theft IP doesn't mean we need to be ok with them doing it.

Aliasing is a thing on Mastodon user accounts. There's no conceptual reason it couldn't be extended groups on other platforms, too.

At the same time, if group aliasing became a thing, one should not expect that one group become an alias of another. Centralizing communities doesn't always make sense, and our Love of Large Numbers is something we should actually actively push back against.

Aliasing makes sense when you have a dozen tiny communities, none of which are large enough to be self-sustaining. Once communities have crossed the critical limit and become viable all on their own, we really shouldn't actually want them to merge with other viable communities. Smaller communities are easier to moderate, are generally friendlier spaces, and the promote a larger diversity of opinion and active, meaningful discussion.

Bigger ones devolve rapidly into jockeying for attention.

If you're only going to read 10 or 15 posts in a community, be it one of 1000 users or one of 10,000,000, then you're generally going to be better off with the 1000. Anything big enough to make it to the top of the big blog will probably be discussed in the small one, too. But the opposite is just not going to be true.

not an industry that can make me money as a politician

But home rentals are. I know here in Canada, many federal politicians are landlords. It seems to be the thing that either supports them in running for office in the first place, or what they do spend their MP's salary on once elected.