ZombiFrancis @ ZombiFrancis @sh.itjust.works

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Okay, so you're talking about the 1890s-1920s "Progressive" Era of Prohibition and Sufferage.

Yeah, as that's what that time period is called: "Progressive Era".

Not the 1930s-70s New Deal / Great Society period of progressivism

No, I am not referring to the period following Prohibition Era and the Great Depression which was an intermediate (1920s-1930s) before New Deal.

If you're taking issue with the 'Progressive Era' being called 'Progressive' then sure. I get you then. It mostly just achived women's suffrage as a meaningful milestone, as I said.

For what it is worth, Jim Crow predated and outlasted the Progressive Era in the US. I wouldn't so much apply causation there.

But it also ended in the 20s. It mainly achieved Women's suffrage in the US.

Remember, communities are more akin to private walled gardens than public open fields.

Most of the time you're walking into someone's house to make a post or comment.

The Fediverse is built on the efforts of relatively few individuals on their own motivation and convictions. There are no duties to uphold for shareholders or governments.

People are welcome to be as open and inclusive as they can manage, but there's no actual obligation to the public at large. So it's wise just to be respectful in general and let this stuff roll off your back.

Poor depressurized deep sea fish. That thing is dead from being turned inside out from the vacuum pressure of being hauled out of the ocean. They don't look like that until we do that to 'em.

These folks include presenting a false person as being of age, then switching to underage at the time of meetup when the target shows up.

A group descends upon the target who is now told they're a pedophile.

Then the group tries to kill the person who was trying to meet what they thought was an adult.

And the perpetrators think this is justice.

It isn't the medical definition at work, here. It's the legal one.

Ding ding ding.

Yeah I believe the next step in this process is to make the easy jump into hunting all those people expressing 'Pedo apologia'. Half this thread suddenly is fair game to 'investigate.'

It's a bottomless well, really.

Hell, KiwiFarms style tactics is becoming more and more common and mainstream. It's on Lemmy too.

The longest filibuster (against Civil Rights) famously included a curtain and a bucket.

The harsh interpretation is that Cory is only looking to shore up good will towards the Democratic Party faction that includes Chuck. Hence this isn't actually a filibuster that might stop something from passing.

The more charitable view is that Congressman Booker is reaponding to criticism by demonstrating a level of action not seen outside an Independent senator and a handful of other house members.

I ain't rooting against his effort one bit in the face of the GOP, even under the most cynical interpretations of recouperation.

Eyeball it. Gotta squint right tho.

Can fuck up a septic system real quick. Surfacing sewage draining down the yard and into the street is a bad time.

That wasn't quite it. The church believed the natural sciences fit within a framework of metaphysical doctrine. The church engaged in all sorts of research and experiments because they believed it would prove the truth. People like Darwin and Copernicus and such were all commissioned by the church to develop and research their work.

What happened was there became a growing body of work that did not align with the church that could not be reconciled. They did the science, they were just subject to the demands of political power of their time.

Here you get to see individuals acting in their own capacity to do the same, sometimes ironically and/or unintentionally.

I worked in a rural county where there were roads so bad, so riddled with potholes, that you could barely drive more than 5 mph. Undulating speedbumps and you'd have to zigzag to avoid the holes large enough to catch your wheel entirely.

The county's solution to poor response times from 911 calls? Cops bought a humvee.

There are also users on .ml that aren't tankies. There are even tankies on other instances(!)

That's the kind of content instance admins are and need to be concerned with on the topic of defederating instances. However most of the time it's over whether some user in a shitposting thread was unfairly moderated.

Instances are servers that host communities.

Instances are servers that host user accounts.

Federated instances allow users from one instance to view and post in communities on other (federated) instances. If the instances are defederated there is no connection whatsoever being made between the users and communities.

Now, there are communities that have very strict and often very political moderation policies. Technically only the instance administrator has the power/authority to override communities, but only on the instance they administrate.

This can become an issue, especially when people who get moderated run to the admin demanding to talk with who is in charge. The netKarens get really mad if the admins back up the community, so they'll start these instance crusades demanding defederation and such.

So as a result there are some natural divisions across the major instances based on how the admins tend to back up community rules.

So for a rough examples: .ml communities have zero tolerance for American Liberalism. Lemmy.world allows communities to be heavy handed against criticism of NATO or Israel. Blahaj.zone has zero tolerance for transphobes gatekeeping. My instance, sh.itjust.works, allows for combat footage and communities dedicated to documenting(harassing) the .ml instance, their admins and the lemmy devs (who admin .ml).

The average user need only pay attention to the communities they post in. The instance of the user is mostly irrelevant, nevermind the butthurt individuals who want a worse and fragmented Fediverse.

Someone read the book.