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Sorry, I promise that the next one will be about not being able to exit vim

It is, but some people are weird about it.

From the RFC, it sounds like the system proposed here is more robust than what kbin has. Tags on kbin are just freeform user-defined hashtags.

State poverty levels were also tightly linked with pediatric firearm death rates, the study found.

C'mon now. You may find BartsBigBugBag annoying, and "critical support" is kind of sus, but they're not anywhere near hexbear's level:

• There's been no assertions here that anyone should end up "against the wall".
• From what I've seen BBBB tends to argue mostly alone against a larger audience. Hexbears intentionally show up en masse to overwhelm their opposition.
• BBBB's arguments appear to be genuine. At the very least, they're not flooding the thread with annoying image macros and pictures of pig shit.

Trust, but verify.

That one had me wondering if it was someone parodying a bot. Given the rest of it though, they'd have to be way more dedicated to the bit than is realistic.

Anyway, back to discussions about chainsaws and related topics:

https://media.kbin.social/media/a1/64/a164ea61650cc28b0f8e3ed8a38be1d204f03d863b36e3e322ea2246b2542a6e.png

WONTFIX

The goal of the copyleft movement (which overlaps heavily with the free software movement) is to carve out an intellectual commons that can't be re-enclosed. This commons is important for a number of reasons, including that it tends to be better for end-users of software in the sense that anti-features can't really gain a foothold. It does not automatically solve UX issues, nor does it stop people from using the knowledge of the commons to do bad things.

Much of the strength of the intellectual commons is that it builds on itself, instead of having to re-invent the same things in a dozen or more different proprietary endeavors. If we were to start a "peace software" movement, it would be incompatible with the commons, due to the restrictions it imposes. Peace software can't build on copyleft software, and none of the commons can build on peace software. These sorts of things were considered, and compatibility was deemed more important than pushing more specific values. This isn't a matter of the FSF or OSI standing in the way, it's just that "peace software" would have to go it alone.

Due to this dynamic, those that want to build "anticapitalist software" would be better served by using the GNU AGPL, rather than a license that restricts commercial use. The AGPL fixes the loophole that the GPL leaves open for network services, and should allow us to carve out a new noncommercial online ecosystem. It should even be used for non-network code, as that code may be repurposed or built upon by network services. I'm glad to see lemmy, kbin, and mastodon using it.

Did you look at the image they posted? Whether or not they're a nazi isn't in question here, they're not trying to hide that at all.

No, see, you just don't understand the authoritarian, extremist propaganda! If you'd just read more Lenin, you'd get it! /s

Weird to see a nazi posting American History X memes. Are you confused?

Kbin has instance blocking, community/magazine blocking, and user blocking.

Kbin doesn't have instance blocking yet, just domain blocking, which is for hiding posts that link to a particular domain. Domain blocking is also bugged right now, and will just hide random stuff from you.

I'm confused. There doesn't seem to be anything happening in this image?

/s

Don't you think you've created enough dead communities?

So I was just looking through literature.cafe a bit, and came across this excellent comment chain by Janvier. It outlines the history and culture of Hexbear, and makes a very solid argument for defederating them.

TL;DR- Don't defederate Hexbear because they're a bunch of genocide-apologist authoritarians. Defederate them because they're annoying, and will burn out your moderators.

I see a small corner of the lemmyverse...

I see your instance...
...alone...

And a lot of defederations...

Jesus that's a lot of defederations...

Added your instance to the list of specialized instances

Subscribed. I've seen an anime or two in my day, so I might be able to help identify.

It seems like you think I'm advocating for something that I'm not? "People should be free to choose who they associate with" does not mean "people should not cooperate with each other".

There are plenty of natural incentives to cooperate, and people mostly do so by default. They just shouldn't be forced to stay in organizations that abuse them. Being opposed to abusive relationships doesn't not imply that one is opposed to relationships in general.