Lulz, good points. I should clarify that internet pictures with "facts" are fucking dumb. While that wording has gaps as well, maybe we can hone in on some specificity.
That is what I was thinking as well. If someone gets all of their medical information from Facebook, "showing them the science" would probably be counter productive.
It's not a lost cause all the time. I convinced my neighbors to get their COVID vaccination, but it took time and I had to strategically counter any conspiracy theories they had heard. One trick I like is to make them sound stupid in a way they realize that they sound stupid, without insulting or degrading them.
Conspiracy theories are usually built on extremely fragile false assumptions and coated in numerous layers of bullshit. If you get lucky, you can just kick the foundation and the rest of the story falls apart.
That simplifies things, for sure. While public notification is good in principle, I outlined a reason why it may not be ideal in my other comment.
A solution, probably, would be reasonable notifications about defederation. Assuming that an admin wants to see the instance grow, justification for a block should be posted clearly, but needs a technical limit of some kind. What those limits are, I haven't a clue.
A hypothetical situation: If 80% of users participate in communities on a specific instance that is going to get blocked, that will have significant impact to the local users. Notification and justification would be super awesome in that case, but I don't even know if admins could gather that kind of data in the first place.
Your "Proposal" section is the reference in this case.
If they stickied a post with just that data you requested, cool. They should probably lock that post too. The biggest problem that it doesn't take much for a troublemaker to cause problems in a thread on a post that could be controversial. It'll turn into an admin hate-post, more often than not. (This can cause weeks of headache for admins or until the drama gets boring.) Having moderated large (10k-20k) subreddits before, I can tell you the drama is real and it follows very primitive patterns. This example is just one pattern of several.
In my opinion only, sometimes it's just easier to silently block things to keep the communities "normal". In the case of Lemmy, we have public logs so it's not fully hidden.
Look, I can hypothesize about things that may or may not be controversial or cause instance drama, all day. My personal bias leans in the direction of not having the admins justify their decisions. It's their instance and their rules. Your suggestions are just fine though! Believe me, I have made my own fair share of suggestions about some instance rules and ensuring they are clear. (I left that instance and moved to another that was more aligned with my personal beliefs.)
That's sweet and all, but my first response (if I was an admin) is fuck that noise. It's too much work. It's not the number of instances that would be the issue, it's potentially the hundreds of opinions that would need sorting through from the users.
I believe the idea is still good and in the interest of transparency but it's just not practical. There are still a good number of "fringe" instances as well as spam instances out there and I just want the admins to nuke that shit from orbit.
Like you pointed out, all a person needs to do is look at logs to see that an instance was defederated and I am not sure engaging the admins in a philosophical debate about why they blocked an instance is going to be productive.
If an admin blocks instances, cool. If they block too many, that limits visibility for instance users and people will leave. If they don't block any, people will leave because of all the shitposting.
I say let the admins keep doing their admin things and grow their instance the way they choose. Time filters out instances with bad admins, so any problems will self-resolve.
My only ask is that admins post clear instance rules and keep the server running.
Gotta respect that math, but value might still be possible.
55 gallons of water weighs about 459lbs (208kg), so that barrel is in that range.
Get 10 friends to chip in and order the barrel. Use those 10 friends to lift and leave that barrel somewhere that is highly visible, like the front porch of an ex-wife or ex-husband. Maybe your local police station if you are from a small town?
If that is worth $1,700 to someone, I can't really say. I have paid more (per pound) for less significant practical jokes before though.
(It would be cheaper to use another barrel, actual water, and just fake the package label though. Real lube would just be for show but it would show that you have great attention to detail.)
Short form social media is basically a free-for-all. Hell, it functions more as a notification service than something like Lemmy.
Give my point of view expressed, a notification from anything is fine, bot or not. As long as the notifications are reasonable and easy for other users to block, sure. Knock yourself out. Have your bot notify us for whatever you want, with the understanding that I could just turn it off at anytime.
To add on, it supports up to 20.1.10 and that is where the protocol may shine. However, full spacial sound is not new, and Atmos is just Sony's proprietary version.
I wonder what their answer is going to be for Dolby Atmos? I am sure they could think of a another protocol that is just as pointless for your standard TV sound sticks.
Cool. Actually, I think that is where I heard about the original formulas not being ideal. (My brain can store random factoids really well, but will always discard the source.)
I have no idea, unfortunately. Tinkering with phones and ways to exploit messaging is something I haven't done in a number of years.
My first guess would be yes? If you ever get a blank email with only the subject line of "Hi", "Hello" or similar, it is simply a test to see if your email address is valid. It's not a stretch to assume there are also simple ways to verify valid numbers that can also recieve text messages.
remotelove @ remotelove @lemmy.ca Posts 66Comments 1,908Joined 2 yr. ago
Both conditions apply, was the intent. Teeth from slaves that were also purchased. My wording was unclear, sorry.
It was so unclear, it seems that I am white washing racist now.