rwhitisissle @ rwhitisissle @beehaw.org

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Let's not be hyperbolic. It's not the end of all civilization. It's just the decline of ours. We all learned about stuff like this in history class in high school and college. The Roman Empire declined and fell. Tons of others did the same. It's just our turn. We're not special or exempt from annihilation. Time catches up to everyone.

You got a particular clause you feel is being violated? Asking because I've read the document and I don't see any parts specifically about mods not being allowed to be dicks. Not that it really matters. The "charter" in question is worth the paper it's printed on. Federated instances are autonomous. Whether they federate with other instances or don't is up to individual site governance.

Is that what the FediVerse is all about?

This is what forums on the internet have been about since, well...forever.

It would be so funny if America re-elected Trump after everything. Like, 4 years of tragic, all consuming incompetence, with millions dead from covid. A literal attempted coup after a lost election. And then after 4 years of a milquetoast geriatric Democrat, the country's like the kid who stuck a fork in the outlet to see what would happen and then a few days later thinks to himself "yeah, it fucking hurt like a sonofabitch last time, but this time if I use TWO forks, something different might happen."

Well, that's perfect, because that's going to be [insert next calendar year here].

"Best I can do is a small fine. Also, the fine is tax deductible." - Federal Government, 2023.

People used to post stuff to their own websites all the time. And when someone had a cool website and it blew up from getting shared on reddit and hitting the front page, the site would go down because 50,000 people were trying to access a webpage that could serve, at most, 1% of that volume at a time. This means you now have to contract with a CDN like Cloudflare if you expect to operate at scale (which you probably won't). So people started posting to reddit or Facebook or whatever because there was a 0% chance of that happening. This article addresses those issues but also acknowledges that there aren't any real solutions at the moment.

Cool. Somebody should let Richard Stallman know, I guess.

If it’s not OSI approved then it’s not open source.

OSI as an organization did not invent the concept of Open Source software. They just appointed themselves the arbiters of the term. There are other organizations and individuals that disagree with their definition.

there isn’t enough content on Lemmy to only whitelist certain communities

This is really the central problem. There's way fewer posts on any given Lemmy/fediverse network compared to the major players, and I've been conditioned by the last 13 years I spent on reddit to have constant interactive stimuli and discussion based on my interests. That doesn't exist here because the communities are so small. Admittedly, yeah, I could post. But I've always been a commenter on existing discussions, not someone who wants to start the discussions myself.

Dissenting opinion, I'm sure, but I see in Lemmy the same problems I saw with reddit at the time I left it: superficial content designed to generate superficial engagement driven by people on mobile devices. Lemmy, reddit, and virtually all other content aggregators fall into the same pattern of posting screenshots from Twitter and recycled memes that everyone's seen. It's like the author of the article says: the internet isn't as interactive or novel as it used to be. Part of that is the centralization of media into a handful of supergiant corporations, but it's also an extension of the technological landscape and how people today interact with the media they consume. Which as time goes on is more and more driven by mobile devices.

Depleted uranium enriched Funions. I mean, even more so than they currently are.

I know this is my "old man yells at clouds" take, but young people especially are so socially and economically progressive while being so remarkably puritanical. Like, you could have a movie about sex workers and the same people that praise it for representation would unironically complain if it (god forbid) had any nudity.

people are only against it from years of religious based shame

I don't think that's really it in a contemporary perspective. During the 20th century, sure, but young people don't really go to church or unironically consume Christian ideological rhetoric en masse. I think a lot of it has to do with how mass media is structured, built, and presented today. Everything has been boiled down to the most formulaic and family friendly fare imaginable, so people just don't see sex, nudity, or physical intimacy presented in the media they consume. That's not something "fit for all audiences," which means it reduces the number of people they can sell it to. You see the same thing with places like reddit that have been slowly cracking down on and removing NSFW subreddits for years. I mean, it's great if you're asexual. But for everyone else? It sorta ghettoizes the idea of physical intimacy.

Cuz' at the end of the day, as long as there's two people left on the planet, someone is gonna want someone dead.

They don’t care about gamers or games

There is no such thing as a company that cares about the product they make or the people who buy their product. The purpose of every company is solely to make money. The product itself is, to some degree, arbitrary. The only reason Microsoft even makes video games is because it's adjacent, and in some ways a natural extension of, their original business.

American culture is, I believe, becoming more homogeneous over time as a result of information technology. Unless you're from either rural Appalachia or some deep part of the South, you just don't have an accent. Or rather, you have a generic "American" accent.

I'm not defending the indictment, I'm explaining the crimes with which they're being charged. Being accused of a crime doesn't mean they're guilty. It just means those are the crimes the state elected to charge them with. An important distinction.

You can find the indictment online at the link posted above. It goes pretty deep into how the prosecutors understand anarchism. There's definitely an ideological bent to the prosecution, but the things they're being indicted over are arson, destruction of private property, and a host of illegal means of preventing the construction of Cop City. Still...the prosecution is clearly extremely concerned with misrepresenting anarchism as a political ideology.

He doesnt believe his employees need a union because I dont know about you but if I owned a company Id hope that my people felt looked after well enough that they didnt feel like they needed one either.

If I owned my own company I would DEMAND my employees unionize. You can never trust your boss to have your back. Especially when your boss is me. Because I know me, and I suck.