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Honestly, I do sometimes learn new things about politics from online comments, and when I learn new things, my opinions on certain politicians or parties may very well change. But I live in a country with more than two viable parties, not sure whether I would switch between voting Democratic or Republican based on online comments if I lived in the US.

Thanks, will try that out

Do you know a way to see the ActivityPub JSON for fediverse objects?

I think you can publish on many ordinary (micro)blogging platforms through Tor, but you'll need a valid email address.

So the problem is reduced to: how can you get a valid email address through Tor that is not linked to either a phone number, your real identity, your credit card, or another email address that has any of these pieces of information stored.

I have never needed to do this, but to my knowledge, there are email providers where that is possible. Another user linked to privacytools.io where I can find this list https://www.privacytools.io/privacy-email - so that may be a place to start.

Here's the thing: without this thread, I might never have become aware of this user or their activities. Are you sure that what you're doing isn't counterproductive and giving them more undeserved attention?

I actually know about this law from a book (I think) about amusing laws and court decisions. It certainly does sound funny to have a sentence start "if the person who has been declared dead appears personally in front of a court".

It matters whether the government can do things like this at all, because if they can do it to TikTok, they can do it to anyone and anything else. TikTok may or may not be a good platform, that doesn't matter at all.

How old is your brother? If he is an early teenager, it is possible that he picked these concepts up from somewhere and will very likely grow out of that thinking all by himself.

Not really. My country's legal system, at least, foresees that someone may be mistakenly declared dead and so provides in the Todeserklärungsgesetz (§ 24):

(1)Wenn der für tot Erklärte persönlich vor Gericht erscheint und die Aufhebung der Todeserklärung verlangt, so hat das Gericht, falls die Identität des Antragstellers mit dem für tot Erklärten unzweifelhaft feststeht, ohne weiteres Verfahren die Aufhebung der Todeserklärung auszusprechen.

which translates to:

If the person who has been declared dead appears personally in front of a court and demands the cancellation of the declaration of death, then the court has to, if there is no doubt as to the identity of the applicant with the person who has been declared dead, without further procedure declare the annulment of the declaration of death.

Not advocating this, but: on the fediverse there is almost no way to tell you are evading a ban by creating a new account if you do it on another instance.

Moderation = not showing things to people who do not want to see these things. If you are an LGBT person and do not want to ever see people calling you and people like you mentally ill, then hiding those things from you is moderation, completely legitimate, an important part of making the platform a more welcoming place. I don't usually want to see people doing that either in my feed (and in fact I don't, because I follow entirely different things on Facebook).

Censorship = not showing things to people even though they want to see these things. If a group of people who believe that LGBT people are mentally ill are talking to each other about these beliefs, then preventing them from doing so is censorship, it doesn't make the platform a more welcoming place because the people it would make feel unwelcome weren't seeing it anyway.

That is what I (and the linked blog post) am trying to say. You may still think censorship is in some cases a good thing, but I think it's important to make the distinction.

I wasn't actually expressing a substantive opinion on whether this policy change of Meta's is a good thing or bad thing. The rules there are as arbitrary as anywhere else on the Internet; this slight shift does not make much of a difference.

But moderation is different from censorship: if you (or I or anyone else) do not want to read people writing about LGBT people being mentally ill, or calling me an idiot (and I certainly don't, most of the time), or literally making any statement at all in the world, then none of us should have to. That doesn't mean people who want to say these things to each other (necessarily) need to be prevented from saying them to each other; there are arguments for that too, but it's a different issue.

That doesn't contradict what I'm saying ("default behavior"), and also moderation is different from censorship.

Seriously, this is how the media is spinning this? "Facebook now allows people to post that LGBT people are mentally ill"?

The default behavior of any social media platform is to allow people to say anything they want. That's what social media is for, to allow people to talk to each other. The things it doesn't allow are, and ought to be, exceptions. Facebook has now decided that one of these exceptions will be slightly loosened. I somehow fail to see the big deal in this.

You have Mastodon and Lemmy covered with a piefed, friendica or mbin instance.

You can follow RSS feeds from a (microblogging) fediverse account using https://rss-parrot.net/ - so that covers that part. Apparently Bluesky provides RSS feeds, so this also works for Bluesky, although I have not tried that yet because I'm not aware of anyone posting only on Bluesky that I would want to follow.

As I wrote, try looking for a piefed, mbin or friendica instance you like.

We had a similar thread recently here: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/27868444

You are registered on a Lemmy instance and from those you can only follow communities (that are structured the way Lemmy communities are, but the backend doesn't need to actually be Lemmy), not people. Mastodon, PeerTube etc. are places where people post to their own profiles, so you can't follow those from Lemmy, you need to create an account on e.g. Mastodon to do that. You can combine both worlds with some backends (piefed, mbin, friendica).

yes, gemeinnützig = serving the public benefit (literally approximately: gemein = common, nützig = useful, i.e. useful to the common good)

GmbH is just the (almost literal) translation of LLC.

I downvoted (and reported) this because this isn't a question, which is what this community is for.

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