Naomi Klein is awesome

Do you think Microslop can use this to help get out of being held accountable for directly profitting off of the Palestinian Genocide?

What a piece of shit

One used it for invoicing.

AHAHAHAHAHA

LLMs have proven their use.

No they have largely not except in niche applications and they have proven relentlessly they cannot be trusted with anything important.

Or just visit Lemmy.ml without an account and browse as an anonymous user for an hour, perhaps counting the number of times you see calls for the guillotine and wonder if they will make a distinction between those truly deserving or settle for anyone that they can more readily get their hands on.

I for one had no desire to join the “tankie Lemmy” originally, but came here for Kbin.social, then after it fell apart I realized that I could block more stuff personally like Ernst used to do for us collectively in order to make my experience more similar.

This is about coddling your feelings not what the majority of people feel or what the politics of the majority of people are and it is very telling that you are only focused on policing the behavior of people you perceive as more leftwing than you.

Perhaps I am summarizing incorrectly, but I am talking about comments such as this one at https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuest

There is a wide range of reactions there and given the current state of reddit why should I believe these are all human responses?

Your argument is completely undermined by the fact that you are clearly only concerned with chastising people to the left of you because you believe most people are to the right of you.

This is a belief that is not necessarily grounded in reality.

Besides, there are many versions of people, if this one invites in the best versions of people that is fine by me but also no one controls this, the burden is on people to realize they need to leave corporate social media.

Maybe, but it is equally possible that people will be forced to learn that their unwillingness to care about this stuff because it is “wayyyy too complicated” is existentially not sustainable…

People picking Bluesky over Mastodon when Mastodon already existed and was easily functional enough for people to choose as an alternative is a perfect example of what you are saying but also… Bluesky is a vaporwave brand that will eventually strangle itself into obscurity in the pursuit of monetization and Mastodon will keep chugging along… so people will have many many chances to learn why ActivityPub and the Fediverse are the future, and those learning opportunities will only start coming quicker and quicker.

The issue is less the size and more that it is a centralized platform with no possibility for communities to effectively “go somewhere else” if they are having a bad experience on one platform/website. The power dynamics are disgusting and no amount of fiddling with the rules and making them more endlessly hypocritical and byzantine or shuffling in and out new moderators will fix it.

It has everything to do with the Fediverse as this is precisely the kind of problem the Fediverse was designed to minimize and grapple with, so how that problem is evolving in the corporate social media world is directly relevant to the Fediverse even though it is not part of it, the failure of corporate social media to grapple with these problems elucidates why and how we are trying to solve those problems on the Fediverse best in some ways.

For example we can compare the problematic behavior of Lemmy.World mods on the politics and world news communities to the problematic behavior of Reddit in this case and see a clear resonance that makes it easier to address the forms of these problems on the Fediverse more confidently.

Ok I should clarify in quotes at the top that this platform fundamentally requires a trusted entity to confirm the identity of users and crucially everyone has to genuinely trust in that process. This tool is a great facilitator once you get there but it is important to emphasize that the designers created this tool for the step after that.

The implications for the Fediverse (though you could run this software on ActivityPub but on an isolated but still federated network right?) are as a tool to use within a larger social network structure to connect people in new generative ways that are difficult to get going otherwise.

poVoq here. I am starting to think I am cursed, because everything works fine (or is at least fixable with a remote server restart) until the second I go on a longer business trip and can’t easily access the hardware.

Have you tried leaving for a couple hours and then coming back and giving the server a couple of bytes of a treat? Ease the server into you leaving with a bit of training.