Comment on After a year of operation, Switzerland's government closes its Mastodon instance
xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days agoModeration is when you take down material because the recipient doesn’t want to see it. Censorship is when you take down content because you don’t want the recipient to see it, regardless of how the recipient feels about it. [vintermann, Hacker News]
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mke@programming.dev 1 day ago
I don’t know who this person is, but adding “Hacker News” doesn’t give their words more credibility. It gives them less, if anything.
Imagine quoted someone and, underneath it, added:
Both of these enjoy the same level of base, intrinsic trust to me: none.
xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 19 hours ago
I’m not citing the author to add credibility, just to give credit.
mke@programming.dev 18 hours ago
And I’m saying you’re better off without. That sentence is ridiculous enough already, it doesn’t need the source to make it worse. But good on you for worrying about credit, do as you will.
xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 18 hours ago
What is ridiculous about it?