Comment on Public Firehose Project Shutters After Backlash

Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I mean… if you spend time actually discussing the fediverse, it IS a shitshole. We drove off fucking Alec of Technology Connections for crying out loud.

  It is the problem any message board had where the “old guard” get really pissy when they see new people who aren’t making the same in jokes and deferring to them at every step. So you have endless bullying and shitposting and so forth to make sure they understand “the community”.

  Mastodon is still awesome if you mostly get ignored by them but it goes to shit REAL fast once they see people are having fun and it doesn’t involve them. Been scaling back over the past few months as a result.

  Lemmy is doing a bit better. In large part because most of the horrors are confined to the tankie servers. But you still get the groups of people who make the olde reddit “I am technically correct and you will respect that” crowd seem to be not that bad.

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  • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    How’d people drive off that YouTube tech reviewer?

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    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Basically by being (often pretentious) assholes.

      One of the relevant posts

      But if you scroll his timeline a bit (it really isn’t that much), you can see similar discussions

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      • yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Yeah, I really wish people would be a little more tactful when they go on performative tirades like this. It’s giving “old man yells at cloud” energy. Ridiculous behaviour when you think about it. People can block clouds, yelling is worse than useless.

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  • WraithGear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    We did WHAT?!

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    We drove off fucking Alec of Technology Connections for crying out loud.

    Sorry but we are better off. I love his videos but his presence is toxic. Some people just love to argue and he is one of them.

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• GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Fediverse users are not inherently good people. They’re just people.

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• Kichae@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The fediverse is “the internet”. Like, in conception, it’s taking everything that’s publicly available on the internet and making it auto-mirrorable-at-request.

  So yes, on some fundamental level, it’s a shit show. Because the internet is the worst of us.

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• rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Just bullies who unfortunately think they own the place.

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  • Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This is more than bullies, this is criminal, child abuse.

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• deadsuperhero@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yeah, that was the Content Nation debacle: wedistribute.org/…/contentnation-mastodons-toxici…

  What’s really sad is that the CN dev is actually a super nice and thoughtful dude. In his jurisdiction (Germany) he could’ve gone to prison after being caught with said materials.

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• db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Not really uploaded. There’s plenty of mastodon instances which have open distribution of CSAM or Loli (A look at our blocklist on fediseer can show just how many there are. Non-risky link btw.). All one needed to do is use that service to retrieve one of those posts using its own search function.

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• breadcat@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  it kind of is

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