Comment on My Thoughts on the Fosstodon Drama | Kev Quirk

• rglullis@communick.news ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Some people chose to do the right things because they are right

  This is just another way of saying that people do things for moral validation - a.k.a, self-righteouness - and is no at all different from “power tripping”.

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  • zenforyen@feddit.org ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That is a rather toxic way of looking at the world. I get it, I kind of can rationally understand the idea that you can explain all selfless behavior as being selfish because the least you get out of it is dopamine, so you are wired to feel good doing what you think is right.

    Now, can you tell me how this is just not a very shitty and cynical lens to view humans through? I’ve had my nihilistic phase in my 20’s. I hope you also find a way out of the hole of the “arbitrariness” of ethics.

    Because each other is all we have, and ethics is ultimately what makes us human. The ability to reprogram our own pleasure circuit and maybe, just maybe, just use it to be not an asshole, just to start with. And then at some point just do something nice for others. Because if everybody did that, the world would not be the shithole it is.

    I’m thankful to mods who volunteer their free time to tend to the garden of the communities they care about.

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    • rglullis@communick.news ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I am not at all talking about the cases of someone who is passionate about some topic and then goes on to cultivate a community around it, and I am not saying “every moderator is doing it for some ulterior motive”.

      I am talking specifically about the types that put on themselves to become mods of dozens of subreddits. Or instance admins that go months in a row begging for money to be able to pay their own bills. I am talking about the cases where people act beyond what anyone would consider “healthy”.

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      • zenforyen@feddit.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Okay wow, thanks for the clarification. That is indeed weird. Yeah, then I guess I agree, it’s really … Just not very healthy behavior.

        Okay I mean for some people maybe this whole Internet thing, becomes too much a means in itself, maybe they are missing something in life and trying to get it that way.

        If you are employed, have family and/or friends and a hobby or two, how do you even have the time to mod dozens of subs and stuff like that?

        So if they are doing it while being nice, one can actually say they could need some empathy. If they are not being nice, well, for such cases it might explain why the other things in life might be lacking.

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  • 3dmvr@lemm.ee ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nah I get no dopamine from doing the right thing its neutral, some ppl just help build the place they want to see, obviously no one does anything for no reason at all?

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  • poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, right 🤦 Sorry but I must conclude you have some serious intellectual stunting if you truly believe that. Ayn Rand level of delusion.

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    • rglullis@communick.news ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Hey, any comparison to Ayn Rand or their fans should be an immediate ban. No need to go that low.

      All I’ve been arguing with you could be summed up as “if we want the Fediverse to be universal, we will need to grow a lot faster and we need to accept the reality that not everyone values the same things as you do” and you responding “No, I don’t to make the Fediverse universal because most people are too morally weak to stand for the things I care about”.

      (And if you think I am exagerating: don’t make me look for the conversation where you said that people should be okay using this crap because the other open source alternatives committed the grave sin of “raising money from investors”.)

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      • poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Fine I didn’t need to go as low as Ayn Rand.

        But I think you still didn’t get my argument last time. Tl;dr: there is no point in doing what you propose as it just results in recreating the same shit we already have. This has nothing to do with moral failings and everything with strategy and not repeating the same mistakes all over again.

        And besides that I agree that Siskin isn’t great, and most likely suggested this instead. And that “open-source alternative” are now open-core and can’t pay their bloated expenses now that VC funding has run dry. I hope you see the irony in what you just wrote, because that is really a clear example of how unsustainable and ill advised that kind of growth is.

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