Comment on New peertube instance: Bolitoglossa! 🥳

Fisuxcel@wolfballs.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Owner_of_donky@donky.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And misleadingly dangerous content

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  • Sal@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What I had in mind when I wrote this was a video I watched in Odysee I think, where someone was explaining that COVID can be cured by drinking bleach.

    Around the same time I also watched a video that explained how to detect the microchip from the COVID vaccine by downloading a sketchy app and connecting to it. The danger in this case is that people who do download the app risk being scammed and/or hacked. I don't see much of a point in letting the scammy videos stay.

    I will be pragmatic and use some common sense.

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    • Owner_of_donky@donky.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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      • Sal@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Thanks, you too!

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• Sal@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I will be pragmatic. I can't define hard boundaries, and I need to encounter different examples in practice. As of now there is a grand total of zero users, so it even feels a bit silly to be making rules. But the idea is that we need spaces where people can come by and feel safe sharing simple videos, without the need of encountering a polarizing environment.

  Since you are asking for specificity, what I have in mind when I write "hate speech" is videos that strongly motivate hate and/or violence towards a person or group of people, or videos that in themselves are an attack. So, a video meant to cyberbully someone, a video that advocates eliminating people of a particular race, videos that launch serious accusations towards people that are not in power.

  So:

  • A person does not believe that affirmative action is appropriate, and posts a video arguing that only absolute merit should count, and race should not be taken into account. This is not a problem.

  • A person believes that illegal immigrants are coming into the country and taking jobs, and argues that citizens should put their right to bear arms to good use and help eliminate this problem. This is not appropriate.

  Another example that comes to mind is when videos are made accusing private individuals of being 'crisis actors', and these private individuals are doxxed. These kind of videos I would also consider to be hateful as they promote hate towards these specific non-public figures.

  Again, nothing is set in stone. This is not really about me pushing any politics, but about trying to create a node within this environment to serve the purpose of having simple, not very polarizing videos.

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  • sj_zero ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    One of the nice things about the fediverse is that different communities can have different standards and as long as nobody gets banhappy or instance block happy we can coexist.

    Different admins are going to have different levels that they are comfortable with. I see people using my instances to be a jerk, and I don't like it but I tolerate it. On the other hand, one time I saw an isis video end up on one of my instances, pretty sure that's crossed the line for me. On the other hand, my peer tube has a whole bunch of commercial videos that I don't particularly like but I allow because I'm not their dad, I don't need to condone every thing I see and the user is playing nice otherwise.

    • Sal@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, it is a balancing act. With regards to federation I am a lot more open. The line to block another instance is a lot farther - I've never even considered blocking an instance yet on here.

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