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- Comment on How active is Lemmy now? 4 hours ago:
Honestly, it depends on your circles and network. I only remember seeing The Picard Maneuver maybe twice, didn’t know of them before this week. I’ve seen your username far more, for example.
- Comment on Not federated Lemmy instances? 2 days ago:
and especially here
Good to know that old post is still useful. (It’s also nice to see that wolfballs, bakchodi and exploding-heads all died.)
- Comment on Not federated Lemmy instances? 3 days ago:
I haven’t checked around since the reddit API fiasco, but there were unfederated Lemmy instances. Hexbear used to be unfederated (their code diverged before federation was working IIRC) and it was the largest of all instances. Even without federation, it’s a viable, actively developed link aggregator.
and wasn’t it revealed that that Trump’s garbage dump was running defedded Masto?
Gab is also a Mastodon fork, which was originally defederated before being blocked from most instances and bullied by the remaining freeze peach instances, so they mechanically removed the federation code.
I’ve also heard some special interest communities on Mastodon intentionally defederate from the broader network for privacy reasons.
- Comment on what is your opinion on mastodon and other fediverse microblogging sites?? as opposed to forum-type websites 5 days ago:
I personally don’t value the microblogging format and never really gave it a shot. It’s just personal preference. In my opinion, the site format mechanically encourages low-effort junk, and there’s enough of that on sites like this. I only use microblogs like an inconvenient feed for specific niche news, like I would an RSS-type feed.
With that said, I support people posting on fediverse microblogging sites rather than on xitter or bluesky. I have to jump through a lot of moving hoops to even view xitter feeds without an account.
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- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 4 weeks ago:
We’ve collectively agreed to put the law above
I don’t remember agreeing to these laws. I break the dumbest ones constantly. Laws are made by politicians who are controlled by the owning class. They are enforced on us, not developed by us. That’s why corporations and their board of directors can rape the earth and kill thousands and millions while you and me can get jailed for petty little things.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 4 weeks ago:
Who’s he going to pick next?
This was not a random or petty attack. Their message on the bullet casings makes it clear they were attacking this person because they’ve knowingly helped enable incomprehensible amounts of human suffering on a scale of millions.
I understand that vigilantism, speaking generally, has its own serious dangers. But speaking specifically, this person is clearly not a threat to people who aren’t legalized mass murderers. Who’s he going to pick next? Probably the CEO of the second most abusive healthcare insurer.
That said, obviously with limited resources the police have to pick what cases take priority over others.
The police follow the law. The law is defined by politicians, who are effectively purchased by the owner class. The police were never going to arrest that CEO for their crimes against humanity, it would be illegal for them to do it out of the public interest. Direct vigilantism was the only realistic chance at deterrence in this situation.
because they’re too busy chasing down all those people who hurt others’ fee-fees by misgendering them
Weird fantasy but ok.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 4 weeks ago:
Interesting take, but on the other hand I suspect that nothing new would be learned. afaik their main forensics techniques aren’t really a mystery, there are thousands of cases to learn from.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 4 weeks ago:
From whom?
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 4 weeks ago:
That’s not true.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 4 weeks ago:
The repeated mention of “jury nullification” here is a cop-out.
Jury nullification is essentially an admission that the law itself is unjust and the popular belief is that it should be ignored, nullified. So why pretend the legal system is valid in the first place? I do not see the legal system as fair or representative of the people; if it was, this assassination wouldn’t have ever happened. The laws are made by politicians and the politicians represent the owner class, those with enough money to purchase politics.
If you don’t want to see the assassin prosecuted, if you too “didn’t see anything”, then why insist “murder is murder” when you clearly think this one doesn’t deserve equal treatment? It’s utopian idealism, the kind of rule that holds true in an ignorant vacuum experiment but not in this unfair rigged game of a world.
The appropriate sentence for this crime is: “Keep up the important work.”
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 4 weeks ago:
True, the mass murderer wasn’t caught. They were assassinated on video. You can watch it if you want proof.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 4 weeks ago:
Given the perspective you described, I would consider the actions of the company to be systematic mass murder who the legal system fails to stop, and the actions of the shooter to be community defense against a mass murderer. They’re certainly not equivalent, and I don’t see what the benefit is of treating that defense equally to even one callous for-profit murder.
The problem isn’t that exceptions are made and therefore all crimes should be treated in an ignorant vacuum. The problem is that the idealist legal system doesn’t even consider indirect suffering as the violence it is, because the legal system is ultimately beholden to the power of capital (money buys politicians and the media power to make them win, politicians write laws).
- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 1 month ago:
I hope they keep Alex Jones’s communism financing operation going.
- Comment on From September to October Peertube’s MAU grew exponentially from 21.7k to 33.4k 2 months ago:
That’s serious stuff if true. I would often the upload date to avoid reuploads and regurgitated (and lower visual quality) content. It’s also extremely useful to know how outdated some advice or guide is.
- Comment on Matrix 2.0 Is Here! 2 months ago:
I assume you also have to trust the servers which the accounts you’re messaging are stored on. (Although there are real situations where all users will be on the same server, where this is obviously a great benefit.)
- Comment on Robot moderation could be coming to your town 2 months ago:
Haha they thought it was too easy and were proven wrong!
Honestly, if a place is obscure enough, even smaller barriers of entry help, like forums that don’t let you post on important boards until you build a reputation. There’s only so much effort an adversary is willing to put in, and if there isn’t a financial incentive or huge political incentive, that barrier could be low.
- Comment on Robot moderation could be coming to your town 2 months ago:
One of the first few instances I heard of was botsin.space, which has been around since at least 2017. Bots aren’t new. (Not sure where you’re pulling “AI” from, this is old* tech, and I don’t mean that negatively)
- Comment on Robot moderation could be coming to your town 2 months ago:
I’ve played (briefly) with automated moderation bots on forums, and the main thing stopping me from going much past known-bad profiles (e.g. visited the site from a literal spamlist) is not just false positives but malicious abuse. I wanted to add a feature which would censor an image immediately with a warning if it was reported for (say) porn, shock imagery or other extreme content, but if a user noticed this, they could falsely report content to censor it until a staff member dismisses the report.
Could an external brigade of trolls get legitimate users banned or their posts hidden just by gaming your bot? That’s a serious issue which could make real users have their work deleted, and in my experience, users can take that very personally.