JubilantJaguar
@JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 6 days ago:
Since when did I claim to be “passionate” about anything? My proposal concerns new users, it’s in the title. I’m not a new user any more and I have a bunch of post and comments to my virtual name (not that it’s important, sure). But I now see that it would have been better if I had been pushed to another server when I signed up. Hence the proposal.
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 6 days ago:
You’re an argumentative fellow! I’m still not sure exactly what it is you’re disagreeing with. My proposal is pretty boring and inoffensive. Everything’s in the post. But if you disagree, that’s fine.
Servers are communities.
No they’re not. Communities have “c/” in front of their name. I’m sure you know that already.
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 6 days ago:
You’re just saying I should practice what I preach and get off LW, is that it? Can’t be bothered, but fair enough. My proposal here concerns new users.
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 6 days ago:
Everyone can do what they like. I just believe we have a small opportunity to strengthen our offline communities, and we should take that opportunity.
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 6 days ago:
Seems to be a misunderstanding. My proposal concerns servers, not communities. It would do no more than responsibilize users (“your virtual home here has people who may be your neighbors”) and encourage them to join local communities where they might discuss local issues (rather than, say, US politics).
What youre asking for, IMO, is for the fediverse to work more like facebook and twitter, which HEAVILY bias their feeds towards local matters. The US would not have been so easy to turn into a xenophobic ball of angry people if their social media were MORE international.
Corporate social media is only biased towards local if you count the whole USA as “local”. Again, seems to be a misunderstanding. In the US case “local” would mean state or town.
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 6 days ago:
Since when am I proposing a utopia? I’m proposing that people talk to people in their physical communities. Nothing more ambitious than that.
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 6 days ago:
People not wanting to see hate speech or propaganda does not mean they are in echo chambers.
You know that bad guys are now calling your ideas “hate speech” and “propaganda”, right? And they believe it as much as you do. How do you propose to get out of this mess if not by talking?
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 6 days ago:
That’s exactly what they’re saying - and believing - about you. Meanwhile they have the power. Good luck.
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 6 days ago:
Well, if the true nature of the fediverse is to encourage people to silo themselves into echo chambers where they never have to deal with others who don’t already share all their values and opinions - if that’s truly the point of this thing - then yes, apparently I’m wasting my time here. I still hope there’s a better way.
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 6 days ago:
This - IMO - is the kind of thinking that has got US politics into the state it’s in today.
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 6 days ago:
Yes and I answered that argument
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 6 days ago:
There’s only one mexican instance
Join it and make it better.
it uses a whitelist and it fucking federates with grad
Change that fact, or accept it, or use blocking features (which are not lacking).
Sure, these won’t be popular suggestions, but IMO social media should not be just another form of shopping, where we pick exactly what agrees with us best, and annoys us least, and then lock the door to keep everything else out.
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 6 days ago:
So the recommended unit can be the nearest server with any critical mass. If you’re in Greece you get pushed to whatever’s the leading
.grserver. Ultimately it doesn’t matter much since we can all interact with everything via federation. My point is that this might responsibilize users more, and encourage communities to overlap with the offline world a bit more - a place where community is very much needed right now. - Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 6 days ago:
As a support structure providing more open communication, the fediverse might help with that. It in itself is not, and is not supposed to be, democratic
This was not my point. My point is that social media will always encourage “niches” (as you hint) and that it would be better for our politics if these overlapped with real-world communities than with, say, obscure hobbies (neutral politically) or political affiliation (the original sin of this new medium).
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 6 days ago:
Putting aside your insults and arrogant tone, I’ll just stress that my suggestion is political, it has nothing to do with technical factors.
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 1 week ago:
As a bubble-ensconced expat you’re likely in a different category!
But sure. My proposal is that if you sign up from a Czech IP, you get pushed to whatever’s the most local server with more than X active users, or X recent uptime ratio, for example.
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 1 week ago:
Yes indeed, but partly the problem with those places is that their bias towards conflict and toxicity is fueled by ad-based algorithms.
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 1 week ago:
This need not concern the physical location of the servers, just their purpose and audience.
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 1 week ago:
Was not aware of the latency issue. But that’s something that can surely be overcome.
By “reviving democracy” I mean just that. Democracy is in a bad way and it’s partly because of the changed information environment. The crisis of professional journalism has decimated local news. People don’t know their neighbors or what’s going on in their communities. This is not an original observation.
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 1 week ago:
To counter my own argument, that’s partly because that instance is less likely to go away or suffer downtime than one run by a single person and with 10 active users. It’s partly why I signed up to it (also because nobody was telling me to do otherwise).
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- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 1 week ago:
Always the final resort to “you’re arguing in bad faith”… You have no more idea what motivates me than I have about you, so why bother making this unfalsifiable accusation? Anyway. You have expressed what you don’t understand about my argument, just as I’ve already expressed what I don’t understand about yours, as well as I possibly can. Nobody else is listening. Let’s just leave it there.
- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 1 week ago:
Obese means fat, not just overweight. The fact that there are twice as many non-obese among the poor does not make them thin! Unless it’s that people get fatter and fatter as they get poorer, until they get really poor and they suddenly they become skeletal, is that what we’re claiming? This whole talking point makes no sense and you seem rational enough to be able to admit that.
- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 1 week ago:
How can there be “huge swathes” of Americans who are “poorer than” the Americans who are so poor that they can only afford junk food and thus explain America’s obesity statistics. This whole talking point makes no sense.
- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 1 week ago:
Tell me that you haven’t read 1984. “War is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength”, and today “obesity is hunger”, apparently.
- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 1 week ago:
Yes, that was my point. The word “hunger” is being conflated with food insecurity. We all know what “hunger” means, and it is not the same thing as malnutrition or food insecurity. I don’t care if it’s been redefined by NGOs to make a (valid) point more punchy, it’s not the same thing. It’s manipulative Orwellian use of language. That’s all I have to say here.
- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 1 week ago:
It doesn’t “surprise” me, it’s a common talking point. I’ve been to America, including the poorer bits. I know the statistics about obesity and social class - do you?
- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 1 week ago:
if you are dealing with hunger
Personally I can never get past this line. Malnutrition perhaps, but nobody in the world’s richest, fattest country - where the fattest people are the poorest ones - is dealing with “hunger”. I wish we could just abstain from manipulative Orwellian language.
- Comment on Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image [GRAPHIC PHOTO] 5 weeks ago:
Onnen [the presumed killer], who had joined the Nazi party before Hitler took power in 1933, came from an educated family and in his youth enjoyed “travelling, studying languages”, Matthäus said.
One interpretation is that evil is banal. Personally I’m not sure this even took evil. All you need do is convince someone of the truth of a narrative. Humans are storytelling creatures.
- Comment on YSK you can cancel subscriptions by removing them from your credit card/payment processor, or call the bank and ask someone to remove them. 5 weeks ago:
YSK: this is clearly entirely jurisdiction-dependent and we don’t all live in the USA.