Zaktor
@Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on August 30th 2024. America adopts the metric system. Never forget. 2 months ago:
Metric is about measurements, not formatting. The date measurement is in days, months, and years for both ISO 8601 and what’s shown.
- Comment on Im counting the days for a Piefed app so i can switch over and be able to forget about ml drama and weirdness 3 months ago:
The context is they’re positively stating the “men in women’s sports” part of that exchange.
- Comment on Im counting the days for a Piefed app so i can switch over and be able to forget about ml drama and weirdness 3 months ago:
The context is they’re positively stating the “men in women’s sports” part of that exchange.
- Comment on Filming On The ‘Star Trek: Section 31’ Streaming Movie Has Wrapped 7 months ago:
At least in the DS9 episodes Section 31 was still an antagonist organization.
- Comment on Saturn's largest moon most likely uninhabitable 8 months ago:
It feels like the title should be “uninhabited”. Life on earth doesn’t survive because we continue to be bombarded with nutrient carrying asteroids, it just needed them to kick it off. That few nutrients are likely to make it from the surface to the ocean means the genesis is unlikely to occur, but it doesn’t seem to make a decision about whether an unlikely genesis could survive, even if only in a small pocket of the ocean.
- Comment on What Meta’s Fediverse Plans Mean for Threads Users 9 months ago:
Mastodon allows some artistic nudity
This is akin to saying “the Internet allows some artistic nudity”. Like, what do they think Mastodon is? Who is allowing it? “Mastodon” also allows hardcore porn. Or it doesn’t. Or moderation is spotty. Or it’s collapsed behind a warning.
Journalists, do like the barest minimum of research before simply relaying statements from company spokespeople.
- Comment on Lemmy v0.19.0 Release - Instance blocking, Scaled sort, and Federation Queue 11 months ago:
Reports are now resolved automatically when the associated post/comment is marked as deleted. This reduces the amount of work for moderators.
Are deleted and resolved posts still visible to moderators? This seems like a tool for abusive accounts to dodge moderation by deleting their posts before they’re up long enough to get moderated. Reddit had a similar issue with bad actors being able to delete/edit their previously removed posts to hide the content from moderators reviewing the account to see if their activity patterns were worthy of a full ban.
- Comment on Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration 11 months ago:
Sure, if they clone Reddit then I definitely could see it, though I think Lemmy communities are a much bigger risk for them to open up to since they’re so moderation dependent. At least with Mastodon what you see is all based on your follows. Reddit loves to abdicate on responsibility by just leaving it all to the mods, but I don’t think Meta can get away with that, and especially when they don’t directly control the mods.
- Comment on Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration 11 months ago:
All your stuff is already public on the internet without any special access being granted. If they want the convenience of receiving ActivityPub packets and metadata, they can just stand up a honeypot instance and some fake accounts. The Fediverse isn’t built for privacy.
- Comment on Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration 11 months ago:
Threads isn’t going to federate with Lemmy. It’s not the same sort of communication and the crossovers are ugly and confusing. Mastodon is where the real federation/defederation decisions will take place.
- Comment on Bright satellites are disrupting astronomy research worldwide 11 months ago:
Different telescopes will have different impacts and separate from the direct trails general light pollution is absolutely a problem. The don’t build these things in the middle of no where for fun.
This isn’t a random science writer relaying a sci-fi conversation they had, it’s a respected astronomer with multiple publications in Nature.
- Comment on **Simplest solution for fragmented communities:** Redirect comments to one post (by asking or with new functionality) 1 year ago:
Everyone who’s subscribed to the same communities will see all of each others’ comments. The ones that won’t be seen are those in communities a user intentionally doesn’t subscribe to, which is a good thing.
And putting the choice of where conversation takes place in the hands of the OP isn’t good. There’s already issues with the first poster in a “no duplicate submissions on the same topic” community getting to set the tone for conversation through title and text. This just makes it worse. Downvoting a bad link still means the conversation is being denied in the community of users’ choice and the solution to that is allowing duplicates, which is just the status quo plus extra spam.
- Comment on **Simplest solution for fragmented communities:** Redirect comments to one post (by asking or with new functionality) 1 year ago:
This kind of defeats the purpose of having multiple federated communities. Politics on lemmy.world and politics on Beehaw are different communities with different rules and different people who can even see them. Some people are subscribed to individual communities because they like that community, not because they want to join in a free for all with the entire fediverse. They don’t want to go to lemmy.world because the first poster liked lemmy.world traffic or moderation better, they chose the community they subscribed to because they liked it better.
I think the better solution is collecting comments for a particular link in a front-end from all the communities you subscribe to. If you subscribe to three different politics subs and they all post the same link, then all the comments could be displayed at once, either interspersed (with some method of considering traffic when comparing vote totals) or in collapsible sections (effectively like a top level comment for each community).
- Comment on Is lemmy.ml turn into authoritarian? 1 year ago:
In the US, antifa vs. fascists is the actual conflict bubbling up in real life. Only online do people care about tankies. They’re a test for moderation and decentralization so people can keep them from being disruptive, not a real concern for freedom of expression. Critical support for Russia’s invasion (or disruption of support for Ukraine) is way more likely to come from the alt-right fascists than pseudo-left online tankies.
- Comment on Is lemmy.ml turn into authoritarian? 1 year ago:
“Don’t worry, if you correctly call this a genocide, hexbear will ban you for genocide denial without a hint of irony.”
If you were already on thin ice, this shouldn’t have really been a surprise. Like most internet dwellers who get banned somewhere you’re dressing up your offending comment to make it seem like persecution, but while it’s not a heinous comment on its own, but if you have history I can absolutely see a mod not wanting to deal with you trolling the hexbears. And it certainly wasn’t just “using the word genocide”.
- Comment on Is lemmy.ml turn into authoritarian? 1 year ago:
Your removed post does talk about genocide, but it also talks shit about Hexbear users. Which I get, I won’t join instances that federate with them, but it’s not exactly comporting with their Rule 2 of “Be respectful, especially when disagreeing. Everyone should feel welcome here.”
Like to some extent yeah, tankies kind of provoke it because apologia for oppressive regimes actively invading their neighbors is itself offensive, but you’re conveniently spinning this to be about genocide rather than the aspect of the comment that would run risks of removal in most communities trying to not foster flame wars. And since you’ve been banned before, it’s hard to believe this isn’t your first time doing it.
- Comment on Is lemmy.ml turn into authoritarian? 1 year ago:
So what’s the problem? It’s a ban-happy three-person mod team shaping a community. There are other communities with the same explicit subject. When a community’s mods move it in a direction you don’t like, you join or make a different one, and the nature of Lemmy means they haven’t even camped an important community name.
It’s not even a particularly tankie sub, there’re posts calling Russia warmongers still up and at +82. Seems like most of the removals were posts trying to pick fights. And while tankie bashing is often fun and warranted, it’s not really extreme censorship to say that’s breaking a rule saying “everyone should feel welcome here”.
- Comment on Is lemmy.ml turn into authoritarian? 1 year ago:
Users don’t even need to leave lemmy.ml, they can just use their lemmy.ml account and post elsewhere.
- Comment on Is lemmy.ml turn into authoritarian? 1 year ago:
There are multiple world politics communities and multiple other news/politics communities that also discuss world politics. One community going ban happy is irrelevant.