cacheson
@cacheson@piefed.social
- Comment on Some videogame ads from the 1990s 22 hours ago:
Definitely thought the one on the right was wearing a plug, at first.
- Comment on 2024 Anime related active communities promotion post 3 weeks ago:
Some anime meme communities:
- !anime_irl@ani.social
- !animemes@ani.social
- !animenocontext@reddthat.com
- !yurimemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on ... 4 weeks ago:
Even if you're a die-hard capitalist, you shouldn't use "tankie" as a broad label for anti-capitalists. Diluting it as a term just helps the actual tankies (authoritarian communists).
- Comment on Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands 4 weeks ago:
I miss 90's techno-libertarian utopianism. A little naive in retrospect, but I'm still hopeful that it'll still have some relevance going forward.
- Comment on Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ? 4 weeks ago:
Yes, I block lemmy.ml communities when I notice them, just because I don't want to accidentally contribute anything to that instance. Some of the users are okay, but the admins are not.
- Comment on feddit.online will live on as a PieFed instance 1 month ago:
You seem to be implying that I'm arguing something that I'm not? This thread started with me lamenting that piefed.social accounts are prohibited from accessing NSFW communities, and inquiring whether feddit.online would have the same policies. Along with some commentary on the general state of the threadiverse's culture.
Note that I haven't asked either admin to *host* said communities, and I specifically acknowledged the caching issue. Nor am I advocating for them to be treated on absolutely equal footing; they're specially marked so that people who don't want to see them can filter them out, which I think is a good thing.
what do you think will happen if you create an online space and put a big billboard saying "here you will always be free to share your NSFW content"?
If you're specifically advertising it as focused on that, then that's likely what you'll get. If you allow NSFW but don't center it, you'll end up with something like Reddit, Twitter, or pre-ban Tumblr. While there are things to criticize about those sites, very little of it has to do with porn.
Content discovery of porn should not be as easy and it should not be trivialized under the pretense of "sex positivity".
Why? That absolutely sounds like a sex-negative attitude to me. It's treating sexuality as something toxic that needs to be suppressed and hidden even from those that are interested in seeing it. Sex positivity means treating sexuality as a normal thing that is not unusual for people to be interested in.
- Comment on feddit.online will live on as a PieFed instance 1 month ago:
Every one wants to talk about supportive they are on sex positivity until some men in uniform knocks on their doors because they are running a website that is available for minors all around the world.
Are you speaking from first-hand experience, or is this conjecture? At least in the US, complying with the law isn't that difficult.
Also, I don't even want to get in the discussion of "sex positivity" being associated with "easily available porn".
That's an odd way to avoid discussing it. Do you think the availability of porn (or prohibition thereof) within an online space has no effect on what kind of culture develops there?
- Comment on feddit.online will live on as a PieFed instance 1 month ago:
I've considered it, but my skillset isn't really suited to it as a solo project. I can write code, and I have a reasonable understanding of the human factors side of things, but my IT skills are lacking. I'd be happy to join a team of like-minded people undertaking such a project, though.
- Comment on feddit.online will live on as a PieFed instance 1 month ago:
It's not that I want the threadiverse to deliver porn to me. I'm capable of finding that myself. It's that I like sex-positive culture and think it's a good thing for humanity overall.
As I noted, my complaint isn't about any specific instance admin. Individually, no one should be required to host or cache anything that they don't want to. However, the overall trend of blocking NSFW communities is still concerning, and we should advocate for admins to not do that where feasible.
The design decision to hide NSFW communities from logged-out users also plays a part here. Community discovery is bad enough as it is, and this makes it even worse. Last I checked, lemmynsfw was having to maintain their own patch to fix it, and keep maintaining it as new lemmy versions are released. Kbin and PieFed also copied this decision, and I assume Mbin inherited it.
- Comment on feddit.online will live on as a PieFed instance 1 month ago:
Good to see another public PieFed instance. Any idea if this one allows subscribing to NSFW communities? They're entirely blocked by piefed.social, unfortunately.
Nothing against @rimu (or any other individual admin) for not wanting to deal with having NSFW content cached on his server, but I find the collective prudishness of the threadiverse disheartening. I think it hinders our growth, and fosters a worse culture overall. It's kind of ironic that Reddit, for all it's other flaws, is more sex-positive than the threadiverse is.
- Comment on Relatable 2 months ago:
Another highly specific meme community to add to my list, along with !linuxanimemes@ani.social
- Comment on Mbin instances 2 months ago:
Ah yes, I sure am making any effort whatsoever to conceal my identity? Weird dodge there, guy.
At this point even someone as ideologically blinded as you should be able to see that the presence of you and your tankie friends is a liability to the project. Why do you think OP is looking to avoid a "lemmy.ml type of situation"?
- Comment on Mbin instances 2 months ago:
Wait, when have I ever denied any genocide?
I don't have receipts handy for that right now, though the company you keep does say something about you.
I do have you on your weird transphobic conspiracy theory, though.
- Comment on [Meta] Any category of communities we haven't covered in the recent threads? 2 months ago:
Politics, activism, and social commentary, maybe? Could be a drama magnet, but it does seem to be a sizable chunk of the threadiverse.
- Comment on Gender Equality 2 months ago:
I read it as being about pegging.
- Comment on Weekly active communities promotion thread - Memes and humor 2 months ago:
- !animenocontext@reddthat.com
Oh hey, I guess I made this one active. I'll be posting there more in the future, since some of my anime_irl posts really belong there instead.
- Comment on Weekly active communities promotion thread - Memes and humor 2 months ago:
- !anime_irl@ani.social
- !animemes@ani.social
- !noncredibledefense@lemmy.world
- Comment on If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"? 2 months ago:
the Sub is supposed to be the one that's actually in control
This is a myth, presumably meant to be reassuring to subs that are new to BDSM, at the expense of risk awareness. In principle the sub is no more "in control" than the dom is, and in practice they are often significantly less so.
- Comment on Bitcoin is Stupid and Does Not Deserve an Emoji (blog post) 3 months ago:
I'm not interested in spending a ton of time on this, but I did go and watch this short interview with him about scaling misconceptions.
Wasn't convincing at all. For one, the guy comes across as kind of dishonest. Not scammer-level dishonest, but more like a politician. The main thing though is that he's just a big-blocker, which is just a total dead end. Having everyone store every single transaction that was ever made until the end of time is just not realistic.
In order to scale to any globally significant number of users, a cryptocurrency needs a second layer to aggregate transactions, such as Lightning. Monero seems to have nothing in this regard beyond "However, academic and industry research is ongoing and promising in this area."
they are a hell of a lot smarter than me
You should not be investing money in something based on this level of understanding, and you *definitely* should not be advocating it to others. Scaling is an existential problem for cryptocurrencies. Their utility is based on their monetary value, and their monetary value is based on investor assessment of their future utility. Without the ability to scale, there will be no growth in utility, which means no investment other than temporary dumb money, which becomes a vicious cycle.
- Comment on Bitcoin is Stupid and Does Not Deserve an Emoji (blog post) 3 months ago:
Monero will not scale. All attempts at "improved" altcoins have just sacrificed scalability in exchange for features that look good in the short term to investors that don't know any better.