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@ada@piefed.blahaj.zone
- Submitted 4 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- Comment on Doesn't each community being local to each instance split the audience? 6 days ago:
Federate communities are literally the point of lemmy. They were there from the beginning?
- Comment on we need more users 6 days ago:
I mean, that is how I recommend linux distros to people :)
- Comment on we need more users 1 week ago:
We can make our decentralised network more popular by centralising it feels like an own goal…
- Comment on What principles you wish to see social networks (or the fediverse) adopt in their design? 1 week ago:
No way. Transphobia is not welcome on any instance I run for example. And that isn’t something that a user should be able to change for themselves. That’s a scenario where you would pick a difference instance
- Comment on What principles you wish to see social networks (or the fediverse) adopt in their design? 1 week ago:
I dislike this for a similar reason, tbh. If someone gets banned, they should have to start over. Not get to instantly recreate and refederate all their content from a different instance.
A ban on transferable ID would follow the ID.
- Comment on What principles you wish to see social networks (or the fediverse) adopt in their design? 1 week ago:
Yep, that would pretty much be the ideal scenario :)
- Comment on What principles you wish to see social networks (or the fediverse) adopt in their design? 1 week ago:
It’s a good idea, but still not an alternative to instance level blocking.
The downside is that if you’re new to the fediverse, you have no way of knowing whose lists you should follow. So there needs to be some sort of instance/client level opt in recommendation to make it visible/useful to new users.
Beyond that though, on an instance like blahaj, it would be largely irrelevant, because there is no scenario where I let transphobes federate to the instance, whether or not individuals have the ability to block them from a subscription list.
- Comment on What principles you wish to see social networks (or the fediverse) adopt in their design? 1 week ago:
That’s not a universal want. Trans people and other vulnerable, targeted minorities face a real cost in having to play whack a mole with bigots. Sure, you can block them as they appear, but by that point, you’ve already seen their hate. And it means every trans person has to see and block that content. After which, the bigot just comes back with a new account, and does another round.
The blahaj instances offer aggressive, pre-emptive blocking of bigots and transphobes, at the instance level, with the goal of giving our users an experience of social media that isn’t shaped by hate.
Of course, not all trans folk want that, and some absolutely do want the power to choose for themselves who gets blocked and are willing to face the hate in order to retain that ability. But that’s the other power of the fediverse, because there are instances that cater to that approach as well.
tl;dr - Granular user control of blocking/federation is good, but it’s not “better” than instance level blocking and defederation.
- Comment on Introducing Hypermind: A fully decentralized, P2P, high-availability solution to a problem that doesn't exist. 2 weeks ago:
Installed, still have free RAM… I think I did something wrong…
- Comment on If you have ANY Canadian ancestor, you are likely a Canadian citizen as a result of recent changes in Canadian law 2 weeks ago:
If it’s a joke, I don’t understand my own joke :P
- Comment on If you have ANY Canadian ancestor, you are likely a Canadian citizen as a result of recent changes in Canadian law 2 weeks ago:
Not me! My great great great great grandmother died in Quebec, but that’s about my only connection to Canada :P
- Comment on If you have ANY Canadian ancestor, you are likely a Canadian citizen as a result of recent changes in Canadian law 2 weeks ago:
That can’t be right. That’s infinitely recursive…
- Comment on What an unprocessed photo looks like 2 weeks ago:
RAW files. Even then, you mostly see the processed result based on whatever processing your raw image viewer/editor does. But if you know how to get to it and use it, the same raw sensor capture data is there
- Comment on What should I do with 2 old machines (Mac Mini and HP Pavilion g7)? 2 weeks ago:
then you can always just set up a Jellyfin on the server and stream to your TV, which would allow you to use your normal remote.
Or simply laptop to the TV via the HDMI output and run it directly.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Yep. I use them because my password manager handles cross device passkeys. If I had to set passkeys up on every single device I use, per device per web service, I don’t think I’d bother with them…
- Comment on LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems 4 weeks ago:
Exactly our setup.
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 4 weeks ago:
It’s chromium based now, and as bad as firefox’s direction is, I don’t really want to hand google based engines an even bigger portion of the internet.
- Comment on YSK that Stanford scientists examined what happens when people stop using social media. They found deactivating Facebook and Instagram significantly improved users' emotional well-being and happiness 4 weeks ago:
Friends was probably the wrong word. What I was really referring to is community and social events. My good friends are still there in my life, but the broader queer community is now harder to connect with, and lots of social events and meetups that are happening in my city happen without me even knowing.
- Comment on I’m small down there and get my fiancé off with a big dildo. Do you see any issue with this? 4 weeks ago:
Are you happy? Is your partner happy?
There’s your answer
- Comment on YSK that Stanford scientists examined what happens when people stop using social media. They found deactivating Facebook and Instagram significantly improved users' emotional well-being and happiness 4 weeks ago:
I experienced this when I got rid of facebook (or more accurately, when I wouldn’t provide them with my ID to get my account unlocked).
But the other side of it is that a lot of the social groups that I was involved with, and a lot of my contact with my friends, was done through facebook, and my real world social life has been impacted by losing facebook.I still wouldn’t go back, but it’s a first hand example of just how wide the facebook network effect can reach.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi 4B 4 weeks ago:
Bird-Pi
- Comment on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban 5 weeks ago:
I think its a big positive
That’s an ironic position to hold given your username…
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Racism/White As The Default
- Comment on Tattoo Ink Moves Through the Body, Killing Immune Cells and Weakening Vaccine Response 1 month ago:
Humans have been tattooing each other for over 5000 years. I would argue that it’s not really a case of “they need to be proven to be safe”. That ship has sailed. If they are unsafe, we should know, but I think the burden of proof has definitely shifted on tattoos given their extensive history without obvious negative repercussion
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 1 month ago:
You can also use ^ to search your history instead, and do away with the tabs!
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 1 month ago:
It is possible to develop ADHD like symptoms from a TBI of some kind. It’s not ADHD from a technical definition standpoint, but from lived experience of symptoms, it can line up with ADHD
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 1 month ago:
It’s also most likely not an explanation. I’m ADHD too, and I hate having browser tabs open. I keep them as few as possible, closing them as soon as I don’t know what they are or why they’re open.
- Comment on Finding a private self hosted Google Photos alternative that doesn’t profit from my photos 1 month ago:
Immich’s AI search is so much better than PhotoPrism
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 1 month ago:
I mean, you can scan the page titles in your history just as easily as you can scan the titles of 400 tabs. So it’s kind of same same if you can’t remember any pertinent details
