Airowird

@Airowird@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We here at Phlock are 110% ethical human beings!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As 4chan showed in the past, user bases go to platforms that allow NSFW content, and take their SFW activity with them.

  But that didn’t answer my question. What problem does age verification genuinely solve by taking away my (adult) privacy?

  PS: Expect a lot of LGBT+ content to also get flagged, as it’s considered inappropriate in certain authoritarian countries with money. Having to send in personal ID to join a minority community is just one step away from wearing pink triangles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m fine with the 18+ question because it atleast explicitly requires people to know they’re entering that site. You can’t argue kids are exposed by accident if they click “Enter”.

  As for ID verification, I’m against it for my own privacy, if nothing else changes for kids, then what is the argument to have it for adults? (Besides authoritarian control)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Except “for the children” as argument to give up privacy never actually works.

  Kids will find porn elsewhere, on shadier sites with even less moderators looking out for them. This has been true since the first dirty magazine in the woods has been found. The solution isn’t banning them, it’s educating them to treat it in a proper way. But that ofc takes effort and doesn’t let policy makers villify people.

  Meanwhile the adults have to give up their privacy for no real effect. Or the porn makers just move to a platform without PII and we can repeat this dance again in a couple of years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the 2028 election was held today, who would you vote for?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The question did specify 2028, which would’ve excluded Finland, yet you deemed it necessary to grace us with your opinion about a 2030 election.

  Rather, if you wanted to consistently pedantic, you should’ve replied with “Nobody, because Finland’s presidential election is in 2030”

  If you’re going to be obtuse, atleast put some effort into it ;-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If someone tells you "you support socialism, yet you use products of capitalism", what would you say?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorta, depending on your exact definition.

  More of a Lassalle flavour of socialism than Marx, at the very least.

  Pragmatically, state-less communism is a utopia reliant on all members following its principles. A state is required to defend against greed, both from the outside as from within.

  Wwhether you call it market socialism or social democracy, the concept of a state limits capitalism to serve its people first, while also granting as much freedom possible by “allowing” capitalism, seems to be the closest one can get to Marxism while still defending against tyranny.

  Society is a living thing and must be able to both change and defend itself. Socialist states are prone to tyranny from within, where as pure communist utopia has little to no defense from foreign entities. A democratic government in service of the people is the best way I’m aware of to achieve the core socialist principles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the 2028 election was held today, who would you vote for?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The US presidential elections are in 2028 … probably.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If someone tells you "you support socialism, yet you use products of capitalism", what would you say?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Socialism is a form of government where the equality of people comes first.

  The entire US anti-socialist kneejerk is because Marx said that socialism as a stepping stone to communism is the only non-violent way to get there

  Socialist democracy allows for capitalism, as long as the government protects its people from the capitalist tendancy to turn into an oligarchy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you quickly describe Lemmy to a non-fediverse person?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ld describe it more as “reddit, but without a single company owning all the login servers. Anyone (wirh money) can make their own server and make subs on there, even have their own rules, but you can still visit other servers all on one account, so nobody really has control over all the subs to make up stupid rules for them.”

  It’s the dumbed down explanation, but it’s essentially the difference for non-nerds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not only that, you then link to that enthousiastic small board on the big one, as “unbiased source”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox is fine. The people running it are not⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ld like to vote Cryptonimics as term, because it encompasses both the cryptic nature of the product, and the clear example of cryptocurrency.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We'd like to welcome our newest Student to Hogwarts, Hun-Gary Mc'Spud.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Trinny sounds like a cool name though