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- Comment on Oopsies 1 day ago:
My point is that technically you are still making decisions about what to do with some odors body parts without consent, as they can no longer consent. Is there really a difference?
That’s a good point, you’re right.
That’s interesting about the eyes, I’m honestly not sure what to say about that.
- Comment on Oopsies 1 day ago:
Wow, good source. 82% donor rate for the opt-out group versus 79% for the forced-choice is a smaller difference than I would have guessed.
- Comment on Oopsies 1 day ago:
I’m pretty sure people do make their wishes clear regarding their funeral preparations. You can put that kind of stuff in your last will and I would assume it holds some legal weight.
I actually agree that organ donation should be opt-out, but there is an unavoidable argument against that. Namely, the fact that people have the right to opt-out at all implies that you have a responsibility to verify their informed consent before enrolling them in the procedure. At least, that would be the conventional wisdom according to the field of medical ethics.
- Comment on Oopsies 1 day ago:
That sounds promising, I think you’re right that it would be a significant improvement in donor rates over the opt-in system.
- Comment on Oopsies 1 day ago:
I agree, but it raises an interesting argument regarding the definition of consent. I don’t necessarily believe in free will so I like to mention it in situations where you can easily see that people are more accurately described as reacting to their environment than making any kind of conscious choice.
Simply by changing from opt-in to opt-out, you mostly reverse the observed behavior of a population. Lots of applications for this sort of thinking, like with voting for instance.
- Comment on Oopsies 1 day ago:
I think it’s interesting to ask whether people in the opt-out countries are really consenting. Can you really say someone has consented if you never actually made the request?
- Comment on Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing 1 week ago:
100% agree, well said
- Comment on Starlink is increasingly interfering with astronomy, scientists say 1 month ago:
Suggesting that we move towards space-based astronomy doesn’t mean he’s out of his mind. He might not be a professional astronomer or astrophysicist, but that hardly indicates insanity.
He had an opinion and expressed it. You can then reply and explain why you disagree. No need to call him insane for expressing his thoughts.
- Comment on ocean depth 1 month ago:
The scale is very misleading. 0-200m is the same as 200-1000 and 1000-2000m is like 1/8 of 0-1000m.
Doesn’t really capture the insane depths of the Mariana Trench. This website visualizes it better. Albeit without the Saddam lying at the bottom.
- Comment on The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim | Official Trailer 2 months ago:
I think it is an original story set in Middle Earth. You can tell by the agency of the female protagonist that it’s not a Tolkien plot/character 😅
- Comment on Lemmy being used as a source now 2 months ago:
Mama we made it
- Comment on The Future is Federated: a Show and Tell (part 4: Lemmy, PieFed & Mbin) 2 months ago:
Interesting to see Lemmy from the perspective of a Mastodon user. I never used Twitter and I have no interest in Mastodon, but it certainly seems like a tremendous advantage to be able to cross pollinate with them, given their sizeable userbase. There is definitely more work to be done on streamlining federation between platforms, but its an inherently tricky problem so I’m not surprised.
Lemmy/Piefed/Mbin are still at the stage where they are trying to complete their own core features, so there hasn’t been as much focus put onto bridging to the rest of the fediverse. Mastodon is a more mature software so they probably had more time to work on extra features like cross-platform federation.
- Comment on I just wanted to take a moment to enjoy how clean the web can be 2 months ago:
The rare Gigachad double top level comment. Well played sir.
- Comment on Private voting has been added to PieFed 2 months ago:
Cool solution. It’s great to have multiple projects in the fediverse that can experiment with different features/formats.
For those who are concerned about possible downsides, I think it’s important to understand that
- PieFed has a small userbase
- Rimu is an active admin, so if you are attempting to combat brigading or other bad behavior and this makes it more difficult, just send them a DM and they will be happy to help out
This is a good environment to test this feature because Rimu can keep a close watch over everything. We can’t become paralyzed by the hypothetical ways that bad actors might abuse new features or systems. The only way forward is through trial and error, and the fact that PieFed exists makes that process significantly faster and less disruptive.
This is an attempt to add more privacy to the fediverse. If the consequences turn out for the worse, then we can either try something else, or live with the lack of privacy. Either way, we’ll be better off than having never tried anything at all.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
This would be a catastrophic mistake. Please don’t.
- Comment on What do you want to have in a Lemmy instance? 3 months ago:
You make a valid point but I just want to push back a bit. These are the largest Lemmy instances in order of monthly users
- lemmy.world -17.7k
- lemm.ee - 3.2k
- sh.itjust.works - 2.5k
- lemmy.ml - 2.5k
- hexbear- 1.8k
- lemmy.ca - 1.3k
- feddit.de - 1.2k
- programming.dev - 1.1k
- lemmy.dbzer0.com - 1.1k
- lemmy.blahaj.zone - 900
- feddit.org - 900
- discuss.tchncs.de - 866
As far as I know, lemmy.ml and hexbear are the only heavily communist and censorship prone servers out of the top twelve. They were here first, but we really need to stop perpetuating the notion that they represent or dominate Lemmy as a whole, along with the idea that they represent a typical moderation experience on this platform.
I feel like the numerous well-moderated instances don’t get enough credit. The actions of lemmy.ml moderators tend to shape the narrative about Lemmy moderation as a whole, which is unfair and repels new users from the platform. Other instances aren’t perfect with moderation either, but at least they generally try to moderate in good faith and with some degree of neutrality, which is the most you can really ask for.
The primary influence that remains is lemmy.ml still hosts a disproportionate number of major communities, but that’s slowly changing.
- Comment on Exciting News: Lemmy.ca is now managed by our new registered not-for-profit organization 'Fedecan' (+ resuming donations & gathering feedback) 3 months ago:
I’m confused, I don’t pronounce it fed-uh-verse or fed-eh-verse.
It’s very much fed-ih-verse, where the vowel is pronounced the same as in feddit. I tried to explain this using the International Phonetic Alphabet but that shit is extremely confusing to me.
However you do make a valid point about lazy American pronunciations. They tend to become dominant regardless of whether they are technically correct.
- Comment on Exciting News: Lemmy.ca is now managed by our new registered not-for-profit organization 'Fedecan' (+ resuming donations & gathering feedback) 3 months ago:
Wow, that’s awesome!
Thanks to everyone who put in the work to make this happen, I know that it’s quite a lot of red tape to get this stuff set up.
- Comment on Two stupid questions. How can I message the mods of a certain community? And also why are most of my communities say subscribe pending? 3 months ago:
Click on their profile. There is a “Send Message” button right at the top.
Subscribe pending is just a visual glitch, you’re already subscribed but it just didn’t update visually. Posts from those communities are already showing up in your Subscribed feed.
- Comment on CANVAS 2024 IS LIVE 3 months ago:
Nice one. I’m on it
- Comment on CANVAS 2024 IS LIVE 3 months ago:
I tried to make a basic design but it wasn’t very good and I got bored. Maybe this could be a jumping off point though
- Submitted 3 months ago to main@sh.itjust.works | 4 comments
- Comment on By improving the performance of a Nerf gun, you "buff" it, which is ironic 4 months ago:
The term nerf in respect to video games was actually derived from Nerf guns. Because Nerf guns are basically just normal guns that have been heavily nerfed 😅
- Comment on Huh? It's not that big 5 months ago:
✨️ density ✨️
- Comment on Whoa...! I was editing one of my community documents, and suddenly the whole community disappeared. Can you help? 5 months ago:
round of applause
Well done sir
- Comment on Whoa...! I was editing one of my community documents, and suddenly the whole community disappeared. Can you help? 5 months ago:
This is very strange, I can still see many of the posts from the community at various URLs, especially from viewing your account page. But the community itself isn’t showing any posts.
- Comment on A community for posting Cool Guides 6 months ago:
From what I can tell, !coolguides@lemmy.ca has a fairly rigid set of rules, with a specific distinction made between guides and infographics. That’s great, I like when moderators take an active role in curating the content of their communities.
But I would guess that !coolguides@sopuli.xyz is possibly a response to those rules. Basically if your post got removed from the lemmy.ca community because it was technically an infographic, you could post it to sopuli.xyz community instead.
That’s my understanding of the ecosystem, without having spoken to any of the people involved.
- Comment on If everyone had access to healthcare the net benefit of treating the mental illness and other disabilities holding them back would easily cover the cost of the healthcare itself. 6 months ago:
You’re the one making a lot of assumptions based on what was originally a shower thought. It’s a nice thought but it’s completely and utterly incorrect in reality.
My kids are real life examples demonstrating that huge investment, while good for the individuals, does not reduce the cost or burden of them to society later in their life.
This isn’t an assumption, it’s a data point that contradicts your hypothetical theory.
The fundamental flaw in your thinking is your assumption that treating mental illness and disabilities will result in the person becoming a productive member of society. This is occasionally true, but much more commonly, the treatment serves to alleviate the more severe symptoms of the condition, without actually curing or fixing the condition.
Healthcare is primarily about minimizing the damage and suffering caused by various physical and mental ailments, it can’t magically transform people into something they’re not.
- Comment on A community for posting Cool Guides 6 months ago:
Good old Tenzing Norgay 😅. Certainly ranks among the coolest of guides.
- Comment on Are there any innovative platforms in the Fediverse? 6 months ago:
Indeed, that’s an excellent point. Additionally, the fediverse is already an innovation in and of itself.
Yeah most fediverse projects mimic Twitter, reddit, etc. But they all add the key innovation of federation. Just by conforming to ActivityPub, each fediverse project features a key innovation in its respective niche.
I think part of the reason this doesn’t seem as impactful as it could is because federation is still very rudimentary. We are only scratching the surface of the potential that federation theoretically provides. It’s a feature/innovation that becomes more useful the larger the network grows, and the fediverse isn’t large enough yet for that to become apparent.
