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@doliu666 Can you recommend some of the RSS feeds you follow ?

@design_RG @snow It's actually a great explanation, thanks for taking the time to write it down.

@ken I never did watch Neon Genesis Evangelion or any similar anime. Should I ? Am I missing on something ?

@design_RG @snow Thank you for explaining this. Could you tell me a bit more about how federation works ? Must all instances be part of the same federated networks or can they be several networks that don't see each others' instances ?

@snow @design_RG I've been playing around with Mastodon for a few days now and I have to day I am really liking it, the posts feel different, more real. I've been thinking of suggesting that we use it at work but I am still not clear on the rules (the problem you're highlighting is something I don't understand): each instance can choose their own rules right ? But then, who enforces the rule on the instance ? Are there moderators per instance ? Who pays ?

@sbjohnsrpi @snow I definitely agree with the idea that trolls should be ignored. But ignoring a troll is not enough to ignore a whole movement of trolls that is now able to feed on ignoring a scientifically proven fact, independently of the reaction they provoke by proclaiming their belief. In 30 years it might become a Religion. Religion might only be Ignorance in a fancier package but it is still thriving. One might say that "priests" are actually trolls that became "legit" over time.

@sbjohnsrpi @snow Because convincing someone of something scientific or of an opinion follow a very similar process today that involves "belief" at some point (we cannot experiment and prove everything ourselves), any scientific can easily be refused. Buy we like to believe that some things are "sacred", like the fact that the earth is not flat, but convincing in a debate someone that God does not exist is the same as trying to convince that the earth is not flat.

@sbjohnsrpi @snow This is exactly why we like to believe that flathearthers are just ignorants or trolls. Convincing someone that homeopathy is wrong or that the earth is not flat, same process: appealing to some basic knowledge they were supposed to have acquired at school, add some "paraphrasing" of primary data that invalidates their "belief" and "justify ours, maybe show them a picture that proves you're right, all of these based on primary data that is inaccessible to them in both cases.

@sbjohnsrpi @snow is it so hard to believe that people can truely believe in wrong things wholeheartedly without being ignorant ? We still have Religions going strong, a huge part of Americans do not believe that free healthcare is better for everybody (although we have statistics, and models clearly showing it) or that gun laws reduce mass shootings, a French Doctor convinced the whole planet that homeopathy is a thing because water has "memory", etc ...