Cordelia Green @casualwp@qoto.org

@gamingonlinux did an excellent roundup of coming Linux games in 2021, here:

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/01/upcoming-linux-games-2021-list

(Big fan of their site, which is ad-free and Patreon-supported.)

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GitHub - zevv/bucklespring: Nostalgia bucklespring keyboard sound
https://github.com/zevv/bucklespring

I have to admit, my ego is slightly inflated (even though i did nothing to earn it really) by the fact that I am the first person in the history of the fediverse to have a post on the front page of #HackerNews

@freemo Which is why no open forum should be banned.

At the same time, Twitter actively censors one type of hate speech, but allows another. It's interesting because this means Twitter actively supports, and therefore publishes hate speech.

@kline Yea, what goes around comes around.. for many this will be a taste of their own medicine...

@freemo this happened to Clover, an imageboard client, because it supported access to 4chan - a site that Google considered unpalatable.

At the time, it was mostly cheered by a lot of the same people as use mastodon. It's unfortunate the precedent has come full circle.

@khird Yupits the slippery slope of censorship.. Censorship never works so you have to get more and more drastic in the hopes of silencing the unwanted material. Eventually you have as more collateral damage than productive censorship.

@freemo The only reasonable model I see if Google takes a hard line on this is for apps to maintain a whitelist of known well-moderated instances, given how easy it is to set up a cheap instance to troll from. And if the app developer is supposed to be personally responsible for the content accessible through the app, then he'll probably only whitelist an instance he has control over. So you'll have a QOTO app, Gargron will have a Mastodon Social app, &c. If Google doesn't like some instance's moderation policy they ban its app.

@khird ahh yes, that may be true.. but there is plenty of hate speech on other servers too, some just as bad or worse than gab... how far will they take this, do app maintainers really need to be int he business of maintaining a mile long block list?

Holy crap, google is apparently taking down all/most fediverse apps from google play on the grounds that that some servers in the fediverse engage in hate speech. At least three apps I know of anyway and I'd imagine the others will follow soon under the exact same reasoning.} Seems to be the case with Husky, Fedilab, and "subway" tooter.

this is a scary precedent if google play is going to ban any apps that can in any way be used to access content with hate speech. So what about a forum client, do they take that down just because there is a forum somewhere on the internet posting hate speech?

This is particularly worrisome because for most people Google Play is the only way they understand to install apps at all.

Picture attached of one of the notices received by fedilab.

https://toot.fedilab.app/@fedilab/104761140268193772

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/104763960269049818

@fedilab @tateisu #fediverse #mastoadmin #freespeech #censorship

Laddies, gants, YandereDev has been hacked. This is gonna be a funny time.
https://archive.md/j0Hj3 (proof)
https://archive.is/SNvw1 (talk of it)
At least Kiwi Farms did something good.

Did a lot of soldering the last couple days, and it’s finally done ⚡️

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If science can't turn me into a tiny anime girl than what is even the point