Erik Haugen @ech@qoto.org

@Pat @Acer also, OP is incorrect. Legitimate gifts are also taxable in some cases.

@chairgirlhands @Mor696 I know what she *means*, of course. (She's quite clear, and probably doesn't need you to reword everything she says.)

@Mor696

Nina's bio says: anti-capitalist, anarcho-syndicalist. I'll translate for you: that's lefty. Profile pic is a film portrayal of Soviet hero Lyudmila Pavlichenko, you get the idea. (Don't get me wrong, huge fan of the Soviets in the Eastern Front, they literally saved the world.)

These "libs" she's complaining about are not radical enough, you see – they support some of what she says, but she imagines they'd try to get her to stop tilting at the Nazi windmills that she sees all around if she were to start getting violent.

@AnarchoNinaWrites Heh I admit I was wrong about him winning, I'll give you that.

@sentient_water @skry Yeah, that's probably the best thing for us to focus on: if content creators find that more and more people get their content from places other than crap-platforms, then crap-platforms will lose their status.

e.g. Doctorow: he publishes on his own site, fediverse, twitter, tumblr, wherever. I read him here. If I ever set up RSS again I'll probably just get it straight from his site's feed. The more people that do that instead of twitter, the more twitter withers away.

@Java Now with Marquis de Lafayette you'd have a point.

@Acer This is not always true in the US.

@Java meh, who cares. Cleopatra VII may indeed have had similar skin tone to this actress. Unlikely, probably, but who cares.

Yeah, it's a little weird when Denzel Washington is supposed to be Keanu Reeves' brother, or Cynthia Addai-Robinson is Trystan Gravelle's cousin (and in that show all the hobbits should probably be about the ~same skin tone for obvious reasons), but little mermaid? Who cares?

Let some actors act and get over it.

@LouisIngenthron @georgetakei It's usually pretty easy to find news coverage for posts that sound totally ridiculous like this, and 99% of the time you'll easily find some context that makes it far less ridiculous than OP is letting on. https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/actions-of-gunman-instacart-delivery-driver-justified-in-davie-shooting-incident-police/3019765/

To be clear: I disagree with the outcome here, and in my opinion the shooter's action should probably be sanctioned in some way.

But OP's framing is BS, cheap, deceptive poltical rhetoric, and you were discerning enough to realize.

@georgetakei An interesting thing about microblogging is that it allows you to make misleading posts like this to score cheap rhetorical points with no real blowback to your credibility.

In better fora, people would stop putting up with this nonsense pretty quick.

@LouisIngenthron @georgetakei You are very wise, sir.

In this case, the narrative, like much of Takei's narratives, is full of shit.

The drivers ran over the shooter. I'm not saying I would have still concluded the shooter is off the hook, but this at least sort of changes things a little, at least, yes?

@AliceMarshall Streisand effect; now everyone knows about the tip line. We'll see how this plays out.

@skry @sentient_water You are likely overstating the credibility hit :) (This place sort of self-selects for that, I realize.)

"show character" is kind of what I was getting at. It would be great if we could en-masse move everyone to a platform that was run reasonably. (This is one reason I'm here instead – protocols not platforms.) But we can't. Any journalist who does is likely just throwing a good chunk of their career/influence/etc away for infinitesimal practical benefit to the world. Is that really the hill you want journalists to choose? Think the journalists you'd consider most likely to do what you're asking for here: do you want them silenced for such little gain? I sure wouldn't.

<skip overwrought Nazi analogy>

@clairep @chadloder It's not, of course; despite all this noise. Not Masnick's finest analysis. Check it out: has it become a "Nazi bar"?

@freemo

I don't know; maybe?

See these when you're logged out:
https://mastodon.online/explore
https://freeatlantis.com/explore
It says "These posts from this and other servers in the decentralized network are gaining traction on this server right now."

That's what I mean.

https://qoto.org/explore
It's sort of a directory of users. Nice, but totally different.

@sentient_water The question is about implied endorsement, right? If you're a reporter for a DS subsidiary I think that implies something that using a platform like Twitter doesn't.

Using Twitter doesn't mean you wholeheartedly approve of e.g. what Twitter did to NPR in the way that reporting for DS means you embrace antisemitism, for example.

@chadloder oops "Surely using the platform is implied endorsement" I meant "is *not* implied endorsement." pardon me.

@chadloder I'm not sure how that opinion leads to anything useful for anyone. I guess for you this could be one way to narrow down the menu of available journalism you consume, though, so there's that. 😂