Olives @olives@qoto.org
Software Engineer. Psy / Tech / Sex Science Enthusiast. Controversial?
Free Expression. Human rights / Civil Liberties. Anime. Liberal.
Joined May 2023
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_lady_doth_protest_too_much,_methinks Isn't it ironic when someone complains about an #anime character supposedly looking "young", then it turns out they engage in something similar or worse? There were even outright criminals.
There is a weird phenomena where someone condemns something because it looks "young", then it turns out that person has been doing something similar (there are even those who commit outright crimes).
@olea@mstdn.social @trixter Basically, what happened was that the fediverse had been around since forever. The Mastodon guy showed up one day (I think in 2017), and he insisted that the network was this different thing and there were those who bought it.
It got particularly bad in 2022 when he marketed it as a solution to "Twitter" and people parachuted in insisting on what the network should be like. That is also probably why admins are in a permanent culture war with one another.
@olea@mstdn.social @trixter Sometimes, I wonder if Mastodon branding the network a "safe space" wasn't a mistake. People get these unrealistic expectations, encounter unpleasantness, and they don't know how to deal with it.
If folks want a safe space, maybe a dedicated social network would be better (with the understanding they could go elsewhere for spicier discourse).
@olea@mstdn.social @trixter Again... Look at their profile. Strawmanning, bait, abusive response. It's a troll instance. Avoid replying. Replying is what trolls want.
It's kind of nuts that a thesaurus blocked VPNs. You should be able to read them with one.
When it comes to algorithms, there are bigger fish to fry, such as use in war, use in the criminal justice system, and so on. This is a distraction.
"Company claims First Amendment rights infringed by law, protecting 170M users from potential Chinese threats."
This is such a bad framing. Notice how it ignores the individual speech rights of the users or creators who rely on the platform.
I don't get why someone would give Character AI such a hard time. It's literally just a site for playing with silly chatbots. #FreeSpeech
Someone might come up with something like "just find an instance with a high standard of free expression, maybe for say roleplay", however, that is easier said than done for a newbie.
You kind of already have to know the unspoken rules and where that might be. #FreeSpeech
@olea@mstdn.social @trixter This is a good lesson in being wary of responding to trolls. Trolls try to divert the conversation down a track where they have a (weak) excuse to say something abusive.
There were several red flags here. Brand new account. One of their first posts is complaining about the fandom. Hopping onto a random post to provoke a fight. It's a combination of these factors.
Avoid replying to them. If there is a potentially useful point to be addressed, do so in a different post.
@olea@mstdn.social @trixter Concern troll. A "fan" who ignores that many titles have some element of sexualization[1] and jumps in to provoke arguments.
1 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107341 Since the troll is probably a puritan, I suppose I'll post Dr. Ferguson's meta analysis about how sexualization in games isn't harmful.
I think that in the end, the European Commission stopped that German media authority which was going crazy censoring people while going on about "age verification".
Does Threads still have an issue with VPNs?
Some good news on the Facebook front when it comes to Threads and the fediverse. Threads has apparently ceased to block entire instances on a puritanical basis. #FreeSpeech
Is Nostr a good option?
Not only does Mastodon have a bigger character limit, but you can theoretically use an instance with a more generous limit than that. With Bluesky, you can't.
Should I add a header?
It's interesting how there's less interest in using Egyptian mythology in stories now.
Jojo has a reference to the Book of Thoth (the manga is decades old), Yu-Gi-Oh #anime was about a reincarnated pharaoh who plays a magical card game, and The Mummy.
Do you remember that Stargate film with the flying pyramid?
Software Engineer. Psy / Tech / Sex Science Enthusiast. Controversial?
Free Expression. Human rights / Civil Liberties. Anime. Liberal.
Joined May 2023
