shadowsonawall @shadowsonawall@qoto.org

@admitsWrongIfProven there are some broadcasting controls available. Share with everyone, share with the local server, share only with people mentioned. Nothing is ever truly private in the normal sense though as anyone linked into the thread will see the whole thing. The control knobs are below the textbox and above the 'toot' button for me - might be quite different for you, depending on your client though.

@admitsWrongIfProven but to fragment we need separate a part from the whole. A kindness to the whole, or the part? Can separation ever be a kindness to both?

@Tinu if I'm understanding, the issue is that someone telling you to use a CW is a form of discrimination/silencing. There are some racist undertones that I don't have the context for but the heart of the issue is using CW as a tool to silence others?

nothing about one's public life should be subject to that kind of silencing?

@admitsWrongIfProven you should study more friend. The path you seek is simple: Mathew 19:26.

Human memory is a fragile thing. One thing I have noticed while playing with #aiart is that you can corrupt your memories of a past event/place relatively easily. I've been to a similar place but, having spent so much time exploring similar images, I can no longer tell what is a real memory and what is incepted.

@skanman it's an all-in-one kind of thing. Client/server, server/server - all under the same umbrella. Would you need multiple rules to identify the components? Dunno. Still very simple though

@tripu I'm not sure I understand. Is this an "ends justify the means" kind of thought process or is there something more here?

@admitsWrongIfProven confusion you say? Confusion is frustrating, scary - when your leg hurts and won't work but you can't see that it's a plastic sixpackholder causing the problem. Variety though? A tiny smidge of chaos, maybe? These seem like wonderful things indeed.

A hint of chaos for your day then? You have in fact gone crazy. I? Am you. Prove otherwise so we may both bend a knee to the mighty turtle. Else, both be but two of yours.

@aliceschwarze this would put a heavy burden on the "normal" user experience though. The example would avoid 'vilence', true. But that's something of an edge case I'd expect. In balance, I'd much rather the standard experience remain and suffer the typos.

@ReverseRetro just a note, "on here" is a small server paid for by a volunteer with donations from people just trying to do a good thing for the world.

@skanman sadly it'd be trivial: detect and block the ActivityPub protocol and you take out the entire fediverse with a single rule.

@taz I'd argue a more significant issue is The Algorithms' discovery about humans. Not because it's wrong, they are actually quite good at what they do: show things that will keep people scrolling. The problem is what most motivates people.

Negative emotions are significantly more effective at motivating human behavior than positive ones are. Not witnessing negative emotion - being triggered to feel a negative emotion. That has a spiral effect because we humans are fairly good at settling into new norms. To keep that drip of negative motivation going, the negative inputs need to get (slowly, but consistently) stronger.

And so, the most efficient solution for keeping you scrolling is to introduce you to your own personal hellscape where all you can feel is negativity driving you to seek/create/feel more negativity.

@admitsWrongIfProven sorry for the delay - I got pulled into something and then bed.

I wasn't sure how serious or silly you wanted to be. Figured I'd start with some probing questions and see where the night took us. If you'd like I'm all about playing around with a more defensible position if you're just looking to fence? Or we can take turtle to the very edges of absurdity - I'm just here to have a good time