volkris @volkris@qoto.org
I think the most pressing and fundamental problem of the day is that people lack a practically effective means of sorting out questions of fact in the larger world. We can hardly begin to discuss ways of addressing reality if we can't agree what reality even is, after all.
The institutions that have served this role in the past have dropped the ball, so the next best solution is talking to each other, particularly to those who disagree, to sort out conflicting claims.
Unfortunately, far too many actively oppose this, leaving all opposing claims untested. It's very regressive.
So that's my hobby, striving to understanding the arguments of all sides at least because it's interesting to see how mythologies are formed but also because maybe through that process we can all have our beliefs tested.
But if nothing else, social media platforms like this are chances to vent frustrations that on so many issues both sides are obviously wrong ;)
Joined Dec 2022
It's not hard to understand. I'll give you a hand:
The service has value to users regardless of who owns it.
Some of us are able to separate ideas like knowing when a service improves our lives vs caring about the feelings of someone involved in providing the service.
Some of us are able to avoid such obsession with guilt by association.
@georgelakoff @gilduran "Honestly, I was surprised Twitter would go after a local journalist with fewer than 7,500 followers."
That's really the key phrase.
#Musk said journalists have to abide by the site's rules too, that they aren't special and somehow above the rules.
This journalist was surprised by that.
And it pretty much proves the point Musk was making about #journalism.
I'm no fan of #Elon Musk, but I'm even less excited about journalists with inflated senses of themselves.
That's a great illustration of how journalists have lost so much credibility with the public lately, and they don't seem to get that.
But this misunderstands what insurance is.
Insurance is absolutely not about paying for healthcare. It is not a payment plan, or a savings plan. That's something different.
Insurance is fundamentally about managing risk, not payment. You're not buying healthcare when you buy insurance; you're buying temporary access to other peoples' money because you're afraid you might not have enough.
I really wish we had better financial education so that people better understood how this stuff worked.
Then we'd be able to make so much more progress in things like improving access to healthcare for all.
So long as people are mislead into thinking buying insurance buys healthcare, insurance companies win and our money is wasted.
And hey @skroobler I'm #QuotePost ing this using the feature on #qoto!
Yep, instances that give users more power and more features are able to participate in #Fediverse even if other instances leave their users hamstrung by questionable software development decisions of the past.
Quote posting allows us to built on other peoples' content, giving proper credit and adding value for all.
It was a silly decision to leave it out of #Mastodon
@FinchHaven@mastodon.sdf.org @shoq@mastodon.social Definitely not a dead horse. The ability to boost with additional context is a key feature of so...
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Newspeak in the #Fediverse: “Discoverability is harassment.”
One way to think about #ContentWarning tags vs filters is empowering the end user or not.
If a person doesn't want to see a topic on #Mastodon they can add keywords to their filters, helping them manage their own feeds.
This functionality empowers them.
But adding content warnings everywhere, as many people demand, instead forces such content to be wrapped regardless of whether the end user would want it to be.
So many people have such strong opinions that content should be wrapped, and I'd say we should push back on that proposal.
Well, out of curiosity, what DO you want?
@brianstorms sounded to me like the company is "on autopilot" because that's what @lifeinneon needed to say to make a bad joke from the anti-Musk bandwagon.
Nothing more to see here than that.
@J12t@social.coop @ben
A solution in search of a problem?
I'd also hate to further standardize on #Mastodon when there are so many other #ActivityPub projects addressing different use cases.
volkris
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All Your Face.
TSA going hogwild with facial recognition is going about as well as you'd expect, "but you can opt out". YK Hong: Since folks asked what happens whenever I opt out of facial recognition, I documented it for you while going through US...
https://jwz.org/b/yj8C
To be clear, I'm not arguing based on any libertarian reasoning. I don't actually find myself all that closely aligned with the Libertarian Party.
I'm more interested in things like worker's rights, and here internationally recognized principles among liberal attitudes. More things like UN findings than political rabble rousers.
Yes, you keep saying it doesn't have features to resist censorship after having yourself mentioned the features to resist censorship :)
You're talking in circles, man.
Well obviously all **don't** agree on the things that are CR since you and I apparently disagree!
Since Nostr has those features that absolutely resist censorship, I thing it's completely correct and unconfusing to call it censorship resistant.
It's a straightforward way to describe something that has such features to resist censorship.
Well, I mean, does it give you any cause for reconsideration of your position?
We all bring our premises to the table, and bias confirmation is a strong draw, but hopefully different perspectives provide opportunity to reconsider the things we believe.
At this point I'm not even sure what you're trying to disagree with.
You've acknowledged the problem @peterbutler brought up!
Instances like qoto.org have effectively no limit on character counts. Well, technically something like 65,500 characters.
But yep, other Fediverse platforms are specifically targeted at blog type posts that do share over to Mastodon and others.
I don't think there's much point responding farther.
The features you're recognizing here are the exact ones that I'd say allow the platform to resist censorship, making it censorship resistant, even if you personally wouldn't apply that term.
*shrug*
Kind of like complaining that corporate restaurants have conditioned people to expect their food to be served cooked instead of having them take the one simple step of cooking it themselves, and what's the problem here?
Yep. People do like when the platforms they join provide them value. Heaven forbid.
In any case, this all just highlights that @peterbutler 's point was absolutely a thing, even if you personally prefer the problem to exist.
volkris
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Alternate universe where the '90s trend for calling things "bad", "sick" or "rude" never ended and now we compliment each other's shoes by calling them "catastrophic" and "fundamentally misaligned with my values"
Yes, but can either post to Fediverse?
I think the most pressing and fundamental problem of the day is that people lack a practically effective means of sorting out questions of fact in the larger world. We can hardly begin to discuss ways of addressing reality if we can't agree what reality even is, after all.
The institutions that have served this role in the past have dropped the ball, so the next best solution is talking to each other, particularly to those who disagree, to sort out conflicting claims.
Unfortunately, far too many actively oppose this, leaving all opposing claims untested. It's very regressive.
So that's my hobby, striving to understanding the arguments of all sides at least because it's interesting to see how mythologies are formed but also because maybe through that process we can all have our beliefs tested.
But if nothing else, social media platforms like this are chances to vent frustrations that on so many issues both sides are obviously wrong ;)
Joined Dec 2022
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