volkris @volkris@qoto.org

@teledyn

From glancing at the standard, I would guess that images and captions should be updatable just like any other content in ActivityPub.

My guess is that it's the apps.

@odonion_gethen

The reason I think that influence is overstated is because I listen to journalists speak in panel discussions outside of their platforms and, like I said, talk to them in person occasionally.

The independent journalists I hear from seem to lack even more expertise in the areas they're covering.

So sadly I see two flavors of journalism: ill-prepared reporters who don't know what they're talking about vs educated people who know better but abuse their platforms to push their biases.

But we get what we click on, so *shrug*

@lispi314 @helge @multiverseofbadness

Meh, the signing would simply be built into the account. It could even be just a signed certificate associated with the account and not each message if devs didn't want to deal with that extra step.

The only opt-in would be people vouching for each other.

But to clarify, by external social sort I mean that profiles would end up with notations saying "your friend says this is a real person who's cool to talk to" vs "you've no connections to this account so it might be a spammer or troll"

You'd still have every ability to do with that what you want, whether you want to ignore the friend-of-a-friend connection or take it into account.

@WarnerCrocker @dsilverman

Could it be because when your platform is easier to have access to, there will be more opportunity for tinkerers to offer their tinkered applications, even if they don't have nearly the finish?

There are pluses and minuses to openness: on one hand, YAY!, everyone has access! but on the other hand yay, even the amateurs.

@AliceMarshall

This is one of those cases where the other side of the argument is, Is it better for the poor to have more or less options?

We really need to be careful about paternalistic urges to control what others have access to just because we think we can manage their lives better than they can.

The Bitcoin ATMs sound like they're using demographic data to place machines where people are more likely to derive value from using those machines. That is, on its face, a positive thing.

@lispi314 @helge @multiverseofbadness

Personally, I wish the heuristics would be built on a cryptographic Web of Trust framework to bring external social sorting and identity verification into the mix, but that's just something I yell into the void occasionally :)

@tess

Well what makes you feel like the content here is better than over there?

@jeffowski

I thought that was what everybody understood the poem as.

What makes you think people don't understand it that way?

@DemDifference

Gosh these people are so misleading when they overlook the fact that there was this little global pandemic contributing to that number...

@MarvinFreeman

Yes, I question how it can be that Republicans want to cut assistance to poor people when they consistently vote to expand it.

That claim just doesn't make sense when compared against congressional voting records.

@alfredo_liberal@universeodon.com

Just because maybe gun laws can be passed doesn't mean they would be effective, though.

Your examples almost disprove your point, as you say laws were already passed and yet gun violence continued to this day.

What's the Jurassic Park line, people so worried about whether they could do something that they didn't stop to think about whether they should? Some gun laws will actually make gun violence worse, so we really need to stop and think about them.

@craigpc

The problem with that argument is that labor prices and the prices of raw inputs to manufacturing have also increased, showing that it really is systemic inflation and not meer greed.

And the theory doesn't really make sense in the first place, as if greed is a new thing that corporations just discovered in the last year or so?

The idea of inflation is that purchasers competing among each other for the same basket of goods end up bidding up the price if they all have more money to spend.

That's exactly what we've been seeing.

@failedLyndonLaRouchite

It wasn't.

It just goes to show how much people get sucked into all of this overblown drama of the week, and then never really stop to consider that things are being blown way out of proportion before they get sucked into the next overblown drama of the next week.

24-hour news cycles and such.

@MarkIngs

Well it was more that they were looking into mutating elements of the virus so they would be better candidates to lab test updated vaccines to be more effective against real world outbreaks.

The significance of these hidden camera captures has been way overblown.

@lispi314 @multiverseofbadness

Well to be serious, I think the issue is people who lump all algorithms together except for raw chronological, ignoring for one that chronological is itself and algorithm, and also overlooking that there are some algorithms that are better and some that are worse at meeting any particular user's wants.

I'm just laughing because I see so many people on this platform flat out rejecting the idea of allowing any algorithms at all, like luddites rejecting the idea of any technology at all, seeing it all as negative.

Sounds like we probably agree that user choice in algorithms would probably be a positive thing, even though a lot of people would be really upset about going in that direction.

@lispi314 @multiverseofbadness

It's almost like those algorithms actually did provide value 🙂

I'm half joking, because for everyone around here celebrating that there's no algorithm here other than chronological, the experience really could be improved by having some other options for users.

@AliceMarshall

Right, and firstly, legislators involved have been quoted as saying they intended the permission to be basically for non-circulated collector's items, not actual money,

And second of all, when I point out that legislation can't override the Constitution, you don't actually make any progress by pointing out the legislation that can't override the Constitution.