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 ;)
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@mhjohnson No idea. Ask the borders to figure that out.
@mrman Why does color matter?@NoBeret@noauthority.social @mhjohnson
@mhjohnson according to the article they specifically denied that they had such a preference
@fkamiah17 what in the world do you think Washington can do about it?
I'm surprised it took this long for such a death to be reported.
No satellite news delay. Just hard political reality.
@abucci The cloud is made by and maintained by workers...
@Kozmo the difference is that the US system is intentionally designed to mitigate such influences.
Checks and balances were a good idea.
@enmodo Well same thing as here, you don't see all of the Fediverse sense drinking from that fire hose is just too much. You only see what happens to be on your feeds when you sign on.
Threads users wouldn't see everything that's happening here.
It will remain to be up to the interfaces that the platforms run, and so anyone leaving those platforms will not be treated the same from their interfaces.
@enmodo Well they're just aren't that many people on this platform compared to the others, so getting the hell off threads and x and facebook would be shooting themselves in the foot.
@BeAware@social.beaware.live
It's like saying everybody obeys gun laws since I've never been shot.
No, this is important because a lot of people in this platform don't realize how tenuous the privacy controls actually are. We really need to emphasize that so much on this platform is based on good faith expectation instead of actual engineered control.
People need to know how little guaranteed privacy they have here because people rely on the system that isn't actually nailed down.
@flyoverproj you are misunderstanding what I'm saying since what you are repeating back to me is not my position.
So, yeah.
@CodieneC the incredibly important thing to emphasize is that presidents don't have the authority to do that.
The way to counter #Trump is to point out what a failure he has been to his own cause, to his own supporters, as he has failed to live up to promise after promise because he made promises that were impossible to keep under the design of the US government.
We've only made him more electable by speaking as if he could do stuff like this, when he can't. We actually support him by buying into this sort of rhetoric.
If he gets reelected, it's because we played his game. We need to stop playing his game.
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@BeAware@social.beaware.live
We can see that blocks aren't honored by the protocol by the fact that people don't honor the blocks as they engage with the protocol.
Again you're misunderstanding what I'm saying.
I'm not deflecting criticism, I'm explaining why it's important to know your audience when you're trying to make an argument.
@BeAware@social.beaware.live
Right, and the standard is basically broadcasting for anyone listening, and that's my point.
@IAmDannyBoling Well that's not true.
They have not decided to act. They have not acted, as is the normal course of their operation.
That's just how the US judiciary system works. Go through their democratic process, the other branches, if you demand action.
@GNUmatic keep in mind that propublica is itself corrupt, with a long record of promoting conspiracy theories that get debunked long after publication, so you can't really trust them to speak about corruption.
@BeAware@social.beaware.live
You say If it's like a normal activitypub instance, but firstly there's the big if there, and secondly that assumes there is such a thing as a normal instance.
I'd say the whole point of a distributed system like this is to allow different instances to operate differently, not to be all under the same umbrella like the centralized social media platforms.
So basically, it's considered a feature that what you're talking about doesn't really exist.
Everybody needs to realize that anything they post on this platform is effectively public to anyone who wants to access it, including #threads
@JeremyMallin I mean, not all of us fall for the conspiracy theories...
@BohemianPeasant again, as an appeals court they would not hear a challenge to an executive order because that's not how that works.
The courts hear challenges to impacts, not orders.
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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