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
@TCatInReality Well what specific weaknesses do you have in mind?
@TCatInReality he has a very good point if you look at the actual decisions instead of following sensationalized news articles from clickbait sources.
So really you're just reinforcing his point here.
@europesays this sort of article comes from people who fundamentally don't know how the Senate works. And that's a shame, because McConnell had a tenure marked by power all based on the general public being misinformed about the Senate.
@Quantillion No, at this point the Democratic party is not really focused on any policy at all. Harris was rightly criticized for not talking about policy, she didn't seem able to talk about policy when she was repeatedly asked about it, interviewed about it, invited to talk about it, etc.
Like I said, garbage candidate. Not garbage policy because the candidate was so garbage that she couldn't even talk about policy.
YES! That artisan is putting the capital in capitalism.
That is exactly what I'm telling you.
Doesn't matter if you like it or not, but yes, that is capitalism at its purist. That person with capital holding capital controlling capital and applying capital to their own personal benefit, driving value from the capital that they have used to capitalize their shop, yes that is a capitalist operating in a capitalist system.
@nielso specifically, one problem is that any distributed system involves overhead, necessarily. It trades efficiency and resource usage for advantages of being distributed.
So the problem is how do you take an already inefficient system and use it for relatively resource intensive media like video content? It's bad enough trading text around, but video increases resource requirements exponentially.
It's a hard problem to solve, and it's not one that ActivityPub seemed really focused on addressing. So in the end this is a technical issue that the underlying technology of this platform isn't really cut out for video.
@ErikUden Well good thing Bitcoin isn't stuck with a singular unit that expensive and can instead be traded at far lower fractions.
One major feature of Bitcoin is specifically that it isn't bound by that kind of issue.
@FinalOverdrive what?
Individuals own capital. Individualism might be a singular foundation of capitalism.
@tofugolem or an honest way to reflect the language we use in formal contexts such as law.
@Itdidnttrickledown well, I suppose that's how echo chambers work...
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The song "All I want for Christmas is you" is insulting.
"I don't want much for Christmas...."
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"All I want for Christmas is you."
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You are not much.
@Lyle it's so important to keep in mind that Trump's own base regards these as empty threats.
@byteseu nah, Trump doesn't have to consider the truth at all.
That's the thing about this whole situation.
Whether the truth is inconvenient or not is just not relevant when truth doesn't matter.
That's just where we are.
But this is key: they don't have power over you. They're powerless. It's the opposite: YOU want to have power over THEM, and they aren't always bowing to the demand.
Failure to grant power to you is not exertion of power. It's the opposite.
@dougiec3 What? No.
A SCOTUS justice would be subject to impeachment if they accepted bribes to change rulings, and Gaetz was drummed out for his behavior.
No, the record is clear saying the opposite of it being OK.
It's in the backend protocol: in Fediverse/ActivityPub everything has to happen through instances. Instances shuttle posts around, potentially moderating them, etc. Everything happens between instances, and users just interface with an instance to send and receive content.
Just like email servers.
In contrast, BlueSky is set up so that users can post their content to any one or more servers, and pull content from one or more servers.
Fediverse/ActivityPub is all about instances talking to each other while BlueSky is about users talking to each other.
This has practical effects when it comes to everything from moderation through algorithm through account portability.
@freeschool Well keep in mind that part of the design philosophy engineered into this platform involves choices that don't put people at the center of the system. Instead, instances are at the center.
These are engineering decisions that were made, and I'm really critical of them. I would much rather put people at the center.
But that's not how this platform was programmed. And I think BlueSky chose the better path making it more person focused.
@shalafi I didn't see any kind of link to what you're talking about, by the way, so just wanted to let you know.
It could be an issue with this platform not sharing backlinks or something.
@byteseu you realized that was a joke making fun of people who would take it seriously?
@europesays I mean, you're the one talking about it here on this account...
You are entirely welcome to stop talking about this stupid stuff.
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
