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
@hobs @blaine @Gargron Yeah, different people have different skills, and maybe @Gargron's skill is in building those features, not setting up organizations.
Me, I'd say Features in #Fediverse shouldn't be up to a single governance either.
And it's not. We're all free to build whatever we want to engage over #ActivityPub, even forking #Mastodon code if we really want to with our own features. Or using other platforms.
In short, on the whole there's a good chance Gargron SHOULD be working on features as we're already in a place of collective governance of Fediverse.
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Please. I’m begging you. Not every tutorial needs to be a video.
They don't make you the product.
You volunteer to be the product.
It's not that you can't stop them.
It's that you line up to take part.
Right, and the EC vote wasn't counted until January.
Messages before then happened before the vote, so the whole story is bunk, based on a misunderstanding of the US presidential election process that's all too often promoted in press reporting.
What law is that?
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I find it a bit concerning how mastodon talks about their software and new features as if they exist in a vaccum. They talk about implementing a QT feature and forcing people to opt-in or not... Meanwhile the rest of the fediverse has had the QT feature since forever, including modified mastodon instances. We already have a standard, no you cant force opt-in.. .either implement it or dont, you cant force other software to block a feature just because you on your server didnt "opt-in". Its literally equivelant to a link to the original post...
@RayStraighter@techhub.social
Looking at your posts, you come across as awfully obsessed with Donald Trump.
Seeing as the dates on the texts were from before the election was completed, that story makes no sense.
@capntransit Why WOULD it be obvious?
Seems like the general assumption is that most people are at least vaguely interested in #reality...
@Azih Did you notice how that link is also leaping from correlation to causation?
It's nice to think that someday that might happen, but that's not the world we live in this year, and so TwitterFiles scoops were released as per the present norms.
Arguably it was more important to provide that transparency today than sit on it indefinitely waiting for the new world of publishing to be built.
That documents do not say what they were trying to censor doesn't change that they were trying to censor, though.
You might even believe this level of censorship and official nudging is good for society. Great! Then own it.
Healthy censorship, if there is such a thing, is healthy.
So let's support it instead of denying what we see with our own eyes.
Do you have many examples of journalists towing their owners' corporate lines?
Because the journalists I know in person are annoyingly loud about not doing that, and it seems like there are constant stories about journalists fighting their corporate owners, demanding everything from pay raises through more newsroom independence.
So what evidence do you really have to support your claims here? Because I really don't see it, AND I personally see the opposite really frequently.
Yeah, I'm critical of Mastodon for how it seems to have mainly been designed as a replacement for Twitter with even more restrictions rather than a broader platform to empower users above and beyond what Twitter offered.
Here you go.
ActivityPub references the ActivityStream types, and here's the list of predefined types, like Article, Audio, and Document.
AFAIK platforms are free to define their own custom types too.
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#object-types
Same as anything, they're providing a service to viewers and selling advertising to make money.
Viewers are interested in the #TwitterFiles so they are providing the content in exchange for viewership.
Just like every other media outfit.
They understand publishing, though, where there are bills to pay and agreements to be made for access to proprietary information.
So they agreed, reasonably, to let a certain outlet have the scoop, and others could pick up the story and run with it from there.
There's nothing particularly odd or unusual about that.
That's not what the Great Barrington Declaration said.
No, it's an independent branch of government.
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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