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
I don't think it's either a feature or a bug but simply something the goals of the project don't care about.
ActivityPub is completely focused on instances. It's all about the content that instances are putting out.
To talk about migrating from one to another is sort of speaking gibberish to the fundamental philosophy of ActivityPub since users are such second-class entities in the system.
I think it was a choice made by server-focused people making server-focused design choices.
US Pol
What do you mean the president can act unilaterally?
The debt ceiling isn't being held hostage.
The president is requesting more power, and Congress isn't eager to give it to him.
That's no more holding it hostage than is the burger shop holding a burger hostage until I agree to pay for it.
If the president wants expanded power to borrow, well, under the US system it's up to him to work with Congress to gain that power.
Reigning in Chevron brings judicial proceedings more in line with the laws passed by the democratic processes, that's all.
So that statement is pretty off base, as it means businesses would also find it harder to challenge regulations that weaken environmental protections built into law.
It means it would be harder to duck statutory authority regardless of whether the regulations are pro- or anti-environment, which is part of the point.
You seem to keep getting caught up on things separate from legal issues in this legal process.
Again, if the law is bad, then let's talk about reforming the law.
But this case is about what the law says, and that has, honestly, nothing to do with the drug being unsafe or ineffective.
The judge is not there to issue an opinion on the effectiveness of a drug. That's not his area of expertise, so he's not in a position to judge it.
This is 100% about following the law EVEN IF THE LAW IS BAD and needs to be reformed.
But that doesn't count the bytes needed to transmit the content around behind the scenes?
I figured the instance-to-instance traffic was part of the enormous overhead being cited above.
I think it's really important to reply to comments like this to raise awareness that #Fediverse is absolutely not outside the reach of #bigdata collection.
In fact, given how the core protocol is set up with few privacy controls, it arguably makes #Mastodon content even more likely to be vacuumed up by big data.
People need to realize that they have only limited control over their content here. Anything they put in is effectively broadcast to the world, no matter privacy settings, and if you're worried about big data, well, big data operators are happy to vacuum that up.
I'd just rush to stress that science and policy are emphatically different things.
#Science can tell you where a policy might go, but it's a political matter as to whether to adopt policies to go there.
Whether you support a policy or not can be informed by science, but at the end of the day, the subjective and objective are different things.
Meh. At this point I have so little faith in Disney's management of Star Wars, or in Star Wars writers, that even though I loved the first season of #Andor I wouldn't trust that they weren't already screwing up the second season, so this might actually *prevent* some bad writing from making it to the screen.
I think you're assuming all of the recruited moderators can objectively/mechanically moderate, all with the same moderation philosophies, and the same values reflective of the relevant population.
In reality, that's not how it plays out.
In the real world, moderators will disagree, so you might need to set up appeals processes, formal guidelines, processes for approving and improving the guidelines, and on and on.
It's not merely a ratio of moderators to participants. There is overhead above that.
Well, an issue is that #Bluesky seems more focused on users than on instances, so when you talk about Bluesky adding federation, it's not clear that's even a thing in Bluesky.
Since Bluesky apparently ties users to instances a whole lot less, it makes for a conceptual paradox to talk about federating with Bluesky instances that sort of don't exist in the same way.
There may be sort of translators between the two systems, but if they operate on entirely different core mechanics, it wouldn't be transparent.
Keep in mind that there are limitations of the system that are core to design choices made when it was being designed.
For example, ActivityPub has no way to ensure that text isn't being available for search (or even display!) regardless of opt-out.
And that's no minor thing that can be tweaked later. It is core to how the system was set up.
Maybe for the best, maybe for the worst, but it's important to keep that sort of thing in mind.
A lot of choices are pretty set in stone at this point.
Reporting says the money WAS reported to the proper SCOTUS ethics reviewers.
That's part of the issue here.
Yet another case of people living with different sets of facts, one quite sensational.
When I point out that these sensationalized stories made it so that it doesn't really matter what the justices do, so they might as well not bother trying, your response really illustrates my point.
It treats them like reality TV stars with skewed editing and dramatic storylines instead of actually looking at their job performances.
It's no wonder they might throw up their hands and just ignore the media.
Sounds to me like Kamala's husband shouldn't have resigned, if he left behind such valuable work!
I think you're overlooking the issue. Since they don't really have an effective means of PR, there's no way they CAN control the appearance of impropriety because no matter what they ACTUALLY do, clickbaity organizations and self-interested politicians will still command the story.
So since it is futile for them to try to manage appearances, they might as well just ignore it and just do their jobs.
They're looked at through the lens of a media and political environment that both have conflicts of interests, to tell certain sensational stories, regardless of reality.
@jackofalltrades Yep!
People with a higher relative ratio of cash on hand vs things to spend it on might be tempted into dipping toes into the water of stuff like #Bitcoin
Pandemic closures and fiscal responses set the stage for that, all through personal accounts, not corporate ones.
A problem is that the two systems may have been so completely different that #BlueSky couldn't have really contributed to #ActivityPub. They were just to the core engineered with incompatible designs.
#Fediverse is centered around and bound to instances in ways that BlueSky seems to be rejecting, with BlueSky being more focused on being distributed while Fediverse is more federated.
It's like asking why the sports car maker didn't just contribute to developing a faster city bus.
They're just such different projects that there's not much to be done.
Absolutely!
#Mastodon is analogously the email client like GMail or Outlook or Thunderbird.
It wasn't his kid. It was his great-nephew, which is far enough removed that it's not considered a direct contribution to the justice.
Once again, these stories are skewed and sensationalized.
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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