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
@Blort well, if that's your goal then Fediverse is really letting you down, and you need to be aware of that.
The ActivityPub design is SO BAD about things like privacy and safety and decentralization, and it practically invites mega databases to hoover up all of the content that we're posting here.
Fediverse has achieved a certain critical mass of users that we can all interact here. But it doesn't really stand up for values like decentralization or safety.
@starran it's the people we elect to Congress.
We need to recognize that and stop reelecting the same numbskulls.
@SNerd I think this misses that it's more Trump being dragged along by his supporters than the other way around.
He himself is an empty suit that the MAGA crowd projects ideas onto. He vomits out often-meaningless rhetoric that they interpret as they see fit.
The reason this matters is because it emphasizes that we need to talk to each other, and through interaction encourage each other to be better. We can't blame figureheads like Trump for issues that really come from the grassroots.
@profcarroll what are specific examples of those protections?
@fraying I would counter that Twitter's sin was the character limitation because restricting people to short exclamations meant there wasn't much to read in the first place.
Yes it's about talking first at that point because without long form content people were not given anything to read in the first place.
Instead they were encouraged to just add on more incomplete thoughts to the incomplete thoughts already in the pile.
@guacamayan It should be allowed, nay required, to use whatever modern technologies would most effectively operate the post.
Email is not post.
Mission creep would serve to draw resources away from the core mission of the organization that is already experiencing trouble accomplishing its responsibilities.
The USPS has enough difficulties in front of it without asking it to do a whole bunch more stuff that it isn't tasked to do as it is.
@i_understand@sfba.social yeah, that was an unfortunate response to see.
@davidaugust was unfortunately uninterested in sorting out this disagreement about the real world; it just didn't seem to matter.
@davidaugust the two aren't comparable, though.
It's one thing for government officials to talk about how much they should pay government employees like Supreme Court justices, but a completely different thing to talk about imposing additional limits on the terms by which we can seek employment.
One is the proper responsibility of representatives. The second is none of their business.
@old_hippie because of course they would *sigh*
Just another political stunt.
@404mediaco we should embrace this, though.
YES let's embrace the idea that Verizon was also victimized because that normalizes the idea that companies should protect this information; they're not just neutral holders of the information subject to officers' demands for it.
Far too often we allow corporations to get out of responsibility that way.
@profcarroll it just always needs to be emphasized that Fediverse is not built around privacy. Quite the opposite: it's basically a public broadcast system.
An ax I grind is that a lot of users here don't realize how little privacy they actually have.
If privacy matters maybe don't use Fediverse.
@guacamayan operate the post.
@guacamayan and also puppies! Puppies for everybody!
No, that kind of mission creep is disastrous for such an organization that is already struggling.
@dangillmor I mean, he's not serious, because the US system of government doesn't give a person that option.
@Radical_EgoCom If the only time you hear people in the right criticizing immigration laws is when they are complaining that they aren't strict enough, then you are in a bubble.
That is literally why I'm saying you might be in a bubble, because you aren't hearing all of the other voices.
@Radical_EgoCom I literally listen to people on the right saying every single day that the immigration laws are bad.
If you don't hear them saying that then I think that you might be living in a bit of a bubble.
@Radical_EgoCom Well it's what I said above: the image said that nobody is illegal but that focuses on people being illegal rather than laws being bad.
The issue isn't that nobody is illegal. The issue is that we have some bad laws that need to be changed.
I think a huge number of people in the country are all on the side of these laws being bad and needing reform. People on both the left and the right agree that the laws need to be reformed.
But all of the rhetoric focusing on weather or not people are illegal End up distracting from the positive thing that we can actually all agree on, that the laws need to be fixed.
@Radical_EgoCom Right, so let's call out the bad laws not focus on the rhetoric around the people.
@nogodsnomasters I mean, it's not that people are illegal but that people break laws
If we want to fix the laws the first thing is to appreciate that the laws are what they are, and they need to be fixed.
We get nowhere by denying them.
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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