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
@asmodai the problem with this sort of claim is that the Supreme Court tends to be applying the rules that were in fact achieved through the elected branches of government.
Well, the legislatures specifically.
@freemo meh, plenty of us are proud to use royal feet over scientific meters because they just make more sense for the particular application.
We proudly use the better tool rather than following the crowd!
So many get wrong, and so many misreport, that the #SCOTUS is to rule on the safety of mifepristone. It is not.
The Court has neither the expertise, the legal jurisdiction, nor the interest in making such a determination. It's absolutely not what the Court is doing.
Instead, what the Court is to rule on is specifically the legal questions surrounding whether the executive branch followed legal procedures as it acted.
It seems that the FDA didn't follow the legal process and botched this, and we should be holding executive branch officials responsible for their failure there.
All of the drama protesting the Court misplaces the real blame and lets those responsible off the hook, and is so counterproductive to the goals of those protesters.
@Linux not everything is about getting follows.
Sometimes we share content because it's simply worthwhile in its own right, regardless of where it's coming from.
@BeAware@social.beaware.live exactly, and that's what bothers me so much, a lack of transparency for users to make up their own minds.
There are far too many users on here posting content under the belief that it's much more private and safeguarded than it actually is, that end up surprised to hear how little control they actually have.
I see it almost every day, and it really worries me.
@vetehinen yeah, after your reply I went back and skimimed the docs again, and I think you're right.
It looks like BlueSky emphasizes giving users control over their content and yet admits that they don't think they can really do anything to enforce this.
@BeAware@social.beaware.live right, if you form a splinter Fediverse made up of only instances that are 100% trustworthy, that have all implemented security policies to lock down ways their users might be using their services, then you can block this from happening.
But that seems pretty unrealistic to the way people are imagining Fediverse growing.
A single bad acting instance in the whitelisted network, or a single hacked instance, is all it takes to undermine that firewall.
@Hyolobrika yeah, there are a few other platforms that didn't have these problems.
IMO, the key is focusing on users instead of instances. ActivityPub chose to put the control in the hand of instances instead of users, but other platforms are user-first.
That makes the difference.
@erik even if you block your instance from threads.net, the way the protocol works your content can still make its way to them.
Again, I think it's really important that users realize how little control they have over content on this platform. Simple blocking like that doesn't solve the problem, and you remain vulnerable.
@Hyolobrika @BeAware@social.beaware.live
@stargazer oh quite the contrary, it IS what Fediverse was meant to be.
At its core Fediverse was programmed to put content out there without the control of authors. I criticize them for those design decisions, but they were made, and it is what it is.
Fediverse was designed so that all content is fair game. You don't even need to interact with Threads for them to get your content--ActivityPub will happily broadcast it into their datastores.
It's critical that users realize that if they want to keep using Fediverse.
I'd take it one step farther and say that even if Threads were to botch the standard like Mastodon, I trust the professional engineers at Threads to do a better job than what I've seen coming out of Mastodon's developers.
EVEN IF Threads is going to be a new boss of the Fediverse, which I don't think realistic, there's a good chance that would be an improvement.
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The same thing that Threads might allegedly do to Mastodon is apparently absolutely desirable when Mastodon does it to the rest of the Fediverse; CW: long (914 characters), Fediverse meta, non-Mastodon Fediverse meta, Threads/Meta/Facebook/Zuckerberg
Threads might overrun the Fediverse with its own rules, its own culture and its own non-standard technology, simply by being the biggest project in the Fediverse and making itself the de-facto Fediverse standard by sheer numbers. Mastodon users are up in arms against it.
Mastodon itself has been doing all these very same things to the rest of the Fediverse ever since 2016. Largely the very same Mastodon users who are raging against Threads now are not only cheering on Mastodon forcing its ways and its non-standard stuff upon everything that isn't Mastodon, but demanding more of it.
Just for the record: Mastodon was not here first. At least Friendica, Hubzilla and Pleroma were, in this order. And Hubzilla even had ActivityPub before Mastodon.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #Meta #Threads #Hypocrisy #DoubleStandard
Mastodon itself has been doing all these very same things to the rest of the Fediverse ever since 2016. Largely the very same Mastodon users who are raging against Threads now are not only cheering on Mastodon forcing its ways and its non-standard stuff upon everything that isn't Mastodon, but demanding more of it.
Just for the record: Mastodon was not here first. At least Friendica, Hubzilla and Pleroma were, in this order. And Hubzilla even had ActivityPub before Mastodon.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #Meta #Threads #Hypocrisy #DoubleStandard
@MugsysRapSheet reporting has it that it's not so much Bibi snubbing Biden as both politicians having reasons to keep distance from the other.
For Biden to meet with Bibi or even have a close functional relationship with him would put Biden at odds with anti-Israeli communities whose votes he needs.
This is a rather pragmatic split for both politicians.
@junesim63 never confuse a president with the country. He's merely the politician in charge of the administration of one of three branches of one of countless governments.
So the president, facing troubling poll numbers in a few key communities, is making a symbolic move to shore them up.
That's hardly the US getting worried about Gaza. That's one person, Biden, getting worried about his own future.
@BeAware@social.beaware.live: exactly
@erik the programming behind the Mastodon platform is all about broadcasting information out without much in the way of control over who gets it.
You can not block those actors on this platform, unfortunately. It's simply not how they structured the system here, and it's really important for users to realize that.
Effectively, if you participate here, they will have access to it.
I criticize that design, but it is what it is. Other platforms like BlueSky might be better about this, but it's how this platform decided to operate.
I love how all of the gnashing of teeth about how #Threads will be the apocalypse for #Fediverse has resulted in folks setting up artificial barriers that undermine Fediverse.
It's a panic, much like those of the past, where people cause harm out of fear of an imagined ill, real harm to ward off something rather mundane, without the ability to make compelling, rational arguments for the course of action.
Fediverse is a relatively democratic platform, and What's the saying? Democracy is great... except for the people?
@LouisIngenthron you're misunderstanding.
I'm not at all talking about buying into their spin or fact checking Trump's economic policies.
I'm talking about using their spin against him, instead of contributing to it, and then pointing out things that amount to Trump's own admissions of his own failures.
Not tiptoeing around the opponent but loudly amplifying that his spun words actually undermine his promise to his supporters.
And again, I'm trying to point out that they won and he dodged his weak point through this response about the word rather than his record.
It played their game, and they're good at using it to their advantage.
You misunderstand the religious argument. It's not about how many people are working but about the relationship between each individual and their own income, with income not coming from work being, well, sinful.
That might be oversimplifying their stance just a little bit, but I'm illustrating how the statistical or fiscal arguments don't address the complaints.
But the point of it all is that there are lots of reasons UBI hasn't raised broad consensus of the public needed to begin actually implementing it.
You can say if they don't want it it must be good, but that doesn't change that their not wanting it is a roadblock, whether it's good or not.
Until the broad consensus can be raised, the idea can't move forward, again for better or worse.
@null The problem is that you're broadcasting your information to them whether you like it or not. That's just how the protocols on this platform work.
They are extremely weak in terms of privacy, so basically anything you post here is available to Facebook, whether threads exists or not.
ActivityPub is a public broadcast platform. I wish it was otherwise, but it is what it is.
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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