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
@atomicpoet with ATProtocol there is emphatically room for any fire hoses that wish to exist.
Who will compete? Anyone who wants to!
It's not a strong argument against it.
@futurebird I mean, if you don't want to do your job then you should quit.
But don't stay in the role if you're not up to the task for whatever reason.
At that point you're just acting in a corrupt fashion, and you're not taking The high ground.
Indeed. And a bunch of people didn't learn their lesson from overreacting then either.
@TomWellborn@universeodon.com I think this is the guy who has been making his rounds, and doesn't seem to know what his job is.
Sounds like he needs to pursue a different career if he can't get over his position not being used for political gain.
@fell please no.
Let people enable that stuff if they want to, but don't make it opt out.
@europesays That's not inaccurate description of what the EO does.
I mean yeah, pardons aren't about changing truth.
Surely this judge knows better.
@BeAware@social.beaware.live I don't think Fedi is so monocultural as to like or not like something like influencers.
Some people like it, some people don't, and I personally like to think we should value that diversity.
@BeAware@social.beaware.live I don't think Fedi is so monocultural as to like or not like something like influencers.
Some people like it, some people don't, and I personally like to think we should value that diversity.
@wiljames seems to me a lot more people should have been wondering about accessibility and the ADA.
A whole lot more thoughts should have been put into that instead of just blindly going down some paths that might have been pretty counterproductive all this time.
@Futurism we've already seen the answer: no.
@breedlov I repeat myself: the mood of the American people reflected in the House.
There are all sorts of different opinions, all sorts of different motivations, strategies, politics, horse trading, there's a lot reflected in that expression.
There's no point in trying to naively reduce it to a proportion of the population since our representative system is specifically and intentionally set up to balance all of the competing interests.
@fgraver well, I think you touched on but didn't list the most important thing:
He seeks affirmation while being spineless, so he follows, doesn't lead, the crowd.
That means we can all control him by improving society in general. He doesn't control us. If we engage with folks around us to improve perspectives, he'll follow where we lead him.
He has no thoughts of his own. Let's push him to do right.
@breedlov that's not political blackmail.
That's reflecting the mood of the American people in the representative body that is the House.
There's no blackmail there since there's no entitlement. It's merely a trade, the American people will support positive uses of social resources.
It's BECAUSE he cares about the American people--because he can't do anything without them--that he takes this position.
@wjmaggos If you want to make that parallel, then you could equally make your own relay if you wanted to.
The difference is that in the BlueSky model you're not limited to a single relay subject to the censorship decisions of the relay owner. You can absolutely subscribe to multiple relays to make sure you're not under their thumb.
Under the ActivityPub model you are subject to the decisions of the instance owner.
@wdjorth when people say BlueSky is a corporation of any sort, it's akin to when people say Mastodon when they really mean Fediverse or ActivityPub.
What most people see as BlueSky is a distributed platform not owned by anyone and able to operate completely independently of any one owner, corporation or otherwise.
It's a system that is specifically developed to avoid such control.
You can set up your own BlueSky system today if you wanted to.
@Beachbum
@lexi You're not aware that good people get blocked too by bad people?
You think transphobic instance operators are happy to let trans supporters bring their content over?
It's two sides of the same sword. And honestly, I think it's the problematic people that are more likely to block the good content than the other way around, which means it's that much more of a problem that this platform supports censorship.
You may hope that you're going to be on the right side of the censorship. Unfortunately, that's probably not how that's going to work out.
@Beachbum BlueSky is not a corporation.
It's a project that frees people from having to deal with corporations or other centralized administrative setups.
BlueSky is fundamentally anti-corporate.
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
volkris's choices:
