volkris @volkris@qoto.org
Since I guess everything is political these days, I'll identify as extremely liberal but without a home in US politics.
Mainly, there's so much misinformation out there that people in society have trouble even organizing into coherent political groupings. So I'd rather not talk about politics but instead focus on information and education. Nothing else matters until the bedrock of fact is buttressed.
But... people are always going to be wrong on the internet, as the saying goes.
So: Old man yells at clouds is a famous joke from The Simpsons, and it probably fairly describes what we do when venting on social media.
Just speaking into the void, since I figure it's an exercise in futility to conduct discussions on these platforms.
Joined Dec 2022
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The International Standards Organization has defined a new time measurement, the fedisecond, which is the shortest humanly-measurable unit of time.
A fedisecond is defined as the interval between the announcement of an exciting new #fediverse application and the discovery that the project's lead architect and principal developer is actually Satan.
Another day in the multiverse of echo chambers:
Democrats smugly saying Republicans are freaking out about the #Trump indictment and Republicans smugly saying Democrats are freaking out about how he's succeeding despite them.
Know thy enemy, they say. Well, if either of these groups actually followed that advice, maybe we could settle some things.
Well, all ya can do is appreciate the absurdity.
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what plant’s scientific name has the most Main Character energy? I put forward Acer Rubrum as a first bid
Accusations of greed are funny things.
The #Reddit drama follows an all too common pattern where people are accusing others of greed because they want something the other has.
Yeah, Reddit is so greedy for charging for providing its service, but *I demand their resources.*
It's not exactly taking a high road to describe someone as greedy while claiming those resources for oneself.
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Okay...... WHY is our instance fediblocked in the first place? and why does that include our matrix instance getting removed from joinmatrix because "they decided to deem us as controversial"??
Our instance is a non-extremist, leftist comfy instance that accepts everyone, we have nearly 1000 users and I don't really understand why we are getting blocked everywhere. The worst thing is that there is no reason behind this and nobody is able to give us a single reason about why the """"council"""" decided to block us. This is stupid.
I'm considering buying a new domain at this point. We've been on fedi with based.social and miruku.cafe since 2020, and I've been using fedi since 2018 and this is just nonsense, I'm really pissed off. (meow)
This is really helpful! ... if it works
I've been really curious about how #lemmy integrates with the rest of ActivityPub but haven't had time to look deeply into it.
So far my instance doesn't have any posts from this particular lemmy... um... board? group? whatever it's called, but I'll have to try it out more in the future.
Did you know that you can follow Lemmy communities from Mastodon? Lemmy is the Fediverse equivalent of Reddit. If a community is located at https:...
Yep.
An awful lot of people don't follow things like #SCOTUS opinions closely enough to know they're being sold a narrative that just doesn't match the record.
The liberal vs conservative description of the Supreme Court makes for dramatic headlines, but the decision record of the Court doesn't really match that naive narrative.
Earlier: @Brian_Riedl: "The 'conservative Supreme Court justices are partisan ideologues voting in lockstep' crowd sure is quiet today." #SCOTUS ...
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@chucker @volkris @DemocracySpot @theintercept there's a LOT about Bluesky that makes this easier. Users get the default "following" algorithm (the same as Mastodon's, reverse chronological posts from people you follow), and then you can choose to subscribe to other algorithms, both from Bluesky or third parties. For example, I use a feed called "Catch Up" which just shows the most popular posts from the last 24 hours. Want to make a custom algorithm that anyone can use? Here's how https://github.com/bluesky-social/feed-generator
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Key phrase: "165 Democrats - more than the 149 Republicans who voted for it - backed the measure and pushed it through"
Listening to Republicans today debating among themselves over the #DebtCeiling deal, there's a big problem that the hardliners literally don't know how federal finances work, and so they vastly overestimate #GOP power in this situation.
If Biden can't borrow money to pay for programs that the #GOP likes, then he won't, and their favorite projects will be harmed. This *empowers* Biden, but they have no idea.
Today's debate on the right was all about the moderates trying to inform their young colleagues as to the actual rules of the game, to inform strategy, but the hardliners weren't interested in learning... unsurprisingly.
Just goes to show how important civics education is, especially for those actually in government.
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Yeah, the rumours are true. #Calckey is changing its name.
A change in brand is never easy, but it’s better to do the change now rather than later.
I’ll tell you this, though. The brand will reflect the growth of the project.
What’s currently known as Calckey isn’t merely a Misskey fork anymore.
RE: https://calckey.social/notes/9f701jlpvp
Calckey is not going to be called "Calckey" for much longer, that's all I'll say... 😉
No, the #SCOTUS didn't weaken EPA power to enforce the Clean Water Act. That gets backwards what the argument actually is.
The issue is that the CWA didn't authorize this power in the first place, so the EPA was acting outside of the Act.
If we want the EPA to have this much expanded authority, fine, that's what the democratic process is for. Let's have those discussions about how it would work, and the tradeoffs involved.
But that the EPA wasn't enforcing CWA in these cases is the entire core of the argument that the Agency lost.
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Post Editing is now available on @pixelfed !
This was the most wanted feature for me 💝
#pixelfed #fediverse #ThankYouDaniel #LongLiveFediverse #LongLivePixelfed
Far too few people are seeing this side of the story.
And politicians are being let off the hook as they are pointing fingers at others for the choices they themselves made.
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Made this to show my impression of the new #Thunderbird #logo. Suffice to say, it's not great.
#foss #opensource #software #marketing #branding #design #linux #freesoftware #libre
If #Biden were to try to issue additional debt without legal authorization, future presidents would be under no obligation to recognize those claims. In fact, it would be arguably illegal for them to pay out of the Treasury to retire such securities.
But also consider the complications of circulating a bunch of invalid notes alongside valid ones.
For example, a pension fund might report that it holds a million dollars in treasuries, but some of that is invalid... which part of it? How would auditing and public disclosure deal with that?
People pushing Biden to just unilaterally issue more debt miss how complicated that would be.
Through #ActivityPub, #Mastodon privacy settings rely on voluntary cooperation. You *request* that instances only share your content with the audience you specify, but there is no real way to enforce that.
This comes as a surprise to many users.
Me, I think I'd change the UI to call it "suggested broadcast"' rather than anything related to privacy so that users are more aware of where their content might end up.
Well, that's interesting. DM blocking on #Mastodon means your instance still receives the message, but it's simply not displayed to your face.
Just one of those quirky parts of #ActivityPub
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@drazraeltod Replies to a post should be metadata on that post. The post itself should have primacy. For someone to see a reply to my post, they should need to retrieve it from my instance. That would also allow me to moderate replies, delete them, and prevent posts from people I have blocked from being seen by others who follow me.
I am well aware that this is not how the ActivityPub design works, and I am here to tell you that in this way the design is bad, and the designers should feel bad.
Since I guess everything is political these days, I'll identify as extremely liberal but without a home in US politics.
Mainly, there's so much misinformation out there that people in society have trouble even organizing into coherent political groupings. So I'd rather not talk about politics but instead focus on information and education. Nothing else matters until the bedrock of fact is buttressed.
But... people are always going to be wrong on the internet, as the saying goes.
So: Old man yells at clouds is a famous joke from The Simpsons, and it probably fairly describes what we do when venting on social media.
Just speaking into the void, since I figure it's an exercise in futility to conduct discussions on these platforms.
Joined Dec 2022
