Also, whoever defederated
@are0h is absolutely fucking insane and pretty much guarantees I’m moving instances… if not giving this sht up in full.
Even if Black/POC find their niche on this thing, you people are obsessed with muting and silencing Black voices who don’t tolerate mediocre white racism on any level.
The issues and constant weirdness I see on #fedi are just…. Insane.
I guess it needs to be said out loud, so as usual, I’m going to say the thing.
It is NOT hard to run/maintain a well moderated* social media site, whatever the format might be. I’ve ran discords, sites, and major message boards with no issue.
Anyone saying “moderation is hard” is being emotionally lazy, and in all honesty, you just don’t want to do the uncomfortable work of telling friends to stop being racist. You’re also refusing accountability for what happens in spaces you create and own.
@ErickaSimone obviously I'm in favor of good moderation. But I do fear that moderation gets intrinsically harder with scale and decentralization.
My sense is that the (clearly extant) moderation problems in the fediverse have two distinct flavors:
instances run by people whose ideas of good moderation i disagree with.
And 2) the deeper trickiness of good moderation in large distributed systems. In a sufficiently large system there can't be consensus about the goals of moderation.
This past Sunday, Brad and I celebrated 17 years of marriage together. That’s 6,209 days of love, laughter, and levity through it all. Happy Anniversary, Bradder! Here’s to many more.
A screenshot of an X post by NBC Asian America (@NB
...) posted 4 days ago, with a verified blue checkmark and an NBC News logo. The post reads: "Japanese American groups slammed the construction of a new immigrant detention center in Texas at a military base that was used during World War II to imprison people of Japanese descent." The post includes an aerial image of a construction site with multiple white-roofed buildings and equipment at Fort Bliss, with a caption overlay reading: "Japanese American groups blast use of Fort Bliss, for..."
A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
professional journalism is when you spend 2000 words explaining why the good guys are bad and the bad guys are good. this is called 'analysis' and they teach it at harvard
found out you can get a job at the pentagon by just walking in and saying "ah yes, the missiles" while nodding thoughtfully. been here 3 weeks. they just gave me the nuclear codes because i "seem like i know what's happening"
The talk raises a set of questions that I agree are excellent.
I certainly intend to continue thinking about the intersection of "Free Software/Open Source" dynamics on the one hand, and the goal of "building a good world" on the other. And how the second doesn't necessarily follow immediately from the first.
(Including "[..] OpenAI CEO Sam Altman intends to make a $1 million personal donation to Trump's inauguration fund, the company confirmed to NPR on Friday [..]")
@molly0xfff about the shirt, I mean ... sure, they might not have the same exact politics, but you have got to hand it to them: They do look every bit as in charge and funky as Zack, right?
