[-] pattmayne@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

I used to work at the CIA. We did 9/11

[-] pattmayne@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago

They will start setting standards that other instances will be pressured to follow. Those standards will be mechanisms to control the fediverse and make it a data-gathering ad & sales platform.

[-] pattmayne@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 year ago

Good news! Fuck Zuck!

[-] pattmayne@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

Right. OP should find a safe space and stop "whining"

[-] pattmayne@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Right, I guess you would tell immigrants they're free to join another country.

Thanks for calling it "whining" when people engage in conversation about how to organize. You seem nice and tolerant. Not toxic, lover of safe (cruel?) spaces.

[-] pattmayne@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago

Except instead of Nazis (?!?!) it's corporations.

[-] pattmayne@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

I'm socially liberal and economically on the left (as in I like democracy, I accept capitalism, but I want a lot more socialist policies). Downtrodden people should be given assistance, but everyone else should be free to live out their power and ambition unless it gets in other people's way. I'm against most right wing political and social positions. But I'm even more against defederation and mass blocking. I don't want a safe space. There are too many things we need to process with conversation.

[-] pattmayne@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

That's a great price for a vps. What host do you use?

[-] pattmayne@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

I agree.

BUT some degree of infighting means we're alive and engaged with the platform. I think it's healthy infighting.

[-] pattmayne@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

I would grudgingly accept having the ability to op-in to "problematic" instances or communities. As long as I'm not denied any functionality. It's an acceptable compromise.

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The only threat to this burgeoning community is the same old divide & collapse nonsense that separates citizens under their overlords everywhere.

I would create accounts and start calling to defederate instances which allow non-polite (or politically incorrect or otherwise offensive) communities.

We didn't just survive the trolls on reddit. We thrived amongst them. We can handle them. We can block them.

I want curatorial tools to curate my own feed. I absolutely 100% do NOT want any admins telling me what I can't read. And going to another instance is no solution if that instance is blocked.

I don't want to be on a purely polite ecosystem, or a purely right-wing-idiot ecosystem. I want access to everybody, and the tools to curate that experience.

The trolls do NOT have the power to take us down. But the admins definitely do.

Welcome to the Defediverse.

[-] pattmayne@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

Reddit became popular through dangerous openness. I resent having some admin curate my experience. Give users more control to curate their own experiences. Stop getting in the way of what I want to read.

[-] pattmayne@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

I'm in Canada and we just drink the tap water. Some northern and remote native communities have to boil their water and it's considered an embarrassing failure of basic human rights.

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