$10,000 bounty for notorious Akkoma instance assassin. last known usernames @eris@eris@eris Approach this user with extreme caution on other instance software, do not approach if you are using Akkoma. /lh
This individual is extremely dangerous. It is currently unknown how many instances this individual has personally taken down, whether they are acting alone or in a group.
There's so much fear in the fediverse about bad admins/mods, and honestly it's no different to the days where we had forums with bad admins/mods.
The problem is that largely for the past decade people have been in walled gardens either never thinking of moderation, or actively needing to work against moderation to exist.
And you didn't have a choice, because you were locked into that provider & their moderation policies.
In addition to the fact that we're not used to thinking about moderation, I think a big barrier to entry it usability/accessibility, as currently much of the moderation discussions happen on chat rooms outside of Mastodon.
But hopefully the release of groups in the next few months will help there, so each instance can have a group with only instance members to discuss moderation!
We've been running our platform for a couple of months now, and overall it's been going good - but one thing we haven't been able to solve is running self-hosted GitHub Action runners with #Docker.
We are running them as a scale group per GitHub repository (we have monorepos so we don't need many) then within that run 1 instance during 'office hours' and scale down to 0 with ad-hoc needs at the evenings and weekends.
I don't often talk about sexism even though it's obvs rife in tech, partly because I'm a white woman and you know, I'm doing ok, there are much more marginalised groups I think we should be prioritising.
HOWEVER, I can confidently say at this point that the most prevalent and damaging instances of sexism I've experienced in the workplace have been from men who considered and presented themselves as innocuous or even feminist.
either a block or some kind of federation issue, IDK
I think your home instance, sh.itjust.works (whoops, that’s this community’s instance, not your home) (mbin.)grits.dev, defederated from both of them.
My own, jlai.lu, hasn’t, so I see some of their posts crop up in my “All” timeline.
I have interacted with lemmy.ml people a decent amount, so most of what I’m saying in the comments is referencing them
Huh, that’s not what I was expecting. Thanks for clearing that up for me.
Usually my experience is that if you have to edit your viewpoints to conform to what someone wants to hear, or else they will attack you, that person’s worth avoiding interacting with.
Not trying to be unkind about it (esp since specifically where hexbear is concerned I have basically no firsthand experience at all interacting with them) but that’s my feeling.
This might be a question of personal tolerance to types of interaction (similarly, not trying to be unkind). I see it as selectively choosing when to engage (and on what to engage with), but I can totally understand if to you that is me editing my viewpoints to conform to what they want to hear. For the record, I don’t often engage at all with grad and hexbear, not even up- or down-votes; I’ll read what they have to say if the post title I come across sufficiently grabs my attention. There are a number of lemmy.ml communities that I do directly interact with regularly, mostly tech-related.
Given how sometimes aggressively apolitical most of the fediverse tech spaces are, there is a part of the discussion that I value around current events that I have had a hard time finding outside of lemmy.ml. The best I’ve found are awful.systems and slrpnk.net (notably the permacomputing community at the latter). The scope of the first is intentionally limited to cathartic deconstruction of bad things, and the second I find lacking too much substance to suffice. There’s raddle.me, but as they’re not federated with the wider 'verse it doesn’t really fit the bill either.
I don’t have the energy or know-how to be the change I wish to see, but if there was an instance outside of these three (.ml,grad,hexbear) that provided a place for the construction of good things (admittedly, following my personal definition of good) in place of the bad, I could see myself blocking them after one too many full-on tankie posts cropping up in my feed.
Actually, now that I think about it, mostly what I get from the hexbear and grad posts are a less-substantive form of the catharsis that awful.systems provides but on a broader range of topics. It is, sadly a coin toss on whether that catharsis will be ruined by everything you so rightly are put off by.
I had this really disorienting experience […], and everything I found from that point on was hostile counterfactual condescending insanity.
My experience lines up with yours, except for me not even attempting to prod at all.
The part that I don’t get about that is the support for some of the actors that are primary engines of death and destruction in the current state of the world.
That’s not lack of compromise, that’s just being wrong and proud of it.
I think there’s being wrong and proud of it, and there’s being so scared and whip-lashed by the obvious contradictions of the West’s purported values and it’s geopolitical impact on the rest of the world over the past few centuries that you lose any sense of truth. That’s maybe me being a bit melodramatic. On the other hand, I see it as akin to how a person’s drowning “reflex” is to pull whoever comes close down with them - to the point that lifeguards need specific training (and a flotation device if I’m not mistaken) to be able to save a drowning person without endangering themselves as well.
They read more to me though like a person fleeing abuse from one partner, and then self-destructively choosing a partner that’s 10 times worse (or maybe more accurately starting a pen-pal relationship with a convict who if they got out and interacted with them would literally do 10 times worse or kill them.)
That’s probably closer to the mark. It doesn’t help that the former partner has friends all over the world that are very dismissive of any allegations. When I talk about the onus on us to intervene, I mean it more in the sense that we should be finding people that we can train and employ to be internet lifeguards.
On one hand, I don’t think they deserve to be written off as heavily as what I often see expressed in the rest of the fediverse. You don’t solve someone’s trust issues by ragging on their poor follow-up choices. On the other hand, this is online social media, not an irl group of friends and acquaintances. I don’t exactly expect any specific person to do the work to reach them via these spaces.
Thanks in any case for trying to productively engage with me on this. This exact conversation is tiring on the best of days.
Moderator communities, government petitions, and also how I think that PieFed latest small update is more meaningful that it seems. I also spend some time looking at Nostr and Farcaster, as there are interesting developments happening on those networks that are relevant for the fediverse. Let’s dive in:
The News
IFTAS, the Independent Federated Trust and Safety organisation, has launched IFTAS Connect, a ‘new community of practice designed specifically for Fediverse moderators.’ IFTAS has regularly held surveys under fediverse moderators, the Moderator Needs Assessments, and one of the most requested items was a better way to convene and communicate. With IFTAS Connect there is now such a platform, that features an extensive library, forums and a place for group discussions.
The Canadian House of Commons was presented with a petition to for the Canadian government to “enact policy and dedicate budgetary resources to enable the Parliament of Canada to provide an open, trusted, federated, social media presence”. Here’s the video of the petition being read in the House of Commons.
Newsmast wrote last week on the fediverse as a hub for the social web, and how they are integration people into their communities from across multiple platforms, including Threads and Bluesky. They posted a research report this week, Mapping the Social Web, that takes a closer look at where different communites are on different platforms. Some of the main takaways: Most communities are present on only one of two of the platforms, and only US Politics and Politics have strong communities on both Threads, Bluesky and the fediverse.
Link aggregator platform PieFed can now federate with PeerTube. Furthermore, PieFed is using its ‘Topics’ system to promote some PeerTube channels as well. PieFed’s Topics take an aggregation of different Lemmy/Kbin/Mbin communities and group them together under a certain Topic. For example, the Linux Topic now contains a collection of Lemmy communities such as !Linux, as well as @thelinuxexperiment_channel. I think this is something worth paying attention to, as it signals a shift in thinking about how the link-aggregator platforms can work: Platforms like Lemmy (or Reddit) work by having users push content into the platform and are thus fully dependent on user-submission. This addition by PieFed allows for a pull-method as well: PieFed now pulls content into their Topics from other platforms automatically by subscribing to them.
Darnell Clayton draws some more attention to Loforo.com, a Tumblr-like fediverse platform, and points out that it actually has quite a sizable community. The platform reports around 15k MAU, which makes it a top-10 instance in the fediverse by MAU, even though the service is virtually unknown. As I reported a few weeks ago, Lofoto has apparently been integrated with ActivityPub for a while, but never made any formal announcement about it, as for as I can tell. Clayton reports that it is likely that Loforo uses the Mastodon API to a significant extend, as logging into Loforo with a Mastodon client works, and fediDB lists Loforo as a Mastodon instance.
Hollo is a new single-user microblogging platform that is currently being build by Hong Minhee. Hong is also behind Fedify, an ActivityPub server framework, which just got updated this week as well. Hollo is build using the Fedify framework.
FediVision 2024 has concluded, the yearly song contest where artists that are on the fediverse can submit their songs. This year, 72 entries were submitted, and the winner is Misaligned Aardvarks by The Island of Nothing.
Some news from Farcaster and Nostr
Some news from the crypto-affiliated decentralised social networks:
I wrote about Farcaster this week, with the goal of answering the question: why is a social network with 80k daily users valued at 1 billion dollars? While the height of the valuation seems questionable to me, it is clear that Farcaster provides a social network that is indeed valuable for (crypto-focused) VCs. There are enough interesting ideas in Farcaster that it is worth paying attention to.
Talking about Farcaster and why I’m paying attention to what is happening there: Neynar is a company that builds tools that help people create products on top of Farcaster. Neynar announced that they raised 11M USD in a series A. What we’ve seen in the broader ecosystem of decentralised social networks so far is that Nostr has managed to punch above their weight (in terms of active users) with the amount of products being build for Nostr, and a major contributor to that is relatively easy to build other products on top of Nostr. This is in contrast with Bluesky, which has the least amount of developer activity, even though it has the largest active user base, with developers saying it is hard to develop for ATProto. A company that makes it easy for developers to build on top of the protocol can have a significant impact.
Jack Dorsey’s Block mentioned Nostr in their Q1 Shareholder letter, saying that “Creative endeavors will rely heavily on micropayments, something that’s been discussed since the dawn of the internet, and finally being realized at scale with things like “zaps” (transferring small amounts of bitcoin via lightning) on the NOSTR protocol.” Block says that they see an opportunity to build systems that connect the existing financial system with emerging systems, heavily implying Nostr’s Zap system. Rumour is that TIDAL and CashApp (both owned by Block) are working on integrations. Websites for both companies have a link that follows a standard Nostr reference structure: https://tidal.com/.well-known/nostr.json?name=TIDAL and https://cash.app/.well-known/nostr.json. Nothing is officially confirmed however, as far is I can tell this is the only reference to TIDAL and CashApp doing something with Nostr.
(EDIT 2024-06-03: another reference to Nostr in the TIDAL code base)
WeDistribute joined Nos Social’s Journalism Accelerator Program. Nos Social is a client app for Nostr. WeDistribute writes about why they are joining, and seeing value in expanding their writing to include Nostr: “different [networks] offer unique and novel approaches to solving common problems that every decentralized network struggles with. We’re all tackling different pieces of the puzzle, in an effort to make the Social Web a viable alternative”.
The Links
Project Defiant, the 10k USD seed grant to build an alternative for DeviantArt on the fediverse, has some more detailed information on the grant application process. The deadline is June 4th.
I’ve been using linux desktop for a year or so now. One noteable thing i keep seeing is that one person will say I dont like XYZ distrobution because of its base. But I am still a little unsure what is meant by it. I am assuming the main difference between each base is the choice of package management(?). But what other...
Something that often gets missed is the difference between packaging conventions between distros.
For example, Debian has Apache httpd packaged as “apache2” and has wrapper scripts for enabling sites. Fedora/RHEL has “httpd” and includes conf.d from the main conf. Arch also has “httpd” but doesn’t have a conf.d out of the box. Of course you can pretty much configue Apache to your heart’s content and have an identical setup between all three distros.
From what I’ve read, Debian tends to patch and change software to fit more into their overall system whereas Fedora and Arch tend to be more upstream.
RPM and Arch both have group packages and metapackages. Debian just has metapackages AFAIK. Debian also has “recommended” and “suggested” levels of soft dependencies, the former which is enabled by default. RPM has the capability for weak dependencies but AFAIK most RPM distros don’t use it. Arch doesn’t have soft/weak dependencies AFAIK.
When you install a new system daemon on Debian, it’s generally enabled and started by default, whereas RPM-based and Arch don’t do that.
When I think of the base of the system I tend to think of some of those more subtle idiosyncrasies that tend to spread around the ecosystems, like Ubuntu and Debian behave quite similarly for instance.
A friendly remind, that the Fediverse, is not managed by a wealthy organization or business, funded with corporate sponsorship, paid ads, or subscriptions. The Fediverse is a group of Fedi Instances (servers), managed voluntarily, but regular people, who like yourself, wanted a better social media experience.
Your administrator pays for real servers, with real-world cost, such as storage and bandwidth. The more users, the more storage and bandwidth, the more the cost.
If you're able, please consider reaching out to your Fedi Administrator, and inquire if you can make a voluntary contribution.
At the terminal, go to the directory that contains the mount point for the disk (so if the mount point is /mnt/disk go to /mnt.
Run ls -l. This should list everything in /mnt with the owners and permissions. If your mount point (in this example disk) is owned by user and group root, then you just need to change ownership of the mount point and the disk attached.
With the disk attached, run sudo chown -R user:user disk
Replace each instance ofuser with your system username (if you’re not sure what you’re username is run whoami and it will tell you), and replace disk with your mount point directory.
Here’s what this does:
sudo: escalates your privileges to run the chown command
chown: the utility that allows you to change ownership of files and directories
-R: tells chown to change ownership recursively
user:user specifies the user and group that will own the files/directories you are modifying.
disk: specifies the file(s)/directories you want to change ownership for.
Right-wing violence is rising at an alarming rate, warn German victim support groups
Violence against politicians has been dominating the headlines, but instances of everyday racism and anti-Semitic attacks are causing German victim advice centres to sound the alarm. Euronews travelled to Thuringia, a right-wing hotspot, to speak with a victim of neo-Nazi violence.
Bill Pruitt, a former producer for The Apprentice whose NDA just expired after 20 years, writes in Slate that Donald Trump used the n-word during the production of the show — and there are tapes of him doing it.
Depends on what you mean. Is it hate speech from a court of public opinion standpoint? Probably. Is it from a legal one? The US doesn’t have a hate speech law on the books just “Obscenity law” which allows things to be censored.
Canadian law has hate speech but it might not fit that either as to legally be chargable as hate speech it needs to fit the criteria. In this instance it could be argued use of an N slur is Denying, minimizing or celebrating past persecution or tragedies that happened to group members… but it would ALSO need be performative in a public space, intended and performed for a large group. If it’s basically in the scope of him having a private conversation with individuals it isn’t a chargeable offence to public order. If he was shouting it in the street sure but consequences wise it’s analogous to someone shouting “The Duck army is coming!” over and over again outside your house 3am. It’s a public nuisance ordinance. If you call the cops will come over and stop it only if someone complains and at worst they will escort you away and issue a fine but nobody is going to do hard time for heralding the Duck army’s arrival or hate speech.
So like is it hate speech? Maybe. Is he a racist dick who deserves condemnation for being a hateful racist dick? Yes.
Why does everyone suddenly seem to think it’s ok to say the R word again? I feel like I hadn’t heard it in years and suddenly everyone around me is using it, and I see it on Reddit all the time. Am I imagining it? Is anyone seeing this? I don’t even know what to say when it’s suddenly just everyone in a group and...
I've seen it (and many other ableist slurs) used far too often, especially for a site that is generally supposed to be more left leaning (which tbf isn't saying much when it comes to combatting ableism because we seem to have very few true allies) but is also full of tech-bros, who love punching down at others based on perceived intelligence, and who also have quite a lot of crossover with 4chan type cesspits, so sadly it isn't unexpected.
I call it out it when I see it, and generally block and report, but what I find most frustrating is that mods throughout lemmy/fediverse (again, even on the most supposedly left leaning instances like lemmy.ml) just ignore the reports and don't remove the comments (I know people are busy, I don't expect instant action, I give it a week or two in general before I check the modlog).
I've had to block several large communities, most that I'm actually interested in (mostly tech and science related, again, places where people love feeling superior based on perceived intelligence), because I get the message - making people like me feel safe and included isn't a priority in those spaces, so I refuse to occupy them.
Whether the privileged group accept it or not, that is the result of using slurs - making already marginalised people feel unwelcome and excluded.
And when they tell me not to be so easily offended, I link this (or maybe this or this) with the full knowledge that they will probably never read it, but with the hope that someone else might, and that it might make them reconsider their use of certain words (though I don't hold my breath in anticipation of society at large giving a shit).
i don’t think hexbear is a good sample group for the average lemmy user nor representative of lemmy users a whole. you might do better sampling lemmy.world, or assembling a meta poll from the top 5 or top 10 instances.
Alright, I've been thinking. As we know, the default model of conversation on the Fediverse is a tree. Threads are directed graphs, each node is allowed multiple children and only one parent. Kinda like a filesystem. There are also (hash-)tags, but they are a bit meta and work across all conversations.
What if we upgrade it a little bit? What if we allow multiple parents to each node? What if you can reply to multiple posts? I miss this feature because sometimes, when I post something, I get similar replies from different people, and I'm forced to either answer both of them (which sucks, because duplication of effort) or reply to only one and leave all others unanswered, which spawns an offshoot conversation that is basically already over. This way, conversation may feel more like putting out little fires at times. So, instead I can just add all of those in one reply, and add more as they appear.
And it's not that hard to do. Just make in-reply-to a list, not a string.
@skobkin@drq This is strange. I using VK, which has same mechanics in messages: you can forward multiple messages, it is not direct reply and even does not notify sender, but it allows:
Citate other user's message, keeping all attachments groupped in this message, not randomly placed after it, usual citation cannot do this.
Other users may be sure that original message was sent by user, not "fake citate" and see original send time. Even if they have no rights to see original message.
And this is integrated feature, not some user-formatted citate which may differ in syntax or visual representation.
And i very missing this feature in all messengers. Yes, there is message forward in telegram, but it does not allow to make commentary, only forwards original message like repost.
In fediverse that might be very useful because you may mention message auhor anyway. Also it should keep all attachments, text, format, etc.. not respecting local instance limits to be useful. Not sure it may be implemented in mastodon...
Agreed with you on Sanders - he is an incredibly rare occurrence in politics. He is someone who was :
Not ever rich so he understands from a very real perspective the economic stratification that many of those in higher government offices ignore or are oblivious to.
Didn’t seek politics as a means to enrich himself (unlike Sinema for example)
The closest other analogs I can think of are a few members of the “squad…” but even a good number of them come from some sort of modest means… although - again - that garbage pile Sinema shows us that’s no guarantee when it comes to class solidarity… :(
Beto on the other hand - who I actually met in person once and shook hands with - although he is a thousand times better than Cruz or Abbott - is basically backed by his very well-to-do in-laws and more of the “New Democrats” coalition - aka Obama / Buttigieg / thinly-veiled neoliberal “look how cool I am but don’t check my voting record too closely” group of pretend-progressives backed by a lot of capital trying to appeal to the folks who like the politics of Sanders, AOC, Warren, etc.
Although Beto’s better than some of the others in my opinion, his voting record shows he’d be another Obama policy-wise so no public healthcare probably, no ending massive private-kick-back driven “Military Industrial Complex” contracts, probably not great on foreign policy, and I wouldn’t expect him to crack down on billionaire tax evasionists.
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I am not rolling my eyes about a shift to a more non-binary society. I think absolute destigmatization and democratization of gender roles, stereotypes and culture at large would be a boon to a lot of different groups. Heck they/them pronouns being the norm until you know someone’s preference actually benefits non-binary and non-gender conforming people and put to bed more toxic femininity and toxic masculinity. Allowing humans to just be whatever appeals to them personally would allow us to better appreciate the individual natures of people. It also will reduce the pressures that do exist for some people which will stop some people from feeling the need to aggressively align with the sexual binary for the sake of survival or who have to keep their identity quietly under wraps at present. It would be ultimately a good and healthier place to gravitate towards. Ultimately treating gender more flippantly does allow people to feel less like it’s a chain around their neck and more of a toy that can be engaged with for the sheer fun of it. Because gender euphoria is just that - joy. Trans narratives often center around pain and dispair but it’s one half of the equation. The other half is just experiencing at it’s most extreme a very wild almost drug-like illogical emotional high. People like to play and a lot of people deny themselves play because of these cultural narratives of shame and tradition. It’s in part why the gay community has ballroom culture and drag. A lot of that doesn’t from a place of transness, they are just doing it because once you’re considered a failure of the standard it’s easier to transgress other rules. If they are gunna hate you anyway for the thing that you can’t change why care what they think?
Just as political lesbianism was a thing in the 80’s we are seeing I think a rise in political non-binary identities. If you think a more non-binary society is a good thing than I agree!
But conversely I think gender affirming care that deals with physical transition is probably going to remain a nessesity even in that kind of senario and we’ll probably see more instances of gender “kit bashing” as the walls around sexual stigmas are further challenged.
The society you mention already is having it’s trial run. Where I live there’s a much wider swath of the community that participates in the genderqueer social conventions of society. It is of course seeing pushback from Conservative groups as they are trialing things like gender neutral bathrooms in K-12 schools but as far as the conversations around LGBTQIA+ issues we’ve always been about a decade ahead of the States.
> Most email services with the exception of maybe mailchimp and proton do that.
My mail gets through without trouble to almost all servers with the sole exception of the ones that say "aspmx.googlemail.com" when I ask for the MX record.
> if I detect it in the spam folder.
Are you running any MTAs at present? If I send the email, Google's servers for a very long time, flagrantly ignoring SMTP, sends the mail to /dev/null and claims that it has accepted the message. This is a far worse problem than their spam filters fucking up.
> getting defed for only one person getting butt hurt
I think you don't get it. There are some people that try to cause trouble, like for :epstein: whatever reason :epsteinsmug:, the anime.website admin wanted to pick fights over FSE banning someone that wrote "MAP" in his bio and posted naked 12-year-old girls. Easy ban: a self-described pedophile posts nude young girls draped across each other on a bed, FSE didn't even allow loli hentai, so sexualized images of naked children are a very easy call. So the anime.website pedo shouts a while and decries my arrogance and calls me paranoid and says that I am not a lawyer so I don't know what pornography is and that I shouldn't tell pedophiles to kill themselves. Whatever, not going to budge: anyone that tries to upload CP to fedi should be swinging from a branch. (Same person started in again almost every time I banned a pedo.) So then the posting.lolicon.rocks guy decides to pick a fight over the same ban, and it becomes obvious the guy doesn't actually care about anything he's saying, he just wants to stir up drama. Easy to ignore him after that. I didn't regret the decision to ban the guy, I did it again without hesitation, I started posting their IPs and email addresses in the @modfaggotry notes. So if more people try to argue with me about that same ban, what can I infer? They intend to cause problems. Then if someone said, "Hey, this guy blocks people for arguing about that ban, he's clearly butthurt!" and a hundred people decided to start trying to fight about that ban, I'd just get rid of them.
This happened with the Loli Question. Drama retards love that one: you can't ever prove "should" and people set their policies based on what they're willing to deal with. (In FSE's case, there were a few reasons to prohibit it: the DOJ maintains that it's illegal, I don't want to give people an excuse to instance-block, I don't want to give the government an excuse, etc.) It's very easy to determine the difference between someone that wants to talk about it and someone that wants to create drama (e.g., they hear "This is what we do and why, these are my concerns" and they ignore your concerns while continuing to hammer the salacious facets, or they restart the same argument from the beginning as if the previous argument hadn't happened, or especially in FSE's case, they complain to me for prohibiting loli for the "wrong" reasons and they completely ignored instances that explicitly allowed it; I think everyone knows how to tell, at least going by their gut even if they don't try to come up with a rule of thumb). The Loli Question was bot's go-to, she'd say deliberately misleading things to try to get a large number of replies, because having blocked her, she couldn't annoy me directly, but if she just replied to each of my last ten posts with something like "I can't believe you support child pornography!" then people would start replying to her post, and I'd be tagged in their replies. (She didn't create that tactic, but she can engage in :facesofautism2: repetitive behavior :facesofautism2: without getting bored.) But by the nth time the same group of people stirred up the same drama the same way, it wasn't hard to conclude that this was what they were going to do periodically. So, January 2, 2022, I get more notifications in one day than any other person on FSE--the hellthread instance--had ever gotten in one day. Then that record was broken five more times, and the fifth time was January 9, when I received 1,667 notifications in a single 24-hour period (there are only 1,440 minutes in a day) and decided to write the Iron Dome MRF, I tacked a bunch of usernames onto the Strangelove bot auto-responder, I blocked accounts, I instance-blocked accounts, etc.
Nobody has time to deal with a gaggle of assholes that waste your time shit-stirring. It's not a matter of being butthurt, it's that nobody wants to dedicate their life to arguing on the internet with tedious assholes whose goal is not to get anywhere but to use senseless arguments to provoke you, the same people that have been on the same shit once a week for years, and if there are enough people that decide to do that once a week, it becomes a constant stream. Like I said, if I were in graf's position, I'd be smashing the big, red button way more often.
> It's very petty if you ask me to hide your users to an entire instance because of 1 user.
See my other remarks about exactly this happening to me 1,399 times: https://fba.ryona.agency/?domain=freespeechextremist.com . And we've gotten that not just because of one user, but because of one user that I banned when I saw what they were doing.
It looks petty to you because you think it's personal. It's only personal from one end: from the other, it's the 50th time this week, and it barely registers to the conscious mind.
> Issues with users for being "mean" should be handled by user settings (aka block) first than the big ol ban hammer.
As stated, yes, absolutely, but that's doesn't reflect the actual case. Either you don't understand the scale and the degree and you think it is just an occasional person being mean, or you are downplaying it. Come on, man, it's not just an occasional person being mean on the internet. When poa.st first arrived and I was talking to graf about database tuning, I was getting messages from people telling me not to trust him, and I was like "Trust him with what? He is a guy running an instance, what's the worst he could do?" and I never got an answer from anyone, so whatever the grudge is, it evidently predates fedi. I'm thoroughly tired of the persistent stream of "Oh, that graf, he's MEAN ON THE INTERNET he's definitely UP TO SOMETHING", so I can only imagine what his notifications would look like if he wasn't using Soapbox and its complete shit notification UI. I don't blame him for shooting first and asking questions never.
> Because any company big or small should not take and sell your data period.
Sure, but as noted in the other post, the one that is relevant now is the one that is in front of us. didn-t_age_well.png
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