Religious beliefs don’t make people do bad things. They don’t make people do good things either.
Beliefs generally don’t make people do anything at all. That is, beliefs are not really causal to behavior. People tend to act like the people around them, the people they associate with and can observe (in person or virtually). We adopt beliefs primarily as ex post facto justifications for why we acted the way we did. They make it possible for us to live with our actions, but they don’t cause our actions.
Culture? Ideology? Religion? Not particularly useful indicators of how someone will behave.
@HeavenlyPossum, wouldn't one trait be enough, though? With more and more traits, the picture would become clearer. They don't drink alcohol and they do X, and then Y—and at some point, we could take a swing at some sort of categorisation (and not even to judge, but to place that person in some sort of their context). This quick-modelling is how people operate anyway. If it was completely wrong, it wouldn't develop to the point it's discussed like that here.
I am hyper focused on this police thing now and have stuff to do but what worries me is there is no processes on #mastodon or central committee to deal with admins of big instances if they become problematic and you think it will improve any with #threads joining? This stuff has to be worked out
@Wraithe@LALegault, but #Fediblock is not any sort of central committee if I understand it correctly. As a tenant of fediblock-marked instance I know there is no due diligence and someone can put your instance on the list and then you're mostly done.
The very nature of Fediverse is that there is no central institution. There are some pacts and solutions like Fediblock, but the participation is fully optional and volunatrily. This way no Elon Musk can buy into that. That's by design.
The downside is that if there is a problematic instance then it has to be dealt by everyone else and there is no official complaint to Eugen Rochko or anything like that. It's just a bunch of instances talking to each other.
My real worry with Google's voyage into enshittification (thanks to Cory Doctorow @pluralistic the term) is YouTube.
Through YT, for the past 15 years, the world has basically entrusted Google to be the custodian of pretty much our entire global video archive.
There's countless hours of archived footage — news reports, political speeches, historical events, documentaries, indie films, academic lectures, conference presentations, rare recordings, concert footage, obscure music — where the best or only copy is now held by Google through YouTube.
So what happens if maintaining that archival footage becomes unprofitable?
Interesting blogpost why we need "frugal computing", computing that uses as little energy as possible. Why we need to use our devices as long as possible. How computing in general plays part in global CO2 emission. Interesting read very much in line with #degrowth and #energydescent ideas
There's no “content” on the Fediverse. There's stories, articles, greetings, friends, and humans. Contentification of human creativity is what algorithm-based platforms drove us to do. Content to distract, void of meaning or a soul, but filled with sponsorships and monetary incentive.
The Fediverse is unique as it has meaning first, medium second. We say things not for the sake of saying something to please some algorithm or audience, but because we think it's something someone needs to hear, or we simply wish to say. Once you've become accustomed to this way of digital interaction, liberalize your creativity from the shackles of corporate interests and marketability, there's no way back. The only thing I wish is to give people, our generation that knows no alternative, that same feeling.