RIotingPacifist

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RIotingPacifist,

This is why nobody use conscripts, imagine an army that is all cops.

RIotingPacifist,

About that: reuters.com/…/palestinians-arrested-under-israeli…

RIotingPacifist,

I dunno EDM sucks.

As does confining millions to an open air prison

As does Israel creating Hamas

As does the current Israeli government ignoring intelligence reports because they wanted this to happen.

RIotingPacifist,

If Israel don’t like Hamas they shouldn’t have created them

RIotingPacifist,

Ok do you understand what an analogue is?

Perhaps Lemmy needs a “translate to simple English feature for you”

RIotingPacifist,

It’s an apt comparison, there aren’t many examples so on the nose about deliberately destabilizing secular groups and Islamist groups filling the power vacuum, only to become a more violent threat.

If you want you could compare it to the allied powers starving the Spanish Republic of resources, enabling the rise of the Nazis, but it’s a bit of a stretch.

RIotingPacifist,

Also Hamas was empowered by the Israeli state by the distruction of secular opposition.

Not disimilar to how the US armed the Taliban & created a power vacuum for them to fill

RIotingPacifist,

You ever wonder what it would be like if you had self-esteem & were proud of your values instead of complaining about others having virtues?

RIotingPacifist,

Good thing I’ve watched that video, twice then!

Did we kill Linux's killer feature?

A few years ago we were able to upgrade everything (OS and Apps) using a single command. I remember this was something we boasted about when talking to Windows and Mac fans. It was such an amazing feature. Something that users of proprietary systems hadn’t even heard about. We had this on desktops before things like Apple’s...

RIotingPacifist,

flatpaks are all updated at once, just like distro packages, so yeah you might need to commands, but that’s still very different to having each application update itself (and the security hell implied by that)

Also I think pkcon can manage your updates across various backends (unless you are on Arch, where I think there are both technical & ideological objections to having a simple tool that just works)

RIotingPacifist,

This is the result of alienation from your labor that capitalism excells at, get hobbies or start organizing as a way to break out of it.

We don’t need to change the entire god damn system to be useful, but at least building towards it is infinitely more rewarding than doing nothing IMO

RIotingPacifist,

It’s not pure greed though, if companies do not push down costs & push up revenues enough, they get replaced by those that do.

It is capitalism doing what it does “best”, here’s a clip from I’m A Virgo that explains it better than me: youtu.be/lpagmvYZKRc?t=84

There are niches where companies can hide out for a while, especially if they provide a service that needs local implementation, but social media isn’t one of those niches, if you get outcompeted, your toast, no matter how big you peak, MySpace, Tumbler, Digg, Slashdot, etc, this is the monopolization effect of markets.

RIotingPacifist,

Part of it is the standard crisis of capitalism, the profit you get from doing the same thing always declines, so over time you have to push up revenue (increasing prices, forcing people to pay, showing more ads, gathering more data, etc) & push down costs (fire engineers, run on less hardware, etc)

Part of it is capitalisms natural tendency to create monopolies, and the lack of competition in a given field causing the company to then lose sight of what it’s good at to compete in a bigger field.

Part is that interest rates mean loans are no longer cheap, so taking on debt to get customer, to at some point down the line make money, is a less viable plan. Twitter is a special case where the bad loans are because that was the original deal not interested rate related, and Musk is trying to pull all of the enshitification levers at the same time.

Part is that CEOs generally don’t have a fucking clue about their products or what they are doing (it’s a circuit job about who you know/blow, not what you know), so once one CEO starts firing/enshitifying, the rest just copy them so as to not be left out.

RIotingPacifist,

You are now a moderator of BiPartisanConsensus@lemmy.warmachine

RIotingPacifist,

End capitalism (& the nation state/state in general)

RIotingPacifist,

I disagree that defederation shouldn't be taken lightly, if it looks at all like a nazi instances, scalp & move on.

Lemmy.ml is blocking all requests from /kbin Instances (kbin.social)

I discovered yesterday evening that Lemmy.ml is blocking all inbound ActivityPub requests from /kbin instances. Specifically, a 403 'access denied' is returned when the user agent contains "kbinBot" anywhere in the string. This has been causing a cascade of failures with federation for many server owners, flooding the message...

RIotingPacifist,

Fuck that, I don't want to give Nazis a safe space to organize and spread their hate.

RIotingPacifist,

Respectfully: Fuck that.

If you want to find the best instant rice recommendations on Lemmy, Lemmy should have a functional post search function, rather than me relying on a malevolent corporate entity like google to index all the content.

Search has gone to shit as the Internet has embraced social media sites, an upside of this is that wikipedia+Lemmy+key word search, mayas accurate as asking Google Bard or bing, and they can be built on entirety open tech.

RIotingPacifist,

I don’t think that many companies have their shit together well enough to mirror the source code, besides the RHEL repos aren’t small, so that’ll cost.

The companies I’ve helped either had a minimalist mirror to reduce the surface area of what was installable or to save on cost.

It’s possible that a few enterprises do a full mirror of all RHEL sources, but i doubt it’s many

RIotingPacifist,

Not really sure what you think is wrong with karma? most of reddit's problem IMO come down to bad moderation.

But for comment scoring, there are really just 3 methods I've seen:

  • Generic Up/Downvote - Reddit
  • Categorized Up/Downvote - Slashdot - This worked on a technical forum to keep technical knowledge near the top, while still allowing stupid/funny comments further down the page, plus it made ignoring stupid/funny threads easy
  • Personalized Up/Downvote - Facebook/Twitter/etc - basically build a profile of users you agree/interact with, and then weight their interactions accordingly to predict what content you'll like/hate.
    • I believe Ticktok take this to the next level, because 90% of users don't up/downvote, ticktok logs the passive act of continuing to watch content as a partial upvote making their algorithms train on the average users likes/dislikes faster.

You could probably combine Personalized & Categorized, but I've AFAIK not seen it done.

I think the problems with moderation are harder to solve, because you have both bad-faith moderators & good-faith but easily played moderators as problems, and you also want different dynamics as forums grow.

I think lemmy could really experiment with good moderation & meta-moderation and if the developers are interested anyway, be a far better forum as a result.

  • Peer review of moderator decisions is something Slashdot did that went quite well. Once you'd been an active user with good "karma" for a while you would occasionally be asked to review other users votes, I think a similar thing could be done for moderation decisions
  • Elected mods. For subs above a certain size, having moderation essentially boil down to whatever the guy who created the sub decides, is bad. I don't know exactly how it would work to prevent abuse, but as subs grow, at some point it would be good if the community chose the mods.
    • even short of full fledged democracy community approval of mod appointments would certainly reduce the amount of mod drama where it 1 bad head mod, will purge the other mods and replace them all with sock puppets.
  • Users-led replacement of bad mods, similar to electing mods, it would be good for users to "recall" a bad mod.
  • Transparency over mod actions, I understand that with the number of Nazis & other assorted trolls online reddit chose to let mods, moderate anonymously, but it really means you have no idea who is doing a good/bad job in many subreddits, some level of transparency for all but the worst content is key.
  • Moving subs, as lemmy instances have some control over the content of the subs that reside on them, it would make sense for there to be some method for the users + mods of a sub to decide to move it to another instances. This not only prevents admin abuse, but also encourages competition between instances for technical administration & content administration.
  • Splitting communities , sometimes subs grow "too big" and have different subcommunities that end up fighting for control of a sub, it would be good if there were a way of these communities splitting into 2 rather than fighting over the original name. not sure how it would work, but thinking about how r/trees & r/cannabis split or something similar. Maybe /r/canabis could become an combo of /r/canabisnews & /r/canabismemes, where users can just ubsub from the 1/2 of the content they don't want.
  • Letting users weight subs/filter subs how much of subs they see, sometimes I've unsubbed from a high-content sub, just because while i liked the content it was overpowering the rest of my feed, it would be nice to have users configure how much of a sub they see (especially if combined with Categorized Up/Downvote), rather than complaining about "bad moderation" I can just personally choose to see less of what I don't want.

Anyway thank you for reading/not-reading my ted talk, but I suspect this will come up again so now I can copy/pasta it.

RIotingPacifist,

It's pretty easy, i got banned from a couple of subs for being left-wing (apparently calling out brigading from far-right subs was against the rules).

But i got a sitewide ban because I used an alt to ban evade (can't remember the exact post, but somebody was asking for advise wrt to COVID in a legal sub (I was originally banned for for encouraging a user to get funny but illegal payback on their neighbors), and it felt urgent enough that I was fine getting banned.).

Once you get a siteban, trolls will flag report all your posts even on subs your not banned from, or at least whenever I brought up that r/UKpolitics is modded by a literal fascist, I'd get a new site ban for "ban evasion", to the point where pretty much any encounter with a far right troll or YIMBY would get me a ban.

The admins also seem to work very closely with certain moderators, as was shown when they leaked a trans employees information to TERFisland subs.

So while powermods can't get you a sitewide ban, some have the ear of the admins who can keep an eye on you until you break a sitewide rule.

And on a site which has alt-right subs, it's hard to at the very least walk right up to the line on the rules wrt treating all commenters like humans.

RIotingPacifist,

Also, given how open Nazis can be on reddit (e.g the admins are fine with a guy names after this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravan_of_Death running a national politics sub), the Nazis incredible stupid.

How is a company like Reddit “not profitable” yet?

Beyond spez (and the fact that he is a greedy little pig boy), I’m curious about the corporate dynamics that prevent a company like Reddit from being profitable. From an outside perspective, they make hundreds of millions per year via advertising, their product is a relatively simple (compared to industries that need a lot of...

RIotingPacifist,

Amazon are famous for this, they try and run AWS at a net loss of whatever profit Amazon Retail makes, because it's easy to spend money quickly at the end of the year to avoid taxes on IP and contracts.

RIotingPacifist,

We can't be sure until a government study tells us.

Unrelated I'm looking for volunteers in a government run experiment.

RIotingPacifist,

Subreddits belong to the community of users…

So you're providing tools to allow democratic control of subreddits, right?

Right?

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