LexiMax

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by LexiMax 3y ago
After going out of my way to avoid Reddit for a few days, I was shocked at how little I actually needed the site in my life. Traditional forums and Discord work great at replacing the niche subreddits, but what I was surprised by was how ea
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> Your assertion here that a code of conduct could get dragged into a culture war directly contradicts your previous assertion that there is no war outside of HN. Whoops, ya got me! :) In all seriousness, there's no contradiction.
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These conversations invariably get hijacked by OS/FS advocates who intentionally pick language designed to put any license that doesn't follow its dogma into one big bucket, despite the sometimes significant material differences b
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> I think this talks past concerns. That is intentional, as I believe that these discussions attract rules lawyers who I feel are missing the point. If the people running the project enforce rules in bad faith, a CoC like the Contributor
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Exactly. I don't keep a mental checklist in my head of every time someone has ever gotten kicked out of a project's social spaces for being a jerk, it's just a thing that happens and everybody moves on with their life. And i
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> They generate outrage because they are accompanied by people trying to change the definition of open-source If the precondition of learning lessons from past licenses is that they must follow the rules set by those past licenses as hol
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by LexiMax 3y ago
Are you asking if a set of rules used to outline acceptable conduct in project participation has ever been enforced in good faith? Because they have, and I guarantee you that you've been aware of such enforcement actions in the past.
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> There is a long queue of people lining up to criticise him, but nobody has successfully cobbled together an alternative to the FSF. This isn't true. I have actually seen several non-FSF/OSI attempts at licenses in the recent
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> Isn't that the problem? The problem is that the specific phrase "Code of Conduct" has been dragged into a culture war. And if the problem is the parlance, the solution is to just call it something different, like "
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They don’t. I have been away from hacker news for about 2 to 3 years and quite frankly I am shocked that this place is still having this same tired argument whereas outside it seems to be an accepted fact of life that having rules surroundi
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> Instead, you use the word that, as best I understand the English language, signals political support "Preponderance of the evidence" has a very concrete legal definition, one that is very easy to Google. The qualifier "
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> At best you send some of it directly to someone else with no trusted middleman This is impossible. If you trade crypto, at some point that money has to become fiat for you to pay bills, pay taxes or cash out. If the currency _is_ cryp
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"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."
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> The Feds and the bankers hate it because it's a direct threat to their business model. There's no room for a middle man to fugazi in btc. Crypto has spawned their own classes of middle-men. At best, you have a changing of the
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> Insane people want insane things occasionally The area of gender-affirming care is and has been well studied in both adults and teenagers by accredited doctors and pediatricians, and the preponderance of the evidence is firmly in the &
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> Get back to me when large numbers of Americans are fleeing to China to escape tyranny at home. This is actually happening here in the states: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/06/1
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This is an amazing - I remember that PC port and you can even buy it on GOG today. Do you have any interesting stories from the porting process?
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> Federation is, fundamentally, an anti-feature that exists solely to create liabilities for the end user as, by design, it empowers people who should not be empowered to destroy your social graph arbitrarily. My Twitter-using friends ha
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Anecdotally, it seems like most of my acquaintances have stopped using Twitter as a social network. Not out of principle, but because their feeds just stopped having interesting conversations and the bad parts got worse. They still follow
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If "the community" is upset at the moderators, they can take solace in the fact that the communities are almost certainly coming back - it's just a matter of if it's under new management or not. The real question will be
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If Reddit wants to return to "business as usual" the moderators of the considerable numbers of blacked-out subreddits need to be replaced with a fresh crop of moderators as good or better than the current crop, but who also swear
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> I mod a couple of large subs but I exclusively use desktop so I'm not affected. You might be a desktop user (I am too) but Reddit is more than just you and me - it's the communities of people who choose to socialize there. A
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> Most subreddits doing polls have people voting to remain open I still see pro-blackout threads regularly shooting to the top of /r/all - which wouldn't get that far if they were down-voted by an angry populace.
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I actually don't think IRC is doing that well. I used to have a bouncer but I shut it down a few months ago because most of my communities had moved over to Discord. But I think the reason why Discord and Slack took over was not beca
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> The "pick any server, it doesn't make any difference, you'll see _all_ messages anyway" -- is not realistic given that each fediverse node administrator can exercise their freedom to choose what messages their serve