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by fleddr 4y ago
Also known as intersectionalism. Used to be a meaningless academic word. Now even discussing the baking of cookies turns into a political struggle.
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You're not misremembering anything. Even as recent as < 2016 people were far less political. There was always politics, but never as a fully defining characteristic of an individual.
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This is called being part of the problem. My side is fine.
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That is fine, but the existence of a bubble on Twitter is often defined by having a common external enemy. That's what the participants inside the bubble have in common, and very often not much else. They aren't necessarily deep f
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by fleddr 4y ago
This analogy in part breaks down because in the digital space, such "bans" don't require any substance. If in the physical space you'd ban somebody from ever joining your meeting or neighborhood again, you need to have s
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by fleddr 4y ago
The really painful thing is that probably 80% of people are quite reasonable but on social media the extremes on both sides dominate conversation. Extreme toxicity as well as extreme fragility are the norm. Extremity is highly engaging and
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by fleddr 4y ago
One thing is for sure, it really is fast. My most fascinating discovery is the public Modlog: https://lemmy.ml/modlog What a spectacularly bad idea to show it in the open, but educational nonetheless. It very much resembles
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by fleddr 4y ago
I really don't want to go down the Twitter rabbit hole. An exception to the rule (which is still speculative) does not disprove the rule. The rule being that on large centralized platforms, one has drastically better content security.
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This "need" to scale Mastodon comes from the current narrative where it's seen as a possible Twitter alternative.
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I'd say that trust does not scale. Every online community that gets huge, tends to get ruined over time.
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If you're suggesting that internet users are entitled, very much yes.
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You have a point. The central services we consider stable are the winners, against a backdrop of many losers. We all flocked into a small set of winning services. And the thing these winners have in common is that they are enormous. They re
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by fleddr 4y ago
These insecurities are not at the same level, and do not compare. Don't see it as the difference between zero security and infinite security, it's a spectrum or scale instead. On FB, I can go back 10 years and my content is still
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by fleddr 4y ago
That's ONE point of federation, but the other is cross-instance discovery and communication. If that part is underused (blocked, disabled), there's very little point in using Mastodon. You can recreate this everywhere, including a
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by fleddr 4y ago
You're the second person to reply with this "forever" take. I never said forever, I'm talking about normal timelines where users on central networks expect their content to persist, which is what typically is the case. A
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by fleddr 4y ago
I get what you're saying, but you're missing some important aspects. I wasn't commenting on the quality of moderation, instead on the scalability. Instance owners are easily overwhelmed and this problem gets worse as things g
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by fleddr 4y ago
I'm putting myself in the shoes of a common Twitter user. To exaggerate a little, they are spoiled and have zero tolerance for friction. Look at all the complaints regarding onboarding. They are forced to pick a server and many directl
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by fleddr 4y ago
Fully agree. Hobbyist moderators currently do moderation at-will. They may have a day job, go on a holiday, and of course they sleep. Without having several moderators across time zones, everything you said might become an existential issue
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by fleddr 4y ago
There's quite a lot of wiggle room between short term volatility and a concept like "forever". If you take it as far as "we'll all die anyway", you might as well not post anything, ever, anywhere. Large central
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by fleddr 4y ago
I agree with the author. Mastodon is quicksand. Instances are not guaranteed to keep existing, they depend entirely on a citizen running it, scaling it, and paying for all that, often with the help of donations. Even a relatively small infl
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by fleddr 4y ago
Pragmatically speaking, there really isn't much of a disagree. Sure, you can chose to not buy an Apple device, yet then you'll buy an Android device, with its own ToS.
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by fleddr 4y ago
The thing is that the people that are most active in crypto and typically have the largest stacks are traders. They grow their stack by shorting/longing, leverage, staking and DeFi, all of which require an exchange.
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by fleddr 4y ago
Got it. I was confused because the parent to your post suggested people are cool with storing money on the bank with 10% inflation. That makes no sense to me because when you convert it to cash, the inflation still applies. As for negative
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by fleddr 4y ago
Because an instance mod/admin can be socially pressured to join a ban party, or else be labeled as "fascist".
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by fleddr 4y ago
How does that stop the money from being less valuable?
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by fleddr 4y ago
Ah yes, inflation is just fine if you exclude housing, energy and food, the 3 things sustaining everybody's life.
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by fleddr 4y ago
Honestly, I'm with those people. Your explanation is fully technically correct, but the subsequent messaging that inflation is zero is a matter of not reading the room. When an important item dramatically rises in price, this can have
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by fleddr 4y ago
It most certainly would not be a bad idea to have .md files render natively in a browser. Browsers also natively render images, videos, PDFs. That said, the idea that this somehow changes any dynamic on the web are mere fantasies. The masse
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by fleddr 4y ago
Let's say that you're right, and that 90% of Mastodon instances would want to block the Harry Potter lady. This isn't really true, they're pressured into doing this by ruthless activists, but let's pretend that the
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by fleddr 4y ago
It's an escalation of Twitter's micro aggressions into Mastodon nano aggressions. When I hear the word "trauma", I'm thinking of veterans, people that lost loved ones, victims of violence. On Mastodon, trauma refers

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