Fediverse is worse than Reddit. Mod abuse, admin abuse, disinformation, and people simping for literal terrorists.
It's immutable too, no?
You know your local news network has a TikTok right?
That's not what people watch though. People get their news from "influencers", often time those with far right alignments, or straight from fascist parties who are the ones with the most reach on TicTok.
The problem is that media is unregulated and people are allowed to lie and pass off that information factual.
That's literally what the free press is, and a fundamental pillar of a free and democratic society. Regulated media is censored media, and exactly what fascists want. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_the_press
5000 videos and it only shows you the same ones, in the same order, with 0 media controls, or search & filter functions. I just don't get this format.
If Russia disconnects, or get disconnected, then they're just not part of the internet anymore. The internet itself will continue to exist though - and probably would be quite a bit better.
I think social media algorithms have fried people's brains. Imagine we'd ban them, go back to content being kinda diverse and random, without adversaries able to game the system and push massive swaths of propaganda to people. The fact alone that most youths get their news from freaking TicTok of all places...
I'd already be happy if AMD goes with 24 GB on their upper midrange cards, but I would not be surprised if they stick with 16 GB. 48 GB seems extremely unlikely, unfortunately.
Doing LLMs with 8 GB is not fun, especially not with RDNA 2 which has so many issues with ROCm.
And people still try to tell me that Lemmy knows nuance... le sigh
It's not completely wrong, especially since humans long left the checks and balances of natural selection. The thing that was ultimately bad about eugenics was how the Nazis enforced this onto the general public through selective breeding programs and viewing everyone else as genetically inferior. But saying that genetics and hereditary traits aren't a thing is just as anti-scientific. In case of the movie it was not just about genetics though, especially since intelligence is just partially based on genetics. It was also about smart people not having kids and consequently failing to do better parenting than the morons that decided to have kids. Some people may escape the cycle of a family that is not good for them, but a lot of them will just carry on the same behavior that they learned from their parents.
Eeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhh.... One Idiot in Idiocracy was aware of it and paved the way for the smarter people, but even he had to act dumber than he is to convince the even more moronic masses that this was the right thing to do. And even that almost failed and got the smart guy almost killed.
Don't Look Up is also more relevant than ever now.
But that's what I am trying to tell you: perhaps it is that way on Mbin, but it has not been that way for people on Lemmy for months now.
So you get a notification now if a comment of yours gets removed, or if you get banned in a community?
do as you want, I guess I was saying that you catch more flies with honey than vinegar,
It's not like I can't be nice. I am nice the majority of times. If I'm not, it's usually because of the comment I'm replying to. I'm not gonna kiss people's ass if they hold disgusting opinions and I won't stop speaking out against that either. If that makes me unpopular here, so be it. I just wish there was more things on here that wasn't this political extremism so that I could spend more time on that instead.
As for altering peoples opinions... I don't see the point anymore. I tried this for many years. Now that we're almost certainly going to face a climate collapse and all its repercussions for humanity I really don't see the point. Extremism will rise even further with all the challenges that will arise in the near future. Me wasting time and energy on trying to get people to be nicer on some fringe internet platform is not going to change that.
But can't you see how you are hurting the cause that you are advocating for by using such language? I don't believe that you are a troll, yet you are using language that is troll-adjacent.
I'm not sure how that example makes me sound like a troll? Both platforms are very extremistic and safespace forming. Both platforms will get you downvoted for disagreeing with a highly polarized / extremist viewpoint. I can see how my language used can rub people the wrong way, but it's specifically targeted towards the people I'm addressing. I know especially Americans are very sensitive about swear words, but that's not something I feel like I have to cater towards. I'm not gonna censor bad words just so someone feels less riled up, while the meaning behind it does not even change in any way.
Less so I would argue, b/c the modlog does not "scrub the evidence" so much as it preserves it for those who want to see it.
But you can't. If a mod bans me from his communities, I just see their reasoning, which may or may not be bullshit. I don't see the context that sparked that reaction. And for removed comments, I can't see them anymore either, because they get scrubbed on my end too. On Reddit you were at least able to still read your own comments - at least for mod removals, admin removals were similarly frustrating because this also made appeals extremely hard (try to remember a 3 months old comment that lands you a temp ban or something). Here I can't even make an appeal, I just have to take it.
BTW being on Mbin you may not know, but a recent Lemmy update allowed people to click on the hamburger menu (3 ellipses) and see the entire modlog history for a particular comment
I don't know if that is just for registered users to see but I don't see any pancake menu on Lemmy comments if I for example visit this thread on lemm.ee, but maybe that instance isn't updated yet. I don't really follow Lemmy updates. I'd love it if the modlogs would properly link to the offending comments or whatever though.
This is hyperbole
Granted, I can't speak for the current state of Reddit, I left during the big protests so maybe the current conflict in Israel & Palestine had similar effects there... But I have never seen so many people simping for literal terrorist groups like I did here, not even in the Nazi infested subreddits like /r/europe I've seen so many calls for violence and genocide. People here constantly make excuses for what those groups do towards Jews in Israel, and when I call them out, I am suddenly allegedly making excuses for Israel - which I don't even do. I constantly see people justifying the rape murder and torture of those people on the festival, I see people justifying Hezbollah rockets targeting civilians, I see constantly people calling for executions of more CEOs since that asshole got shot, along with the glorification of the killer. If you don't see that, then you may just decided to stay out of topics like that, but even then you'd likely should have seen memes going in that direction, or the drama of .world moderating such cases. I blocked SO many communities, specifically news related ones, along with the mods there for their mod abuse, because they not just refuse to moderate content like this or disinformation, but then threaten me for reporting it - and despite the endlessly long blocklist, I still see it everywhere. Reddit at least had a lot of normie subs, but Lemmy lacks a lot of those communities or has them in a very inactive state.
I very much doubt that db0 literally "suck Hamas dick"
If he bans me for calling out people who do, then I can only assume that he's of the same mindset. I don't know how else he would come to willfully spinning my comments like that around.
Instead, create your own
Hell no. That seemed already insane on Reddit, let alone here.
Just in general, it's considered more polite Netiquete to make a comment explaining why the content was not deemed acceptable to you
Well, that's usually where I clash with people, because I add a comment a lot of the times under a comment or thread that I downvote. It's a bit of a juxtaposition when you're faced with repercussions for not agreeing with the "hivemind" or bubble or whatever.
As for why: how would you feel in return if like 50 people simply downvoted your comment here, while offering zero explanation about why they did that?
This already happens every day to week depending on the news cycle and what weird shit people here are cheering for next. As for how I feel? I don't really care, or rather at this point, knowing this platform, I just feel justified when a comment calling out things like Hamas cock sucking getting downvoted, because I know full well that its all the people who feel addressed by that comment.
And to draw a parallel to the modlog, as a user, you don't even know what happens to your comments or bans, unless you specifically look for it, and even then you can't tell why things happened as they happened.
Who would moderate it without an inherent bias?
So someone downvotes twice as often as they upvote?
What's wrong with that? I find it much easier to downvote than to upvote, but most threads or comments I don't vote at all. It's like me reviewing my Steam games. I barely ever do it, but usually I do negative reviews, because you see all what is wrong in a game and want to voice your frustration about it.
I complain about the same thing, actually, and get accused of the same thing. I don't know whether this was true for the person in this example, but the modlog severely lacks context, which is what I'm confronted with as I clash heavily with the extremists on this platform who constantly advocate for murder, mob rule, and genocide, or them simping for terrorist groups like Hamas.
Same thing happened on Reddit, just opposite spectrum, like them refusing to remove Nazi content, calls for genocide and violence against brown people & muslims. Lemmy has basically the same issue as Reddit, where power tripping mods are in full control of the narrative, and the modlog helps them because they can just scrub the evidence and then claim ridiculous removal or ban reasons. I got recently accused by another user for being a political troll like Linkerbaan (if you don't know, some Nazi shithead troll with the dumbest takes), even though mine and his reputation points (mbin) were literally polar opposites, since he was easily identifiable as a negative karma troll (something Reddit unfortunately made harder by capping their karma system at -100). All just because I have a firm principled stance against extremism. Their alleged proof was the modlog of my account, by directly comparing it to his. His account was older, but he also only had like 90 or so comments, while I'm at like 4700 and also tend to participate in politically loaded topics.
db0's community is laughable as well, because db0 himself is doing mod abuse and partially responsible for how my modlog looks like, since he's controlling so many communities (good old powermods, another issue imported from Reddit). He's accusing me of painting all leftist (which ironically would include myself) as terrorists or whatever. First example:
I confronted him later where he tried to blame other mods, then other instance admins: https:// A while ago I got banned on various communities that db0 moderates, for the same alleged accusation / spin, just because I said that the same people who glorify the murder of that asshole CEO, who now call for more killing, are the same people who also suck Hamas dick. Maybe you don't like my choice of words for those people, but that does not make me a troll. And just because the majority on this platform seemingly seems to swim in this extremist direction, does not mean I have to join that mindset too, just to fit in.TLDR: This platform lacks nuance, just like Reddit. Probably worse than Reddit.
It happens with the actual app as well. So no. And other apps have no problems identifying my audio devices. This is simply a common issue with Discord on Linux, among many others that they don't bother fixing.
You literally just said that you have not played it...
Respectfully, but you cannot really judge a game to be super boring & dull if you literally have not played it yourself. The idea of MC was always great, it's just unfortunately that it went fully into appealing to a kiddie audience over the years, which I think also pushed away a lot of modders and other players who wanted a more complex experience.
He didn't lost his company because he lied as a press entity, he was lying for years without issues, he lost his company because he directly defamed the victims and their loved ones, which caused a massive lawsuit by them that went in their favor. Even in the US there's still a few restrictions to free speech, and defamation is one of them.