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Compassion ~ Thought

  • I fear the general public is completely unprepared & unaware.

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  • And not just about A"I": about pretty much anything at all. See e.g. the last many USA elections, or those of most nations in the world actually, and also Brexit.

    It's the cycle of civilizations. People live in easy times, so refuse to learn anything at all, then create hard times, which toughens people up, who work hard to create better times, rinse and repeat.

  • Need a hand? Or eight?

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  • 8 legs and not one hand among them...

  • Straight into the fire!

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  • Don't mix them up!

    The presents, or the kids v. Anakin part?

    "Yes"!

  • I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous

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  • If misogyny were somehow magically solved tomorrow, then Xhitter would still remain a misogynistic hellhole, featuring a cesspit of whatever traits of humanity triggered clicking or views or whatever generates the highest profits (maybe in the future, trying to gain the attention of bots will vastly outweigh what happens to us here humans, in the same manner as corporations replaced individual businesses in the economic sphere?).

    The specific situation described in the article is misogy, but it points to deeper roots of enshittification. The 15 year old girl will still feel put upon, even unsafe, even if it has nothing to do with her femininity anymore.

  • I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous

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  • School is mandatory, Xhitter is not.

    If she walked home and along the way stopped off at a particular cafe, and always got side-eyed by people there... then yeah, I would say hang out somewhere else?

    Be the change that you want to see in the world, and all of that.

  • I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous

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  • We here are not:-).

  • I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous

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  • "Social media" generally implies an algorithm delivering monotized content, so Lemmy is not true social media.

    It is media that is social, but it's nonetheless very very very different.

  • I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous

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  • Not true. It actually makes your attention span WORSE than a goldfish! 😞

  • I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous

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  • It is everywhere, including irl.

    However, I would guess it is more prevalent on Xhitter than here.

    Better yet, make a UK-based Mastodon instance "for the children", keeping it safe from such?

  • I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous

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  • If you always get catcalled between Fourth Street and Sixth Street, and you never get catcalled on First through Third Street or Seventh and above, then yeah, maybe just know that going onto Fifth Street you might get catcalled?

    You could try expressing your explicit disapproval to Elon Musk directly, maybe that will help?

    Actually no, it's not just "Fifth Street", it's Fifth Street in an entirely different country. Tiktok is based on China, Insta and Twitter are in the USA. Normally the rules governing a platform are a combination of the origination point and whatever interrelations exist - although obviously Donald Trump is rewriting those at will to suit him. And yet the UK could do the same... or make an alternative, if it wanted to?

  • I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous

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  • Don't use Instagram or TikTok ✅👍

    Enragebait is a well known consequence of using a profit-driven Algorithm, i.e. enshittification.

    15-year-olds are not being specifically targeted so much as caught up in the phenomena occuring overall.

  • I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous

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  • A good nearly half of people use authoritarian thinking rather than have to put in effort to think for themselves even slightly.

    Sheeple

  • How should Lemmy & Piefed handle voting activity from banned/deleted accounts?

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  • PieFed, at the discretion of community mods, offers restriction of voting to only subscribed community members. This limits drive-by downvoting from All, where people would not have read the community rules (which in PieFed are repeated in their entirety at the bottom of every post from that community).

    It also offers restriction of voting to only "trusted" instances, thereby introducing a third category between the binary federation vs. defederation.

    I have also seen communities on PieFed that disable downvoting entirely, even to subscribed members, even on the same instance.

    Community mods can enable or disable these settings at will iirc.

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    I’m 4’24”

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  • While if your weight begins with "3"...

  • Took my brain a second to comprehend this

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  • The void hungereth for your soul...

  • Nomenclature

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  • Get with the times - apparently we are past that, and it is borbs that aren't real

  • Feature suggestion: communities that notify subscribers by default

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  • I don't like this idea as currently phrased, but if a question box popped up asking the user who just joined if they wanted a notification triggered upon each new post, that could be good?

    Most communities that I have done this for I later un-do. Very few communities are both supremely interesting for me to want this yet also have low enough traffic to make it not overwhelming. (High ironically, this very community is one of them though:-).

    Note that this would introduce confusion when users automatically get notifications for some communities but not for others.

    In general it might be better to somehow highlight for new joiners of the platform the fact that a notification can be triggered on or off for most anything - posts, comments (including those from other people), communities, and users. So maybe like the icon wiggles once an hour for the first week or two of using the platform. Not that it's a priority to do such, but I mean something like this may be preferable than automatically signing someone up to a community without their explicit consent.

  • Locked

    Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's "Zionist Bar Problem"

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  • "B-b-but my side virtuous (in all ways, and can do no wrong), while their side ignoramus (everything they do is because they are poopy-heads)!"

    I wish I could add /s here but a good half the population on earth seems to hold to this as an invariant position, solidarity in the face of all obstacles, i.e. the Nazi bar effect.

    Case in point: who doesn't love it when a religious institution offers food and shelter and medical care to the needy, or counsels people to forgive, laying down their burdens and seek therapy to thereby travel lighter through the world? It is the diddling kids part that for some strange reason (/s on this one) people tend to get upset?

    Since we were talking about Zionism here, I will mention that Deuteronomy 13:5 (in the Torah, part of the Old Testament for Christian and Muslim and offshoot religious branches such as Mormonism) provides an EXTREMELY stern warning about those who would misuse their authority to lead people astray.

    TLDR: intolerance paradox - if you tolerate the intolerant, it corrupts the entire system, giving it a bad reputation when people see the worst excesses and extrapolate that to infer the properties of the whole. e.g. Reddit is fascist, hence we did not stay and put up with it but rather moved here.

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    Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's "Zionist Bar Problem"

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  • (Alt-)"Left" != Left, and in fact shares far more in common with Right (aka: fascism).

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    fake it until... always?

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    Hey Fedizens, what are we now?

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