Also, I worry this is going to be America’s Reichstag Fire or Kristallnacht moment. This could very well lead to pogroms against leftists and ethnic minorities.
I'm in New Zealand so I don't care if revenge killings claim lives, let Americans fight for control of their country lol. That said, there are plenty of us who are reasonable, the problem is with the "neuro-diverse" teenagers and twenty-something year olds on Lemmy and other left-wing echo chambers. These people who never had a real job in their life, they just work in government office jobs and live with mum and dad. Of course they're brainwashed. I just hope that they grow up soon. Ideology isn't something that you have to believe to the letter. Nobody has to live their whole live according to ideology. It'll only lead to that person becoming miserable.
We won't see the full consequences for years. A lot of people saw Charlie killed and they're going to start questioning why people should be killed simply for offensive use of language.
On Gab Social they're already saying that there's no point in being a "moderate" might as well go full-fash and arm to the teeth. If the left will kill a conservative jew-lover like Charlie Kirk, then the bar for a justified shooting is very low.
I'm 34 and I don't think Charlie Kirk looked old or bitter. People need to stop wanking themselves into a gooning, salivating delusion that people with their views are good looking, whereas people with opposing views are ugly. People are so delusional in these echo chambers - they need to look in the mirror.
My friend has a budget android phone, I mean so cheap that it's only on Android version 10. The on-screen keyboard is tiny and it's kinda stupid. It still has all the apps even though it really shouldn't.
The quality of many dumb-phones is dubious, I think we need more options. Alcatel and Mobiwire are just prone to breaking. My Alcatel dumb-phone started to get awful call quality after about 1 year and the keypad didn't feel 100% consistent, one button had to be held more firmly than others. In the end I had to go back to a smartphone because I needed clearly call quality. On most dumb phones you don't get VOLTE (HD calling for anyone not familiar) but my problem was worse than not having VOLTE, it was a defective phone.
Support for this will grow, I hope. Linux on PC has been really easy for the past 10 or so years, but phones often have locked bootloaders. There's not that much support for different models either, feels like a work in progress. I hope someone just starts up a volunteer organisation that can provide pre-installed free software. Not just one centralised company, but multiple outlets.
Correct, and the other problem is that if you live in a house with 6-8 other people, and don't even have anywhere to park a vehicle (as in, not even on the road outside) then it's never going to work. I imagine what it'd be like if I did a trade, but I couldn't get to work in the morning because another tenant decided to sleep-in and block my vehicle from leaving the drive. Just ridiculous.
I banned someone for using automated software to flood a group on Gab once. Apart from that we don't have rules in the New Zealand Gab group. Nobody can tip toe on the edge of rules when there are only about three rules: don't doxx, don't threaten violence and don't post pornography. Someone either does these things or they don't, there's really no toe tipping here. The guy we banned did complain - his bot software must have warned him that the posts were failing. He didn't start a campaign against us.
Sounds like the sewer of the internet. If there's so much trouble then people need to make private clubs where users have to apply to join and only a handful get in per week. I moderate a couple of groups on Gab and I've never banned anyone except people who used automated software to flood the groups. Arguments are actually funny and we don't stop them. Just because someone's "hot take" offends someone it doesn't mean we ban. Even if half the users were offended we wouldn't ban. We are adults on Gab unlike reddit. I don't log into Gab looking to moderate and patrol for trouble because it'd make the website less fun for everyone. We aren't a bunch of sissies but neither are we an image board for pornographers and freaks. I think the problem is reddit and the idiots it attracts. Once people get out of their twenties they will discover other websites and stop using reddit. The problem is that there are always new children being born, then they're allowed to post online and suddenly the problems you describe appear.
I have an account on Gab and when the website was new, they created a New Zealand group. It had no moderation from about 2019 until 2024. The only problem we had was this one guy who was using software to automate posts all the time. He flooded the group for months (years maybe) until my friend paid for a Pro account and was allowed to become the administrator. We banned the bots and that was it.
We've never had to delete anyone's posts because we aren't trying to artificially steer conversations or ban people for having the wrong opinion. If someone posted a couple of times a day, strongly disagreeing with us and calling us names, we wouldn't even bother to ban them. Maybe block on our individual accounts but we can still click to read their posts even if we're blocking them. Surprisingly, our group is public but we don't need to moderate it. Not with humans or automation. After the CEO of Gab banned "third world" IP addresses from the website, it pretty much stopped spam. Reddit uses all of this tracking technology to give people a social credit score but Gab just bans third world countries and has people who can take a joke.
The image of the hard-working, burnt-out reddit moderator is a joke to me. If there's too much moderation needed, it's probably a control-freak issue or maybe they need to ban certain countries where a significant amount of spam comes from.
I'm in New Zealand so I don't care if revenge killings claim lives, let Americans fight for control of their country lol. That said, there are plenty of us who are reasonable, the problem is with the "neuro-diverse" teenagers and twenty-something year olds on Lemmy and other left-wing echo chambers. These people who never had a real job in their life, they just work in government office jobs and live with mum and dad. Of course they're brainwashed. I just hope that they grow up soon. Ideology isn't something that you have to believe to the letter. Nobody has to live their whole live according to ideology. It'll only lead to that person becoming miserable.