Skip Navigation

railway692

@ railway692 @piefed.zip

Posts
5
Comments
220
Joined
6 mo. ago

  • What’s your most controversial opinion?

    Jump

  • My reply here.

    Tl;dr:

    • Support decentralized alternatives*
    • Exercise parental controls on-device and IRL
    • Teach the children what we learned

    It's not a magic bullet, but it's better than putting the Epstein class in charge of protecting the children.

    *Obviously, there are cesspools on the Fediverse, too. But we're incentivized and empowered to curate and to moderate these spaces, in ways that we're not on Twitter.

  • What’s your most controversial opinion?

    Jump

  • There is no 'we' in your hypothetical

    We is everyone that isn't those companies and is impacted by social media.

    The only power you or I have is local, and this is a national problem.

    We do have little power on a national level, but that doesn't mean the only power we have is local.

    Sure, we can't flip a switch tell the engineers to program a switch and flip it for us like Musk and Zuckerberg can, but that's not the only power that matters.

    We can build and support alternatives to addictive, enshittified centralized tech (like the Fediverse). I was offered the "choice" of accepting a degraded Twitter experience or paying for Twitter premium. I chose to check out Mastodon.

    We can use the parental controls we do have, both inside the ecosystem and in the real world. No screens in the bedroom or at the dinner table. No smartphone until you're 16. Schools that ban phones in the classroom. Venues that ban phones during shows.

    Edit: Another option is educating ourselves and our children to be safe on the internet. I had to learn that the correct response to "what are you wearing" is "a robe and wizard hat" and then blocking the pedophile all on my own because my parents didn't know those threats even existed. I do. Most parents in 2026 do.

    I'm not imaginative, but we have a lot more power than just choosing between "let it suck forever" and "give up even more of your privacy and I'll pretend to fix the problems I created/encouraged because I make more money that way."

  • What’s your most controversial opinion?

    Jump

  • Reminds me of Bruce Sterling's Swarm. (It was adapted into a Love, Death, and Robots episode.)

    “You are a young race and lay great stock by your own cleverness,” Swarm said. “As usual, you fail to see that intelligence is not a survival trait.”

  • What’s your most controversial opinion?

    Jump

  • Upvoted because it is a controversial take.

    My problem with age verification is that what we're being sold is not what we're going to get.

    "Choosing the lesser of two evils" implies that only two options exist. When the same companies are responsible for both evils, we should be talking alternatives, not letting them make us decide between getting punched in the face and giving up our lunch money to make it stop.

  • LibreOffice Leave X/Twitter in favor of Mastodon

    Jump

  • Is this just the inevitable tradeoff of federation?

    Not being able to follow someone isn't a federation problem, it's an instance mismatch problem.

    When you can't follow the people you want on Twitter (because they were banned), that's an instance mismatch. Your preferences don't align with Twitter's.

    The difference is that, with Twitter, there is only one instance. You can't switch to a different Twitter where those people aren't blocked.

    On Fedi, you can choose an instance that blocks and federates according to your preference. And if you can't find one (unlikely for most users), you can host your own.

    If you just want Piefed instances with less regulation, these appear to have the fewest number of blocks:

  • Huntarr - Your passwords and your entire arr stack's API keys are exposed to anyone on your network, or worse, the internet.

    Jump

  • Password was Huntarr2

  • Removed

    JellyWatch Review: The Best Jellyfin Admin & Monitoring App for Android

    Jump

  • Everything about this app (and the review and the website hosting the review) feels uncanny.

    Like wandering onto a movie set.

  • Everyone is stealing TV

    Jump

  • It will be interesting to see how the MPAA tackles Hotfile now that they are restricted in the language they can use. It probably means that the term “copyright infringement” will be used more often than they had hoped.

    To be continued.

    This was written back in 2013. Does anyone know how that shook out?

  • Everyone is stealing TV

    Jump

  • It's not theft. It's copying or copyright infringement.

    If it was theft, the owners wouldn't have it anymore.

    The words matter because they change your moral intuition about it.

  • Yeah, right

    Jump

  • And then you pick what you thought was a harmless dialogue option, but instead it sets off a cutscene where you've insulted the Emperor and now must murder everyone in order to survive.

  • Fucked up

    Jump

  • I was speaking to a general you, not you in particular. I appreciate your help attempt

  • Fucked up

    Jump

  • I'd agree if we were on an algorithm site. Be mad at the site for censoring people's free speech.

    But we're on the Fediverse. It's poster's choice.

    If you don't want to see something, just block it and make your own.

  • Fucked up

    Jump

  • You have a right to curse on the internet.

    They have the right to censor their own post.

    I don't get why so many people get actually angry about this.

  • Is there a Matrix client that has an interface similar to Discord?

    Jump

  • An alternative wouldn't just have to be close to discord, it would have to actually be better so people use it.

    There's always the possibility Discord goes the Microsoft route: making themselves worse.

  • Removed Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • “Carl, darling. I can’t believe you hooked up with that guy,” Donut said loudly. She pushed at the door, heading out of the room. “He sure squealed a lot, though.”

  • "No, it's just a reflection! I'm not a flower!" :'-(

    Jump

  • The duality of man.

  • Locked

    The way of the pirate

    Jump

  • Be over the age of 18

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • Play two three unskippable ads back to back.

  • What are your favourite non-political Lemmy communities?

    Jump

  • I thought that might be it, but then squirrel's link worked perfectly.

    Also, the original link is still empty for me.

    If one user must get an empty sub sacrifice themselves so that the rest of their instance can see the full sub live, that's... tragic and romantic and stupid.

  • Firefox @lemmy.ml
    railway692 @piefed.zip

    They Live and the secret history of the Mozilla logo

    www.jwz.org /blog/2016/10/they-live-and-the-secret-history-of-the-mozilla-logo/
  • Gaming @lemmy.zip
    railway692 @piefed.zip

    To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest form of skill

  • History Memes @piefed.social
    railway692 @piefed.zip

    the Praetorian guard was rigged from the start