The abusive relationship is with Reddit, not the community they moderate. A more accurate analogy is tolerating the abusive person because you don't want to completely lost contact with many other people you care about just because of that one guy who they're still friend with. The answer then become less clear cut than just cut off the toxic person. It becomes a question of when the abusive person becomes toxic enough that even the prospect of keeping in touch with other people you care about isn't worth it any more. That is going to be different for everyone and there's no right answer as it completely depends on the person. It is still possible that someone misjudge and they'd be better off leaving earlier, but what that earlier point is still has to be decided first according to their own circumstances.

To illustrate my point. Some people believe it's the right thing to do to leave Reddit much earlier than this year, such as when they let /r/the_donald operated freely. In this case here because you decided to stay until 1-2 months ago, you are also part of the problem that "stayed and helped Reddit build Reddit".

I think this post simplified the situation in a way that misrepresented the motivation of some moderators.

EU really is the one doing all the good work. Meanwhile, the US government is useless as a government for its size.

Actually, they should be reported. Don't just scroll pass if you see harassment or hate speech.

None of these people deserve their positions.

How about assuming you have a bad take and reflect?

Let me tell you an anecdote. I'm Asian and grew up in an Asian country. When I was studying abroad there's a time when my American friends were watching a Japanese drama series. I was the one asking them throughout the watch session who's who because I couldn't tell the actors' faces apart.

Wonder how much of it is because of Threads and how much of it is from making the site inaccessible without accounts and the rate limit.

I'd love to see those who disagree with his statement answer the question "when is a good time to not vote for educated leaders?" that applies more than 0.01% of the time.

Even religious people shouldn't disagree with it. If you want someone with religious background in then you want them to be educated in matters to do with that religion. That they themselves don't consider that education is telling.

If that's the case then there's no need for it to be off-record. Unless the conversation of what you pointed out is open to scrutiny it shouldn't happen.

Then it's no different than them just jumping back to Facebook or other corporate owned social media like the current situation. That's not a lost. The lost is if they are allowed to federate in the first place and people get used to it. But even then as the concept of enshittification becomes more well known more users will also be resistant to the idea.

It's because the incompetent PM made the visa free for mainland Chinese. It's going to get a lot worse in Thailand.

The culture is the problem and the CCP insistent on keeping outdated traditions and social values keeps them in the past. China cultural values went to shit ever since the cultural revolution and the government has done nothing to better it, only doubling down and adding more problematic beliefs. There were needs to be selfish and to deceive for survival, but with the kind of government the CCP is instead of that slowly going away after the worst is over you have that continue to be ingrain into future generations to the point it becomes an identity. Then add the contemporary dose of propaganda and the sudden increase in progress and you have the superiority complex.

If it's not clear, I mean all the conservatives that clearly were put there for nefarious reasons. And none of them deserves a life time position on the supreme court regardless, and by them here I mean everyone, not just conservatives.

Imo, more emphasis should have been made on how spez treated Christian, the Apolla dev. It's honestly disgusting. And not even any kind of apology or direct reply. Spez just went on to smear Christian's name more with disinformation he fed to the press via interviews.

Free speech isn't just a right, it's a responsibility. Too many people touting free speech don't understand that.

i'll take country defederation dramas over the shit we have now any day.

Boomers have it easy, so of course. Seriously though, get off your high horse.

Did you have to deal with insane inflation? No.
Did you have to deal with extremely competitive job market that increasingly demand higher level of skill? No.
Did you have to deal with minimum wage that doesn't let people live decent life? No.

The name swapping was funny, but it was never practical. Many people who should find it or want to find it ended up not. Not only is there a name barrier, there's also a barrier to them just clicking away or not engaging. World politics should be the more visible one compared to US politics anyway. Many people, especially Americans, would benefit from learning what politics is like in other parts of the world.

The irony of him being Putin's discarded bitch is the cherry on top.

Why not both?

This post is just...so ignorant and unintentionally malicious. Putting in the idea that Fediverse should co-exist with Meta and not treat them like exile when they enter the space is not the way to go for its survival. And the more people there are who just look at the headline without doing further reading is not going to help the situation.

Even before gaining control of Twitter, Musk would take a proactive approach to addressing criticism.

Back in 2018, The Wall Street Journal reported that Musk actively monitored Twitter for tweets containing the hashtag $TSLA, often used by Tesla short-sellers. Musk would reach out to executives at companies to investigate employees who were potentially publishing negative tweets about his electric vehicle company.

During that time, Musk reportedly emailed former Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess in July 2018, questioning whether one of Diess's employees was using Twitter to criticize Tesla anonymously. Business Insider later reported that Volkswagen determined the tweets were posted by the employee's brother.

Musk also allegedly texted Lawrence Fossi's employer. According to the WSJ, on July 23, 2018, Musk sent a text to the top executive at Fossi's company, asking the boss whether he knew his employee, known on Twitter as Montana Skeptic, "was obsessively trashing Tesla via a pseudonym," as disclosed in the report.

Straight from the article, for anyone wondering.

At least the Dutch is already doing it.

You have to assume flawed logic if you want to understand him.

Why is it being deprecated? I thought it's a major income for them.

Feel free to buy him a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kbin

So much for free speech. The worst part is there will still be a brigades of mindless idiots and scumbags who will defend him.

It's probably more meaningful to ask at this point what data can he collects that he's not collecting.

Because they are not assuming that. What they're assuming is less overlap on a Venn diagram.

Flower with Fibonacci spiral works because Fibonacci appears every where in nature, especially patterns and structures.

Lol, I can assure you he's not doing things right, and it's all luck and a lot of willingness to be an asshole. The achievements come from the passionate engineers and scientists.

He's being blunt, but his point is extremely valid.

Let me guess, NFT or something blockchain related.

It's a subscription, you're telling me you're willing to keep paying just for the icon? And not a cheap one for what it's worth either.

And you might say 'That's different, slavery is bad and advocating for its abolishment is good, but advocating for Donald Trump is bad', but that is the point.

This is where you misunderstood. The problem here isn't slavery is bad and advocating against it is good and how that compares with the_donald. It's that in the US, many countries in the EU, Australia, and New Zealand*, getting arrested or harmed by the government simply for speaking isn't something to worry about. So, the people who use "free speech" to hide behind are, almost by default, bad actors. Even if you count mainstream (the citizens), no one is trying to harm the person speaking. In this case here it is also the opposite. What these racist fkers say (and do) can certainly hurt and harm other people, and they are doing everything they can so they don't have to be responsible for their own speech. Hence, the "free speech". It's a similar tactic to opposers blending into a group of protestors and trying to sabotage by staging violence.

Now, if it's another country where free speech is not where it should be. I'll use my own country and it's outdated and stupid lese majeste law as an example. Free speech here isn't completely polluted by those bad actors yet because it still holds a very real value to combat tyranny. So, what I'm saying is this "free speech" problem in the US is a first world country problem, which should not be confuse with what free speech is about in more oppressive regimes.

People already heard what they had to say long ago, and it's not welcomed. At this stage it's about not letting them run all over everyone else. It's not as if they have anything different to say from before. The answer is still the same, their racism is bad, their anti-science believes are bad, their disinformation are bad, their actions toward the LGBTQ+ communities are unacceptable etc. What else is there to listen to?

*Purposely left out Canada here.

For the purpose of this question, slow throughout. Also has to be something that can universally agreed as being slow, otherwise we're going to have to discuss at what point songs stop being fast or slow. I might as well throw in the word mellow to really push it.

Exactly this right here.

There is this dystopia anime series called From the New World. The premise is a portion of humanity gained psychic power and led to the collapse of society because it's so powerful that order could not be enforced. Far into the future there's a cluster of communities that's able to exist, and the way they went about it was to genetically engineered humans so when they harm another human it triggers body functions that make it harder for them to breath and other things. Killing another human also kills the aggressor. It kind of works on the interpretative level so it's possible that using drones could still have an effect, probably.

Even in the story they explored ways to circumvent it though, but that's kind of a tangent.

Definitely smarter than the group that thinks Trump should be a president and tries to deny science at every turn. You don't need me to tell you which group it is that denied global warming, denied the existence of covid-19, denied universal healthcare, host the Nazis and white supremacists, and so on, do you?

And when confronted with these kinds of questions the typical reaction is to ignore it or make excuses rather than looking at their own group with insight. Any conservatives who think it's okay for Nazis and extremists to house themselves in their group might as well join them. Otherwise, stop making excuses and look at the problems.

That'd require you to not be a hypocrite though. If not for disagreeing, then for what reason did you downvote my comment?

There's nothing wrong with being a separate entity from big corporates. Mastodon is pretty big already and it's going keep growing. Fast growth isn't the point, it's sustainability and providing a haven for people who don't want enshittification and other corporate bullshit. If someone want that they can just use a corporate owned social media, nothing wrong with that. Reddit has never been the biggest fish in the pond anyway, and the whole thing with trying to pull in users is a part of what made the platform worse. Bringing in corporates is gutting the biggest thing that make Fediverse appealing. And for the record, there isn't that many big companies that'd be a threat anyway. Any corporates that aren't big social media corps isn't really the problem. If Nintendo wants to make an instance to be the second Mii verse I highly doubt many people would be against federating with them.