I believe the point is that they’re equally vague knee jerk reactions to seeing trigger phrases and relevant social signifiers, as opposed to legitimate and useful political categories

I’m an anarchist who gets called a tankie on Reddit for using the word “imperialism” and I approve this meme

The question is, was Sully afraid or do the scream cans fill from moans too?

There are a lot of people on the Internet; a nonzero number of them are frothing assholes; and frothing assholes are quite capable of running servers.

There are people goddamn sure that if you don’t accept their horse porn, that you must hate free speech.

widespread censorship is a slippery slope

I wouldn’t call blocking gore, nazis, and pedos “widespread”. For anyone who hasn’t heard the nazi bar story (source @IamRageSparkle on Twitter):

I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, “no. get out.”

And the dude next to me says, “hey i’m not doing anything, i’m a paying customer.” and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, “out. now.” and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed

Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, “you didn’t see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them.”

And i was like, ohok and he continues.

"you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it’s always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don’t want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.

And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it’s too late because they’re entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.

And i was like, ‘oh damn.’ and he said “yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people.”

And then he went back to ignoring me. But I haven’t forgotten that at all.

Going through the process of discovering I was trans and surrounding myself with trans people really made me re-examine how little work I’d done on issues of race, among other things. So many of the little passive aggressive things I found myself getting annoyed at cis people doing, I also found myself doing to people of color. Nothing particularly awful, but definitely inconsiderate.

True, it doesn’t rhyme with “Nike”. It does cough through the tough bough, though

GOOD POST

Antarctica’s been pretty quiet about Palestine 👀

Yeah, the fact that the user auth and permission models were intentionally left out of the W3C spec initially really ended up locking ActivityPub into particular dialects and patterns that are now proving problematic for scaling.

I’m not sure it’s 100% too late for a redesign, though. The committee is still active and the Fediverse could still theoretically grow by an order of magnitude or two. Does that seem likely right this minute? No, but sometimes that kind of vision is what an ecosystem needs.

This is neat. I’m not sure how many boxes it ticks either, but RISC-V has definitely come a long way since the last time I checked in

How so?

The communities which have content that requires factual accuracy ought to leave that moderation and the equivalent community involvement can be done (and is more effectively done) with comments. Downvotes lack context. It’s like seeing a downvotes question on StackOverflow. The reason why it was downvoted isn’t always clear

Yeah downvotes were being widely used as a form of harassment against trans users there. Within the first week there were voting bots being spun up by spammers and people looking to otherwise disrupt the site’s launch. It wasn’t long before ever single thing posted by a known trans user and everything posted in the trans comm was downvoted like 4 times immediately after it was posted.

Just wanted to say that I have immense respect for all the work you do and that I really understand the feeling. You and Dessalines wear so many hats in the creation and management of this software and these sites. It’s impressive that you’ve been properly delegating and managing all the information being thrown at you constantly for this long.

I’m also surprised that it’s taken this long. Guess that speaks to the quality of community that exists here.

Moderation has always been a power struggle on Reddit. Just as the Lemmyverse has tended to be less aggressive in terms of content and conversation, I’m hoping the moderator politics here don’t devolve into the social pseudo-warfare that Reddit is infamous for (moderator coups, mod team splits, megamod cliques, etc). I think that’s going to involve some sort of informal governance policies that will standardize over time, but I’m not sure.

Admin-to-admin mail (similar to mod mail, but visible by all admins on both instances), blocklist compliance, and mutual federation come to mind.

In the case of Canada, I do strongly believe our reparations have overstayed their welcome and it’s time to stop. Not because we’ve equalized the wrongdoing, but because the reparations are not addressing those wronged.

Yeah, Canadian reparations have been really ineffective at undoing colonialism. Good point.

In my opinion, a better solution for long past injustices is mandatory curriculum on the subject. It still won’t help those harmed, but it can prevent us from making the same mistakes again.

But then how is the solution just to stop trying? These were not mistakes. They were done on purpose. And the ideologies which motivated them are still dominant. And the people marginalized by them are still marginalized. That’s the whole point. Learning about the atrocities is necessary, but nowhere near sufficient.

You could liquidate the entirety of what remains of the British Empire and distributing proportionately according to the populations of former colonies and it would amount to very little per country. That said, liquidating the monarchy and returning all of the stolen artifacts from their museums would be a good start

I wouldn’t even call them “former” white settler colonies. The genocide of indigenous people in most of these countries is well within living memory. There are plenty of indigenous rights groups self-organizing and making demands. In general, they do include reparations in those demands, yes.

The left in the west is largely made up of middle class people who have witnessed the failure of the American Dream (which has always been the carrot to lead colonizers through the halls of genocide). Something something Read Settlers, etc

Doesn’t mean that there’s no good western leftists, but it makes it significantly harder and a more conscious process to fight those material conditions