Yes good points.
Btw what’s a better term than “tankie”? I only learnt about this ideology recently, am ignorant of the details of it.
It’s okay IMO to have instances which are now closed, more restricted speech/ideas. There are good reasons why some people like them, and why they need to exist. But there must be other places where fee speech/free debate is possible. For example in France it recently became illegal to criticise a policeman by name, no matter what he has done. Very dangerous.
I don’t understand a lot of your message.
But if i get the gist, that might not be so positive. People who feel hated, isolated, afraid to express themselves in public, they are the people we should welcome.
It sounds like they are teenagers who are just figuring out their views. They all have strange and offensive ideas at times, but with help most people figure out a sensible worldview in the end.
I was thinking just about posting letters.
For food delivery or taxis, you don’t need to tell anyone your name or address, just the location they are to go to. So the gps based ideas in this thread, or a conventional number, road, town address works be fine.
The best solution is usually a mixture of several methods, not a one size fits all.
Ideological freedom encourages nasty people. And restrictions encourage thoughtless people.
You can go on notabug and ignore the crazy psychos and chat with the creative people.
You can go on reddit and find endless people with no independent thought, repeating things and not listening to reach other.
Lemmy is in the middle. But IMO that’s not an objective good thing, it’s a preference.
It’s certainly good have diversity of opinion, to keep it interesting for everyone. But how far would you extend that?
If there were more (or more active) fascists here, would that make it richer? Probably not - there ideas are empty and obtuse and self serving and racist. But i would have said the same about tankies before i joined Lemmy and listened to them.
The one thing you do not want is a circlejerk, where everyone agrees and is happy, but there is no important argument between people who strongly disagree.
I’m always the first to start these threads.
But it’s good to remember, we chose Lemmy over sites like notabug because it works better. Some good decisions by the devs created a good website, enabling good discussions, which you just don’t see elsewhere.
Some things like the “slur filter” seem sketchy, but you have to give the devs the benefit of the doubt. They clearly know a couple of things about forum design.
At the same time, it’s important to talk about this stuff. Better ideas usually come from debate.
It is possible.
A PO box type system. You rent a letter box, like renting a locker in a train station. You pay in cash. Anyone who needs to send you letters, you give him this address instead of your house address.
A cedex type system. The post office assigns you a code. People send letters to this code and the post office knows to forward them on to your house.
A post office window type system. You use the address of the local post office and a password. The post gets delivered to the post office, and you can go and collect it using your password.
This was just a quick brainstorm. I’m sure other and better schemes are possible.
It’s a website where you store all your bookmarks. You organise them using tags. You can have a one-click “add bookmark” thing in your browsers.
This seems to be becoming the hot topic, the elephant in the chatroom - the balance between censorship / freedom of speech on lemmy. There are solid arguments for both ways, and good compromises too. …
A method to generate new connections and ideas. …
This is a technique I’ve come up with, intended to be an improvement on the norm, and on multifactor authentication. It is both more secure and more convenient. …
A (series) hybrid car is technically the similar to a petrol car - they use the same compnents. But a hybrid is actually simpler to build, and higher performance. Why have manufacturers been concentrating on petrol-only cars for decades? …
I’ve been wondering why this is not done. It seems so obvious, so there must be a good reason. …
Yes friendly pop-up, i would like to donate to lemmy. I’m not familiar with any of the services linked though. Is there a bitcoin address i can transfer to?..
We all have to fail at the task. Make the results useless for their training. It’s the only way to make them stop giving us this unpaid work to do…
Has anyone discussed with admins of the notabug and saidit and the others, getting them federated with lemmy? …
Looks like it will build a profile on each person, and then sell the data to the government, and whoever else wants it. …
No it doesn’t track anything. It won’t remember your username, and certainly not your biometrics or bank/phone details (if that’s what you mean by 2FA). That’s what i like about it. It’s simple and secure.
It won’t work everywhere but it’s very handy for most sites. Some website with very bad and dangerous security practices like 2FA (or even 3FA) - it won’t work for them.