And with Threads potentially federating, it’s pretty ominous

To the top with you!

Little guys lapping up right wing propaganda sure make it extremely difficult to fight the elite, tho.

They become merely another instrument of the “up” of suppressing the “down” when you’re feeling frustrated, helpless, and hopeless all the time.

Right now, we can already recognize lower quality bots within conversation. AI generated “art” is already very distinct to everyone to the point almost nobody misses it.

Language is a human instinct. Our minds create it, we can use it in all sorts of ways, bend it to our will however we want.

By the time bots become good enough to be indistinguishable online, they’ll either be actually worth talking to, or they will simply be another corporate shill.

I looked it up and this came up.

I only took introductory German so I have no idea what this is but I think it’s a law or something.

That ship has sailed, both ways I’m afraid.

Not only reddit made it exceedingly clear that they aren’t backtracking, 3rd party developers equally clearly stated they are out.

I don’t see this situation reversing.

<insert yo mama joke here>

I’d say it’s exactly as productive as saying “It’s no big deal if Meta joins the fediverse, It’ll be fiiiiiine”.

We should watch everything very carefully.

Read this. You’ll understand the issue a little better.

The problem here isn’t talking to Meta or Meta making a federated platform.

Nobody can prevent Meta from doing that anyway.

The problem is the need to push against the insistence of Meta to keep these meetings off the record. It’s against the entire philosophy of something like not only fediverse but FOSS in general.

If Meta wants good faith, they have to show it first.

Notice that in the email, Kev gives his guidance as to the matter. Do whatever the fuck you want as long as you put people first and make a product for the purpose of serving them.

This should be the attitude everyone should have first.

We will accept you as long as you’re bringing value to us, not the other way round, got that Meta?

As long as any dev is taking this approach, Meta included, I’m supporting them. If someone is secretive about their intentions about a public service which is not a for profit endeavor inherently, I’ll have a hard pass too.

On the day of the AMA, I edited all my comments to fuck u/spez, and a r/selfawarewolves mod banned me for “spamming”.

Then I complained out of spite and got unbanned immediately, but the mod reminded me how “irresponsible it was of me to put the crosshairs on them”.

Yeah. That legitimacy problem is always an important one. I keep saying the same thing to the “good” christians and muslims around me.

You might be, and are as far as I can tell, truly good people who have faith in something honestly. The name you chose for your “honest personal belief”, though, gives credence to the organized hate cults you share that name with.

The answer can be many things if you go into detail but the summary is change is hard.

I got over leaving reddit for good but I’m a bit worried about the hellhole it’s seemingly becoming with all the exposure it’s able to give horrible ideas. I won’t be surprised if it goes full fascist next week Twatter style.

Great news!

I’m really happy there are some pro lgbtq news between all the attacks the community suffers constantly.

We should start by designing better and more informative UX, and ditch the email analogies altogether.

Nobody imagines the correct thing when we harp on about how decentralized and amazing everything is, analogous to email but also reddit and twitter combined but also different but it doesn’t matter because it’s all the same in the end.

Yes but on reddit, upvotes puts something in your upvoted list and you can save selectively, which is a much better system for organization.

Boosts and upvotes have a slightly different functionality here that I do upvote and/or boost posts and comments differently, none of which is to add the post to my favorites. Even though it can be used that way for the same effect, it’s a different use case.

What if I want to save a post I didn’t want to boost or favorite? Should I not be able to save a comment I disagree with that I also downvoted?

Hi Good, I’m dad!

This understanding is much more easily achieved after one’s familiar with the basics of their own instance though, isn’t it? Rather than expecting them to imagine the exact user experience of the fediverse before they even made their account, would we not be better off introducing them to a cold open and be helpful later when they have questions?

All of these problems are caused by the same underlying system and trying to explain the system to non-users is the exact wrong way to go about alleviating them. Better interface and UX design is the only thing which can solve this issue.

I don’t have any interest in the content but I will boost and comment for a few days to see if it helps.
You can also boost and like yourself to give it some initial juice. Don’t be shy as you’re trying to build something from scratch.
I can also recommend hitting some similar but more active communities on other instances and cross post some stuff with the links to your magazines. Some people might show interest.