Supposedly, I am a human, who does very human things.
Where "happy" is a euphemism for something not to be said amongst mixed company.
This is ultimately just punching sideways and down though.
These companies will win when your strategy is to simply shit on other people for existing.
You may not think that is what you're doing but it is. How so? Because while you care about this area of life enough to get into the details, for other people, their areas of care are completely different, and it is unreasonable for you to expect everyone to care about precisely what you care about.
As such, punching down and sideways only serves the purpose of making an environment where only the rich and powerful band together, and the poor (us) routinely infight and chop off our own legs rather than realizing that these megacorps hiring leagues of lobbyists, psychologists, marketers, etc know exactly how to push, and know that exactly the person you are bitching at will almost certainly never see your comment, or will consider it hostile and irrelevant so it wont matter either way.
Like every comment like yours that I have ever seen, I would bet money you didn't quite say what you are claiming to say here, didn't say it in a way that would imply the same thing, and didn't get quite the reaction you are saying you got.
People, especially on lemmy are looking for any cope that Ai will just fall apart by itself and no longer bother them by existing, so they'll upvote whatever lets them think that.
The reality that we are just heading towards the trough of disappear wherethe investor hype peters off and then we eventually just have a legitimately useful technology with all the same business hurdles of any other technology (tech bros trying to control other peoples lives to enrich themselves or harm people they don't like)
That said, there are good free open source tools that do most of those big things you cited. Examples include
Gimp is a terrible example given how inferior it is.
Blender would be closer to a gold standard. Maybe also throw in Kicad.
I feel like wood working is one of those cheap in theory hobbies where basically no one can resist and stay with the cheapest kit.
A tool here or there and suddenly you've got a $5000 chest with an equal worth of tools in it.
I am fond of 3d printing/Cad design. It enables so much more than just making artistic things. Basically every physically based hobby can be complimented with it.
My understanding from running into confusingly empty logs and seeing people more familiar with it comment, is it has become sort of a thin blue line-esque practice to ban a user and delete their posts in such an order that it would not shopw up in the mod logs, so I find it difficult to believe the logs could really contain anything truly trustworthy.
That is such an utterly awful user experience I am shocked it still exists currently.
It's kinda to be expected for the thing only enthusiasts claim is super easy to use, but still.
And people can choose to treat people the same based on that label, and I can choose to think it’s immature.
Sure, but I don't really think you've outlined good reason for feeling so.
Are you dismissing the complaints about ml wholesale? If not, what of the fact that one cannot practically sift at such a fine grain level as looking at every single user?
No, I advocate for not dismissing people solely based on their chosen instance without taking into account their actual views. I do not advocate against blocking ml entirely,
How does the former not inherently functionally include the latter?
Only because you and other people have spent multiple comments not understanding me so I’m only repeating myself.
Is it possible that other people feel a legitimate sense of inconsistency in your comments, hence probing for more information? Or that people understand but disagree with some aspects of what you are saying?
No, I engaged with someone else on ml, and then you couldn’t resist engaging with me.
I think you've very much so misinterpreted my comment here and have taken a hostile tone due to that. My comment is referring to you engaging with the poster of this content.
Your wording as if I would have any reason to need to resist engaging is an odd way to portray me as angry for having any questions about what seem to be an inconsistent set of opinions.
That doesn’t mean I value this engagement or would miss it at all. Let me again repeat that my preference is to ignore these types of posts, which is why I refrained from commenting on the other similar posts OP has made in the past. It’s kind of silly to assume that engagement means you necessarily value the content.
The misunderstanding here, is that you said you aren't missing anything by not being able to engage. This implies that you couldn't or wouldn't engage, but obviously your presence in this thread made that idea infeasible. That's what my confusion was referring to.
It was (still is) unclear to me what you meant by that comment when you haven't referred to any actual way that you've been impacted by this, so it appears you are complaining that you don't care about a hypothetical thing that could but hasn't happened seemingly for no reason at all.
Do you similarly think engaging with a racist by arguing with them means you must also value their content or presence? Of course not.
This is truly getting ridiculous. Outlandish comparison to bring into this.
Chiming in to say that I would not miss them, but also disagree with their views, is not contradictory.
I've never claimed the opposite, and indeed that wasn't the point of that comment.
I think this kind of blanket assumption about people based on their instance is a net negative to the community. That said, I don’t think it’s at all inconsistent to both view OPs attitude as immature while simultaneously not caring if they decide to block ml, precisely because being blocked by immature people is not a net negative to me.
Actually in this very last sentence I think its pretty clear there is some contradiction. You say its a net negative, and this implies it matters any amount at all, or I suppose you could also hold the opinion that you don't care at all about the community but then why bother, and obviously just by way of using it you must to some degree.
It just feels like you are trying to say "I have no dog in this race" to shield your opinion, when you very clearly do, hence debating it and hence the jump to anger present in this comment.
That seems like an incredibly awful design decision, particularly given that post deletions delete tons of content from other people as well.
It would be one thing if there were a separate utility to fight cases of spam (where one might want to automate removing spam posts), but just doing basically that, but by default seems mildly insane to me.
Its both security and practicality.
I would certainly strongly disagree with any idea that this help security outside of security theatre. This is after all, a public forum.
Practicality wise, I doubt this is the reason it feels so ephemeral, because I feel like most of the removals I've run into were for relatively recent content, and likely mod removals (you'd never know though....)
This appears to be one of the only bandaid solutions (as another user has recommended). It's an awful lot of work for a fundemental platform flaw though. I suppose the flaw is a bit more nuanced than any one issue though.
I imagine simply not removing comments with a post being removed/user being deleted would be a huge step up for usability however, but then as far as I gather, lemmy has a somewhat antagonistic relationship with the lead dev?? I remember some folks talking about an alternative being developed using a compatible protocol but it being early along. I guess we'll see if there is enough oomph for that to come to fruition.
I do think there are still edge cases that break that, and it definitely is not a practical solution in terms of adoption or solving the community problems I feel like this must cause, but it would work in terms of personally having a workaround I suppose. At that point, you're just kinda running it for the sake of archiving though.
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You have to remember that what you are basing your image of the common PC builder on, contains massive selection bias.
People who are just building their pcs silently, or who run into issues, but solve them themselves aren't going to be posted.
That leaves the people willing to put forth the least effort outside of posts asking for opinions on builds (as well as completely reasonable people who are stuck).
I do think many people don't really learn about everything that would be necessary, but thats largely one of the benefits of humanity; people not having to learn about everything.
I think people often ask a tech person they know for opinions, and sometimes that communication is muddied or that person doesn't know as much as they profess, but I doubt that a sizeable portion of people are just completely yoloing.
Seems pretty reasonable really.
That said, about this:
or pressure them to put a fair and unbiased as possible admin team.
I'm not sure fair or unbiased really have meaning as terms. I think its more that they seem strong handed and are alleged to have opinions based on propaganda rather than fact.
I definitely think the main developer publicly having those opinions is awful though. Projects have had drops in support for less.
Where are these stats from? Like what communities/instances/filtering options?
I ask because it feels like a lot more than that is filtered everytime I go through to look at my comment history/click through to posts.
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I think where it gets complicated and sometimes frustrating is with troubleshooting.
That, and picking out the parts can take ages, especially if you obsess, or have one idiot friend who is stuck in 2013 and still think its intel or nothing.
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I feel like your example is quite contrived, and having been in the trenches often, I feel like this is rare, and probably not even worth it for the average pc builder to know outside of when they need to know.
Even then, thats more of a "people should really try to search before posting for help" than anything else, and that exists everywhere.
The usual enshitification excuses are companies just being greedy dicks, and more than anything, a lack of regulation enforcement existing to stop companies simply outspending other companies out of business.