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James R Kirk

@ Kirk @startrek.website

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  • How am I supposed to go on?

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  • Not excusing ignorance but it is wild how different the experience of the average man or woman can be just existing in public. It makes sense to me that a man who is largely a basement dweller would have no first hand exposure to that sort of behavior.

  • The Social Network That Can't Sell Out: Understanding Mastodon vs. Bluesky

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  • There will always be two types of users: people looking to connect and people looking to be entertained. Fedi is better at the former and commercial better at the latter.

  • You can stop asking where the mass opposition is. It's everywhere.

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  • The function of accounts like the one you are replying to is to encourage cynicism and inaction among otherwise anti-fascist people.

    Failing that, they will try to exhaust you with “debate”.

  • You can stop asking where the mass opposition is. It's everywhere.

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  • Booker says it ‘irked’ him that Thurmond held previous record to ‘stop people like me from being in the Senate’

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  • I think the most effective reply is highlighting their methodology and moving on, rather than allowing yourself to be bogged down in rebuttals. You can never convince them because they are not "debating" earnestly, and the audience they are performing for isn't interested in following a debate and will dismiss both sides.

  • Booker says it ‘irked’ him that Thurmond held previous record to ‘stop people like me from being in the Senate’

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  • Agree completely, I also just feel it's important to highlight that style of inauthentic behavior.

  • Booker says it ‘irked’ him that Thurmond held previous record to ‘stop people like me from being in the Senate’

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  • What are you accomplishing, right here, right now, with this comment?

    The function of accounts like the one you are replying to is to encourage cynicism and inaction among otherwise anti-fascist people.

    Failing that, they will try to exhaust you with "debate".

  • The fediverse has a bullying problem

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  • The fediverse has a bullying problem

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  • If Mastodon/Fedi was at the scale those platforms are we would see more harassment, absolutely. It remains to be proven but I think federation enables a lot more eyes on content which implies harassing material can be removed more quickly.

    Federation/decentralization solves a lot of problems over centralized social media, but ultimatley you can't engineer human nature.

  • KDE Proposes New Plasma Login Manager to Replace SDDM

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  • 100%

  • PieFed supports auto merging threads so you see all the comments in one post

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  • I had a response typed out but have a question, is this feature pulling in comment feeds from every community the instance is federated with? Or only from communities the individual user is subscribed to?

  • PieFed supports auto merging threads so you see all the comments in one post

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  • Don't get me wrong I am a huge fan of Piefed overall. I think you misunderstood my second point a little, I don't want to be "exposed to new things" in my social media per-se, I want to read my chosen subscriptions (with my chosen social groups) and move on.

    I see the "issue" of "divided" communities coming up a lot. But to me, the variety of perspectives and moderation styles on the same topic is a major benefit of the Fediverse (to the point I might describe it as its greatest strength) especially when it come to non-technical or social topics like politics. For example Lemmy.ca users are going to have very different perspectives about US politics than Lemmy.us (hypothetically). I'm not sure that it benefits those users to centralize the discussion (not saying that's what's happening exactly but it is something I see come up a lot).

  • Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains

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  • The reason behind his weird android haircut is that he thought it looked Caesar-esque.

  • PieFed supports auto merging threads so you see all the comments in one post

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  • Two reasons:

    1. There are many steps between "I never wish to see any unmoderated content ever again" and "I wish to see unmoderated content in my feed every day". I don't want to block Lemmy.world communities but I also will go insane if I read those comments every day.
    2. I can't know what those communities are in advance of their being inserted. I don't want the default option for content in my main feed to be "opt out".

  • PieFed supports auto merging threads so you see all the comments in one post

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  • This may be an unpopular opinion, but I kind of hate this? I think most communities are lazily moderated and I don't want to have every goon's unmoderated takes on whatever the topic is forced in front of my eyeballs.

  • confused about communities and servers.

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  • confused about communities and servers.

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  • Exactly, not being beholden to one set of rule-deciders is not so much an "issue" as a distinct feature of the Fediverse.

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    What is stopping corporations from hijacking the Fediverse by hosting massive servers?

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  • Well said. I personally don't get the opposition to Threads using ActivityPub. I like being able to follow Threads profiles without exposing myself to Meta.

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    What is stopping corporations from hijacking the Fediverse by hosting massive servers?

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  • Yeah personally I like being able to follow Threads users without needing a Threads account or exposing my information to Meta and I honestly don't understand the vocal opposition to that.