Tbh I think even such a thing is not that great for children. Certainly not traumatic or close to it, but just not very effective I would guess.

“Tech” journalists spend way too much time in the headlines of other outlets, getting a much too shallow idea of the actual tech that they’re supposed to cover. It’s quite sad that this is the state of so-called tech journalism.

Like a 15 minute time out is ok.

Locked in a room or locked out of the house? That is not okay, regardless of how long it is.

Community admins would decide to link their communities.

At this point, why not just shut down one of the communities and use the other one? What’s the point in linking them like this? That just makes it the same as one community, no?

Laying the matter truly bare would be:

To be fair, there’s always been something deeply wrong with how most people understand the universe.

I’m actually most concerned with the IP leaking

I’m curious, what is it about IP leaking that concerns you? I’ve been thinking about it lately but I have a hard time seeing why it’s a problem.

Why is this posted in the fediverse community? I get that you think this is important, but this is an international community and many here have no way to influence American politics. It’s also just off topic.

Communities should be linked at least

Who decides what communities are linked? You’d need some kind of central authority to do that, but that would break decentralization.

Multiple options for the same thing is good and should be accepted as normal. It’s only on the internet that we have learned to think otherwise.

Wouldn’t it be weird if you only had one supermarket option to go to? I mean yea super markets mostly have the same stuff, but there’s a good reason not to have monopolies.

To be fair, almost all instances started like this.

Why are you making such a strawman? Using an AI model to completely generate a picture is obviously not the same as using the tools you mention here.

Isn’t the problem with banning ads that you’d just gets “ads” that aren’t marked as such? Like, ads are still going to happen, they just won’t be clearly marked cause that would be illegal.

EDIT: Would love to hear how the downvoters would enforce an advertisement ban. What happens when an influencer randomly endorses a brand and then that brand also just coincidentally happens to give the influencer a “generous donation” or perhaps a life-time usage coupon?

We’ve got a male and female form for pretty much all jobs

You mean like gendered versions of the words for jobs? Or what do you mean?

[PieFed] seems to be strongly opinionated about how people should behave and it kinda gives me an icky feeling about its culture

Yea, I get this same feeling. It’s not that I mind that culture or being mindful of how people behave and such - I just don’t think that is the domain of the software to decide. Individual instances can decide that for themselves, but the software shouldn’t influence that kind of thing, I feel.

Well, that might be the cause. Kinda scary you get recommendations like that just due to no history.

Wow your YouTube recommendations are very different from mine.

But it doesn’t block votes, so their users will still influence your feed.

Do be aware of the limitations of user blocking though.

This community does not exist on lemmy.ml (probably banned), so I don’t believe they will see your mention here.

Username checks out?

It’s not meant to be a messenger, it’s not meant for privacy. Everything being public and transparent is part of the core design of the Fediverse. The idea of private groups/posts on the Fediverse seems counterintuitive to me.

Just want to counter this: Privacy is in fact a part of ActivityPub. Stuff is only meant to be public if it is sent to the Public collection, otherwise it should only be delivered to the intended recipients, much like email. This is part of the core protocol, not any extension.