I suspect they just know their model is shitter than the other corporate ones, and want to reap the benefits of the FOSS community hacking it

The tiktok ban was never about China. It was about killing off a dissent medium.

Wasn’t actually intended as a joke at first, but I noticed it before I posted… Wasn’t sure whether to post. Anyway, feel free to treat it as one, but I was being serious too.

TIL, thanks! Funny word 😂

I think there’s something about the type of people who are attracted to fame and power being more likely to be sociopathic, or at least more narcissistic. Not all of them, just a higher-than-background rate.

I don’t find it hard to find great people IRL.

I think the kind of people into those kind of jokes don’t ask first

Yeah, undereducated people really suck, huh?

/s

I would say it’s technically wrong, because the am is where the emphasis sits, and you wouldn’t contract an emphasised word.

But yeah, that still seems like the best interpretation of intention in this case.

Labels never more useful than just as a shortcut to understanding someone’s whole nuanced belief…

Surely there is a meaningful difference between a planned economy/command economy and a semi-regulated market economy? Like, I get that corporate control can still be authoritarian, but it’s different to state control in some ways, I think?

Agree, but I think there are lots of people who are a bit more on the fence, or playing around with ideas. If someone says something stupid out of ignorance or inexperience, and they get blasted for it, they probably aren’t gonna learn much from it, and they might go hang out with the people who responded well to it…

Obviously if you try and it turns out they understand what they are saying, and are doing it intentionally, they can get fucked. Problem is it’s hard to tell sometimes, and not many people have the capacity to tolerate that behaviour enough to find out.

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Isn’t this just an argument that left-right is a bad categorisation?

Tankies are authoritarian socialists. The american right are authoritarian and socially conservative individualists. Anarchists are libertarian socialists. American libertarians are also individualists.

There are lots of other dimensions too, but the left-right designation has been kind of useless at least since communists started fucking over anarchists in various parts of Eurasia in the first half of last century…

George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia was pretty inspiring to me

(I’ll also add that Anna Funder’s Wifedom make Orwell seem a bit fucked in his personal life. I haven’t read it yet, just had convos with people who did. Seems maybe Homage to Catalonia could have been a better book if he was less of a mysogynist)

I think your approach is very valid IRL, where there’s vocal nuance, and body language, and real people who probably aren’t Russian botfarms and communities that you are both part of. In that case calling-in is the far better option the vast majority of the time.

The general open internet doesn’t have much of any of that though, and general numbers and anonymity and lack of repercussions or accountability make it way too easy to be an arsehole/troll and never try to come to a common understanding. If someone’s doing that, they can fuck right off.

I think there are smaller semi-private internet communities that operate kind of half way between those extremes, where you probably have to take it case-by-case.

I think Lemmy is kinda halfway between the second and their option, but will gradually head more toward the second option as it gets bigger.

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If you lie on a sheltered concrete slab, they’ll install 20cm spikes, too

I figured that was just the pause before the punchline. Like, the city almost got it, but they still fucked it up a bit.

Fuck yeah, awesome :)

Makes heaps of sense, when you can. Still need something for people in wheelchairs and stuff early on though.

I’ve often thought painting lines across paths and then observing the paint wear off could tell you a lot about which paths could be removed, or where corners could be rounded off better.