Kichae
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- Comment on The Two Genders 4 days ago:
It’s because it was actually a Walz thing, and she sidelined Walz for some reason.
- Comment on As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved 1 week ago:
Seems like an opportunity to use this in attack PP’s tax-cut rhetoric, and to attack the oft-repeated talking points from business that tax increases will be passed on to consumers.
Tax cuts are eaten by businesses, so long as the businesses believe that people will continue to buy. Tax increases will also be eaten by businesses, so long as the businesses believe that people will refuse to buy at a higher price. It’s all being taken by or from shareholders.
It’s a shame no political entities will actually touch this with anything more pointed or useful than “that’s appalling!”
- Comment on Blacksky Is Nothing Like Black Twitter—and It Doesn’t Need to Be 1 week ago:
Like you I’m confused at the continual cries of racism on Mastadon.
I, uh, said I’m not confused by the cries of racism. I’m confused by the constant claims of “I don’t see any, therefore it must not exist”.
It’s like no one gives a shit, because it doesn’t affect them personally. Which, you know, makes everyone the kind of people that those experiencing harassment don’t want to be around anyway.
- Comment on Blacksky Is Nothing Like Black Twitter—and It Doesn’t Need to Be 1 week ago:
Yeah. It’s pretty telling that my entire time on Mastodon has been punctuated by black users complaining about how much racism they’re exposed to on the network, and everyone else going “I don’t see any racism!”
Like, ok, maybe you don’t. I don’t. I’m as white as snow, and don’t post about my experiences as a racialized person (not being one, and all). But it’s pretty clear, just from seeing the same exchange over and over again, that racialized people are experiencing something I’m not, and them expressing as much has Defenders of the Faith circling wagons every time it comes up.
Mastodon being a little more complicated than Twitter wouldn’t have been a major blocker to communities coming over. “Hey, join this site”, rather than “join Mastodon!” is all you need. But no one’s going to be telling black folks, or any other community, to come on over if the social atmosphere is at least as toxic as where they’re coming from.
Now with another alternative, Mastodon also needs to be better than “not being Twitter”. And the people who are there already seem to have zero interest in doing that.
- Comment on Indian start-up Yes Madam fires employees who indicated being stressed in the survey 1 week ago:
And why is the url they send always “website.com/survey-name/[random hash]”? Why are there trackers on this totally anonymous, fo sho, survey link?
- Comment on Your Bluesky Posts Are Probably In A Bunch of AI Datasets Now [404 Media] 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. A public internet means a public internet, for good and for ill. People have been trained to see the internet as private, and we’re now reaping those sown seeds, and people really hate the harvest.
- Comment on Why do people with lots of 'karma points' tend to be nothing but egotistical assholes? 2 weeks ago:
Do you check in on the profiles to see the karma count of people who you feel have a neutral or even positive personality?
Probably not. So you have no idea how the average person with “lots of ‘karma points’” tends to act. Instead, you’re looking at the profile of people who feel safe enough in a space to let themselves be seen as assholes.
This is like asking “why does drinking alcohol make everyone violent?” You’re just noticing the ones who are making a scene.
- Comment on No need to boil the ocean 2 weeks ago:
Imagine your essential services are all run for profit, by entities with the goal of maximizing profits and minimizing service.
- Comment on European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X 2 weeks ago:
They’re always welcome to get a regular job. They’re not choosing what they have to do to survive, they’re choosing what they want.
- Comment on No need to boil the ocean 2 weeks ago:
I can’t wait for the future where we’re paying subscription fees for a thousand separate essential services and the libertarians start suggestinf thet there should just be a service that provides a single source for paying and managing all of tjose subscriptions.
- Comment on New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi. 3 weeks ago:
Oh no. I don’t be needin’ no internet enabled legislation! Good, old fahsioned, airgapped legislation was good enough before, and it’s good enough today!
- Comment on I am a very liberal person and I have very liberal children, except for one. I'm pretty sure my Gen Z son has been taken in by fascist doctrine. What can I get him for Christmas? 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure what order you read my reply in, but it wasn’t linear, was it?
- Comment on I am a very liberal person and I have very liberal children, except for one. I'm pretty sure my Gen Z son has been taken in by fascist doctrine. What can I get him for Christmas? 3 weeks ago:
Social Networking Sites: Full of fascists actively trying to recruit people into fascism
Social Media Sites: Full of videos and memes pushing fascism
Governments Around the World: Increasingly giving into or controlled by naked fascists
You: “Have you considered financial literacy?”
What the fuck, dude?
- Comment on The Right Has a Bluesky Problem 4 weeks ago:
Because among the users it does have are some of the most influential people in the world.
Like, the US Senate’s pretty small, too, but people from the world over have to pay attention to its members.
- Comment on The Right Has a Bluesky Problem 4 weeks ago:
“Like DNS” there is an analogy. And DNS is actually a distributed system.
Imagine if every web DNS had to go through Facebook. That’s how all of the ATproto traffic works. It’s all funneled through Bluesky’s servers.
- Comment on The Right Has a Bluesky Problem 4 weeks ago:
It does nothing. Verification is only important in general for public individuals, anyway. Public officials, celebrities, etc. Those people have the means to do it. They also have the means to host their own instance on their own domain, or on a government domain, which is even better verification of identity.
But most of us do not need to give a damn.
- Comment on Thanks for the warning I guess?? 4 weeks ago:
Mine warn me only when it’s purposeful. As you say, if I change output devices, and the sound is too loud, it says nothing. It literally only interferes with me doing something I’m purposefully choosing to do, and failing to protect me from shit I’m doing accidentally.
- Comment on The Right Has a Bluesky Problem 4 weeks ago:
Decentralization is inherently inefficient. Efficiency is a double-edged sword, though. One which our modern, business focused culture actively tries to ignore the self-facing blade of.
- Comment on The Right Has a Bluesky Problem 4 weeks ago:
The shared block lists need to keep up with bad faith signups, which will stop happening once the trolls are actually trying, though. So, it’s going to be on the shoulders of the subscriber feed.
Which was something that Twitter augmented long before they were bought by Elon. And is something that will probably show up once the shareholders start pushing the company towards an IPO, which will happen eventually.
But maybe they’ll add other interesting safety features before then.
- Comment on The Right Has a Bluesky Problem 4 weeks ago:
It will be interesting to see what happens as they follow their victims over. Right now, people seem to be experiencing Bluesky as a breath of fresh air, and are attributing it to things like block lists (which, yeah, that’s a good idea, and one that we’ve been asking for for a long while), but a big part of it is just that the ratio of trolls to liberals is way lower right now. They’ll figure out how to break through the algorithm eventually, and around the block lists.
And when that happens, Twitter’s going to bleed out rapidly as the fashy mouth breathers show up to flex over how they cannot be stopped. Because, yeah, there’s nothing keeping them on Twitter once their victims are gone.
- Comment on Bro 😭😭 4 weeks ago:
Do… Do you actually think you’re being downvoted by people cheering on Johnny Fuckinf Depp? Or are you just whining because you’re learning that your bad takes are also bad?
- Comment on Social media users probably won't read beyond this headline, researchers say 4 weeks ago:
But what about the comments? How many are reading those?
- Comment on Reminder for all Lemmy moderators and admins. 4 weeks ago:
Umm, it’s November, and in Canada. Is it ok if I wait until April?
- Comment on GOG launch their Preservation Program to make games live forever with hundreds of classics being 're-released' 5 weeks ago:
Right. So, no software ever, then. Even if you have a license that grants you perpetual usage rights, that doesn’t extend to anyone else shouldering the responsibility of perpetual hosting.
Your right to use software does not give you the right to expect others to store your digital junk for you.
- Comment on Taylor Swift Fans Are Leaving X for Bluesky After Trump’s Election 5 weeks ago:
That is not moderation. Moderation involves removing bad actors from the site, not underground black lists that let you pretend the Nazis aren’t living next door.
- Comment on Taylor Swift Fans Are Leaving X for Bluesky After Trump’s Election 5 weeks ago:
Mastodon has local and global feeds, and has for years. Did you just sit in your home feed and wonder where all the stuff you haven’t subscribed to was?
- Comment on Taylor Swift Fans Are Leaving X for Bluesky After Trump’s Election 5 weeks ago:
There’s no way to fight them on platforms where they are welcomed by the platform itself. Bluesky doesn’t want to moderate its platform, so there is no fighting the Nazis there.
- Comment on Taylor Swift Fans Are Leaving X for Bluesky After Trump’s Election 1 month ago:
And we can do this all over again in a couple of years thanks to BlueSky’s refusal to moderte its service, all because internet users refuse to thi:k abput how the internet works, and peoples addictions to being told what to read.
- Comment on Dear Americans, be prepare to get screwed! 1 month ago:
Doesn’t matter who the tax is levied against. All costs will be passed on to the buyer. They should be familiar with this idea. It’s the Republican’s key talking point against business taxes.
- Comment on Pluralistic: Antiusurpation and the road to disenshittification (07 Nov 2024) 1 month ago:
Heaven forbid someone point out the reasons things suck and the ways we could do thibgs different, even if you know no one’s going to change.
Better to just shrug everything off and tell folks “that’s life, get used to it”, right? That does a lot of good!