SweetCitrusBuzz
@SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org
fae/faer or she/her
A lover of fruit, fun and helping people out.
- Comment on Walgreens Replaced Fridge Doors With Smart Screens. It’s Now a $200 Million Fiasco. 1 day ago:
Hilarious.
- Comment on New Square Enix policy will clamp down on harassers, bigots and "unreasonable" compensation requests 3 days ago:
In my naïve hopes I hoped this could be from stopping harrasment within Square Enix and its development partners, but alas no. It is stopping fans from harrasing, which is good but really they should turn that policy inwards as well.
- Comment on Biden’s TikTok Flip-Flop: President Rushes To Undo Ban He Championed As Backlash Grows 3 days ago:
Not really, I’d say it’s equally spread along all points in the political spectrum currently.
- Comment on Brainwash An Executive Today! 4 days ago:
Still not brain washing.
This is more manipulation. Brainwashing is a specific form of torture, not whatever this blog writer thinks it is.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Ah, of course the guy motivated by money ensures he can keep getting it.
Let’s hope he will invest it in moderation worth a damn.
Sadly it sounds like he’ll still be in charge of the project so he can keep ignoring user issues and pull requests that are actually useful and making changes that users don’t like, want or need.
- Comment on Platforms Systematically Removed a User Because He Made "Most Wanted CEO" Playing Cards 5 days ago:
🙄
- Comment on Platforms Systematically Removed a User Because He Made "Most Wanted CEO" Playing Cards 5 days ago:
That isn’t what I said. Why take my words out of context? I have no desire to use a specific thing that has become a hub for fascists, not the whole internet. This is very disingenous.
- Comment on Platforms Systematically Removed a User Because He Made "Most Wanted CEO" Playing Cards 5 days ago:
Nostr is full of fascists last I heard, so no thank you.
- Comment on Platforms Systematically Removed a User Because He Made "Most Wanted CEO" Playing Cards 5 days ago:
Disclaimer: All our merch is for educational and entertainment purposes only. We do not condone any violence in any capacity.
Shame.
- Comment on Mastodon’s founder cedes control to non-profit 5 days ago:
Not sure.
I haven’t really looked into the people behind it.
The only original project I’m currently sure that has good people behind it that care is gotosocial.
- Comment on Mastodon’s founder cedes control to non-profit 5 days ago:
A lot of fedi software is created by not great people sadly, even lemmy.
Only a few projects I know of are created by actually decent people who care about the community and don’t have terrible beliefs/views.
‘Soft’ forks can only do so much and still rely on the upstream releasing new versions.
Hard forks are quite unlikely to get either the same kind of backing or be able to be supported as much even if the people behind them have good intenions and viewpoints/beliefs.
Sadly, under capitalism this is likely to be the case, even in the open source sphere, it’s the people that have the money or who can attract it that are able to continue working on things such as this full time and, unsurprisingly, that tends to be people who uphold power structures, not dismantle them.
- Comment on Mastodon’s founder cedes control to non-profit 6 days ago:
Sure
- Comment on Mastodon’s founder cedes control to non-profit 6 days ago:
Sigh.
- Comment on Mastodon’s founder cedes control to non-profit 6 days ago:
The history of mastodon.social - the one that has been historically run and moderated by the creator has been shown and called out multiple times for not moderating well.
Part of that is because it was allowed to get too big and part of that is that because of that they didn’t have enough moderators (especially not ones that were paid).
This led to design decisions for both the web interface and the ‘official’ mastodon app that made moderation (such as one of the report options sending your report into the null) and the general experience (such as removing one of the timelines from the from the ‘official’ app) worse.
The tools for moderators and admins are also somewhat laughable and often display warnings which mastodon.social ironically doesn’t follow or does all too well, depending on whether it’s unhelpful or helpful to do so.
That’s what I mean, not necessarily individual instance moderation, though as I have shown (not) doing good instance moderation if you’re the developer helps develop tools and designs (which is part of the the problem/solution). But also a community orientated approach and actually paying attention to what folks are saying about an instance and the tools and things that are developed to help out, or as a consequence of any decisions taken or not taken in moderation.
- Comment on Mastodon’s founder cedes control to non-profit 6 days ago:
Yes, I’m not the creator of the post. I just thought I’d make it easy for them.
- Comment on Mastodon’s founder cedes control to non-profit 6 days ago:
- Comment on Mastodon’s founder cedes control to non-profit 6 days ago:
About time. Hope this leads to actually good things for mastodon rather than a series of increasingly worse decision by the current supreme leader who doesn’t seem to care about safety, moderation or creating and keeping a unique identity for it and other things besides.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 12th 1 week ago:
No Man’s Sky and Stardew Valley (modded).
- Comment on The Video Game Industry Is Unionizing 1 week ago:
Good, it’s about time the abuse stopped and all the indugment in firings most companies do.
- Comment on The Great Decentralization: What happens when sprawling online communities fracture into politically homogenous, self-governing communities? 1 week ago:
Can’t speak for others but I’ve learned more about politics on fedi than any other platform. Also, centralised platforma are no longer fact checking either and didn’t really do agood job of it when they did.
I think this is just the latest in FUD about the fedi for the most part, it has a few good points, but mostly it doesn’t really know what it’s talking about.
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- Comment on [Official Art] Eda Portrait by Brigitta Rena - When the Past was Around 1 week ago:
We find this artwork lovely. Thanks for sharing 🙂
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 5th 2 weeks ago:
No Man’s Sky.
- Comment on ‘Major incident’: China-backed hackers breached US Treasury workstations 2 weeks ago:
It is a shame then that very few countries can claim to actually be democratic then, since representative democracy is not true democracy.
It is closer to the ideal perhaps, but it is not truly for the people in a way that matters. Only direct democracies where people vote on policies etc are actual democracies, representative democracies tend to teater on that autocratic/totaletarian edge where the elected and unelected (at least by the people) representatives/government often enact policies and laws not in line with what people actually want, especially in first past the post systems with effectively only two parties.
There are still many problems even with direct democracy in this current system as capitalism allows those with the most money and to lie and influence, however, that’s true of representative democracy also, if not moreso in the case of bribes and lobbying.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of December 29th 3 weeks ago:
No Man’s Sky, Stardew Valley and Citizen Sleeper recently.
- Comment on If you begin the Voyager episode "Spirit Folk" at exactly 11:49:35 on New Year's eve, Ensign Harry Kim will kiss a cow as the clock strikes midnight. 3 weeks ago:
It doesn’t.
- Comment on If you begin the Voyager episode "Spirit Folk" at exactly 11:49:35 on New Year's eve, Ensign Harry Kim will kiss a cow as the clock strikes midnight. 3 weeks ago:
Just to let you know my pronouns aren’t he. Thank you. Please feel free to use any neutral or feminine leaning pronouns instead.
- Comment on If you begin the Voyager episode "Spirit Folk" at exactly 11:49:35 on New Year's eve, Ensign Harry Kim will kiss a cow as the clock strikes midnight. 3 weeks ago:
What a bovine moment, absolutely mootiful. A tail as old as time, just hope the moment isn’t seen as too horny or that they don’t milk it too much.
- Comment on Beta Testing Loops by Pixelfed 3 weeks ago:
I’m just worried it’ll become normalised to be reuploads instead of original stuff.
- Comment on Beta Testing Loops by Pixelfed 3 weeks ago:
It needs more uploads created by the people behind the accounts rather than low effort reuploads of other’s content.