NaibofTabr
@NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
- Comment on cant take it anymore 6 days ago:
The genie is out of the bottle
This is a lot more like Pandora’s Box - all the evils have been let loose.
- Comment on You earned some more dislikes 1 week ago:
Enforced toxic positivity is unhealthy, yes.
It’s not the cause, it’s a symptom of a larger problem.
What would I need an “out” for?
- Comment on You earned some more dislikes 1 week ago:
A good forum design will only get you so far, the rest is up to the moderators. If you let bad actors in, it doesn’t matter how you designed your forum, they will poison the well and drive other people out.
Yes, well, the problem with hexbear was that it started with bad actors. As they made their true colors apparent to the lemmy community at large, they were increasingly defederated.
The best communities I’ve been in are in independent old-style forums. One of them is Tildes. Most of these don’t feature downvotes (or upvotes for that matter) and are honestly the better places to have discussions IMO.
Oh yes, my past experience is in old web forums as well. Those communities were more isolated though, they essentially existed inside their own bubbles. Unregistered users could read them, but not participate in any functional way, and typically the people that found them were looking for a community like that on purpose.
I’ve also experienced such communities becoming toxic due to the actions of individual moderators or admins, post voting not required.
Ultimately I think I agree this far - if you’re going to disable voting you should do all of it. Removing only the downvoting is the YouTube path, the authoritarian path, the toxic positivity path.
- Comment on You earned some more dislikes 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t imply that the unhealthyness of hexbear is due to the disabled downvoting though, and I’m sure you aren’t either, but just to be clear.
No, I’m implying the reverse: disabling downvoting is a symptom of the unhealthy mentality of the people running that server. Disabling downvoting appeals to authoritarians - that is, the type of people who are interested in silencing dissent (QED).
- Comment on You earned some more dislikes 1 week ago:
The only Lemmy community I’m aware of that has actually removed downvotes is hexbear - because they were tired of having their pro-Maoist rhetoric downvoted to oblivion by sane people. Hexbear is not a healthy place.
- Comment on You earned some more dislikes 1 week ago:
Enforced toxic positivity does not produce better conversations or better communities. It basically just turns a discussion forum into Disneyland, where everyone is happy all the time, because there’s no other option. It’s the kind of yes-man thinking you get in corporate meetings that produce really bad ideas because “don’t be negative! there are no bad ideas here!”
- Comment on The classics 2 weeks ago:
Theres a community for that! sh.itjust.works/c/youtubeclassics
- Comment on A matter of patience 3 weeks ago:
Well yes, one imploded, but the shock wave created by that first implosion then shattered 6600 of them.
- Comment on A matter of patience 3 weeks ago:
The implosion incident with Super-Kamiokande happened in 2001. Repairs were completed in 2006.
- Comment on Denominator, go Mercator 3 weeks ago:
This just in: projection requires distortion.
- Comment on 'What the f***': Modding arch-sorcerer casually invents Minecraft x Hytale crossplay, defies laws of god and man alike 4 weeks ago:
As Sahib explained in replies on Reddit and X, Hytale is serving as the host for the crossplay session, and while block placements are translated to equivalent blocks on the Minecraft side, it seems like only the prototype’s Hytale player is capable of placing new blocks. Considering he’s handbuilding a bridge between two different games with their own systems and mechanics, it’s not surprising that Sahib says “currently many things are Broken.”
Based on this, it sounds like the Hytale server is providing map data to the Minecraft session, which is why the block placement works on the Hytale side but not the Minecraft side. He must have created some kind of translation table for block types between the engines.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Deep Space 9’s Game, Played Quark’s Bar & that He Dominates At. 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Spotify’s 3rd price hike in 2.5 years hints at potential new normal 5 weeks ago:
plug for somafm
- Comment on Hey Don, youre a real class act. 5 weeks ago:
ugh, why is the top image so sloppy
- Comment on Mama! 5 weeks ago:
I’ll try spinning! that’s a good trick!
- Comment on Mama! 5 weeks ago:
but it’s so attractive
- Comment on Mama! 5 weeks ago:
Probably true for Pluto.
- Comment on Mama! 5 weeks ago:
The Great Attractor
- Comment on I can still get down with the best of 'em! 5 weeks ago:
My love is a life taker…
- Comment on The college-to-office path is dead: CEO of the world’s biggest recruiter says Gen Z grads need to consider trade and hospitality jobs that don’t even require degrees 1 month ago:
Eh, I’m not buying the complete doom’n’gloom perspective. Complex skilled labor is still very difficult to automate.
- Comment on shit 1 month ago:
not after the cirrhosis sets in
- Comment on I'm there! 1 month ago:
So, yes actually. Check out earthwatch.org, they offer trips where you participate in ecological research and/or conservation efforts. For example, here is a 2-week trip focused around counting animal populations in the Mongolian steppe:
earthwatch.org/…/wildlife-mongolian-steppe
These trips are somewhat pricy (this one is US$4250), but typically include room and board for the entire period and all local travel. Also:
As a paying volunteer, you directly fund scientific research by covering permits, equipment, and other costs while supporting local vendors.
You do have to make your own arrangements for traveling to wherever the research location is.
- Comment on Deeper babe 1 month ago:
Yeah man, this thing’s just a prototype for airframe design testing:
en.wikipedia.org/…/Lockheed_Martin_RQ-3_DarkStar
Tell me that wouldn’t create UFO sighting reports if it was seen flying around in 1996.
There is a government coverup, but it’s boring, it’s just to protect military secrets. People embellish because they want it to be exciting, otherworldly, special.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Oh right… need to hire someone to go to the bar for me…
- Comment on Banana For Scale 1 month ago:
I am a banana!..
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I mean… do you expect the results of these calls to be… good?
'Cause like, if your standards for the outcome of these calls aren’t too high, then just go down to the nearest bar and buy some half-drunk guy another round to make the call for you.
- Comment on Tip yer driver! 1 month ago:
That driver is so cut.
- Comment on bumper sticker 1 month ago:
If that sticker is blue, only the laws of physics can judge me.
- Comment on What is the moral jurisdiction behind not wishing who're rich and in executive positions to die? 2 months ago:
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
- Comment on Anon remembers the GameCube 2 months ago:
Morgan Webb from X-Play - Console Durability Test
I was going to reference this too!
