Zagorath
@Zagorath@aussie.zone
- Comment on [META] Overseas News - Proposal for increased enforcement of Rule 1 10 hours ago:
Also, in response to Nath’s advice, I’m considering if the group name should change to Overseas Tidings, yes because of the pun, but admittedly I didn’t even know that word so I won’t go forth with that unless there’s community backing.
I actually don’t know how much that will help. I think the problem comes from the fact that its ID is !worldnews, and no change to the display name can change that.
But I do kinda like the implications of it. The dictionary says tidings just means news, but at least to me it feels like it connotes a greater degree of relevance than “news” alone does. Like “what tidings do you bring‽” seems like a request for “what news that is relevant for me to know?”
- Comment on Israel's embassy takes rare swipe at Labor's platform on eve of conference 2 days ago:
Rare?
- Australia's Hong Kong, Tibetan and Uyghur communities condemn China's new ethnic unity lawwww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 2 days ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Daylight Savings 3 days ago:
It’s cos a significant majority of the population is on the east coast. 50% in Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne alone, before you add the rest of those states. So for economic reasons, it’s convenient for the central states to be a bit closer in time to the eastern states.
- Comment on [META] Overseas News - Proposal for increased enforcement of Rule 1 3 days ago:
The bot would be immediately replying to a post a user has just made. I figure in that context, an hour should be more than enough time for the person who posted it to confirm that they’ve followed the rules.
- Comment on [META] Overseas News - Proposal for increased enforcement of Rule 1 4 days ago:
I suspect most rule violations are probably committed out of ignorance, rather than malice. Most people probably don’t read the sidebar.
I wonder if it wouldn’t be useful to have a very simple filter. A bot that replies to every post, and asks the user to check if they’re following the rule.
Going a step further, the bot could tell the user to downvote the comment if it is following the rule, in which case the bot would delete its own comment. Anything where the OP did not downvote the bot’s comment within, say, an hour, gets removed by the bot. Its message could also (optionally) threaten banning the user if the violation is clear. No automated enforcement of that, but if a human reviews it and finds that not only did it break the rule, but it very obviously did and there’s no excuse for not knowing it, the human could then follow up with a ban.
Would there be any interest in something like that? Either the whole thing or just the first half? I’ve had a little experience developing Lemmy bots before and would be interested to try my hand at it.
- Comment on Federation between Aussie.Zone & Quokk.au is getting even worse 1 week ago:
Not sure. Quokkau is also not a Lemmy instance. It uses a fork of Piefed. So I don’t know if that site even intends to track it.
- Submitted 1 week ago to meta@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Comment on Quokkau not federating correctly? 4 weeks ago:
I think today was the first time I actually posted something to an aussie.zone instance since making this post. And it seems that no, it’s still not working.
- Comment on Quokkau not federating correctly? 1 month ago:
More detailed update: the last post that did federate correctly was this one.
Interestingly, my comment on that one seems to not have federated successfully. See here. Unclear exactly what happened because the post itself federated, but I see exactly zero votes, not upvotes or downvotes, which makes it seem like there may have been a failure to federate fully.
- Comment on Quokkau not federating correctly? 1 month ago:
That’s a good question. I don’t immediately have an answer for you, but I’ll go back through my history to try and check. Unfortunately I haven’t been super active on Lemmy/Piefed lately so there’s not a huge amount of data to go on.
First thing I noticed was this thread: aussie.zone/post/33440103
My comments were clearly federating much more recently than my posts were. Though my latest comment (a reply to Dia’s last reply to me) did not appear. That last issue might be unrelated, because I did see something from Mia about needing to restart the server recently. Not sure.
- Comment on Quokkau not federating correctly? 1 month ago:
- Submitted 1 month ago to meta@aussie.zone | 7 comments
- Comment on Liberal vote plummets as One Nation scores historic win in Farrer 2 months ago:
the real question I have: is this more than the same rural/city divide
Could be just that. Take a look at the booth breakdown. Almost every booth inside Albury (the largest city in the electorate) went for the independent. The 2nd largest city, Griffith, is the home to the only other booth that went that way. The rest of the mostly-rural electorate went orange.
- Comment on Man charged with using newly banned phrases in Queensland tries to argue law 'insane' 3 months ago:
I wish he had a proper lawyer.
Yeah seriously. FFS.
- Comment on Man charged with using newly banned phrases in Queensland tries to argue law 'insane' 3 months ago:
Oh, I misread. The headline I read (not this one) said that he was pleading insanity.
- Comment on Man charged with using newly banned phrases in Queensland tries to argue law 'insane' 3 months ago:
Honestly disappointed. I’d have liked to see a straight up “not guilty” plea, and go hard and direct on the constitutional angle. It’s pretty obvious that the laws violate the implied right to freedom of political communication. They serve no function but that.
- Comment on Israel said it targeted Hezbollah, so we went to the site of a strike 3 months ago:
Not trolling. A genuine Nazi. They support Israel’s invasion specifically on the grounds of “lebensraum”.
- Comment on Israel said it targeted Hezbollah, so we went to the site of a strike 3 months ago:
Reminder to everyone that the person No1 is talking to here is a Nazi.
- Comment on THIS IS A TEST - Sexing an albino echidna- it ain't easy! (video) 4 months ago:
what’s the test for?
- Comment on One Nation now wrenching votes from Labor as it overtakes Coalition 4 months ago:
Taylor leads the Liberals. Canavan became leader of the Nationals last week. As the senior party of the Coalition, Taylor leads it
- Comment on I am a rocker! I am a roller! I am the out-of-controller! I am the Nightrider! 4 months ago:
Sorry, did you interpret that comment as pro-Liberal? Because that’s an absolutely wild take away.
- Comment on I am a rocker! I am a roller! I am the out-of-controller! I am the Nightrider! 4 months ago:
Raid US Military Bases
Hahaha. Hahahahahaha. Hahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahaha.
As if this Labor government would ever do something against the Americans.
- Comment on Are users who openly parrot literal Nazi talking points allowed here? 4 months ago:
Seagoon has not posted to clarify the thinking behind their comment.
You see how that’s a bad thing, right? Surely. If they don’t clarify their stance is anti-genocide in very unmistakeable terms, one must conclude that they are, in fact, a Nazi. Choosing to remain silent should not be allowed to give someone ranting about lebensraum the benefit of the doubt during an active genocide.
- Comment on Are users who openly parrot literal Nazi talking points allowed here? 4 months ago:
Sorry but I’m afraid this time I’m the one who has to admit to not understanding the reference.
( Oh, and also: this is an Australian Community. In that context, Texas is kinda small. It would be Australia’s 6th largest state or internal territory. :D
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- Comment on Are users who openly parrot literal Nazi talking points allowed here? 4 months ago:
The purpose of moderation is to prevent people from being exposed abhorrent content
That may be one purpose. But it isn’t the only one. Another is shaping the norms of a community and what is acceptable. I’ll share the parable of the Nazi Bar, but put it behind a collapsible spoiler in case you or anyone else is already familiar:
The Parable of the Nazi Bar, by Michael B. Tager
I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, “no. get out.” And the dude next to me says, “hey i’m not doing anything, i’m a paying customer.” and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, “out. now.” and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, “you didn’t see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them.” And i was like, oh ok and he continues. “you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it’s always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don’t want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.” “And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it’s too late because they’re entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.”
I’ve shared my thoughts on why this particular user deserves the label Nazi elsewhere in the thread, and my reply to Lodion in particular also includes some of the justification for including the screenshot. But I’ll elaborate on that particular point here.
I don’t think mere exposure to that kind of Nazi rhetoric causes direct harm. Which is why I did not think it was causing harm to screencap the comment. Instead, it is the long-term permissibility of that content which causes harm. The Nazi Bar. If Nazis’ views are permitted, you get more Nazis.
I shared the comment first of all to highlight that user in particular to anyone viewing the thread to warn them off from engaging. And also to highlight that same parallel that I made in the reply to Lodion. That even if one person may not themselves be a Nazi, they are engaging in some ideology that is dangerously close to that of Nazis. Highlighting an actual Nazi whose views they would agree with was supposed to serve to emphasise that parallel, while serving as a dis-endorsement of the Nazi’s own view. I think that sharing harmful views in the specific context of highlighting both that and why they are harmful is not at all similar to simply having those views and sharing them sincerely.
- Comment on Are users who openly parrot literal Nazi talking points allowed here? 4 months ago:
To be clear, I fully believe that the user in question is a Nazi. There is no other rational explanation for their behaviour. Any space that allows that user is a Nazi bar.
The legislation itself I do not believe is only supported by literal Nazis. But that the ideology in support of them is a similar far-right reactionary one. It necessarily involves gleeful support at the slaughter of thousands of innocent people, including the deliberate killing of medics and journalists whose only job is to reduce suffering and expose how awful the regime inflicting this is. It also necessarily involves support for the restriction on civil rights including freedom of expression. It may not be capital-N Nazi necessarily, but it is certainly far-right authoritarian, of the sort that might have attracted a less formal lower-case-n “nazi” label a decade ago, when actual Nazis were more closeted. But that shouldn’t be surprising. My point was to demonstrate that being a Zionist, in 2026, necessarily puts you ideologically very close to Nazis, even if you don’t necessarily cross the line into actually being a Nazi, like this particular user obviously does.
- Comment on Are users who openly parrot literal Nazi talking points allowed here? 4 months ago:
That’s good to see, but as of right now the Nazi’s explicit mask-off comment is still up, and they are still not prevented from commenting further in the future.
Fwiw, I didn’t learn the phrase from online discourse about neonazis, I learnt it from education about WWII in its original comment. Until reading other comments in this thread I was not even aware that it was popular among neonazis as a dogwhistle. So we both learnt something unfortunate here today.
- Comment on Are users who openly parrot literal Nazi talking points allowed here? 4 months ago:
Ah fair enough. Thanks for the clarification.
- Comment on Are users who openly parrot literal Nazi talking points allowed here? 4 months ago:
It’s hard to take the word of someone who evidently has a history of genocide denial and who then turns around and talks about lebensraum as anything other than an admission of a Nazi-like ideology.
Being someone who you can have a conversation about other subjects with does not affect that. Then turning around and denying it does not change anything.
The only thing that might change my mind would be a complete retraction of both the lebensraum comment and the “there is no genocide” ones.
