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- Comment on Lemm.ee mod abuse 2 weeks ago:
It’d be interesting to see this in the courts. Would lemm.ee stand as accused, facilitator, or witness?
- Comment on New Discord TOS binds you to forced arbitration - Opt-Out Now 3 weeks ago:
Negotiability, or more precisely offer and acceptance, are achieved by the simple “take it or leave it”.
Maybe in the US, where that kind of this would honestly be expected. Here in more decent countries, Negotiability requires that both parties can exercise offer an acceptance to the contract. I consulted to our local digital ethics group about it and they are in accordance, at least to what pertains to my country.
- Comment on New Discord TOS binds you to forced arbitration - Opt-Out Now 4 weeks ago:
Any contract is legally binding
Exactly. And a TOS is not a contract.
If you go to law definitions, contracts have a number of requirements to be such, of which to my knowledge a TOS fails two (Negotiability and Certainty).
- Comment on tremendous 4 weeks ago:
I did say “coherent message”.
- Comment on tremendous 4 weeks ago:
Other than “manufacturing them releases fumes”, I don’t see how any of these forms a coherent message.
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 4 weeks ago:
See, it’s the entire premise that voice conferencing is needed to have a replacement for “Discord is used for documentation”. It’s not. Almost by definition. If anyone wants videoconferencing there’s Jitsi. That’s the thing I’m aiming to: you won’t ever to get anyone to “replace” Discord if they have to replace all of it. Capitalism doesn’t allow for that. We are trying to do better here. Splitting problems into their component and significative parts makes them much easier to solve.
The closest use case that in the case of these kinds of communities would even need videoconferencing would be something like “Discord is being used for live tech support for modchipping Switches” and for that case there’s also already established alternatives… and it would be wise to not implement for that anyway.
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 4 weeks ago:
In order to make it into a Discord or Zoom competitor you would need to solve far higher bandwidth things like HD video and low latency audio, and both of thouse are fundamentally very different things for a server to handle as compared to high latency short text messages.
That falls into the same two fallacies as the ones of complainers against Youtube alternatives:
- that in order to offer an alternative to a service you have to replicate all of it
- that you have to provide an alternative to only one service
Like, really, you don’t need to replace all of Discord, only the parts that matter. The alternative to build not to Discord but to “Discord is being used for documentation” already exists, it’s called web forums. Ditto, the alternative to “Discord is being used for communities” also exists, it’s called XMPP or IRC or Matrix depending on who you ask. The alternative to “Discord tracks user data” is simply called “you don’t do it”, etc.
Like, we are literally on Lemmy. Just about the first thing that we Get It from the internet is that centralization is bad, be it Products or Services.
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 4 weeks ago:
Not to mention Discord is not forced to take communities down. There’s lots of stuff like right wing nutjob communities that are still up no issues. Discord is just sucking Nintendo dick, just like the communities that host solely on Discord are sucking Discord cock.
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 4 weeks ago:
You can blame both corporations, you don’t need to suck any corpo cock. Nintendo sends the takedowns in the first place, which sure is Nintendon’t, and Discord heeds them despite otherwise profiting from those communities and without allowing any sort of measure.
- Comment on This laptop released in 2016 no longer receive OS updates. Which means I can't update Chrome Browser 5 weeks ago:
Linux and Firefox would get updates!
- Comment on Anon has a power fantasy 5 weeks ago:
That’s a v fair point.
- Comment on Anon has a power fantasy 5 weeks ago:
Imagine walking into a lemmy board on the internet and trying to tell people something doesn’t need fucking massive essays of worldbuilding…
- Comment on Unfortunately i understand 1 month ago:
learn evil, love laugh
- Comment on Liking an OS isn't a personality trait ❌ 1 month ago:
Interesting. You could setup something like a linux VM (or an rPi) running a distro with privoxy to filter out mentions of Linux per domain(s)!
- Comment on suck it, math nerds 1 month ago:
Would go well with my former teacher’s point-shaped cows.
- Comment on The duality of particles 2 months ago:
I think this is the part I’ve always have had issue trying to understand, thanks for helping clarify with an example.
- Comment on The duality of particles 2 months ago:
I hate that I understand all the layers of this one except the duality one.
- Comment on gatekeeping 4 months ago:
It seems in your equations, you conjugated it.
- Comment on gatekeeping 4 months ago:
After reading how this thread is going I’m half expecting this to be a Kurzgesagt video or something equally “cutesy existential dread” inducing lol. Let’s see what do I find!
- Comment on gatekeeping 4 months ago:
So wait, you can’t have numbers larger than infinity, but you can order them “past infinity”? I’m trying to wrap my head around the concept, and the clearest thing I can get at the moment is that the "infinity+1"th number is infinity… would that be right?
- Comment on gatekeeping 4 months ago:
Aren’t there numbers past (plus/minus) infinity? Last I hear there’s some omega stuff (for denoting numbers “past infinity”) and it’s not even the usual alpha-beta-omega flavour.
Come to think of it, is there even a notation for “the last possible number” in math? aka something that you just can’t tack “+1” at the end of to make a new number?
- Comment on Is there any way to reverse degrowth of the niche communities on Lemmy? 5 months ago:
Been wondering about that.
A few years ago I took on the practice of (as a writer) posting on FFN only to announce that my stories are on AO3. Try and drive the reader engagement from the bad site to the cool site and all that. Presumably what is intended here is that eg.: if I find a post / subject of discussion that I want to comment on on Reddit, what I do is post in an equivalent Lemmy community (or Kbin magazine, for that matter) and point to it in a Reddit post? Kinda like “read my comments on this subject here [link]”?
Interestingly, that’d be not too different from how one does with a blog, yes?
I like the model in that it’s kinda instant awareness - there’s almost no way to miss that the link goes to a different domain, among other things. What I wonder however is how much effective would it be at drawing in people vs being disregarded as (and even being modop’d away as) an ad.
- Comment on Choose wisely! 5 months ago:
3 and 5 are a potentially broken combo. In particular if “control a toaster” means control and not just “operate”, since then it’s basically toasterkinesis, or being able to instantly turn any toaster into a bomb. "teleport up to 10 inches away sounds like it wouldn’t be too useful but it does, in principle, allow you to phase out incoming bullets and a fair amount of lateral blade hits if you time it right.
6 and 7 could have some interesting, niche uses in some fields. 6 for example could be used for intimidation if “10 hours younger” is interpreted chronologically: even after taking a serious wound, you’d look pristine for around 10 hours so it might be used to scare or distract some enemies.
I’m… not even sure what 4 or 9 could ever be used for.
- Comment on Opinions wanted: defederating with bot spam instances 8 months ago:
Probably not saying anything new here, but my impression is that there’s two different problems, or rather levels of problem, to deal with:
For one point, Lemmy still does not have the level of activity that Reddit has, nor the types of content; this is particularly relevant for more niche subjects. I already made two magazines (“communities but on kbin”) for example and I’m still the only poster. It sucks, and it disincentivizes posting more. Discoverability and migrability are two aspects that a repost bot can help with, because if you have an interesting subject to discuss that’s already come up on Reddit (because, simply statistics, it’s so much more likely that it’d come up on Reddit), you can still have the content here and discuss it here. It can, eventually and hopefully, help bootstrap the local community to the level that a repost bot wouldn’t be needed.
There’s also the issue that for the above to have value, a repost bot has to actually repost not just the opening post but also enough comments to open up a subject of discussion. So less “repost”, more “mirror”. A bot that only posts a link to a Reddit thread, or a copy of an opening post that usually only has a link to an external site anyway, such as news posts or art posts, is of not much help for anything.
Ironically, this means (to me at least) a repost bot needs to be more active to be useful.
Now, can people just crosspost or repost manually? Sure, but a bot helps with that. Not everyone is that invested on having to start conversations, not everyone has to be a “content generation soldier”: when I go to a library, 90% of the time is to read a book, not to make annotations on their books (before I get kicked out) let alone to write my own book.
What does that mean for the lemmy perspective of things, from my end? Well, I don’t think defederating from an instance that also happens to repost Reddit (or whoever else, say, Wikimedia) content as part of their normal operations is a good idea, because by definition you are closing down to much more than that. Someone somewhere else can have come up the idea to discuss subject A; and we should not punish our own users for not having had the idea of doing so ourselves. Defederating from an instance that is dedicated to reposts, and that only does that, however, would have more sense, the more if they also engage in other spam behaviour.
I think personally a better solution, if Lemmy can implement it or already does, is to de-prioritize link posts in the All and Local views, and have the option in searches to sort or categorize posts by the level of interaction from local users (eg.: ratio of local users discussing a post that has been made to the local instance) besides the “best of” options (which I assume are valued merely by upvotes?) in search.
- Comment on PSA: the largest piracy community is blocked from lemmy.world 8 months ago:
One would think the devs would dedicate some time to fix this particular failing of Lemmy, because “download the entire internet of a site because one (1) user posts in one (1) community in one (1) server” is just ridiculous from a lot of standpoints, both technical and legal.