Yup, although perhaps not for much longer, if e.g. we nuke everything into oblivion, or even if we do nothing at all and allow climate change to take its course uncorrected.

I was going to put the Picard happy clap… but then I realized that this is the Threadiverse so perhaps I should do a “well, actually… it depends on the size of the breakfast”! 😜

Except that seems not pretentious enough so… I will add this as well.

It looks like the Flotilla that is allying itself hard with the Triad is also becoming problematic. e.g. it seems to either be initiating walling itself off from other instances or at least strongly okay to have that happen to it, playing up the “victim” angle heavily (despite every shot having been fired so far being initiated by them, afaict).

I wonder what term this will eventually be called - like maybe Triad+? :-P Regardless, it’s so sad to see hexbear leaking, that is always the problem with the Paradox of Intolerance. 😓🙃

The Threadiverse seems poised to split into two factions based on whether people are pro-murder enough for others’ tastes. e.g. if you think that luigi should be a noun rather than a verb then they don’t want you to continue to exist, either irl or here on the Threadiverse.

The Left, like Veganism, always eats its own, thereby often causing the Right (in this case Reddit, Xhitter, and Meta/Facebook) to win, since utopia is only a place that can exist in theory (it requires too much work to implement in practice, which people are typically not willing to put forth).

Edit: example call (scroll down to read the GIANT TEXT part - you literally cannot miss it) for the entire Flotilla to defederate from the Western/European/democratic Lemmy.World, and if you click the username, also a call to cease and desist from using any and all PieFed instances (regardless of stance of each particular instance owner, admins, or moderators). Here is also a second example, calling to boycott all use of Lemmy.World (read the non-conditional title statement, even if the post text walks that back a bit - and to be clear, not merely avoid using it because it is too large and centralized and it would be healthier for the Threadiverse to spread out more, a phenomena that most people agree with, but for the political reasons that it is “Zionist”). The repeated calls to defederate, from multiple people, makes me think that the Flotilla is eventually going to do it, becoming like an anti-Beehaw (where instead of enforcing the rules to be nice, people will be even more free than now to call for irl murders, without any pushback from mods or even admins), aka shifting more along the spectrum to become like 4chan. I am starting to call it a “free speech” network since you can make all the “free speech” you want… so long as they approve of it, unless you piss off a mod in which case they (self-admittedly) use AI (both detection tools, despite their high failure rate, and even so much as providing the exact text placed into the modlog, with seemingly little to no human effort placed into reviewing those reasons) to help ban you from communities you’ve literally never so much as heard of before. This is exactly the behavior of the Alt-Right, whatever name they want to call it by.

Humans are still monkeys, specifically a member of the great apes family. Studies of our closest relatives the Chimpanzee have been quite… illuminating.

Like the one where given a cucumber they enjoy it, whereas when given a cucumber and then they see a chimp in a nearby cage be given a grape (relatively higher value gift, I guess sweeter), they throw the cucumber away in disgust.

Wealth != Wisdom.

With farts and no pooping?

(And polishing wizard orbs, Taylor Swift’s jet, and so much more besides. What else more, you ask? Well I will tell you. S-s-shut up you, there is definitely something else besides that!!)

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Wow… accurate! 😂

This sounds more like ADHD than Autism though?

Well now you need to make a community called “consistency”. Maybe make one post per year/month/week/day/hour and lock down replies “for your convenience”! 🤪

For anyone wondering, !nothing@lemmy.world is about the Nothing phone - this screenshot is from 3 years ago when it was still empty.

Thank you for correcting me. I edited my comment to indicate that it was maga.place.

yes

But for most people, its difficult to even stop eating unhealthy food, and thats not even difficult.

It is if you are poor. Healthy food costs more than junk, in the short-term.

Or hexbear, Lemmygrad.ml, hilariouschaos, and [edit: false stuff removed] maga.place.

Lemmy definitely has its dark corners.

By fhe upvotes, ofc.

This stops abusive mods from using bans as a form of harassment.

VERY nice. One would hope for more from adults on the internet but… c’est la vie.

Modlog: Reason for the action is only shown from trusted instances, so abusive mods won’t have an audience.

This one I think I disagree with though: if someone is posting in, let’s say chapotraphouse@hexbear.net, then it is up to the user to decide what they want, and they have made their choice? Consistently abusive mods should be enough to qualify an instance for silencing, thereby leaving all normal, non-silenced and non-trusted instances as those without a habit of platforming abusive mods, at which point if your comment is removed then it is helpful to know why? And/or if this issue is meant to exclusively refer to the bullet point above it, then it doesn’t matter what gets shown in the modlog if I never receive a notification for it - whereas if the message is abusive then that is again grounds to silence the instance, rather than merely hide the modlog reason.

It is so fantastic to see the pace of feature development. It’s almost like you developers care about what you are working on, or something, unlike some other places we could name that seem more focused on gaining access to money 🤑💰💵🪙💳💸(cough fuck Reddit cough).

I mean… how would that benefit them specifically? (Add to that how would it fuck over the poors, then further add short-term thinking, now just a dash of yes-people suck-upping, and we get some of it, though generational ideology probably also plays a role.)

While Lemmy lacks those, PieFed already has both advanced automated mod tools plus other features that dramatically increases the democratization of moderation itself.

e.g. if someone wants to see less Trump and Musk content, keyword filters allow someone to personally set that up, without having to rely upon a moderator to make that decision for the entire community.

Another example along those lines is the automated collapsing or even hiding of content that falls below a certain score threshold - personally I have that turned off, but if someone wants that then again, they don’t have to rely solely upon the efforts of a moderation team, and can rely instead upon the community engagement. Again: if they want.

Still another example is showing icons next to usernames - e.g. one shows new users that are <2 weeks old, another shows someone who receives ~10x more downvotes than upvotes, and so on. These are not “filters”, just helpful indicators so that you know more about someone’s reputation prior to responding. Most conservatives for example have warning labels next to their usernames, in these more leftist spaces.

Also - and I cannot emphasize enough how crucial this is - PieFed moderator reports actually federate. This has been a source of huge pain in Lemmy, and tbf I think a future Lemmy release is planned that will do that… but meanwhile as with so exceedingly very many other features, PieFed has had them for months.

PieFed thereby helps avoid some of the major issues that cause community fragmentation. Which ironically PieFed also helps solves that issue too, by collapsing comments (old example of this phenomena), and with the Categories of Communities suite of features, including the user-customizeable and shareable Feeds.

Also PieFed is easier to install, requires less maintenance, uses fewer resources (even sending 25-fold less data to end-users), and so on. So yeah, I don’t think Lemmy is capable of scaling up, despite its reliance upon its sourcecode being in the hyper stable Rust programming language, because of all the other issues with it (database issues requiring constant restarts, and especially lack of moderation capabilities), so I am putting all of my hopes into PieFed. Sorry if this reads like an advertisement - I feel like PieFed is to Lemmy what Lemmy is to Reddit, except that analogy does not begin to come close since PieFed has added features that even Reddit never bothered to, plus some others that it continually tried to take away from people by not retaining it in new-reddit despite how it was present in old.