Hulkamania running wild on capital markets

Ignoring the world definitely makes you good global citizens and not problems to work around. Good job. Way to go.

Because there is zero trust that this won’t be a one-sided liberalization, in favour of the fascists.

Hey, do I work for you?

Nope. Sites hosting toxic communities should be iced out entirely. This is a content mirroring network, and no one should expect others to host copies of their toxic waste.

I bet door-to-door salespeople would make way more money if they could just break into your homes, leave their junk on your table, and steal your credit card, and yet we don’t let them do that.

Right. But when the bar is owned by a Nazi, your options for pushing them out of the bar becomes a lot more limited.

“Reviewers” need to understand that, unless they paid their own money, from a bog-standard store, on or after release day, they are not reviewers, they are hired spokespeople.

JXL is my favourite squadron.

Removed by mod

There is no reason to even suggest that AI ‘means well’. It doesn’t mean anything, let alone well.

Unpopular opinion, I know, but downvotes are an anti-feature, designed to excuse big, for-profit social media from actually moderating their platforms. They have no place in real social spaces.

There’s nothing secret about it. They told us up front.

It’s why I stopped using Windows.

Personally, I’d just like to see up/downvotes replaced wholesale with emoji reactions.

Downvotes are a dark feature designed to excuse Reddit (and YouTube, etc.) from actually moderating their platforms under the guise of “social” moderation, but it’s actually something that stifles speech that challenges the consensus, rather than preventing toxicity.

Meanwhile, custom emojis are another way for instaces to differentiate themselves.

Remember, boys and girls, Steam bringing its monopoly to Linux is a victory, but wanting literally any other closed source software is “pathetic”.

Yet another reminder that the worst thing about Linux is its users.

Stupid sexy cows

Social media in general just isn’t a good archive of information. It’s a discussion space – a living space – not an archive.

If you want information archives, you should creating websites for that specifically.

Because they ran out of logos that look like all-seeing robotic eyes

It entirely depends on whether you want to be a shepherd or a… I’m struggling a bit to come up with a metaphore that isn’t loaded somehow. Let’s go with “blogger”.

But if there’s a topic you want to discuss, log content for, and write your own articles about, there’s little reason to not create your own little space for it all that others can choose to participate in. Such a space can attract new users to the network who aren’t currently interested in Linux news and possum pics.

But creating a space that looks like a bunch of link spam with no human engagement can look fake, and dissuade participation, so you need to really put some effort into not looking like a bot.

It’s easier to fork an active community. Being a mod is work, but it doesn’t require you to write 3000+ words per week to try and catch attention from an unknown population.

As per usual, the “free speech on someone else’s dime” folks think the people running the forums they feel entitled to shouldn’t have actual moderation tools. Shocking.

Once upon a time, people overseeing web forums used to have the ability to move posts, split topics, and even shunt comment chains into other, exising posts. But all Reddit allows is to delete, and so this space that apes some of the worst bits about Reddit thinks they shouldn’t do any better than the lowest of fucking low bars.