On Wednesday, the Republican Study Committee, of which some three-quarters of House Republicans are members, released its 2025 budget entitled “Fiscal Sanity to Save America.” Tucked away in the 180-page austerity manifesto is a block of text concerned with a crucial priority for the party: ensuring children aren’t being...
This isn’t a support question, as in a trouble shooting question. This is a question to the Lemmy community about the platform itself. Its an input/feedback request, not a “how do I use Lemmy” question.
I abandoned an old account because Hexbear bullies followed me around and downvoted everything. Come to think of it, I haven’t posted a single thing since then, and I had a bunch of posts with hundreds of votes
The spector of Hexbear haunts dotWorld. Every down vote is a tankie assault. Just don’t tell them down votes are disabled here…
As this legislation becomes more of a reality, we’re going to see more of this rhetoric from classical media. It would appear that Colbert has already begun the process of sliding to the right along with American leaders....
I’m not kidding. This will make Gen-Zers vote for Trump. All he has to say is he’ll reverse the ban. He’s already announced that he opposes this bill and that this only supports Facebook....
It’s clear the objectives here are to force a purchase of TikTok so that the state can:
(A) reap the private profits
(B) install a more cooperative administration so they can:
(1) gain backdoor access to its data and get easy warrantless searches of American’s online activity
(2) install a moderation / community safety lead who aligns with state interests (similar to ex-cia agents being employed at Facebook, Google, and Reddit) to try and shape the content on the platform, likely to be more bourgeois in character.
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These are definitely bipartisan goals. TikTok has proven itself over the past few years as a kind of gorilla journalism vehicle, by intention or not. Some of the people posting on TikTok likely wouldn’t even consider themselves “journalists” by any standard; however, the reality is they are. If someone is posting video of an unfolding event live, from a boots-on-the-ground perspective, they are performing a kind of journalism.
The TikTok algorithm has this uncanny ability (and at times manual ability) to catapult a video in front of nearly everyone on the platform. That kind of exposure to these unfolding events has steadily eroded the base that the mass market media has been sitting on for decades, in a way that no other platform has done before.
I have no doubt that this will pass. Their gross attempts at trying to spin this as some kind of security threat or as the ghoul good-morning has put it “not an attempt to ban TikTok. It’s an attempt to make TikTok better. Tic-Tac-Toe. A winner. A winner” will slide off the younger generations. To most in that demographic it will appear for what it is, a transparent and patronizing attempt to maintain American hegemony, and nothing more.
Make no mistake, when this is passed, you will have your speech on that platform curtailed. You will see the algorithm change to support a more western, bourgeois narrative. American capital will walk away with the reward. You will be left holding the bag. You will see the state execution of TikTok in the town square.
Every accusation is projection, this is no different.
Every tool a can be abused… If we were not making tools based on their harm potential wed still be in the cave. People said the same thing about Gab and mastodon.
In my continued exposure to leftist spaces and a leftist view on history it has become clear that all I understand about Stalin is the reactionary rhetoric I’ve been fed my whole life. I have only just started on reading theory and exposing myself to a leftist view, so Stalin as a topic isn’t something I’ve reached yet....
Of course they’re going to say that. But as an extraterrestrial myself, I can tell you that I’m not going to be flying my saucer around here much longer, not with the air full of Boeing parts … doors and tires and whatnot. Saucer insurance rates are out of this world....
Reddit moderation style is simply an extension of classic bulletin board style moderation. I think the real issue with moderation has to do with the rate of new user intake and lack of population control. These are things classic forms have found solutions for in the past as well. Something Awful for example charged money for the privilege of posting. I’ve seen forms require you to sign up with your ISP provided email.
If an instance isn’t properly managing intake volume, they will have moderation issues. Many Lemmy instances have questionnaires and approvals before an account is created. The aim being to ensure the user understands what the instance is about and for administration to ensure the user is the right fit. It’s only an issue of manpower of you’re trying to be a .world style instance, the biggest instance around.
I think that goal however is counter to federation on principle. Large instances create moderation problems and lack any real culture or cohesion as a result. Finding ways to encourage smaller but more numerous instances I think would go a long way to tackle moderation issues.
Right now, defederating is the only real way to avoid these problematic instances. Which at times can be like using a sledge hammer to cut a cake. If instance A has a community (1) explicitly brigading Instance B, there is no real way to quarantine users who are from A and active in community (1), you have to either ban each individual you come across or defederate the instance.
It might be more interesting to provide tools to allow for selective defederation. For example, preventing an instance from federating votes; A means of rate limiting an instances comments; Blocking post creation by users from a given instance; Read only federation settings.
Obviously this is limited by what activitypub is capable of, but I can’t imagine these ideas are impossible.
The Trunkovs are modeled after the ZAZ-968 Zaporozhets, a car model from Soviet Ukraine, which means that there was a Soviet revolution in the cars history and by extension so existed the works of Car-le Marx and Vladimir Lemon....
UK, Australia call for ‘immediate’ end to fighting in Gaza (www.aljazeera.com)
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House Republicans Want to Ban Universal Free School Lunches (theintercept.com)
On Wednesday, the Republican Study Committee, of which some three-quarters of House Republicans are members, released its 2025 budget entitled “Fiscal Sanity to Save America.” Tucked away in the 180-page austerity manifesto is a block of text concerned with a crucial priority for the party: ensuring children aren’t being...
Better names for Lemmy versions?
The names of previous Lemmy versions were all very boring and repetetive. We need something much more creative. Any ideas?...
Sister dodged a bullet (hexbear.net)
/r/sysadmins discuss tech unionization (www.reddit.com)
Lemmy.ml is acting as a proxy instance for Hexbear and should be defederated by any instances that defederate from Hexbear - Lemmy.World (lemmy.world)
Perfect no notes mama-miba
The death of TikTok and the capitulation of the media. (www.tiktok.com)
As this legislation becomes more of a reality, we’re going to see more of this rhetoric from classical media. It would appear that Colbert has already begun the process of sliding to the right along with American leaders....
TikTok Ban: House Passes Bill That Would Outlaw App in U.S. Unless Its Chinese Parent Sells Ownership Stake (variety.com)
I’m not kidding. This will make Gen-Zers vote for Trump. All he has to say is he’ll reverse the ban. He’s already announced that he opposes this bill and that this only supports Facebook....
Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative (ibis.wiki)
What's the deal with Stalin?
In my continued exposure to leftist spaces and a leftist view on history it has become clear that all I understand about Stalin is the reactionary rhetoric I’ve been fed my whole life. I have only just started on reading theory and exposing myself to a leftist view, so Stalin as a topic isn’t something I’ve reached yet....
Pentagon finds 'no evidence' of alien technology in new UFO report (www.npr.org)
Of course they’re going to say that. But as an extraterrestrial myself, I can tell you that I’m not going to be flying my saucer around here much longer, not with the air full of Boeing parts … doors and tires and whatnot. Saucer insurance rates are out of this world....
CW:(Human trafficking) Beau of the Fifth Column is a Human Trafficker (www.youtube.com)
Tell Trader Joe's: Stop Union-Busting (actionnetwork.org)
I understand this is mostly an empty gesture, but it does allow you to donate some money to the Trader Joe’s Union, which is better than nothing.
US VP Harris calls for ‘immediate’ Gaza truce in rare rebuke of Israel (www.aljazeera.com)
Rethinking Moderation: A Call for Trust Level Systems in the Fediverse
cross-posted from: discuss.online/post/5772572...
The Soviet Union existed in the Cars Universe...
The Trunkovs are modeled after the ZAZ-968 Zaporozhets, a car model from Soviet Ukraine, which means that there was a Soviet revolution in the cars history and by extension so existed the works of Car-le Marx and Vladimir Lemon....