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[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 5 points 5 days ago

Interesting thought piece on the importance of interconnection and what is lost when the connections are obscured. I just wish more people in charge of creating AI were spending more time thinking about what we lose in this compression. Thanks for the link, I appreciated the read.

[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At what point does indirectly become directly? I think what's most important here is intent - this man was clearly knowledgeable enough to know he was causing harm and still chose to do so in order to increase shareholder profit. There is malice here no matter how you slice it.

[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago

Relief and happiness are similar but distinct. You can be relieved at the fact that a terrible person can no longer systematically disenfranchise so many and cause pain and suffering for others.

[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 8 points 2 weeks ago

It didn't surprise me that these passed, given the recent passage of a sweeping justice reform where cop oversight was removed and they were authorized to use drones and received a bunch of funding. But I am quite sad that it finally did get overturned - I saw it on nearly every ballot for the last several years; the Republicans were desperate to overturn it. I really hated that every time they wanted to tie the removal of theft and the removal of drug charges at the same time. Now we're back to a state where many decriminalized drugs are criminal again, calling into question weird conflicts such as the sale of certain mushrooms in Oakland being legal but possession no longer.

[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 5 points 2 weeks ago

Good study, findings aren't super surprising. Wish the n was a bit larger and wish there were more statistics in the analysis (hard to draw a conclusion with no p-values), but I suspect because the n was so small nothing met statistical validity. Either way it's an interesting look at additional/more data and I hope it inspires more in depth research.

[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

@dipshit@lemm.ee

Just got around to looking at the numbers again-

kbin.social has the most total reports on their users, followed by our own instance, and then lem.ee and lemmy.ml. Everything past those instances has a fairly low volume of reports. The volume of reports is fairly manageable even from the top reported instances and is vaguely correlated with instance size/activity.

Discuss.online has hardly been reported at all and we have generally found that the person who runs lemm.ee has been responsive to our asks and values a safe instance - they might just be slightly overwhelmed by the size of the instance (they've got like 1.5k communities) and people might not be reporting content that should be removed. In general we do not try to police other instances, it's more about blocking instances where their users are actively harassing ours or too frequently misbehaving on our instance.

[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

In the US I'd completely agree, in that it's impossible to vote for conservative folks who are not openly and actively bigoted against someone and attempting to strip away other's rights. But it's possible to not live in the US where some conservative platforms are different. It's also possible to hold conservative viewpoints on issues which are not inherently bigoted (wishing for less government, or for more individual freedom) and not vote for conservative politicians who are bigoted. I think there's some room for nuance, and there's room for a healthy amount of diversity for individuals who hold different beliefs on some issues but are still inherently humanistic.

[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

The presence of a conservative space is not enough to warrant defederation in my opinion. We don't want to be an echo chamber. It's entirely possible to be conservative on some issues and still respect all humans. I would also argue that voting conservative in the US currently would almost certainly invalidate ones respect for self autonomy but that's a more nuanced discussion and is very US centric

[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

This is probably worth a peek in moderator logs to see if they have an outsized amount of moderation. The two we defederated with happened when Lemmy was first exploding in size and were in direct response to size as well as moderation strategies and open signups policies. We don't want to cut off our community from folks on these instances but if they're causing a lot of trouble- we can certainly consider it

[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 6 points 3 weeks ago

omg this is so cute! I wish I had a top like that

[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I'm not about to try and solicit the hatman are you crazy? the hatman will show up if the hatman wants to

[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

hatman is such a chill dude, just be sure to pay your debts

 

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