If there was a bot that just flooded All with far right talking points, do you think admins ought to block that or leave it to the users?
What if it was far right mixed in with cat memes?
What if it started more slowly like a few posts an hour and then ramped up over 6 months to be 1000s of posts per hour?
Exactly, I hereby decide that I would like to ignore corporate efforts to undermine this burgeoning new platform. I furthermore reserve the right to complain about the loss of said platform in future years by claiming that it’s everyone elses fault for allowing corporate encroachment.
I’ve tried this a bunch of times but I don’t really get it tbh.
What sorts of things do you search for?
Everything I need is in an organised structure.
Most of this is self referencing. Like the default search engine is not an example of Google’s control, it’s Mozilla’s revenue model.
The remainder sounds like personal gripes that you’re misconstruing as evidence of nefarious intent.
There’s also plenty of evidence to the contrary, total cookie protection to name but one.
Additionally, beurocratic processes produce terrible software. Log in to any govt website as a refresher.
Finally, browsers are incredibly complex, if this model worked you’d use it for much simpler projects first.
It’s like you’re intentionally ignoring what I’m saying. Of course they’re not innocent. Yes they should be held accountable.
If you think killing 5,000 civilians is an appropriate response then I don’t know what to say to you.
I completely agree. Everyone wants a nice simple goodie vs baddie dynamic but that’s just not how it is.
Innocent people are being killed. I am pro-non-combatants-not-dying.
Frankly it’s bizarre that western countries are so supportive of Israel. Yes Israel needs to defend itself but I don’t think that requires the deaths of 5,000 mostly innocent Palestinians.
Grinding Giza to the dust is not what’s being done.
Hyperbole on my part, but not excessive given the post we’re discussing this under.
Hamas contribute more by firing uncontrollable missiles that also tend to fall in Gaza.
Patently false. I’ll refer you again to the pictures in this article.
But you are implying a reality where every single sane person should ignore the existence and terrorism of hamas and Palestinians.
This is the false dichotomy I referred to in my last comment. Perhaps you should look it up. We can acknowledge the existence of terrorism and respond appropriately without causing a humanitarian crisis.
This is classic American “fucked around and found out” diplomacy. Like a child with a hammer.
In support of Israel while they cause a humanitarian crisis.
Sure. I actually don’t know that much about Australia’s colonisation other than what we were taught in school, which I can assure you doesn’t focus on the genocide part.
I’ve always found the “terra nullius” aspect of international law to be fascinating. James Cook is generally credited with Australia’s discovery, but the West Coast had been visited many times by the dutch, and my favorite description of Cook is that he was “just the guy that steered the boat for Joseph Banks”. Although they declared that there were no permanent settlements of any note, in the most recent decades this has been found to be false, in courts of law, many times over.
Out of curiosity, can I ask what it was that made mastodon click?
I had two or three goes before realising that choosing the right instance can give you an engaging “local” feed. That seems dramatically less important on lemmy though.
No. I didn’t say nor imply that I could. I’m not saying they’re both as bad as each other. I’m saying that a humanitarian crisis is unfolding, and western nations are standing in support.
Do you not agree that a country should react to acts of terrorism?
You’re implying a false dichotomy, as though in response to a terrorist attack you either lie down and accept further attacks, or grind gaza into the dust.
Those stats aren’t from war-time - this isn’t a spears vs guns situation. Sorry maye you’re welcome to criticise me all you like for Australia’s treatment of first nations people but your aboriginal metaphor is not analogous to the gaza conflict and isn’t helping illustrate your point.
The core of our disagreement is the level of force used in response.
Forgive me, but I’ve come to expect a “fucked around and found out” mode of diplomacy from the US. As in, hamas threw the first punch so theres a moral imperative to grind gaza into the dust.
I don’t see it that way. A few weeks ago there was a stale mate. Israel has adequate defences. Securing Israel with minimal loss of life ought to be the priority.
I’m happy to disagree in this regard, neither of us are going to change our positions.
Israel is creating a humanitarian crisis. If you’re getting the perception of moral high ground I don’t really know what to say to you.
I’ve done some reading and listening since I asked this question and I think that this is the correct answer.
They’re the only non-muslim country in the middle-east, and therefore our closest ideological partner, and therefore our best strategic partner.
I’m not sure what you’re getting at. Yes colonists did some very bad things in Australia 200 years ago. Should we not strove to hold ourselves to a higher standard?
“Yes Israel is creating a humanitarian crisis, but we it’s fine to support their endeavours because we did some very bad things 200 years ago”.
It would be a real luxury to have that clear mindset, but I don’t think that’s possible.
Lemmy is something like a teenager. It needs time for its own identity and culture to coalesce. For now I think the best we can do is to avoid the notion that we’re alt-reddit.
You’ve missed my point.
I’m simply saying that migrating reddit users en-masse is the wrong objective. Just make lemmy awesome and allow users to come organically.
I couldn’t care less what happens to reddit. Let them hang around and soak up all the idiots.
Flawed premise.
Lemmy is not reddit nor should it aspire to be.
We don’t want to attract reddit users, we simply want vibrant communities.
This type of attitude results in turds that won’t flush like lemmit.online et al - a blight upon our fertile landscape.
Surely you’re aware of the embrace, extend, extinguish corporate strategy.
People only get to decide what they want from their platform until facebook starts extending the spec. Then your client will become incompatible with some posts, and so on and so forth.
In summary, it’s a threat to the platform itself.