You say that as if it’s true for all trans women. It isn’t. I agree with you however that the IOC’s solution introduced in 2003 works fine. The only reason it’s coming up now is because of politics.
You say that as if it’s true for all trans women. It isn’t. I agree with you however that the IOC’s solution introduced in 2003 works fine. The only reason it’s coming up now is because of politics.
Too bad they don’t sell them in the US. I would buy one immediately.
The data has so many more uses than just ads. They sell the data, use it to train AI, etc. The data itself is more valuable than their entire ad network.
We already have sponsorblock for that.
It’s not a money sink. They are using the data they collect to rake in cash. Don’t let the fact the money is made by a different business unit fool you into thinking Google is struggling.
And forget about the absolute goldmine YouTube is for Google. It’s is among the most important information repositories in history and profits massively from it. There is a reason they run it at a loss. Google uses that data to categorize everything thing about you and uses it to exploit your psychology to sell whatever bullshit their advertisers are peddling this week. It then double dips by selling off that data. And I’m supposed to pay for this? Nah. Fuck Google. I’d rather see YouTube get shit canned than pay a single dime to Google.
If you didn’t want that then why use Lemmy in the first place? The entire point is that it’s an open platform. It’s one thing the defederate hate groups, but it’s something entirely different to willfully lock yourself in an echo chamber. The problem is when defederation becomes the norm and is used to eliminate any uncomfortable discussion at the whim of moderators. This isn’t just a problem with LW, its common on all instances.
Being an open platform, anyone is welcome to create their own private spaces, and that’s fine. It just seems odd to recreate the conditions of the old social media platforms. And of course I’m free to leave if LW isn’t for me.
And no, I’m not a free speech absolutist. But I also don’t think you need to be one to think open discorse is important.
I’m not really interested in seeing all of that. Id really just like an easy way to decide for myself what content I see and not relying on a server moderator to decide for me what is appropriate. Users being able to block certain instances isnt enough. We need to be able to add instances that are separate from what the rest of the server sees.
Thats not possible, I don’t know how that would even work or if it could work. The home instance shouldn’t have to host content they object with, but I also shouldn’t have to set up my own instance just to find tune my feed.
Fair enough. I didn’t really consider the moderation effort required. And you could stand to be a little less aggressive. I have no problem with the rules as they stand. It would be nice though if there were a way to still communicate with these users without being subjecting everyone to their community posts. But my concerns go further than LW.
I get why LW doesnt have an interest in being a free speech platform, but I still think it’s better to be a good influence on people rather than shutting them out. Their bad ideas don’t go away when we defederate and will probably even grow in momentum if left unchallenged. You shouldn’t have to deal with them if you don’t want to and their content need not be visible by default. I just think Lemmy needs options other than defederation. We risk recreating the siloed communities federation was meant to counter.
And it’s not like these worst offenders don’t deserve to be alienated, I just think it’s inevitable that we will become used to defederation but and start doing it on a whim. Lemmy will become a sanitized environment devoid of anything coming close to contraversial. If this happens, it takes away the biggest advantage we have over Reddit, Twitter, etc. No important conversations will happen here, the population will fracture and dwindle, we will all return to Reddit.
I’m not really asking LW to change anything, I’m just saying there needs to be finer controls built into Lemmy that will prevent defederation becoming the default method of dealing with troublesome instances.
Will it make a return once we gain the ability to block individual instances? I’m not fan of communism and I’m personally stoked to not have lemmygrad in my feed. And I think you made the right choice given the current state of Lemmy but I do think that a “free speech” forum requires that we don’t silence hate speech en masse. I’m sure can agree to at least part of that statement. I just like to make the decision of what I wanted filtered out.
I should probably add that I’m not advocating for any illegal content. That has no place here.
TIL only rich people can have affairs. Guess I’m off Scott free. “Babe, I couldn’t have cheated! Just look at my 401k!”
Being a pirate is alright to be
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Not my pixels! I worked hard for those!
I haven’t smoked in years, but in the off chance I go out for a beer, I will usually bum at least one from somebody.
Being a stimulant, I used it for many years to self-treat my ADHD. I did the same with caffeine. Coffee and cigarettes got me through highschool.
Edit: The reason you see people in movies smoke after sex is because it combats the post bang sleepies. It also contributes to the high.
Here we go again…
It’s portable if it folds away into a 10" device
Right, but no women? Not one since the introduction of the rule? I’ve know many female athletes and all of them would and could handle the abuse if they wanted to compete with male athletes.