Yeah discoverability is a huge issue. I feel like tech people often get stuck on the fact that most regular people don’t want to do a ton of work to browse the web, they just want content to come to them. I know people in the fediverse have negative feelings about algorithms (and most that exist today are harmful) but does a transparent, community-managed algorithm have to be a bad thing?

Seems like a lot of people prefer bluesky for whatever reason. I wouldn’t know since I’ve no interest in either.

I don’t necessarily disagree but I feel such actions are only meaningful when undertaken as part of a large, organized movement. There is no such movement currently. My presence or absence on Reddit is of little consequence individually.

I use Reddit and Lemmy and I’m pretty sure I’m not alone. I don’t really understand people who treat them as mutually exclusive.

The issue there is that admins are also overworked volunteers, so they have little incentive to step in an anger their mods who they depend on to manage local communities.

I’m not saying anyone involved here is a bad person, just that the system as it currently works creates bad outcomes. I’m not totally sure what would be better but I’d like to see more experimentation on this topic.

!pleasantpolitics@slrpnk.net has a limited form of automated moderation. I don’t think this particular method will solve the problem but I’d like to see more similar experiments.

I looked at the modlog and while OP seems snarky, sarcastic, and opinionated, their bans seem pretty unnecessary by my standards. The stated reasons seem fairly dubious, more mod finds your opinion disagreeable than any rule-breaking.

Moderation on Lemmy is a shit show honestly.

In what way?

Is this all that exists then? Tragic.

82 White Chain Born in Emptiness Returns to Subdue Evil, is that you?

Author needs to do some market research. Trying to sell a book about a likable cat to birds might not be the brightest idea.

Kinda cool. To be honest I’m mostly posting this to test it.

Edit: It works!

Thanks for posting all this! Some of the scans you posted are showing things are malicious. I’m not too tech savvy, can you elaborate on this tool? Does that mean these files are dangerous to run?

Yes, I just thought it was an interesting historical fact. It’s also pretty ironic since today CR has friendly relations with the US and in some ways this is what enables them to not have an army.

Actually there was a time when some wealthy American businessmen hired a private army and tried to take the country over. They succeeded in conquering Nicaragua but the Costa Ricans fought them off. This is the basis of their main national holiday.

Unfortunately I don’t see any of the proposed reforms measurably improving things while the right has an equal or greater grip on power. Any reforms that are easily implemented are easily neutralized or turned against the left when republicans return to power. Which, in the current political system, is an inevitability.

More radical reforms could solve the problem but would require much greater political power. In my opinion this can only be achieved by forming a mass movement that completely overpowers the right’s institutional advantages. Whether this can or will happen remains to be seen but it won’t be easy.

Good point, I think of the change in court composition as a very recent thing but time flies. It has been a few years at this point.

I hope you’re right that the lower courts will make more similar rulings but I suspect the Supreme Court might overturn it if they went too far. We’re just lucky Fort Collins ran out of money here.

Unfortunately, the court’s composition could take decades to change. It’s a big problem with no easy solution.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-supreme-court-refuses-free-144949699.html

Unfortunately, though the problem has gotten much worse in recent years, the theocratic leanings of the Supreme Court has been an issue for decades now.

The argument that this is gender discrimination seems obviously true to me so it’s shocking to me that we’re still living in a society where this type of government violence is still widely accepted. I just have to hope that we’ll eventually evolve beyond this type of Puritanism.

Ok thanks!

So you tested that link? It’s safe?

Weak. To really say you’ve climbed Everest, you need to start from the Challenger Deep.