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Just passing through. 🮲🮳

  • Media Liberation Day: how can we help newcomers get started and have a good experience on fedi?

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  • I think engaging with people on a human level rather than giving unsolicited advice on how to use fediverse to every new face around could be a place to start. Half the time I see a new user here they seem to get flooded with technical advice that, while well-meaning, is somewhat off-putting.

    A simple "Welcome! Don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions about how to make the most of your time here" is plenty for most people. And if they do ask questions, go wild.

    Is there a good community in which newcommers can ask basic questions, like a fedi help desk community/no stupid questions fedi edition? I feel like that could be useful to point people to. Edit: Blaze linked !newcomers@piefed.zip in another comment.

  • Changes in maga.place federation since this time last week

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  • Yeah, real moderation needs to happen on the instance level for sure. :)

  • Changes in maga.place federation since this time last week

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  • When I said blocking here I meant in the meaning defederating.

    On mastodon you'd mute users if you want them to still see your posts, and block them to cut them off. Not aure how that works on Lemmy, but I was referring to defederation. :)

  • Changes in maga.place federation since this time last week

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  • Most of the fediverse runs on a blacklist, not a whitelist. This means that new instances are federated by default as a general rule, though content only travels through instances when it's requested by users in some way or another.

    Blocking an instance is not much more work than banning a user, so in most cases it's not a huge problem to have to actively defederate from bad actors.

  • Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared

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  • "I'm not even a nazi, but it sure is nice to see the fascists marching in the streets as a demonstration that free speech is truly alive and well"

  • Murder is a crime, unless it was done by a police man

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  • Bingo. Had some weird stuff happening to the YouTube link.

  • Murder is a crime, unless it was done by a police man

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  • Still a pretty big hurdle for most bots that just aimlessly flow through the webs trying to sign up for things. I don't think anyone will bother tailoring their bot for europe.pub.

    Putting the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy between the question and the answer field might further confuse LLM outputs. :)

  • Conan O’Brien Says Late Night TV is Dying, but Stephen Colbert Is ‘Too Talented and Too Essential to Go Away’

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  • Colbert doesn't want solutions to anything. He wants problems to make fun of.

    You do realize the man is a comedian? Making fun of problems is kinda his job description.

  • Come on y'all. Stop it.

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  • Luigi singled out one incredibly evil man and dealt with him. This guy shot one random CEO seemingly by accident, as well as some random people.

    Kill five random people in the NYC financial district and chances are at least a couple will be deplorable. That doesn't make you a vigilante.

  • Come on y'all. Stop it.

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  • Yeah, the media is not suppressing some working class hero story here. It's just a man who lost his marbles.

  • Come on y'all. Stop it.

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  • At first I only read that it was a building housing finance institutions, so I figured he had probably just snapped and figured he'd attack the world of finance. So crazy, but driven by the state of everything rather than by some random sports career.

    I didn't see that it also housed the NFL. Makes the Football story a lot more plausible. So the CEO might indeed just have been a random bystander like anyone else at the scene.

    In either case it's obviously not a defendable of constructive thing to do, I just speculated that maybe there's bigger things in America to lose your mind over than football. Maybe I was wrong.

    In either case it's a reflection of the mental health crisis.

  • Come on y'all. Stop it.

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  • He shot a Blackstone CEO, yet when I search for him the media reports on his football career as a potential reason?

    What the hell? America is not in a position where the assassination of CEOs needs to be explained. The question is how some of them can still show their faces in public.

    Edit: See comments below. I'm dumb and/or jumping to conclusions too quickly.

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    Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit?

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  • The worlds smallest violin keeps getting smaller.

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    Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit?

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  • "I left this gigantic capitalist American monolith and the alternative I found was full of leftists! "

    Well, duh.

    (Obligatory fuck tankies.)

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    Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit?

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  • Oh yeah, it seems like half the posts I made on reddit in the end were shadow deleted, and I'm not even sure what I did wrong. Just automatic and instant action from Reddit. At least here when your shit is deleted you know about it.

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  • I'm not here to suffer fools.

    And bans come cheap because they're on an instance level. Go out and find yourself a place where you belong. If it turns out the people you'd like to talk to don't like you back, maybe recalibrate.

  • Can no longer access my old instance (lemmings.world) because I'm from the UK. I made several communities there. Is there any way I can mod them again or do I move them to this instance?

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  • The Commission has no law-making power on its own. They can open proceedings before the Court of Justice of the European Union to verify compliance with existing laws, or they propose legislation that will have to go through other EU institutions (the Parliament, which is elected, and the Council, which consists of representatives from Member State governments).

    The job of the Commission is to propose laws. The job of the other institutions is to reject these laws if they are stupid. The Commission opening an investigation does not mean that the EU is "adopting similar regulations" - it is an extremely long way away from that.

    And even the Commission itself is likely to contain a wide spectrum of opinions within it - it tends to be a strange political constellation. So until there's a Commission proposal (as happened with chat control) there's really nothing. After the Commission proposal, we need to make sure it's stopped by pressuring national governments (Council) and elected MEPs (Parliament).

  • Can no longer access my old instance (lemmings.world) because I'm from the UK. I made several communities there. Is there any way I can mod them again or do I move them to this instance?

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  • Yeah, there's no guarantees against stupidity in the member states. That's easier to reverse than if it happens in an EU regulation.

    This kind of misinformation is why people get confused and vote for right wing eurosceptic parties, which ironically tends to be the parties most eager to strip people's rights away.

  • Can no longer access my old instance (lemmings.world) because I'm from the UK. I made several communities there. Is there any way I can mod them again or do I move them to this instance?

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  • What exactly do you think a Commission blueprint is?

    It's nothing but soft power and hardly even that, little more than just thinking out loud. It has no implications whatsoever unless member states decide they want to implement the ideas nationally, in which case it's on them. The Commission cannot implement EU law unilaterally.

    As for chat contol, that's about banning true encryption. Very different from regulating big tech.

  • Resist: It's Time @fedia.io
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    50501 is looking for moderators! 🇺🇸

  • Resist: It's Time @fedia.io
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    🚨 🇺🇸 The 50501 movement has set up its own forum! 🇺🇸 🚨

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    Trump & Zelensky play Catan

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    The Daily Beast reports on "provocative gesture that resembled the controversial salute Elon Musk gave at a post-inauguration rally last month"