True, disclaimer “still used as a symbol of peace by countries that were not heavily impacted by WW2, or have strong historical reverance or current practice of Buddhism”.

We’re talking about the need for a system to deal with major access of a main facebook/insta/twitter etc… to a majority of people.

IE of the scale that someone can go “Hey I bet my aunt that I haven’t talked to in 15 years might be on here, let me check”. Not a common occourance in a closed off discord community.

Also, noting that doesn’t fully solve the primary problem… of still being at the whims and controls of a single point of failure. of which if Discord Inc could at any point in time decide to spy on closed rooms, censor any content they dislike etc…

10th largest instance being like 10k users… we’re talking about the need for a solution to help pull the literal billions of users from mainstream social media

To me the reality of it is so damn stupid, If this were back to lying about quake, that’s one thing. He’s claiming on games with continual progression however. Of which even if you have amazing skill, it’s meaningless without time. IE it would be well understood that if someone is in those leaderboards legitimately, they’ve been living the NEET lifestyle (IE spending almost all waking hours playing the game), not say… on a nation tour following around a presidential candidate, while also forming a new government consulting group, spending considerable time on twitter as a user… and being a micromanaging incompetent CEO at 4+ companies.

Concept is however that if a new instance is detatched from the old one… then it’s basically the same story of leaving myspace for facebook etc… we go through the long vetting process etc… over and over again, userbase fragments reaching critical mass is a challange every time. I mean yeah if we start with a circle of 10 trusted networks. One goes wrong it defederates, people migrate to one of the 9 or a new one gets brought into the circle. but actual vetting is a difficult process to go with, and makes growing very difficult.

Isn’t that basically the same result though…

Problem with tech oligarchy is it just takes one person to get corrupted and then he blocks out all opinion that attacks his goals.

So the solution is federation, free speech instances that everyone can say whatever they want no matter how unpopular.

How do we counteract the bots…

Well we need the instances to verify who gets in, and make sure the members aren’t bots or saying unpopular things. These instances will need to be big, and well funded.

How do we counter these instance owners getting bought out, corrupted (repeat loop).

Defending it reminds me so much of conversations you’d hear in random discord servers…

Oh yeah I posted a swashtika… but really my intended meaning was the symbol of peace that was used around the world for thousands of years prior to the 1930s, and is still viewed as peaceful in countries that weren’t effected by WW2. (Umm… no you made it knowing exactly what’s popping into the minds of 95% of people you are using it).

Also would find when they’d put character names as say some random athlete or singer or something from a small country that has an N word in the name. Again dude, we know you specifically chose that name with the exact knowledge of what people think of when they see the name. Not because you think that this group is full of people who pay attention to random b list celebrities from countries that don’t have a lot of english speakers.

Sounds like the typical democratic stupid plans… It’s going to take some real ego or stupidity for trump not to turn this into a public opinion win.

I mean really depends whether or not he manages to continue to succesfully own the US government. He made basically statements along the lines of if trump loses the election he could go to jail. I assume he’s betting on either the trump administration killing democracy… or being able to buy the next election too. Or perhaps just often enough that the supreme court never gets fixed.

I thought that was kind of the point… people started using red note because it was openly what the government fears Tictoc could be as a form of protest.

What’s next a news story that says people printing out their browser history and dropping it off at the chinese embassies, might be giving their private data to china?

I mean it’s pretty simple common sense there… in a shooting… shits happening fast. In an emergency the order of process is, get yourself somewhere safe ASAP, Then consider calling.

Teachers have much harder responsibility… because they need to get their students in as safe of a position as possible, then themselves… Then try to contact help. So teachers aren’t likely to be in a position of relative safety to call, until after the whole classroom has already been in such a position.

On top of that just numbers… obviously there’s 30x more students than teachers… so just on a numbers basis in a free for all, when someone is in a position to make the emergency call, it’s just statistically more likely to be a student.

I mean both… obviously if you want to get on trumps good side you combine bribing with censoring content he doesn’t like, and making sure not to censor or even fact check his lies.

Wonder how he’d fare against trump at golf.

I’m roughly trying to skim to understand… of course both sides are over my head in development. But it sounds like the first thing they had was just lack of confidence they could do… well exactly what OP wants (IE specifically keeping posts private and only shared with who he wants). That combined with technical difficulty with limited development resources to rewrite the protocol itself.

If I remember right, diaspora was kind of poised to be the fediverse facebook a very long time ago, one of it’s major features was aspects, which indeed was set where you added people to categories, and could make posts only visible to certain categories (basically if you remember google plus, that’s what they were copying). Though from what I’ve seen it took a huge PR hit very early on, but still is kind of alive last I checked.

https://diasporafoundation.org/

The cost… wouldn’t be that absurd if it wasn’t so bad at what it claimed it’s specialty was.

I specialize in humanlike conversation and emotional intelligence (head looks down at the floor, hands flailing off to the sides). Never once attempting to look at interviewer in the eye. Lips just flap randomly when talking.

It kind of baffles me what it’s trying to sell, because the technology isn’t exactly super out there. We have chat bots, and we have basic robot puppets that can fairly accurately mimic what their source is saying to do. It does not seem far fetched or even impressive to have a robot that makes eye contact and believable hand gestures… yet it can’t do that. I’ve seen more believable emotional range from chuck e cheese animatronics.

Doubles down too, because within a week the novelty wears off and the rich people don’t use it, it’s just sitting in the corner, collecting their data, possibly raking in a subscription fee that they forgot about.

Obviously the point is selective enforcement… IE Musk can ban anyone “impersonating” himself or any of the white supremicists he likes… while he can chose not to enforce the rules on people that may be trying to damage his opponents.

Much like the “no negativity” rule.

Oh one further side note, gatebox didn’t go under, nor did the service fully discontinue. It just lost the license for Hatsune Miku. So in short it’s only unhappy for the sort of people that actually go all in to the mindset. (IE the guy could go to one that says and does all of the same things as his old one did, but not with the same face and voice, and probably could have avoided the problem if he started with something that was property of gatebox, and not licensed from a game).

Don’t have instagram so I cant look past the first page of thumbnails… but is one of those pics of him with a girl in a wedding dress? Or is he just at a friends wedding with a life sized miku doll.