Honestly I hope it shuts down. This provider caters to racists, fascists, misogynists and the like.

Who gives a fuck? Corporate social media cater to idiots too, just more common varieties.

Why does it matter what Kanye tweets about if I enjoy his music? Why do the politics of my favorite FOSS program’s maintainer matter, or what commentary they include in documentation, or the presence/lack of a flag in a social media handle? Why does it matter that a public demonstration I’m at has some fellow demonstraters whose lifestyles/politics I find abhorrent?

All you advertise to the world with this fearful mindset is that your behaviour will change on a dime given the slightest chance of bad optics. It’s a rotten way to live life.

Governments and marketers absolutely love people who think like that.

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PS also check out https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/991452-pixel-pirate-ii-attack-of-the-astro-elvis-video-clone

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Lots of banned artist and album names that will return zero results, unless you do something like search for a song or two that’s on the album you want and finding the data that way.

The only objectionable hurdles are the insurmountable ones

Last Christmas I gave a family member a flash drive containing ~10 high quality movie encodes, basically a shortlist of the year’s personal highlights I think they’d enjoy too. I don’t know if they’ve used it, but I’m going to make a habit of it until I hear otherwise. A drive for a handful movies is cheap enough to not worry about if it’s never seen again. Give them a large capacity drive however, or access to a Plex server, and paralysis of choice occurs.

Data and metadata about you are a kind of digital noose that hangs loose about your neck, until a third party* pulls it tight to hang you.

You’re right to feel bitter. You’re the victim of an abusive software stack. But it’s important that you come away with an understanding of why R_ddit was able to identify you individually, and why the ways in which we interface with the web really do matter, despite normie’s typical self-justifying complaints.

*Anyone, identifiable or not, without warning, for any reason, at any time

There are contexts where such a statement is fine. Even in a context where it could be construed as rude and prejudiced, it still doesn’t matter, because it’s such a milquetoast insult. A shitty throwaway putdown on the level of ‘okay, boomer’ or ‘male, pale and stale’.

Overmoderation on the public web is as much of an issue as its lack.

Look everyone, it’s the season 37 opener of I’m not going to use the great tool because people I don’t like are also using the great tool!

Australia tried this in the early noughties I believe - running a non-public URL blacklist. After some parliamentary accountability and commmitees got it cracked open, they found that about 10% of the sites met the definition for inclusion, with the remainder being a grab-bag of things various politicians and bureaucrats didn’t like.

Private torrent content escapes naturally because it’s often shared on other P2P tools in use by the peers.

Many creators that I follow reached a level of professionalism that comes with significant costs. You need expensive cameras, microphones, lights, high-end computers, drones, personnel costs for cutters and people that help with research. They have travel costs, sometimes rent for offices etc.

None of that bloat is necessary for engaging your audience, only for currying favour with the black-box algorithm. Level1ShowNews is three people at a desk with an OBS setup and I’ve been listening to them for seven years. I could not care less about Canadian Technology Man or Black Technology Man. Store dot Level1Techs.

What makes you think Signal is maintaining relationship maps, and secondly, even if it is, is there any evidence they’re included in LEO subpoenas?

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https://archive.is/oXqaH

Cloudflared. Hmm.

It’s not discussion moderation though, it’s LLM input QC. It’s fundamentally dishonest.

I’m convinced the primary moderation goal is expunging any comment that could remotely contribute to LLM ‘racial bias’ - and given the mods are humans, they want to expend the least effort possible in the performance of their roles, so practically any statement along the lines of ‘$nouns are $adjective’ gets hammered without a thought.

NSFW is a term of indoctrination. It suggests my life revolves around what is acceptable in a workplace, and that all aspects of life should be held to workplace standards. You have only to give it a moment’s thought and it becomes nonsense; I don’t fap to NSFW “”“content”“” I fap to adult material. I fap to pornography.

Is it really misuse if the mechanism was designed to be misused?

So reproduce it.