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  • It’s not about this being some sort of firewall to stop him in his tracks or anything, the opportunity for that was last election, and we failed. It’s now about being an effective opposition, just like they try do when we win.

    To paraphrase AOC, there needs to be sand in his gears. Yeah, he can push a lot of stuff through anyway, but we definitely want it to be as difficult as possible, costing them extra effort.

    Here’s a kinda tired-seeming AOC chit chatting about all this stuff for 90 minutes on livestream:

    https://youtu.be/CVgNJf6CsBA

    Though the main battle is still over teaching logic and critical thinking to the public and individual civic dialogue imo.









  • Same. Every time I see someone complaining about the all feed I wonder if they came from 4chan’s b board or something.

    How many places on the internet expect you to regularly use some sort of all feed? 9gag maybe? Did people regularly use reddit’s all feed, despite it being crammed full of garbage and vote farming? I think I used it for like 5 seconds when I first started there before I gave up in disgust and started picking communities intentionally.

    Do you set up your newsreader with all of everything? You want all the sports, all the pop culture, all the tech, etc etc?

    I just don’t get it. All is always going to be garbage on every service just because the world is a big place, and that’s fine.

    Now, rant aside, I did actually find his idea of an all feed where local instance voting is all that gets counted kinda neat. I don’t have any problems with that being an available option if someone wanted to work on it.





  • Whatever you decide, I wouldn’t stress about it too much.

    Part of the advantage of the Fediverse is that it does not have or benefit from any one moderation policy, but has many different moderation policies that can appeal to many different types of people.

    Regarding this individual case, I would make sure you look at the context and spirit of that users actions. On one extreme, they could be throwing abuse at fellow users and being intentionally destructive in an unsuitable place.

    On the other extreme, they could be participating in a shitpost community and speaking more sarcastically, just going for shock value.

    There’s a whole range between these two extremes. Where you end up drawing the line is entirely up to you and what sort of instance you want to run.







  • It’s a little frightening that you think there’s much chance it benefits anybody other than the fascists.

    This isn’t the pre-revolutionary era where a large amount of people would effectively take up arms and pose a credible threat.

    They have the mechanisms of government, they have the militias, they have the backing of a significant chunk of the populace, they have the most businessmen, they have their own locked down media ecosystem, etc etc.

    We can look to N Korea and Russia and see that a population can indeed be stabilized under modern totalitarian rule, it just took some practice for humanity to learn how to pull it off. And you want to roll the dice on this now, here?

    edit to add a word