You’re adding negative connotations to words that have none. That’s like saying that we should rename piracy to “downloading media from alternative sources” or whatever just because corpos are anti-piracy. We use these words because they are precise and concise. Big tech is anti those words. We are pro those words. The word itself is neutral. “Sideloading” is a meaningful category because big tech makes it so by forbidding it, or making users have to use workarounds to do them. “It’s not sideloading; it’s just installing apps onto the phone you own”—well, that would be lovely, but that’s not currently the case.

Reuters blocks my VPN and the Wayback archived version doesn’t display anything.

They, notably, did not say that PHP was good.

Sure, a lot of school devices don’t have great controls though. I played Minecraft on the school computers. A good chunk of the devices that kids are using to comment on podcasts or whatever, a user will be able to run their own executables on. Some school computers explicitly allow this so they can teach kids to code.

I mean, you can host servers on a laptop. I ran my Minecraft server and a few web apps off my laptop when I was a kid. Had to get my parents to do the port forwarding as I didn’t have access to the router login, but otherwise was quite straightforward. And before someone says “so you needed your parents”, I’m sure some kids can figure out the login/their parents may be using the default login and would not be savvy enough to figure out their kid had set up a port forward.

When was Ubuntu “lightweight”? I’m not saying it was always bloated, but it was never supposed to be minimalist either. It was just an easy works-out-of-the-box Linux experience.

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Dude donated a shit ton of money to slop Linux (omarchy). What did he expect?

For recording in cells, the glasses would be caught by the regular scanners used at various security boundaries including upon entry to custody, at least every time I’ve been detained. Is that not normal in the US?

I mean, critical support to Meta I guess. They finally figured out a real use case for their glasses. Albeit a very limited one because there’s already hidden cameras people can wear on their body, all of which are easily detectable when they search you before chucking you into a cell.

I’m “arguing hard”? I’ve sent two comments. Took a couple minutes. Aren’t we on social media to, well, socialise?

Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter… have paid moderators.

Yes, so the biggest centralised social medias that run most of the modern web. Of which Reddit is a part.

tbh I don’t think it is on reddit either.

Really depends on what you moderate. Some subreddits deal with culture war warriors sending rape threats, doxxing, brigading, etc. I used to mod a subreddit where another mod had to delete her account because she was doxxed by kiwifarms.

Wtf are you on about? You are conceding shit that nobody asked you you to concede. I’m not “fighting hard”. I replied to a comment on a lemmy post. Nobody thinks that antifa means anything other than anti-fascist except right-wingers in one country I don’t live in. Why should I let them control my language?

Why tf are you letting US fascists take away a term that’s been used for a century by anti-fascists across the world? It doesn’t even have the Trumpian connotation outside of the US.

But moderation of centralised social media is usually done by paid workers. Subreddits are not independent forums; Reddit admins interfere all the time, and they’re hosted on Reddit servers so ultimately are at the mercy of Reddit’s decisions.

I don’t think Wikipedia contributions are comparable to subreddit moderation. Moderation is known for being traumatising work (see: lawsuits from global south workers over PTSD from seeing CSAM, snuff, and other traumatising content when doing underpaid moderation work) and I don’t think there are many moderators who do it for fun. They may do it voluntarily because they like a community or think their subreddit/forum is a valuable resource they want to maintain. But not because the labour of moderation itself is fun. Meanwhile I imagine most Wikipedia contributors do so because they are interested in the topic, and it’s far less likely to expose editors to traumatising content.

I mean, Wikipedia still refused to recognise the union. They have to now given the results of the vote. And I’m sure they get more than enough in donations anyway. They did before the dispute with their workers, and I doubt enough people boycotted Wikipedia over it for it to mean that Wikipedia can’t cover their costs.

Yeah. It’s kinda crazy how Reddit has just offloaded their moderation to unpaid volunteers and managed to have very few people complain about this.

This isn’t someone drawing CP though. It’s AI-generated CP, which means the model had to be actually trained on CP. You might argue that there are already models trained on CP, and the chicken is already in the nugget, but legalising it creates financial incentive to train on CP because then you can sell your model to paedophiles.

Bite each other’s dicks off

It may well be intended as a serious attempt but personally I’m just going to view it as trolling/a gimmick, in which case I don’t care how shit the actual platform is. Seems to be more about making a point against Musk than getting a serious userbase.

It will still generate traffic to Twitter in order to fetch the tweet. It’s an alternative frontend for privacy purposes, so Twitter doesn’t get your browser fingerprint, IP address, etc. It’s all proxied through xcancel/nitter.