One thing about the pre-Internet times I don’t hear much about is how much more centralised our media were and how, as a result, people or ideas on the fringe of society didn’t get much attention. That includes for instance how the strange ideas about vaccines or ethnic groups now spread much easier than they did before the Internet, but also how trans* people and other marginalised groups find it much easier to find and support each other and be a united front against oppression.

In summary, I don’t thing that what has been termed “the great awokening”, nor the organised opposition against it, could have taken place before the Internet. At least not at this scale.

The tweet wasn’t easily available on nitter (it wasn’t being highlighted).

It just so happened to be the canonical source for this piece of information. And it wasn’t being run by an antisemite at the time the linked tweet was being written.

Exactly. The good kind of failure.

Hyperloop was always a project to sabotage high-speed rail. Good thing it failed.

I have a dad joke, but it’s yo momma.

If anything you need UEFI to run Windows on one of these things.

This is your brain on don’t.

“Beige shirts”

Apparently this is what makes someone turn neutral.

Hey, at least the number of fingers on the visible hand check out.

Nah, must’ve been thing

One idea to prevent tags being spammed would be to have them be moderated as well. Thoughts?

As I’m saying, I don’t think you need to: manually subscribing to each trusted instance via ActivityPub should suffice. The pass/fail determination can be done when querying for known images.

How about a federated system for sharing “known safe” image attestations? That way, the trust list is something managed locally by each participating instance.

Edit: thinking about it some more, a federated image classification system would allow some instances to be more strict than others.

Akhctually, when you burn something you oxidise it instead of reducing it.

Yes: it prevents things like death threats mods have been known to receive on the centralised Lemmy precursor.

I misread this as stimulate and thought to myself that doing so would be highly appropriate for documented virgin Isaac Newton.

hkzw

In my opinion this runs counter to the idea of federation

The rest of the internet runs counter to the idea of federation, yet Lemmy must work with it.