He's already overridden people blocking him. You still see his posts.
He's just trying to make sure it stays useful as a weapon for fascists like himself is all.
itty53
joined 2 years ago
"I thought you was corn". I say it whenever I startle someone.
AFAIK it was similar on reddit. You could still see content removed from the sub in a user's history. I think the mechanism they're trying to argue they're controlling is promotion of that content. Especially here where no one "owns" it, it just is. Being seen to promote illegal content is what the heat comes from.
New? Never left. Piracy is mainstream. People stream things all day from all kinds of shady streaming sites, but they get to watch what they want.
Just be an American trying to watch Australian television. Pain in the ass to find anywhere but my wife finds stream links on Facebook -- Piracy is mainstream.
Which by the way, if you ever enjoyed the show Survivor, Australian Survivor is actually better. It's my guilty pleasure. Australian Survivor is on a whole other level.
Kbin, Mastodon, Lemmy, and others are all "federated apps" connected to ActivityPub. They are just different UIs to connect to it, so you can see posts and content from one on the others.
Mastodon is a UI inspired by Twitter.
Lemmy is a UI inspired by reddit. It is more stable but less feature rich. You can get native apps just like with reddit, such as Jerboa (similar to rif).
Kbin is a UI inspired by reddit. It is more feature rich and less stable (said to be, anyway).
They are all speaking the same protocol though. So while you can load Mastodon posts in this Lemmy ui they might look ... off. Similarly you can load things in Mastodon from kbin etc and they too might seem weird. It's because they're not giving the same context you might get viewing that content in the UI it was made for.
These are all still new with Mastodon being the one most widely adopted already. So expect better features and bug fixes to roll out over time. Especially with so much more demand now, I'm guessing many old 3PA devs have already been working out new tricks for ActivityPub.
That's the sub they're referring to but it isn't true. Spez is a shit but that's deliberate misinformation.
Reddit history time - back then you could make someone a mod of a subreddit and it would accept that "request" automatically. So you could make Barack Obama a moderator of your sub and it would list him. This was a very popular and silly thing done all over without any malicious intent.
Well the guy who ran jailbait, violentacrez, did this to spez with the jailbait sub. He then shared that spez was a mod there and many users "confirmed" it, until the mounting pressure got brought to his attention and he removed himself. Shortly after you had to accept moderator positions when they were offered, it was no longer automatic, and I'm pretty sure around the same time is when the sub finally got banned.
The folks in dankmemes are old edgelords who probably frequented jailbait, they're bringing up an old joke they pulled on spez since he's in the hot seat. Don't repeat their tripe, instead point out how Huffman once implied he expects he will be able to buy slaves in the near future and looks forward to such a day with anxious anticipation.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich
The thing you're describing about smugness is kind of an overarching problem with tech literate people in general. Reddit began with a large portion of the users being those tech folks. They were also libertarians. This narrated the early culture, which led to the latter devolution. Keep in mind even today on reddit there were folks fondly remembering subs like jailbait, which was a top sub for years. They got downvotes but they were still there because they used to have a home there.
The federated system got its first big migration during Elon's initial takeover of Twitter. That drove a certain left-wing element here early on, which hopefully will help establish a different culture going forward.
The other thing is that it's inevitable with any community that a critical mass of shit happens. The bots, the cyber soldiers, the propaganda, the spam and the sex workers show up at a certain threshold. Whether the fediverse can effectively manage that remains to be seen.
You can create a functional enum view by just assigning enums as the column names and storing a single row of the int (or whatever enum) representation.
Then use that view in a cross join. You can (almost) eliminate magic numbers entirely and makes the code much more human legible.
Example
CREATE VIEW AS enum.OrderType
SELECT
CAST (1 as 'New'),
CAST (2 as 'Pending'),
CAST (3 as 'Shipped')
GO
-- Assuming a table with OrderId and OrderTypeId
SELECT o.OrderId
FROM dbo.Orders AS o
CROSS JOIN enum.OrderType AS ot
WHERE o.OrderTypeId = ot.[Pending]
-- Only returns orders where TypeId = 2, no need to know what Id that is or for anyone else to in the future either.
This trick works even on large datasets with a lot of complex joins. Getting the status name itself to return is a bit more of a chore though.
The api changes really were about protecting their gold mine of data from ai data models scraping for data. Reddit wants to use that data to create its own models and then replace moderators with those models. The ultimate goal here is to turn the existing dataset into an automoderator on steroids that they could sell anywhere. Trouble is someone else is going to beat them to it.
There was a reason these changes lined up so nicely with Google doing the same thing. Everyone's realizing they've been spouting their gold from firehoses and they're being reactionary and turning them off asap instead of just like, accepting it as a facet of having a public social network.
Not those of us who exclusively used the 3rd party apps. Former RiF user here, reddit for 12 years. Not doing it on their app, you couldn't pay me to tolerate that experience. Using Jerboa right now and with a couple tiny improvements, I got no problem switching.
Check out Jerboa.
Signed, former RiF user
I feel like the hurdles are kind of features. If your elderly parents can't figure out then they can't well flood it with trash. Reddit was the same way at first, oh so long ago. People weren't used to the format and users without any tech savvy were dissuaded from entry. That turned into a libertarian foundation. This time around the generations that are tech savvy aren't libertarians, they're progressives. So we're seeing a progressive foundation in the federation become established, and that's going to narrate the future culture here, just like libertarians narrated the culture of reddit for so long.