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PhilipTheBucket

@ PhilipTheBucket @piefed.social

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  • I feel like we had this conversation before at some point lol... I will summarize my point of view on it and then probably dip from it:

    • KPD in 1917: We're going to seize all the guns and overthrow you and make Communism because Communism
    • German government + German people and unions + SPD: Fuck no you're not (gunfire)
    • KPD in 1918: Wooooooowwwwwwwwww okay fuck you, I see how it is
    • Germany: Hey KPD you still can have a seat in government, you have to get the votes though, no shooting your opposition, no seizing
    • KPD: Woooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
    • SPD in 1932: Hey we're going to make an alliance with you because this guy is dangerous, we don't care about the whole "trying to overthrow thing" that happened a generation ago
    • KPD: Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
    • Hitler: (wins)

    And then much later:

    • KPD (ones still alive): Hey we're going to need all the trade unions to do what we want instead of what the workers want, because that's leftism
    • Germany: Lol fuck OFF

    That is my summary. I realize you may have a different one but I don't think I really want to get in an extended argument about it today. But yes, Germany in the 30s is a relevant example on this topic, I absolutely think.

    (Oh, also, the KPD was being murdered by the Nazis with the aid of Stalin. The KPD was coordinating with Stalin, and he was selling them out because of course he was. I have absolutely no idea where you got this idea that the SPD was involved in what Hitler was doing to his opposition.)

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  • Haven't you heard? Shitting on liberals and not voting is all you need to do to defeat fascism. It's literally the most important thing.

    It's too bad the Weimar Republic didn't think of that. I feel like if only the German Communists had been spending all their energy shitting on the center, they might have had a pretty good chance of stopping Hitler from coming to power. Well, at least now we have the chance to try again, with the benefit of hindsight, and make sure we do that known successful strategy...

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  • The C programming language is like debating a philosopher and Python is like debating someone who ate an edible

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  • I mean yeah lol. That's why I said "mostly." But my point was, more or less, that modern power tools can do stuff that you simply can't do with C, but C is still a venerable tool to me. I like it. The old pros can make fantastic custom cabinets, they do framing almost as fast as someone with a nail gun, it's just that it's not practical for most people to try to get skilled enough to be able to make solid stuff (and of course you can never make a skyscraper with just hand tools.)

    Once you start finding yourself using malloc() all that much, you're probably using the wrong tool, and it's also just objectively less secure than other safer languages. But clean C code has a kind of beauty to me that is hard to replicate in the more powerful languages.

  • First time posting here — how does Lemmy feel compared to Reddit for you?

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  • In terms of instances, there simply isn’t any appetite for the type of instances and community culture you want. You are simply in a minority here.

    Severely tempted to code it up and see what the interest level is. IDK, I am lazy also, so let's see. In any case thank you for your constructive input lol.

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  • I feel like we’ve had a debate on this before.

    Are we having a debate? I honestly was not aware if so lol

    This would just negate the concept of communities built up by moderators.

    Correct. Moderators should not "own" the communication that goes on in "their" communities, they definitely shouldn't look at people as "their" users as I've heard some of them say before. We are just people. We are allowed to say things. The fact that letting people say things even if the moderators don't want them to, would do damage to their concept, is a flaw with their concept.

    Also, in many case, instances have rules before communities. How does that system work here?

    To a certain extent, it is cultural. At the end of the day, the instance admins can physically control whatever passes through their server. In the old school Usenet sense, someone who was in that role would never modify someone else's message. It just was this kind of wild fascism that would never be done except in the most dire circumstances (there were actually arguments about it when spam started cropping up, some people felt like even removing spam was going too far). Now, even someone who doesn't own the server hardware feels empowered to set "rules" as you say for what people are allowed to say to each other, sometimes very arbitrary and clearly self-serving or etc. In my opinion, success lies somewhere between those two extremes: People generally being able to talk to one another (and the architecture being designed where it's assumed that they're allowed to) even if someone else doesn't like it and wants to make rules against it, but still moderation set up for people who want it to the extent that they want it.

    There's obviously still a need for someone to take responsibility for deleting spam, harassment, or abusive content, and there's going to be a grey area. I feel like, generally, you can let people control their own feeds and moderation that applies to them, and they will probably decide to configure it in a way where the anti-spam protection is applied to their feed and their weird additional arbitrary rules are not. That's what I was saying.

    The creator doesn’t curate it beyond curating what communities are visible in it.

    Yes, I'm aware. I was proposing a new way in which it could work, I know that currently it doesn't work that way. I don't even know that the thing I spitballed is the way to do it, just someone asked how it could work, so I spitballed one possible way.

  • First time posting here — how does Lemmy feel compared to Reddit for you?

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  • People. What a bunch of bastards.

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  • Make it pull instead of push. Each user has way too little control over their own experience in my opinion. To me from an old-school-internet background, it's very weird that a moderator can override what comments you're allowed to see or not allowed to see. I much prefer Bluesky's model, where you pick your moderators, and someone can't override you and decide that certain comments you're not allowed to read just because those comments happened to land within that person's little domain after they were the first to claim the "worldnews" name for their community or whatever.

    How to graft that onto Lemmy is a little bit difficult. It's just a different model. I mean you could have a list of moderators whose decisions you want to block (similar to your list of users you want to block) -- if any of those moderators removed a comment, you can still read it, their decisions just don't affect your feed in any way. That would be a simple hack, sort of a useful check on their "power" if you want to say it that way, although it's definitely a little bit rough approach. Probably a more holistic way would be to restructure how content even gets shared around. I haven't looked at how Piefed does "feeds," but that might be one good approach; let someone create or share a "politics" feed for example, and it can be a modification of someone else's feed ("[email protected] but take out the Trump stuff" or "block these specific annoying users" or "ignore decisions by these two moderators"), so that it's not a monopoly in terms of who gets to curate and control the content. You could subscribe to [email protected] for example, and it's just the identical posts sourced from [email protected], but with some users that are widely disliked banned, and then also with certain moderators who consistently make bad decisions disabled. That's a lot harder to implement of course... IDK, this is just me thinking out loud about solutions I could see, but hopefully it makes some kind of sense.

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  • What do you miss from Reddit?

    Activity in niche communities, but that’s changing slowly.

    Actually, two other things I do miss from Reddit: In the heyday (and even still to some extent now), it was so massive that you could have whole communities of types of real-world people you would never interact with. There is a subreddit for cops, one for air traffic controllers, one for sex workers, one for working historians to answer the general public's questions, and so on. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ghislaine Maxwell had active Reddit accounts. You could come into contact (in their weird text-box-only way) with people you would never come in contact with, and more to the point you could see what their hivemind looked like and their consensus on public issues. I always liked Reddit's community model better than the twitter "everything goes on the pile" model, because you could have these for-real communities develop, and it was fascinating sometimes to see what they thought of things or watch them in action.

    Edit: Oh, the other thing, AMAs of real public figures, similar idea

  • First time posting here — how does Lemmy feel compared to Reddit for you?

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  • heavy-handed moderation and echo chambers where any dissenting opinion gets buried

    I have bad news for you lol

    It is fine, Lemmy is far superior. But, their baffling decision to copy Reddit's "lords and peasants" model of moderation has led to a lot of the same moderation rot on Lemmy I am sad to say. It's just in less of a late stage terminal form as it was on Reddit. At least the echo chambers are separate echo chambers, and they can yell across the void at each other. lemmy.ml is pretty much the only community that is severely balkanized to its own isolated community where politics / geopolitics are concerned.

    In general, Lemmy is nice because it is more varied. lemmy.world is the most Reddit-like in terms of having a "hivemind," then there are particular smaller servers with their own cultures going on. It is more quiet but a lot more human in my opinion.

    Enjoy.

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  • In my analogy, the tool is the programming language, and the worker is the programmer in that language. Mostly.

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  • C is the old carpenter, who can drive in nails with three strikes of the hammer and never forgets his tools.

    C# is his friend who just uses power tools instead. He is fine too. He goes home early whenever he can.

    Python is the new guy at work who thinks he's super smart. He actually can do the job really well, but for some reason nobody likes him all that much.

    Javascript is the boss's son who got the job since he agreed to stay off pills but he does not. He is useful to be friendly with, maybe, but avoid him any day that you can. Typescript is his weird fiancée. She is significantly less stupid but much more rarely useful, and also best avoided.

    Go and Rust are tight-knit friends who get shit done. They are extremely capable but also not friendly, they tend not to talk much.

    Clojure does mushrooms on weekends, and seems to believe he has key insights the rest of the crew is too dim to understand, but he also makes frequent simple mistakes on the job and forgets things. Also avoid.

    Java only has the job because he's known the boss since they were kids. He was never that good, but now he is old, and frequently drunk. Avoid at all costs.

  • What's a good FREE music streaming service that isn't run by the devil?

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  • What's a good FREE music streaming service that isn't run by the devil?

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  • 🚢🦜⚓

    You can throw some money at artists periodically, some random $10 donation to whatever their fan site or on merch will probably net them more than a lifetime of listening to their stuff on Spotify, since streaming revenues add up to roughly five atoms of currency per stream or so.

  • What youtuber do you think had the biggest downfall?

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  • Yeah. Life is a fuck

  • Why are there almost no Beastie Boys covers?

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  • If anyone ever tries it, MCA shows up their house with a few of his people.

  • What youtuber do you think had the biggest downfall?

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  • I mean I didn't think it was really legitimate grounds. This is just from memory, but I think the issue was that he called out Billy Mitchell for cheating being the foundation of basically his whole career, and then Billy sued him for some minor tangential bullshit mostly just totally unrelated to that. I think you are correct, Jobst accused Billy of laughing and being cheerful about some other streamer killing himself (which he definitely did) but also made some kind of minor factual error while talking about it, and Billy convinced a judge that that was worth multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damages. That was my understanding of it.

    Edit: Mostly I think it's weird to include him in this list because even by the most anti-Jobst reading all he did was slander Billy Mitchell. That seems kind of out of place on a list which currently includes people guilty of pedophilia (Miranda), mass plagiarism (Illuminaughti), and some sort of unholy systematic turbo-pedophilia which is hard to even summarize (Onision).

    Also, I'm a little disturbed that I know the details of all of this weird pop-culture drama bullshit. Maybe the real streamer slop was inside us all the time.

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  • Did they? I didn't. IDK, I just looked at view counts on his recent videos and they've definitely gone down pretty substantially (which sure isn't ideal) but it's not a full cratering and then a year of silence like Illuminaughti.

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  • Who turned on him? Maybe I am not extensively up on streamer drama.