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Robin Williams as the Bicentennial Man. The movie was okay; his performance was amazing.

+1.

I do check their profile when I receive a DM from someone I don't know. If only, to get an idea who is trying to reach me, what I can expect, and how I should reply. My profile tells people where I'm from and how old I'm, stuff like that. So, anyone checking it will at least understand why my English can be lacking, and why I may not be that interested in stuff or questions younger people consider important. I also share my blog url in that profile but so far I don't think anyone ever contacted me there coming from Lemmy ;)

I don't mind a blank profile, but it won't help me feel... connected to the person. So, my reply may not be as complete or personal as it could have been.

• Like every day, long walks.
  For the last few days, the weather was really not great and if I don't mind the rain or the cold, everything constantly being dark and dim made my daily walks less enjoyable. This morning the sky is bright blue, there is not a cloud to be seen and the sun is shinning. Happy.
• Read more of Proust A la recherche du temps perdu.
  Seriously, after many failed attempts in the last... 30 years or so, I opened the first volume one more time this evening to give it a shot and, somehow, I was able to get into it and appreciate his prose. Being French, one would think I should be able to better appreciate his style but for some reason I never was, like the book would fell off my hands. No idea what changed this evening (and after so many years) but reading the first 40 pages I was fucking blown away by what I was reading and how well it was done.

I think instances that host certain communities have the responsibilty of setting a certain baseline for mods.

Once again, that's something I could vouch for personally but me supporting that ideal would not make it a universal rule.

I think instances should be allowed to set their own direction but genocide denial is something I really can’t have.

That's the reason why no one is forced to participate in any instance. I carefully select the communities I'm subscribed to and read, and then my home page only shows what's new from those I'm subscribed to. Good luck finding any deniers content in that (or whatever else outrageous content), of they tried they would not last long... thx to the mods in those communities not being assholes and doing a good job.

And we're back at what I was saying first, someone needs to do the work of cleaning the room. And it can be a lot of work, so not many people may be willing to do it.

In an ideal world your approach would work

I don't think it's idealistic, in fact I'd say it's rather pragmatical: I say don't try to police the whole Internet to get rid of those extreme assholes (that will never happen, no matter how outraged one may feel about their very existence). Instead, let assholes be assholes together, in their stinky corner of the web, just lets make we don't have to read their shit content, or to breath in the same room as they do.

I may be wrong, but that's how I consider the question.

How do you raise your voice in a community if you get silenced there?

You don't raise your voice (making more noise rarely helps, imho). You raise everyone else awareness that something odd could be happening in regard to some people/you being silenced?

I have never considered the question (I try not to participate in communities where people abuse their power, or to discuss with people that consider a personal aggression any disagreement or diverging opinion) but the first things that come to my mind is that if you get silenced (that can't be know for sure before trying to publicly post your question in the community), you can still post in other communities that you know members of the first community do read (or in communities created to raise awareness on power abuse, and ask for suggestions). And you can message other users directly to ask them to raise the question publicly for you since you've been silenced. And then you can create your own community and start posting: the public timeline is, well, public, anyone will have a chance to read your post. But, really, those are just the first few ideas I would consider if my choice would not be to avoid being in a situation like that to begin with.

but the users are being manipulated. The vast majority will never look at the mod log and never realise that the comments they’re seeing have been editorialised.

Hence, what I mentioned two times: the need to inform them by opening the discussion first.
Users don't need to be gifted/attributed a new leader/mod. They need to decide by themselves if they need a new one, or not.

Also, if there is no clue that a comment has been removed/censored (isn't there some default text displayed?), then that should be something to discuss with Lemmy's devs as I don't think deleting comments should be invisible.

The problem with the “freedom to do whatever you want” argument you’re making here is that one person (the moderator in question) has significant power and sway over what others trying to speak with similarly-minded people in that community are allowed to say. You need to use that community if there’s no other similar ones with an established & active user base which covers the topics that community is centered around.

Like i said, anyone is allowed to create a new community, that's the whole idea. But one needs to be willing to do it ;)

Edit: that existing community one is looking to replace with a new one did not magically appear with all its members already subscribed. The mod had to make it so people were willing to participate and subscribe. So, should the creator of the new community. Like I said: one needs to be willing to do it... and put the extra work.

As such, it should be incumbent upon the moderators to strive to be as close to the ideal of “impartial” as humanly possible

That's personal values. Values I may myself relate too but personal values nonetheless. And certainly not some indisputable truth that should be imposed upon everybody. At least, not in my mind.

It is perfectly reasonable for users to call out bad faith moderation when it happens

Indeed, exactly like I wrote earlier: if someone was ‘abusing’ their moderating power in some community I was part of I see only two reasonable options, both starting by raising the issue within the community, discussing it with other members

Then, actions can be taken. I just see no valid reason to appeal to some extra (new layer of) authority when all the power is already in the hands of the users.

Pilling up on authorities will never compensate for the lack of personal investment.

How are mods like this still allowed

Isn't it the whole purpose of the fediverse to 'allow' anyone to do what the funk they fancy doing? ' (within legal limitations, obviously I'm not apologizing breaking any law here)

I don't know that community and have not much interest in knowing it more myself, but if someone was 'abusing' their moderating power in some community I was part of I see only two reasonable options, both starting by raising the issue within the community, discussing it with other members and then:

• If what I consider 'abuse' was pissing off enough other members, the obvious solution would be to deprive that person from their power... not by throwing them away or punishing them (how? In what name?) but by not using their community anymore. It's Lemmy, it's easy to start a new community with the exact same interest... but with a very different moderation policy (and a different moderator). There would be nothing that dude could do to prevent anyone from doing that or to prevent members from switching to that new community... leaving the dude alone.
• If not enough members in that community were pissed off by the way it's moderated, or if I was the only one seriously annoyed by it, well, maybe that just means most members are fine with the moderation as it is and see no abuse in it. Then, the only question remaining to me would be to decide if I still want to contribute anything to that community?

I'm not saying that's what you should do. I mean, I don't even know if you just picked some random community to illustrate your point, or even if you're a member of said community. I'm just saying how I would consider the situation.

Freedom goes both way: I can do whatever I fancy and do it how I fancy. But so can other people, even when I disagree with their ways ;)

the good old notepad,

That's my preference.

Is it like complicated things or simple ones?

It is both. I take very detailed and heavily linked notes (through my own PKMS based on index cards) and I also use notebooks for quick notes on the go notes. Have been doing so for years. BTW, there is a community related to Note-taking/Personal Knowledge Management: !pkms@lemmy.blahaj.zone

I don't use it to remember things (well, yes it helps with that too, but it's not the main purpose) I use it to help me think and create new ideas/associations between existing ideas, infos, whatever.

More info on 'my' note-taking system (it's not mine by any mean): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten

Edit: published too early an unfinished post, sorry ;)

Bonne année toi-même !

Les autres aussi, d'ailleurs ;)

et les prix démentiels des éditeurs en France

Pour une qualité qui n'a rien de mémorable elle non-plus. Poches ou grand-formats, je ne compte plus le nombre de bouquins dont les pages se décollent dès que tu as le malheur d'oser ouvrir le livre un peu trop. Et, oui, je suis assez vieux pour avoir appris la lecture dans (et toujours préférer) des éditions en cahiers cousus plutôit que les tas de feuilles encollées qui sont devenus la norme.
Et puis, quand je vois le prix des poches neufs ça me donne presque envie de pleurer: ils n'étaient censés être pas chers, entre autres choses pour encourager la lecture?

Anna’s Archive ça évite les DRM

Anna's est utile, mais

• Je préfère acheter mes livres papier (pour les raisons mentionnées plus tôt) d'occasion ou neuf, du moins quand je ne les emprunte pas en bibliothèque. C'est d'ailleurs une autre bien triste chose, imho: la modestie du catalogue non-fr de la plupart des bibliothèques publiques.
• Quand j'achète numérique, je préfère acheter sans DRM dès le départ plutôt que d'avoir à contourner quoi que ce soit. Tant que j'aurai le choix, je ferai le choix de favoriser les éditeurs qui respectent leurs lecteurs :)

seriously, fuck that and “them”

Maybe this (hostile and angry) attitude could explain some of the downvotes?