OpenStars

I'll have you know that *I* was actually asleep! (I say as if that has the slightest relevance to your comment:-)

I can't recall exactly but I thought it's already happened, and if nothing else Dick Chaney shot someone in the face, and continued on to shoot others in other ways in other trips.

Totally unconnected (yeah right! and if you believe that...), some of this money supposedly from "the NRA" actually is funnelled through from Russia. Not all, but it seems a common pipeline by which, shall we say "certain politicians" are ~~bribed~~ no wait yeah that's what I meant there. At least it's a factor that complicates things, but since it's money it complicates it a lot.

In some other country that might even be thought of as something worth doing about, and similarly with the sacrifice of our literal and actual children. But here we cannot, bc you know, we are instead "Pro-Life".

That would be one way.

I have thought long and hard and have been unable to come up with any other alternatives.

I do wonder if ghost guns may change things, but even so I doubt they can shoot e.g. 1000 rounds per minute. Anyway we should do something, rather than the literally nothing that is currently done.

Edit: to be clear, I am totally okay with people owning 1770's style muskets:-), it's those ones such as used in the Vegas shooting scenario that are unprecedented in their ability to lay waste to swaths of human crowds all at once that I think might benefit the most from regulation - and even then, perhaps put exemptions such as someone having served with distinction in the military can "properly" use such. I have no idea how...or for what, but sure, you've earned that and it still keeps it out of the hands of the untrained masses.

The Lemmy developers don't seem keen on writing that code to help people leave their instance, possibly bc they also administer the Lemmy.ml instance too and its a conflict of interest scenario, but I think rather that it is simply the case that the software is still in an advanced alpha / early beta stage of development. Many other features were simply a higher priority for them to want to work on. One day maybe they'll get to that though.

In the meantime, supposedly the ability to label content has already been added to the latest software release - v0.19.4. It will take some time to update various instances though - maybe half a year - and e.g. if you scroll to the bottom of your feed you'll see those UI and BE numbers for your own instance, Lemmy.World, are still at 0.19.3. As people upgrade, it would be good to label the most extremist instances like: "many people on these instances are often rude, condescending, and will spam your notifications for weeks after you indicate that you don't want replies anymore, and their admins refuse to do anything about it and sometimes even join in the fun"... or perhaps something more politely worded.:-P

With such a label, new users would not have to depend upon reaching any particular website that explains things - they could come here and start using the Fediverse directly, immediately:-). Another alternative that an instance admin mentioned is automatically blocking "those instances", but with a bot sending a new user information about how to remove the block, if they have a thicker skin and would like to engage. That would change everything, imho, bc it makes going to such a place consensual, which really does make a huge difference. If someone wants to get "dunked on", then by all means, enjoy! :-D

But it would protect people from wandering into "those places" without knowing. Which increases freedom for everyone across the entire Fediverse, especially since normal/average users may then be more comfortable to be on the Fediverse, and contribute their posts and comments and such:-). So I 100% get what you are saying - we need moar pictures of cute kittens, not fewer! But... it will take time. And in the meantime, this place is only for either those with a thick skin, and/or someone willing to put in the time and effort to learn how to use it i.e. to study the responses, identify where they come from, then block them to curate their overall experience - very much similar to needing to configure a Linux machine imho:-).

Me too:-). Anyone who says otherwise is surely lying, even if only fooling themselves. :-P

Speaking of, I found it interesting to read hexbear.net's own words as they defederated from other instances, even against the will of their users - i.e. they collected poll results, then went 100% in the opposite direction as they indicated:-P. Many of the individual users were saying similarly: that certain individuals needed to be banned bc if not then other instances were going to want to defederate from them, even if only at an individual user level.

However, they refused to do so: the individual users refused to hold themselves back, and then community mods refused to censor them, and then instance admins refused to ban them, and therefore other instances had to defederate from the entire instance as a result. It's like Russia or China irl not curtailing its own leader, thereby inflicting their ills upon the other nations of the world, near and far. Such authoritarian and nonconsensual behaviors need to be stopped, and perhaps will be eventually, but the longer it is allowed to flourish the greater number of innocents will get caught up in the drama first. i.e., it is perhaps the entire Fediverse that will suffer if content creators choose not to come here bc we are too extremist/leftist, bc we won't curtail our most excessive members - again they won't do it themselves, but also nobody else will either. i.e. it's not enough simply to block things on a personal level, if we want to entice more normal people (even those who don't use Linux!!?:-D) to join the Fediverse.

Ooh, another one:

I would say "enjoy flashing everyone"... but that could be awkward, so make sure to flash responsibly:-D

He could try, but he can't be everywhere - that one takes vigilance to stop before it happens, i.e. us.

Note to others: do not attempt to size the wig irl (unless it is worth the restraining order). :-P

Also, am I the only one here who thought this post might be about...?

(from SNL)

Turing test for images? :-P

Yeah it's not just "around" but "to" me as in several tens of replies, first in Chapotraphouse, and then all that again in lemmygrad.ml.

Tbf, they should feel absolutely free to be however they want - if that's their therapy to dunk on people - but that shit needs to be labelled in my strong opinion. Like someone can drink their own urine that's fine, but don't put it in a glass and tell me it's Mountain Dew:-D. Consent makes all the difference!!

Anyway, beyond my "delicate sensibilities", this tolerance of the intolerant affects us all. People are leaving, or not joining, the Fediverse b/c of this. I used to recommend it to people but I no longer do that. We talk collectively as if we desire more content, yet we turn away the source of that content - people. This singular issue has the potential to doom this project to failure from the start. Not entirely - b/c some people will remain no matter what happens - but for it to gain wider traction, we need to get past this. Consent should make all the difference! (But right now, it does not.)

So that is why I don't shut up about it:-). Even though it happened months in the past, and I've long since blocked them all. It does affect you - and all of us - even if only indirectly.

(works in Always Has Been meme... though I am not sure how, nor much clue really even why!?:-P)