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[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago
[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Not in https://browse.feddit.de/ either. It can take several days.

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Interesting – it doesn't appear in https://browse.feddit.de/ yet! Then I delete the one I just created, I don't like redundancy.

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I share and promote this attitude. If I must be honest it feels a little hopeless: it seems that since the 1970s or 1980s humanity has been going down the drain. I fear "fediverse wars". It's 2023 and we basically have a World War III going on, illiteracy and misinformation steadily increase, corporations play the role of governments, science and scientific truth have become anti-Galilean based on "authorities" and majority votes, and natural stupidity is used to train artificial intelligence. I just feel sad.

But I don't mean to be defeatist. No matter the chances we can fight for what's right.

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Had never heard about it, cheers!

Edit: unfortunately it looks like it's not open-source. I have some trust issues with close-source projects that handle my browsing.

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

Maybe my comment wasn't clear or you misread it. It wasn't meant to be sarcastic. Obviously there's a problem and we want (not just need) to do something about it. But it's also important to be careful about how the problem is presented - and manipulated - and about how fingers are pointed. One can't point a finger at "Mastodon" the same way one could point it at "Twitter". Doing so has some similarities to pointing a finger at the http protocol.

Edit: see for instance the comment by @while1malloc0@beehaw.org to this post.

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 50 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (12 children)

I'm not fully sure about the logic and perhaps hinted conclusions here. The internet itself is a network with major CSAM problems (so maybe we shouldn't use it?).

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I believe that https://browse.feddit.de/ shows the total number of subscribers, but I'd be happy if someone else confirmed this as well.

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Thank you for the recommendation, I'll try it out. To be honest I second the "don't move fast if you have to break things" attitude...

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Glad to see my question wasn't so dumb, cheers :)

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Sorry for my miswriting of my reply; what I meant is that I agree and had expressed related concerns in another community, hence the link. Not backing myself up, just expressing my opinion :) Not only should we not throw more tech at the problem, but I think we should rethink about what we do without the tech.

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Indeed, no point in throwing technology at something that has some basic flaws to be fixed first (I expressed something similar here).

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