why stop there! let’s do the same for all the “self-host” projects that use CDNs or remotely hosted resources.

it’s not self-hosted unless it’s 100% hosted locally.

wall warts

when I wake up early enough and my stool is soft enough that I can actually take a shit.

I’m ready for the sweet embrace of eternal slumber.

I’m an adult and I don’t even know how the fuck to say it.

I’m the inverse. I abandoned all my friends because I had to move forward in my life and make my life better.

I look them up every so often. half of them are divorced, struggling, or dead. the other half are alcoholics and slowly walking towards deaths doorstep.

I got out because someone I cared about showed me I was worth more than I believed I was. They gave me a goal to achieve and I will be forever grateful.

my point is, sometimes people drift apart because it’s time. look back on your time together with the same fondness you had in the moment and never forget you learned much from them, and still learn from them even if only indirectly.

even the worst examples can teach us something.

that is exactly what I’m talking about.

I won’t go into too deep of detail, I’ve covered a lot of it here.

today, the goal of the mod is to prune and remove undesired content and users. this creates high overhead and operational costs. it also increases chances for corruption and community instability.

you have experienced some of this instability. a mod banned you and you had no recourse to correct the behavior. this can also be used by corrupt mods to silence the community at large. I believe there was a post about Reddit having 400 subs modded by the same 4 people or something like that.

the same flaw exists here as well.

I believe that the community should moderate itself. if the content or comment hits a downvote threshold it’s hidden/silenced. mods should only get involved as stewards of the community, ensuring that abuses of the system aren’t taking place and taking action against individuals that “game the system”. they could not, for example, take action unless the silenced user reports it as such. again, if you abuse the system you might be permanently silenced.

notice I keep saying silenced instead of blocked? that’s because we shouldn’t block their access to content or the community or even let them know nobody is seeing their content. in the case of malicious users/bots. the more time wasted on screaming into a void the less time wasted on corrupting another community. in-fact, I propose we allow these silenced users to interact with each other where they can continue to toxify and abuse each other in a spiraling chain of abuse that eventually results in their permanent silencing.

this should be a core tenant to an open forum. anyone can interact, but if the community at large has voted to silence you they shouldn’t need to listen to you.

IMO bans should only be used for the most heinous users. users that post illegal content that jeopardizes the community at large. further, those bans should be administered by the instance admin/owner.

you can, but let’s ignore that for a moment.

so you got banned from a community on lemmy, eh?

just go join another community with 8k less users and has a new post once every four weeks.

I suppose you could post more on that community, right?

oops, looks like the mod there is the same one that banned you with an alt on a different instance. you’re banned here as well.

lemmy is isn’t immune to the corruption on Reddit because it’s a different platform. it’s corruptible because the users are all from Reddit.

humans are trash, that’s why we need to shift how moderation functions online.

technically the guy went crazy because of the project.

no.

IMO conservatives are untrustworthy and can’t identify fact from fiction.

would you run software from a dev who has a problem discerning reality? do you think a schizophrenic person writes stable maintainable code?

mental health is an important part of gaining trust in your product. ironic that they continue to trust and support a geriatric nazi-wannabe, but goes to show how compromised conservatives are when it comes to their decision making skills.

why?

that’s why

holy shit, this deserves a prize.

what an oblivious douchebag.

Too late to do this for PCs.

let me tell you about this little thing called windows 11.

I know for a fact that this is exactly where compute is going, just look at the aggressive moves that MS has been making over the last 15-25 years.

it starts with requiring an always on connection, and ends with hardware lockout like Mac has.

sure Linux will be an option… but for how much longer? all the old devs are retiring and the new ones…god help us. they want to rewrite it like any greenhorn, and they want to use…rust??!

I give it 10-15 years before hardware locks out Linux, and Linux is dying.

I’m a Linux user btw, so don’t think I’m a MS or Mac fan.

that would never happen on lemmy!

/s

source: I’ve been banned from communities I have never visited because the mods said I’m a racist bigot.

jokes on them, I hate everyone equally regardless of race or gender. I especially hate malicious liars and ethically challenged mods.

hope you like leather and plugs.

he did not.

he’s secretly in China with his pals for the big party!

https://apnews.com/article/china-military-parade-sco-putin-xi-kim-7d71b8ef9dc3bcc5de2ee192debd87c7

*Frisbee golf

• croquet
• shuffleboard
• ping pong
• badminton
• lawn darts
• hop scotch

anything that was considered a parlor game in the late 19th and early 20th century.

I’m not religious, haven’t been for decades, but old habit’s die hard.

please god give me the strength to cleanse this world of these idiots.

holy shit, just made a meme that’s perfect for this.