That makes total sense. And I would guess decentralized hosting or federated hosting couldn’t meet this need?

Looks like Joe Rogan if he worked at Gringots bank as a drug dealer.

Flash for Dummies was my first book on programing. I used it to make games about feces.

The water distribution company is not, to my knowledge, held liable when something happens like you fill a bucket of water and share it with someone else.

No but they are liable if there is lead in the water, even if they don’t know it.

fuck I started leaning to program in flash specifically because of videos like this.

Yeah I’ve thought a tiny bit about this but it gets dodgy with things like csam.

How do we address some one uploading stuff that would get you arrested?

So we need better federated hosting…

It’s also super calorie dense ona weight to volume ratio

Its like how for decades the bible was only reproduced in latin, to keep a kind of auspicious magic to the words to prevent the heathens from understanding.

These words have some kind of “magic” hold and if you just make sure to use red-ink on your 1099C, they’ll give you the keys to the castle.

Oklahoma, California, Oregon. Same way that NY gets it. In the mail.

Yeah idk. This was a criticism that I brought up of the fundamentals in lemmys structure early on: it selects for, effectively, clones of “whole reddits”, when it should be set up to support more balkanized instances.

Basically, lemmy.ml’s c/Politics is functionally redundant to .worlds c/politics; but thats by design.

What I think would be better would be adding tagging and taking federation a step further. Every post needs a ‘tag’; we steal that part from mastadon. It can have many, but it needs at least one, say #politics in this example.

Then, on instances, federation happens both at the instance level but also at the community level; communities can federate with other communtiies. But all posts get #tagged on the way in the door. Communtiies can then federate or defederate at will, and if neccessary, a community can “branch”; for example, maybe they want to split off US politics from politics; then you grab all the posts with the #US.

As far as an abuse vector. Thats just hang wringing. IF your mods are that abusive for a large sub, you’ve got way bigger issues. Which, if it did ever happen, is something that “forking” would solve. Mod on a power trip? No problem. Fork the community.

I meant in a technical sense. As in, hey here is a community with a mod on a power trip. I’m going to clone it, it lives here now: [email protected]

For example, we could have cloned this sub and its contents and merged it into c/politics.

Lemmy & the fediverse needs to be more modular.

We need… something like a “transfer, merge, fork, split” for communities.

For example, if these guys are just going to nuke that content, another instance should have the opportunity to either fork it, or merge it with another community. Its mostly the same stuff as would have been in c/Politics here.

And what it does now, is it puts even more editorial power in the hands of fewer people (ones that ml probably) don’t vibe with.

Classic boneheaded decision.

Seems like lemmy.ml is really collapsing in on itself. Overall not good for the general health of the fediverse. We need large “sibling” instances rather than monoliths like .world, which is to say nothing of the politics of the instance. The fewer “medium” to "large’ instances are, the more reliant the whole system becomes on “very large” monoliths like .world, which overall weakens the integrity of the network.

This also highlights the destructiveness of toxic moderation. There is plenty of it here too, but there needs to be some kind of accountability/ redress if open & free communities are going to be a long term project. Not really a big deal in the long run and something we’ll just have to keep working on.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2020/minnesota/

Minnesota 2020.

Dems up by 10, and polling 15 pts ahead of where they are polling today.

Dems only won MN by five points on election day. Anything close to a tie in polling for Dems is an L.

Yes. It’s a correct statement to say that Dems have to have to claw things back to win MN.

MN Polling: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/minnesota/ MN polling at a toss up (keep in mind Trump almost always outperforms his polling).

Another fun one, Jersey is now a swing state: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/new-jersey/

Its a coming to Jesus moment for party centrists about being so historically wrong they’ve been about everything, this entire time. And this is them trying to make up for it in rapid time. This is them realizing they don’t and didn’t know what the fuck they were doing, ever.

Real answer: We should nominate whoever is most likely to win. The most important and only point is that we need to beat Trump, and we need to stop project 2025. Keeping Biden as the nominee has continuously fucked over our ability to fix this idiotic and stupid unforced error, but here we are. We can fix this.

I think the most electable combination is Kamala + 1. I think that + 1 should be either farther to the left or farther to the right, but regardless you need to get a demographic. The two best options are AOC and Andy Beshear. If you go Andy Beshear, you are trying to pull off NC and GA, and PA. If you go AOC, you are doing so to recover the upper midwest. Andy Beshear is the harder path in an extremely polarized environment; Democrats have been notoriously bad at clawing back votes in southern states. If you go the AOC route, you let her take an oppositional stance on Israel/ Gaza and claw back MI/ MN/ WI.