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i can't imagine how it is to grow up now
but aside, yes, it's increasingly hard to work on anything serious and focused, when callousness, cruelty and carelessness run everything
eg imagine doing medical research if society will ignore it anyway in favor of stupid rumors, same for anything really
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federation is about how instances communicate, it doesn't necessarily mean that kind of account feudalism; they could potentially decouple instances and accounts in fediverse
though it's unlikely they will, they're so set in a certain way of doing things
(still no quote toots even ffs 😅)
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not as one dump—the bar is just too low if's trivial to create say 1000 keypairs and flood you with insults, or whatever, and that's what nostr is right now
still very much agree with what Christine Lemmer-Webber writes in dustycloud.org/blog/how-dec...
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agree, i think the best combination would be if the underlying infrastructure is decentralized like nostr, but users are able to create more more cosy, semi-closed, moderated communities with semi-permeable membranes between them
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yes, and running your own relay, although it's easy, changes nothing, there is no way to do local moderation
it almost makes me appreciate the mastodon approach, where at least different communities are more or less siloed
(even though i dislike instance politics and surrounding meanness *a lot*)
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not sure, i left at the beginning of this year, the technology works okish-though especially notifications are unreliable, and every client has its own problems
but i could live with that if the community wasn't mostly so transphobic as well as boring
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i spoke too soon, it looks like scribblehub support specifically is not working at the moment: github.com/dipu-bd/ligh...
but it supports tons of other sources that will probably still work
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yes, i absolutely agree, something structural would be way way better
this was just me not being able to sleep and thinking "what could i personally do if the worst happens"
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i so hope they take it seriously enough, wish i could do more
i've been reading on Dutch immigration, doesn't seem to be hard (comparatively) for someone from the US to get a residence permit; easiest is through employer or spouse sponsorship, but there's also visas for people starting companies
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what fresh hell...
i can't with these people
is this about what he wants, or his fear, or just some 90's femdom porn he found or
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okay i'm glad !
i am least concerned for myself really, at least in the short term
but i am very scared for trans people in the US
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sorry, to be clear i didn't mean it personally to anyone, i am just very angry and sad and scared
i want to support fascist regimes as little as possible even indirectly
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this seems useful to back up things from scribblehub/etc github.com/dipu-bd/ligh...
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tbf we had star trucker in the 80's 😅
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it's not complicated it's really simple actually
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very much this
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yes, i'm constantly in a state of being scared and overwhelmed and no idea what to do
but agree we need to stick up for each other, because it's become so clear we should not have any illusion of empathy from others
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yes it seems a bad idea to get on more lists right now if you can avoid it
it's not that they can do anything about autism anyway
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i've never really vibed with the EA people (utilitarian ethics taken to extremes seems too amendable to the idea that everyone should be reduced to featureless cubes, because it statistically reduces suffering) but i appreciate how the T stands for both trans and transhumanist in that alphabet soup
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finally some good news
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if you'd want to fire everyone from the government bureaucracy and army likely to have a shred of conscience or empathy, it would not look different from what is happening
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to be fair, they'd been building a turnkey authoritarian state for decades
all that the bullies and abusers had to do to get in power, is take the reins
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if the only reason you're turning against Trump is because it hurts your bags you deserve to lose everything
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as someone who has spent way too much time with the "bitcoin community", i can say the creeping far right undertones were clear for a long time and the Trump support didn't come as a surprise
it really sucks that it went that way, drifting so far from the cypherpunk spirit
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after decades of being told "you're being dramatic" when protesting every single creeping surveillance law since 9/11, we're finally vindicated
(not that it is any consolation)
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the forever unforgivable, irredeemable sin of being labeled male at birth
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i think i could, i would, normally, too, i'm often supposed to be the strong one, i didn't think anything could faze me much anymore, but... ugh
well, being scared together is better then feeling so alone in it
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at this point i just need someone to hold me and tell me not to be scared, and tell me things will be okay
but that'd be a welcome distraction too :3
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until like a year ago i was skeptical of calling groups fascists, nazis, words like that seemed overused for anyone with even sightly right-wing economic views
but sheesh have we had a wake-up call, they're everywhere and emboldening each other to be worse and worse
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you cannot demand free labor from developers to hold your hand or make things super easy for you, sure, some might go that extra mile and that's cool but from experience i can say it's very thankless work
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but most projects don't have entire UI or documentation teams and can't go further than that, remember there is nothing being sold, you're not a customer
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those are "designed for people that know how the code works" because that's the bare minimum bar of functionality, while allowing for cooperation between people that can work on the code
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i've always gone to the greatest lengths to be understanding of people with different views, and not be too judgemental, or get upset about minor purity politics items, because peace benefits cooperation
but obviously the buck stops at "you shouldn't exist"
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oh no
my nightmares about school just stopped at some point when i grew older, it took long enough but there's hope
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it's almost like this is what they *want*, no real science or tech sector, just grifts pretending to be one, just "hire more incompetent white cishet guys that happen to worship Elon", a nightmare version of what they said DEI was
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i already cancelled plans to visit the US
gender fraud is such an idiotic concept, they say they want to limit government and then they make up new bureaucracies and completely victimless "crimes", instead of doing away with gender markers
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maybe i'm tired and cynical but to me it seems kind of pointless to argue about political minutiae at the moment
does it look like we have any political power whatsoever
my aim is more like "how to live and survive in a hostile world we have no control over"
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special-casing you is 2000s forum admin level spite
i wonder if they literally have something like 'if user=="Andrea" return 403;' in the code lol