@lina@Drozdovsky@KonataWagner@MK2boogaloo@Username_@gh0st@renai You are too young to have had the problem where you are dating a girl and the girl read some quiz in the back of a magazine and it lists a bunch of seemingly innocuous questions and then they count the answers up and it says "If the score was this, you should marry him. If it was this, he will definitely cheat on you, he probably is cheating on you right now while you are adding the questions up. Dump him unless he agrees to wear a GPS tracker and let you monitor his phone calls". So then a girl asks "Hey, do you think roast beef tastes better? Or pork chops?" And you answer, and then she says "So would you rather vacation at a beach, or in the mountains, or in the city?" and you ask why the hell she's asking these questions and she won't answer and then you say "This is a fucking magazine quiz, isn't it? I'm not answering these." and then she gets mad.
@MisterRogersSnapped@SuperSnekFriend@micropenis Ha, I don't think the order form was hooked up to anything, it just existed to make the site look convincing. But it was a different place back before everyone was looking at the same thing. People just sort of assume that you know about who is who on Tiktok and they make a face if you say you haven't heard of any of that shit, the same face they used to make when I said I didn't have a clue what had happened on Survivor or who Paris Hilton was.
> what I miss the most, were the old dedicated online MMO's, like text based strategy games and stuff. Those were cool.
Oh, shit, ha. I played some MUDs. It's funny, when Everquest came out, people said "It's like a graphical MUD", and now MUDs are "text-based MMOs". :boomer:
I don't even use my own Nitter instance any more, I tossed it away.
> the whole point of all of this was to nudge him into doing the right thing and implementing API like nitter or at be consistent and not scrape our service when he blocks us. instead, he took the hard coded values and moved it to his in-database config adding an additional "lowtrust" boolean.
@Salastil@vincent Yeah, especially given how easy it is to run your own Nitter instance instead of chewing up capacity on public ones hosted by other people.
@Salastil@vincent Yeah, but apparently Zedeus has automated handing those out.
(Also I am using https://github.com/iv-org/smart-ipv6-rotator being able to get around Google and Twitter as an example next time someone tells me that we're actually ready for IPv6 and it will be fine.)
@pernia@Owl@Owl@allison 1,782 words recounting fediblock drama before they get to Nivenly, and it turns out it's just the Hachyderm guy, a guy that can safely be ignored.
> After spending some time as a user of Oliphant.social, a moderator who recently joined the Oliphant.social moderation team, WelshPixie, who is also the administrator of mastodon.art, asked Nina Illingworth to remove the words "Pig Empire" from her posts, arguing it was an antisemitic dog whistle. > Nina Illingworth argued that she has used the catchphrase for years to refer to the United States and its allies, as evidenced by her archive of blog posts on topics such as anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism, anti-fascism, anarchism, and so forth.
I am not sure this page serves as a good explanation for anything and I don't know why I have been tagged in this thread.
@pernia@allison@Owl@Owl If Eunomia is actually doing a real thing at this point, then I would be surprised. It doesn't surprise me that someone (I gather from the first couple of lines of that neocities page that it is the "Nivenly Foundation", which ) is doing this weaponized censorship. Since Twitter wasn't exactly flooding fedi (it was a flood from our end but not from theirs), that big bundle of "All of these terrible things on fedi need to be fixed!" press that happened was probably a push by this Nivenly Foundation or equivalent.
Twenty-six entire kilobytes of CSS, half of which undoes the other half. What a world we live in. I shouldn't be surprised that it has a terrible S:N ratio, rambling about "GoToSocial and Firefix and Akkoma are called Mastodon servers" and whatnot. I'll read this on the toilet, time otherwise spent unproductively.
> better hurry.....
I still gotta eat no matter what else I'm doing with my time.
@MisterRogersSnapped@SuperSnekFriend@micropenis Old internets was a bit less monocultural; there was that site where you could order human jerky, like manbeef.com or something (search engines are going to be useless with "man beef" or "man meat"). A friend of mine filled out their form and tried to order some.
> total freeze peaches only exist in a individualist vacuum
This is not real. There is, in fact, no communication needed or possible in "an individualist vacuum".
Freedom of speech is a non-theoretical concept that has existed since forever, it's not a concept I made up, it's got a clear meaning and a history of existing in this country (and also a history of occasionally being fucked up for a decade or so of overreach).
> just like the right to pee anywhere being limited isnt
This is the core of the "freedom of speech is a like a frictionless, massless rope" misunderstanding. The action of flapping your face-meat around while you push air through it is not the same thing as the natural right of all humans to speak their conscience.
This wishy-washy "Oh, you know, you can't really have freedom, what if someone does something bad, what if people don't like it, the government should be able to stop it, but you can mostly talk about most stuff unless the government doesn't like it or people don't like it, you know." It's an anathema, it's the open door for tyranny, it's servile European nonsense, which is the worst kind of nonsense. Under brutal regimes in Asia or South America, the serfs have an excuse: a lot of them have got guns to their heads, they're swinging from helicopters, communists are rolling tanks through their villages, cartels are stringing them up by their own viscera. That sort of person doesn't need to make excuses for working a collective rice paddy, the counter-argument is made by the tank, but people here on fedi spouting European nonsense have no excuse. It's an offense to the English language to excuse the state repressing anything.
It's interesting to discuss the actual concept, but there's no reason to discuss the strawman version: the straw man has no depth and has no proponents, only detractors. Even if we were talking about the thing instead of the caricature of the thing, though, I'm busy. I'm the hell out of this thread.
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