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≠ Brett Stevens ≠ (amerika@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 13:38:53 JST ≠ Brett Stevens ≠
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@wjmaggos @EmoIsDeadAndSoAmI @Bunnyslope @arcanicanis

Not true at all. Most people are going to resopnd to them the same way people responded to you when you tried to grief @p in the memoriam thread for his canine.

We sigh, mute, and move on.

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≠ Brett Stevens ≠ (amerika@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 22:16:36 JST ≠ Brett Stevens ≠
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- dragestil
@dragestil

Until we get over this social taboo on Nazism, "racism," classism, sexism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, fatphobia, Islamophobia, ageism, and IQ bias, humanity is going nowhere.

We need #darkpluralism: acceptance that we are different, see the world differently, and there is no one standard for all of us.

https://www.corrupt.org/boards/index.php/topic,14.0.html
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≠ Brett Stevens ≠ (amerika@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 12:23:50 JST ≠ Brett Stevens ≠
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@Zerglingman @All_bonesJones @Awoo @MK2boogaloo @Rance @mangeurdenuage @mininumber @oktavimark @zemichi

Almost all #followfriday posts turn into genteel hellthreads.

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≠ Brett Stevens ≠ (amerika@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 10:39:38 JST ≠ Brett Stevens ≠
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@wjmaggos @EmoIsDeadAndSoAmI @Bunnyslope @arcanicanis

More free speech does not result in any one viewpoint winning out.

The people out there who do not want to see the stuff you object to will mute it.

Like we do with shills, spammers, idiots, retards, the insane, etc. already.

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≠ Brett Stevens ≠ (amerika@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 10:39:36 JST ≠ Brett Stevens ≠
@wjmaggos @EmoIsDeadAndSoAmI @Bunnyslope @arcanicanis

What's killing the fediverse, if anything, is its separation caused by a group that wants Twitter-style censorship.

If that goes away, then we start actually building community.

Its big disadvantage is that no one is going to get famous or influential here, unlike on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, HackerNews, Slashdot, etc.

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≠ Brett Stevens ≠ (amerika@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 10:39:35 JST ≠ Brett Stevens ≠
@wjmaggos @EmoIsDeadAndSoAmI @Bunnyslope @arcanicanis

I disagree here. I can only speak for my own community, but my methods work for the best outcome for every community.

Harassment is a lesser problem than censorship, generally. Harassment you can easily recover from.

Stalking is a legal question.

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≠ Brett Stevens ≠ (amerika@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 10:39:11 JST ≠ Brett Stevens ≠
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@EmoIsDeadAndSoAmI @arcanicanis @wjmaggos @Bunnyslope

The best "feel good" platform is one where people can express themselves without worrying about some nervous nellie taking offense and deplatforming them.

If people are offended by something, they need to mute it and move on. This process will make them stronger as individuals.

Humanity needs to get past this illusion that we can all get along. It has done nothing but create conflict.

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≠ Brett Stevens ≠ (amerika@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 08:06:54 JST ≠ Brett Stevens ≠
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@Bunnyslope @wjmaggos @blamellors @nam

In the same way, the Fediverse requires more effort that just signing up for a Twitter, Reddit, Hackernews, or Facebook account.

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≠ Brett Stevens ≠ (amerika@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 08:06:35 JST ≠ Brett Stevens ≠
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@wjmaggos @blamellors @Bunnyslope @nam

I recall the ability to mention people by username and have it show up in their notifications, but it varied with the software.

BBS software was easily user-modified, and has a lot of variation itself anyway.

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≠ Brett Stevens ≠ (amerika@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 08:05:50 JST ≠ Brett Stevens ≠
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@wjmaggos @nam @blamellors

Feels are not reals. His statements caused no actual damage.

That being said, although I was not an AJ watcher before, I would not be after.

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≠ Brett Stevens ≠ (amerika@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 08:05:48 JST ≠ Brett Stevens ≠
@Bunnyslope @wjmaggos @blamellors @nam

Part of #darkpluralism is that you expect to encounter the horrifying and upsetting.

After all, it is part of life; we cannot separate the two. This is the root of "maturation."

I paraphrase the summary:

"Dark Pluralism asserts a negation of universal truths, values, and communications; the best we can do instead is not to tolerate but to accept each other."

https://www.corrupt.org/boards/index.php/topic,14.0.html

I want rabbis and nazis walking the same streets and having civil conversations. Until then, humanity is just monkeying around.
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≠ Brett Stevens ≠ (amerika@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 08:05:46 JST ≠ Brett Stevens ≠
@wjmaggos @blamellors @Bunnyslope @nam

I disagree. I think over time, people would calm down, stop being offended, and start simply muting those who are irrelevant to them for whatever reason.

Proof: this is what happened on BBSes and USENET.

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≠ Brett Stevens ≠ (amerika@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 08:05:44 JST ≠ Brett Stevens ≠
@wjmaggos @blamellors @Bunnyslope @nam

I know it was before your time, but who do you think used BBSes?

It was a wide range of people. The Houston Museum of Natural Science got astronomy students calling. The Medugorje people convinced thousands of Catholics from all walks of life to call. Schools used them. Some were for horrorscopes, some were chats, some were porn, and so on.

In short, ordinary people used BBSes. USENET was standard for people on the internet back in the day, mostly college, telecom corp, and military. But these were normal people too.

There is no reason to differentiate the audience here.

A world where everybody feels welcome on the fediverse is one that excludes anything but happy opinions welcoming everyone.

That is both itself a type of lie, in that it is not representative of reality, and discriminatory.

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≠ Brett Stevens ≠ (amerika@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 08:05:38 JST ≠ Brett Stevens ≠
@wjmaggos @Bunnyslope @blamellors @nam

USENET servers blocked each other if there was a flood of bad traffic, usually for technical reasons.

IMHO those who want zero rules on the fediverse want it to succeed by not repeating the mistakes of social media.

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≠ Brett Stevens ≠ (amerika@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 08:05:17 JST ≠ Brett Stevens ≠
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- Violetta Bleu
@Purp1Lady

Third position is just Communism with Costco.

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≠ Brett Stevens ≠ (amerika@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 08:05:16 JST ≠ Brett Stevens ≠
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- Violetta Bleu
@Purp1Lady

Third positionism, the mixed economy society with a Right-wing version of a Left-wing dictatorship, ends up basically being Communism with consumerism attached.

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≠ Brett Stevens ≠ (amerika@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 08:05:15 JST ≠ Brett Stevens ≠
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@wjmaggos @blamellors @Bunnyslope @nam

Depends on who the sysadmin is. If the school controlled the BBS, there might be penalties in the disciplinary system as well.

Then again, we are talking about children, am I correct?

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≠ Brett Stevens ≠ (amerika@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 05:01:06 JST ≠ Brett Stevens ≠
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Thank you @p for jiggling. Is your hardware OK?

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≠ Brett Stevens ≠ (amerika@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 02:51:15 JST ≠ Brett Stevens ≠
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@Zerglingman @All_bonesJones @Awoo @MK2boogaloo @Rance @mangeurdenuage @mininumber @oktavimark @zemichi

#followfriday is a wonderful tradition.

Mention a few people who are interesting for whatever reason.

It helps people to get to know each other on the #fediverse and especially #darkfedi.

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≠ Brett Stevens ≠ (amerika@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 08:57:28 JST ≠ Brett Stevens ≠
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- pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:
@p

Trust a Monday to be the day when human high stress even freaks out the machines.

I used to troll Gab by posting "These are the new Gab servers!" plus pictures of old Z-80, 6502, 8088, and DEC CPUs.

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