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The problem is that moderators here and on reddit (i believe?) are volunteers, so they are going to have personal limits on what they’ll accept. And if they can’t have those, they won’t do it. Someone else will have to volunteer for an unpaid position that can take up lots of their precious time on this earth.

Start a mod fund and pay people, is my suggestion. The only rewards at the moment for moderating are, like, a smoothly running community. Tiny, mostly irrelevant power. Being a big fish in a small pond. Personal satisfaction? You can get that being treasurer at your local beading club, but there you get to mess around with beads. I dunno.

As for making different platforms, there also has to be someone willing to do that work. Mostly thankless, and you’ll always get it wrong somehow. I’m amazed anyone bothers.

I’m not really confused by them commissioning music. I’ve seen like, murals and so on in airports. I also like the idea of using recordings of background noise to make a track. It’s the idea of playing ambient airport noises in an airport that confuses me. But that’s art, I suppose. Something to think about. I don’t think me being confused by the thought process here - knowing very little about the theory being ambient music - is a sign of the death of an empire. There’s plenty of those around.

https://on.soundcloud.com/7zkln9SRp6hPlWXgs3 like, i don’t hate it. baffling justification to make it, though.

It’s valuable for .ml to have duplicates since certain instances and numerous individuals are defederated from them. There are also people who are trying to diversify the fediverse by moving communities off .world. Big, opinionated communities like the different news communities are going to spawn new versions as people disagree with mod decisions or the background culture and feel they can’t have the conversations they want.

Some splitting is inevitable, imo, and healthy, though whether it’s good in this or that particular case is a useful conversation to have. Merging communities is also useful, but only when it makes sense (one is barely moderated or barely used, or people have defederated from an instance one is on because of spam, etc.)

I think it’s a case by case basis type situation.

I wonder what song it was

Israel has stated that if Iran doesn’t stop defending itself, Tehran will burn. Is that what they meant? Iran’s nuclear-armed allies need to offer a nuclear umbrella to ensure this stays a fair fight. If they do, Israel’s reign of terror is over. If they don’t, this world is about to get fucking terrifying.

ah, shit

i know most of ao3’s budget goes to server costs. they get by with volunteer labor and donations, but they mostly host text. i genuinely have no idea what a sustainable model would look like for the fediverse, that doesn’t just treat volunteers like disposable rags we toss when they get inevitable burnout.

mbin has an “abandoned” tab when you search communities. does lemmy have something like that?

An older victim said she feels vulnerable and intimidated by what had happened and that she is sorry that she did not speak up sooner but was afraid that people would laugh at her or not believe her.

I mean, there it is, right? He thought if it was weird enough, they’d be too embarrassed to tell anyone. I’m glad they did, even though they knew people would think a guy tricking them into groping him is hilarious. He did this to young teens.

I don’t particularly care about the downvoting, but I do prefer bidirectional blocking when possible. Obviously a public profile is still visible, but if someone blocked had to make a new account to interact with you, that’d be nice.

That’s just a preference. Whatever the consensus is, I’ll be fine with it. The most important thing is that it’s clear and known how it works. Someone with a stalker should quickly be able to get how things work to decide if they want to be on here.

I found:

For support, please visit our matrix channel at: #fedia.io:melroy.org

I’ve had luck communicating with the kbin.earth admin on matrix

“I ended the assembly, took it off him and slowly carried it outside and put it behind a far tree in the car park. I wasn’t 100% happy carrying it to be honest.”

I wouldn’t be 100% happy doing that, either, even being 99% sure it couldn’t go off.

Chatgpt is awful for people who have delusions.

Forumverse, I guess.

(Though I’m always in favor of silly word combos, there aren’t many good ones. I like Piebin, but how do you get lemmy in there? Plebin? No thanks.)

and way too few breasts

https://www.specialolympics.org/stories/impact/why-the-r-word-is-the-r-slur

Unfortunately, it’s the kind of role that’ll attract predators, even though I’m sure most of the people involved just want to do good. Like teaching and abusers and nurses and serial killing, etc.

There’s a limit to how carefully you can word things to protect its meaning from people determined to read it in bad faith. I have it too - the desire to be long winded to preemptively protect myself from misunderstanding. But there’s a risk that we’ll turn everything we say into long blocks of soft useless mush. There’s no precision precise enough to be safe.

We have to, I think, decide to write for people willing to reach for us when we hold out a hand. There are enough willing to try that any general misunderstandings can be clarified with conversations other people can read if they want to understand. If enough of us are willing to do this for each other, it might be possible to build spaces where people who slap that outheld hand away don’t have to dictate conversation. And maybe we can both be less wordy.

Feels like they’re still figuring out how they want to do this, themselves. Every now and then i’ve been visiting the art themed pixelfed to follow people with mbin, and the explore page is sometimes there and sometimes not.

A New Jersey police chief has come under fire after colleagues accused him of defecating on the station floor, attempting to drug co-workers by putting Viagra and Adderall in their coffee, and sticking a hypodermic needle into an officer’s penis, according to a report.

And shitting on the floor’s just the start of it! If this was a sudden behavior change, dude needs to get looked at, but he should not get to have his position while he does so.

edit: misspelled shitting