The object of a system of authority is order, not justice. Justice matters only after injustice sufficiently compromises order.

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  • Buelldozer@lemmy.todayto[Locked] YUROP@lemm.eeCome on do something
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    2 months ago

    Otherwise we may have a Trump in Europe.

    You have at least two, and arguably more, right now. Historically you’ve had some real fucking doozies too, people that make Trump look like a school child.

    I don’t want a singe person as powerful as a medieval monarch to decide over about half a billion people.

    That’s what you’ll get eventually.





  • To use an extreme example, if I saw someone just spamming the hard-R I would want their comment immediately removed.

    In the forum days those users would get attacked and / or blocked by other users. If they caused enough havoc for long enough then the mods / admins would step in. The expectation NOW is that the mods / admins will actively monitor every post and comment in order to remove disagreeable content before it can be seen. That’s quite the change over the last 20 years!

    The funniest part is that this mirrors real life. If someone did that IRL, I would just leave.

    “Mirror” is probably more apt than you realize. IRL you would leave but on the internet you want them to leave. I’m not blaming you or saying that you’re wrong, I’m just pointing out the difference.

    I agree that all forums require some level of moderation in order to keep from turning into total troll-fests however there’s a wide chasm between moderating someone because they won’t stop posting racial slurs and moderating someone because they’re going against the grain / hivemind.


  • Being designed around persistent topics rather than the ephemeral post model

    Hmmm, you’re probably on to something there. I think Lemmy could do that but no one cares to set it up.

    and more visible user customisation (more prominent avatars, signatures, that sort of thing).

    I’m honestly not sure this is a bad thing. Dear God, remember how threads would get blown out by hyper-configurations? Sig blocks that were 20,000 pixels long and endless GIF spam? Not sure I’m in a hurry to get back to that!

    One of my favorite forums has been around since 1999 and is currently running on XenoForo which is very phpBB-esque. Anytime I get a nostalgia hankering I drop in for a few minutes. It’s not always as good as you may remember. :)



  • What are we going to do about it?

    Do nothing, nothing about it. The great hordes of the unwashed have ruined every single place they’ve showed up starting in the early 90s. They don’t want to be saved from the commercialization that has taken over the internet, to the contrary they thrive on it and are willing to put up with nearly anything to attract and keep it.

    If most of Reddit shifted over to Lemmy it would get commercialized into a smoking crater. As soon as there’s enough regular people using a thing the companies and venture capitalists will show up and at that point the game is over.

    The best of the internet has always been built by and populated with people who don’t fit into a box. It’s that internet people keep trying to bring back but you can’t hold the castle once it’s being assaulted by the normies.

    So the solution is to do nothing. Let the normies stay in their palaces of commercialization and corruption. It’s for the best.




  • I think old school internet folks are underestimating just how much of a grip Big Tech has on users’ attention.l, and their devices.

    With all sincerity this is fine. Seriously, let’s leave it this way.

    As someone who was already around when Eternal September happened the Internet was never for normies and inviting them into the space has destroyed it. Everything that attracts the attention of normies ends up ruined; MySpace, Digg, Reddit, Facebook, Slashdot and so very many more…they are all trashed because when they attracted enough users the commercialization started.

    So maybe lets just leave the Fediverse for those “in the know” as long as we can.






  • I had to check this, and it seems you are right?

    I don’t really blame anyone for not knowing. It wasn’t discussed much in mainstream media.

    When war was a reality, a lot of countries stepped up help a lot, but it took a while to arrive…

    Sadly true. Like many Americans if I’d had my way our response would have been faster and more direct. We have an outsized military for a reason and If I’d been the American President I’d have used that Big Stick to beat every Russian in your country to death. In two weeks Putin would have ceased trying and this would have been over and done with.

    You stop a bully by punching them in the face so hard they forget their name and that’s exactly what America should have done. You just needed 14 days of our Air Power and sadly we weren’t willing to lend it to you.