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  • Yeah this one stings but it needs to be brought up, so we can make this way easier.

    There’s gotta be a way to design this so users can partly skip the process of searching for a good platform. Maybe using a controversial AI solution for recommending a platform based on some Keywords from the user? Maybe just based on a random algorithm for trusted servers? Maybe as you interact we make it easy to switch servers and as soon as you like the feed you can join?

    There’s gotta be something better. I hope we get there.

    If we get to the point where people can overcome the entry barrier, I think this will also increase user retention and the overall fediverse literacy on the platforms themselves.


  • Would love some sources on that.

    To my knowledge, brothers Grimm collected them and put them into text, and they were all pretty fucking horrific. Some stuff is really graphic.

    The question of why kids didn’t mind comes up a lot and it had something to do with kids naturally not being able to empathize in cruelty and therefore able to basically emotionally detach from those parts. But I might be wrong on that, I don’t have sources for this rn.

    Anyway, because your comment is so very different, I’d love to be wrong and to read up on it.



  • Yes.

    I always say the Internet is more vast than it is comprehensive. You will find infinite things. Infinite good things, but also infinite bad things, and infinite things on most topic.

    But certain actors on there have an interest to highlight bad things. That makes it real easy to slip into a negative feedback loop. And there’s so much, you will into a bottomless hole.

    And that’s when you always gotta peek your head over the horizon and look for things outside of your periphery. Because there’s more than problems.

    Even if you look back at where we’ve come from, the amount of struggles we’ve overcome already as a society is hard to fathom.

    My point is, either look for both negative and positive news accountings, or do neither and focus on a topic like games, or woodworking, or astronomy and just keep away from the sensational news pieces.

    There’s more to life than news anyway.





  • Person with autism here: the truth is even if some people on the spectrum can’t use the bathroom by themselves, it’s either a comorbidity linked to a different disability or it’s obscenely rare.

    The way autism expresses in different people is very complex and this is this is one of the worst mischaracterizations I’ve ever seen.

    That guy shouldn’t be able to touch the US health department or any other health organization for that matter with a ten foot pole. He is explicitly and intentionally spreading lies on a variety of different topics and should have no authority.



  • This is probably the best answer. If everything is truly only running on local network and nothing is exposed with a port through your router, you are very safe.

    Most issues get introduced when running a server exposed to the Internet.

    That said, on the lowest level, if they want to get you, they will. It’s all a risk analysis. And the more interesting you are to adversarial parties, the higher the chances you’ll get pursued.

    If you’re Edward Snowden, 99% your calls and conversations are always on record.

    If you’re John Doe, truly only your ISP cares when they get a law enforcement request because you really pushed the envelope.

    Trending movies are notoriously bad, because movie studios will really try to rake in the revenue.

    On the other hand, ripping music from YouTube, no one cares or is able to track it, so risk is very low.