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  • Don’t offer it by default. Offer a feature. Then, separately entirely from the project, offer a block list or set of block lists. Have that extra step.

    Nearly all software users, and yes especially self-hosting server admins, use default settings. By declaring yourself as the arbiter of all things bad and including it by default, you have changed your software from a neutral party, to one that is the arbiter of truth that requires effort to turn off, and that’s not something most are going to do.

    Thus whatever you say becomes the majority opinion. This isn’t a new or surprising opinion btw, it’s the literal reason the DMCA has section 230 in the US, and all countries have something similar for platforms, scientific journals, and news organizations.









  • No, you can’t. You can go to jail for suggesting Germany’s support of Israel is support of genocide.

    But specifically both in China and Cuba you’re free to criticize the government. Hell there’s a ~100k strong protest in China every couple of months regarding the government’s apathy towards Israel; and the recent while the most recent cuban ‘protests’ were more in line with ‘encouraging’ the government to just spend more money to encourage countries to break the US military blockade, they were still ‘criticism’ that the government wasn’t doing enough.




  • 91.4% of American citizens are better educated than the founding fathers. Yes that includes pretty much all of MAGA.

    About 7.25 billion people are better educated than the median American colonist as of 1776.

    Education has not reduced in any way. In fact thanks to China this is the single most educated period in world history, by such a wide margin no other period can be reasonably compared to today, including the 20th century.

    ‘So why don’t we have blah blah people of higher calibre blah blah classist propaganda blah blah dummies’

    We do have plenty of intelligent people. All of them capable of empathy have either killed themselves or are in STEM and have no interest in politics or commerce. All of them incapable of empathy are the owners of the current Amerisraeli hegemony that rules a large part of the world with indescribable amounts of violence and evil. Because most people have empathy (yes, even the ones you hate), they cannot fathom how people without empathy actually think and behave. Because a lack of empathy is an absolute necessity for success under capitalism, even in politics under capitalism, those without naturally rise to the top.

    Americans especially are taught from a young age to never rebel, to never fight back, to never play dirty, to never try to change the status quo. They are taught this despite being told mythologized stories of the founders of their country doing the opposite. This naturally aligns with empathy, which effectively filters out Americans into those that will succeed in business and politics, and everyone else that will live under them, forever.

    This is the only misstep in education. Not teaching the truth of the ‘founding fathers,’ and not teaching how and why they succeeded, and how and why revolutions do not ever end. Which to be fair to the last point, it took another 80 years for philosophers to realize that, after the US failed to actually be different than the kingdoms it rebelled against.




  • Type rimiru into any search engine that crawls lemmy. Any of them. They weren’t always a piefed user, and even their recent posts from their piefed.social account trying to rag on /0 users have plenty of evidence posted in response of their support of nazis.

    And yes, I am upset that the nazi version of lemmy written by a nazi because for some reason Jewish nazis get a fucking pass in liberal spaces despite having the longest running holocaust in world history so far decides to try to be the arbiter of truth in their little nazi Activitypub technology.

    That is a valid reason to be upset. It normalizes whatever they deem as offensive as being blocked by users of PieFed technology, because who the fuck is going to go through several thousand entries to actually audit their work? No one.

    So the technology is all or nothing. What looks good to an instance host choosing PieFed over lemmy or m/kbin? All. Because they’re not going to spend the days it would take for an independent audit of what this particular nazi thinks is unacceptable, and because ‘nothing, build it yourself,’ would also take days.

    So yes, I will compare the little nazi tech you’ve chosen to be participant to to the nazi tech used by facebook (marks and sells data on palestinians to israel) and reddit (u/spez, also the term zionazi gets you site-wide permabanned). If you dislike that, choose better.