Flemmy

Good news! There's one simple solution to all that - you just have to get governments to do their job and have them make sure the corporations exist because they benefit the people, instead of the way we're doing it now

Just 1 easy step!

Hmm...I just finished the final posting tests for the launch of my app, I'm more of a commenter but maybe I should take it for a spin

What community would that fit in though?

Then who will you look down on? When you life is nothing but frenemies you're in competition, when you have some reminder of the things you did to the world over money that means less than video game points, when you realize the people who cheer you actually are just cheering for the company you bought and the people you squeeze dry and discard. When you accidentally see a post from a hater and realize not only do they have a point, they also know you better than your fans.

In the quiet moments, when feelings of emptiness and anger at the world you played an active role ruining, you get to look down on them.

You must be living a great life, because just watch how they put on a smile and dance not because you'll pay well (you won't), but out of fear that your mild annoyance could wreck their life. That the kids you forced them to have could be taken because they're already on the brink of homelessness, and they need this job. The fear that just for funsies, you might make a few calls and have their life methodically torn apart.

And that's why they won't try to kill us. We keep their little dominance games less adversarial. We're not the game pieces, we're the board - and if the board shrinks there's a chance of actually losing the game.

We make them feel powerful and superior, because here's the thing - no one who has a billion dollars and keeps actively working to make more is doing it because they're happy - at that level they're not even doing it because they like the game - millionaires might enjoy it, but it's like playing poker with a 5¢ buy in - they'd be building something for free if it was about building things or making deals - they've already maxed out how lavish a life can be

No, they're doing it for respect from their peers. Because they think it'll make them respected by the people they respect, but it won't. But they were raised to believe money was worth, because what's the alternative - to recognize you deserve none of it?

No, the truth is, this world sucks for everyone. Some people find joy anyways, but most of us just have varying degrees of mental illness

I mean, keeping them local is easy - if anything much easier. I like the idea of summoning them, maybe a mod summoning and banishing them to have them watch a community

And bots shouldn't be acting like humans, they should be doing things only they could or should do. Like haiku bot, n-word bot, things like tallying votes for AITA, or even tracking nominations and building best of communities

They were misused on Reddit, but we can do more with them here. Probably starting a goodbot that messages admins so they can stay ahead of the inevitable bot explosion

Hey, so it's not jerboa based and I ended up pushing it back a few weeks, but I'm now looking for beta testers on Android if you're interested

As for the name, I think I'm going with Luna for several reasons, a big one being that someone suggested it and Flemmy was the only name I could think of beforehand

I'm posting updates to [email protected] for now, if you're interested I'll be posting instructions for the beta soon.

Whether you're interested or not I'd love to get feedback. I'm good with data and UX flow, but I mostly just comment - I need to learn how other people want to use Lemmy

One of my favorite things to do with chat gpt is having it rewrite things as Trump. I wasn't interested in rereading the constitution a second ago, but it's going to be tremendous, you wouldn't believe how great it's going to be

If you're on Android and want filters, I'm looking for beta testers for my app. I've got keyword filters that can hide or collapse posts that contain a word or phrase.. well really I have a system that is very easy to add filters to and I'm looking for feedback

If you have an idea that would work better for you, let me know

I'm finishing up testing today and spending tomorrow hopefully getting a build uploaded, let me know or check out [email protected] if you're interested

Iphone build is in the works, keep an eye out for Luna for Lemmy

I'm in the same boat. Flemmy or F-lemmy was the first thing that popped into my head on day 1, and I've got nothing better...I'm very open to suggestions though!

My preference is for it to be unique, easy to remember, and ideally fun to say. Bonus points if it has a symbolic meaning, mythology from any culture would be great if it's easy to spell

Ok, I'll engage you on this one, your position at least seems internally consistent.

Let's play out this example - your 2 year old niece is sick, and so are you. You recently found out that she even exists - you didn't know you had a sister until CPS told you she's your responsibility.

An action that risks your life could possibly save her... Let's say a liver transplant. It has to be you, you're her only living family member. And because of that, you'll also be responsible for her - you can put her up for adoption when this is all over, but you're still on the hook for the medical bills whether this works or not.

She's guaranteed to die if you don't give her the transplant, and you would almost certainly recover quickly on your own.

If you go through with the transplant, she has a slim chance to live, and an even slimmer one to have a decent quality of life.

But in your current state, the transplant is very risky - at best you'll see a lengthy and expensive recovery, after missing months of work you'll be tens of thousands of dollars in debt. Complications could see you paralyzed or in lifelong pain, and it's very possible both of you die on the table - maybe even likely.

The doctors are telling you it's a terrible idea to go through with this, that the risk is unacceptable and it would be a mercy to just let her pass, but they're obligated to go through with it if you insist.

Now, no one is stopping you from going through with it - if you want to put your life on the line for another, that's your decision to make. You're her guardian now, so it's your decision if she should have to go through the pain for the chance at life, no matter how small.

That's all well and good - I've seen enough to know that death is often a mercy, but if you believe otherwise there's not much to say

Now, here's my question - should the government be able to force you to attempt the transplant?

Some of these details might seem weird, but I was trying to stick the metaphor as close as possible to a very real scenario with a dangerous pregnancy. The only difference is - the doctor is performing an action here, but withholding one with the pregnancy.

You're not though - pregnancy is not a lack of action. It's an enormous commitment, especially when it's atypical. It can even be a practically guaranteed death sentence - if the fetus implants in the fallopian tubes, it's already not viable - at best you're waiting for the fetus to grow big enough to rupture them, and hoping the bleed that causes doesn't do too much damage before you can get help.

Not to mention if a fetus dies in the womb after it gets to a certain size, it rots and leads to sepsis - unclear laws and harsh punishments have already led to situations where doctors refused care for both of these life threatening cases, and in both these cases the odds aren't slim, they're none. In the second the fetus was already gone... Sometimes when they induce labor the fetus isn't even in one piece... It's pretty grisly

I don't agree with your belief that a potential life is the same as a life, but let's set that aside - I can respect that as a belief

So... My root question to you is - Should you be able to force someone to risk their own for someone else?

If so, how sure do you have to be that the other person will die no matter what you do before you're released from the compulsion to put your own health on the line?

There's always at least some risk of pregnancy turning fatal for the mother. How much danger do you have to be in for the math to check out?

And also, to what point should politicians with little understanding of medicine be able to deny you care?

That ship has sailed... So many sites don't actually change pages, they just load different data - it's way faster and looks better

Problem is, the back button takes you off the site no matter where you are, so now you can change the URL and change the history through code to have the best of both worlds

Then, there's the people who do it badly, and there's the people who think "hey, if you need pro StarCraft level clicking speed to back out of my site, maybe for some reason that will make them decide to stay"

By convincing people at large that social media run by individuals or groups isn't viable.

Personally, I'd do it by attacking the credibility of the admins. Sow doubt. "they only run servers so they can steal your data", "look at this guy! He pretends he cares about free speech, but he's abusing his power to censor and radicalize people!" "The only reason you'd use these private instances is if you have something to hide. That place is for criminals"

They might even be able to get legislation passed to make it legally risky to run the servers in the US if they control the narrative

Only early adopters, technical people, and the privacy minded care about how this actually works, and we've been telling our friends and family how bad Facebook is for years (for good reason). At first they didn't care, but now I get push back

Next, make it unreliable. If it goes down frequently, gets flooded by bots, or just starts to suck in general, most of the people here now will leave, no matter how important federated social networks are. Maybe they'll go to servers that bend over backwards to become offshoots of threads, maybe they'll look for Reddit clones elsewhere, personally I'd start up a private federation for friends and family if this goes south

Regardless, this place will become an empty mall - if it's not a healthy form of social media I'm not going to spend much time here, and I'm extremely passionate about it

And the last option is just ads and incentives. Make it tempting and play to fomo.

They'll probably do all of this to some degree, especially if we explode in numbers and present actual competition.

We're ready to handle it, but we also need to make sure the battle lines are as far away as possible

Convince the population at large it doesn't work, or even that it's dangerous.

Like community run utilities, universal healthcare, or any number of things that so obviously work better without a profit motive

Make the populace at large see the fediverse as a failed experiment, a hive of criminal activity, or a bunch of tiny toxic echo chambers

Hell, they could even push legislation that makes running social media out in the open impossible for individuals