i feel like this incentivises 'controversial' posting. content that is designed to illicit a response, good or bad. i feel like this is another avenue to creating an inflammatory space.
frogman
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We're reaching the end of an era wherein billions of dollars of investor money was shovelled into tech startups to build large user-bases, and now those companies (now monoliths) are beginning to constrict their user-bases and squeeze for every single penny they can possibly extract. Fair or not.
Now more than ever, it's important for us to step back and reconsider whether we want to be billboards for these companies anymore.
For anyone unfamiliar, some good resources to have when starting your degoogling journey are below:
Privacy Guides - A list of privacy-respecting services you can use.
Plexus - A crowdsourced information bank of service compatibility with degoogled devices.
This random PDF - A study from 2018 detailing data that Google tracks about its' users.
What do you guys think of the idea of smart homes? I could make a basic setup using https://home-assistant.io to control my home temperature and lighting; the tools for doing this are everywhere nowadays and implementation doesn't seem too horrific anymore.
But setting aside what I "can" do, is this something that I "should" do? How can a person implement this without connecting any devices to the internet?
A quote loosely attributed to Aldous Huxley, but contested here.
"The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of democracy, a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not dream of escape. A system of slavery where, through consumption and entertainment, slaves would love their servitude."
I interpret this as pro-socialist, but it seems it has roots in anti-communism? Food for thought nonetheless
i think platforms like youtube strongly benefit from a like/dislike system because it performs an entirely different function. beehaw is about conversation and dialogue. the way that the downvote button is used on these types of platforms disincentivises meaningful dialogue and silences unpopular opinions, which in turn can further silence minority groups. that's not what we want here.
there's arguments for both sides, but i really like the lack of a downvote button here.
This is a comment from alyaza, one of the mods:
vote brigading is one part of it, but another influence of this decision comes from Tildes, where the emphasis is on quality of discussion and the site accordingly has feedback mechanisms to reflect this–most prominently in lacking a downvote button. (although i should also note we’re going for a more laid-back attitude than Tildes has.) while i’m sure there’s a theoretical way to minimize their impact while maintaining their function, downvotes can easily be used to artificially sway opinion, punish unpopular opinions, etc, and their utility is actually somewhat minimal as a website feature and community control mechanism.
the going theory in removing them therefore is that to express disagreement, you’ll have to at least put some thought into why you disagree with a post, and ideally that will be expressed in the form of a comment which can be used as a further jumping off point for conversation and dialogue. (alternatively, i guess, you could also just accept a disagreement as not necessarily worth your or another person’s time, and move on.)
thanks for this, i'll include your name in my will.
how are you guys reading this; does everyone have a subscription to The Atlantic or do you have some sort of content blocker to bypass the "subscribe to continue reading this article"?
i agree in terms of what we have right now. but without users engaging with the videos on alternative platforms, we'll never see any platform change unless there's spooky investor money thrown into it.
as "power-users" (ew) or tech-literate people, i feel like we should be the ones doing the early adoption.
for anyone who doesn't want to use odysee because there isn't many videos, I recommend the Watch on Odysee extension. when you open a youtube video it'll automatically redirect you to the Odysee upload, if there is one. it's available on Chromium and Firefox.
become the change you want to see :))
I agree that it's not fully "there" yet, but it won't get "there" without users engaging with the videos. I try to use PeerTube for any YouTube creator I enjoy that uploads there. For example, Linux Experiment has started uploading there so I'll be tuning in weekly to see his news updates.
Let's still support upcoming platforms where we can :)
there was a guy who was racist so amazon shut down his smart home (i don't know the extent, but inexcusable to me nonetheless).
just some hypotheticals. please tell me i'm crazy and please tell me exactly why i'm crazy. this is dystopian:
imagine someone attends a protest and the government uses this intel (see original post) to know who they are and plants evidence to incarcerate them. or starts a public shame campaign like in china.
imagine legislation that set out to “mitigate the effects of control that smart home providers have over citizens” that allowed government access to its’ data
imagine if bezos could just get a letter from the biden administration saying “this guy is bad, shut down his house and activate his smart locks"
This is informative, and unfortunate.
The average sleep cycle is 1hr30mins. I think when we sleep for 6 hours, we complete 4 sleep cycles and wake up refreshed. When we sleep for 7 hours, we wake up mid-cycle. At ~8 hours, we wake up before we get stuck into the middle of a sleep cycle or enter REM.
I read this somewhere online, someone who knows more can verify if this is the actual science. If not, it's a fun hypothesis I'll choose to believe :p
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great point. i love the term "Schrödinger’s Politician", thats so good