imaqtpie

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[–] imaqtpie 2 points 1 week ago

For context

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_impact_structures_on_Earth

About 1/5 of the size of the Chicxulub crater

[–] imaqtpie 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I agree, but it raises an interesting argument regarding the definition of consent. I don't necessarily believe in free will so I like to mention it in situations where you can easily see that people are more accurately described as reacting to their environment than making any kind of conscious choice.

Simply by changing from opt-in to opt-out, you mostly reverse the observed behavior of a population. Lots of applications for this sort of thinking, like voting for instance.

[–] imaqtpie 48 points 1 week ago (19 children)

I think it's interesting to ask whether people in the opt-out countries are really consenting. Can you really say someone has consented if you never actually made the request?

[–] imaqtpie 1 points 1 week ago

Like to see that a user from your instance has to browse this instance or /all.

Uhh, yeah, that's how federation works. The whole point is that we want to browse other instances that we are federated with in peace. You want to browse our communities without being mocked. We want to browse your communities without being mocked. Why is this so difficult for you to understand?

Need I remind you that this entire situation is a non-issue for our users? It's only your users and admin who are being dramatic and talking about defederation and leaving Lemmy. I'm just trying to explain that if you make defamatory statements about other people on a public forum, you don't get to turn around and cry bullying when they make fun of you in return.

[–] imaqtpie 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You want to be able to talk shit about everyone else with no consequences, but can't handle when people stand up and defend themselves against bullying and harassment. Justify it however you like, it's toxic to talk about people like that and its even worse to label an entire server of thousands with an ignorant stereotype. If it bothers you to have your toxicity publicly exposed and mocked, than maybe try not being so hateful and judgmental, and you wouldn't have to worry about it.

[–] imaqtpie 1 points 1 week ago (5 children)

So it's okay for your users to say SJW should be nuked from orbit, is full of adult kids that have never done anything worthwhile, and is terrible, the 4chan of the fediverse? You see no problem with your users harassing and bullying us with those comments?

But if we screenshot those same comments, which nobody forced them to say, and laugh about them on our own server, suddenly we are bullying you? Seems like you have double standards. Here's a thought, if you had removed that comment for being overly dramatic and toxic in the first place, there wouldn't have been anything to screenshot.

Certain Lemmy instances allow their users to engage in toxic and bullying behavior that makes the platform worse for all of the non-toxic servers. You should probably look at some of your own users, along with hexbears and lemmygrad, for the real source of harassment and drama on Lemmy. That community is just making public the way that some people act and continue to get protected by their admins.

The group of hateful losers are the ones going around talking about nuking a fellow Lemmy instance from orbit because... of why exactly? Maybe because we don't support the CCP and the Russian invasion of Ukraine? Regardless, that's the source of the toxicity, not my server.

[–] imaqtpie 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I agree. Do we have any suggestions for the subdomain name?

[–] imaqtpie 1 points 1 week ago

AFAIK, no. I think it's important to note that it would provide a vector for bad actors to harass moderators. I agree with the spirit of transparency, but people need to understand that there will likely be undesirable consequences from making this information public.

[–] imaqtpie 8 points 1 week ago

Great to see! I'm gonna stick on piefed.social, the performance has been fine for me. But it's nice to have a North American server up and running

[–] imaqtpie 50 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

I would estimate

15% <25

60% 25-40

25% 40+

Y'all be showing your age sometimes 😅

[–] imaqtpie 4 points 1 week ago

It doesn't need to be the answer. It just needs to be an answer for certain use cases. Both platforms can easily coexist. That's the beauty of federation.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by imaqtpie to c/main
 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/579437

Locked the original as it doesn't belong in the Agora. @[email protected]

So I've been browsing lemmy and this instance for a couple weeks using the jerboa app for Android and thought I'd try another app to see if I liked it better. However I can't find lemmy or sh.itjust.works in my password manager, or anything in my email. So I using my Brower I went to reset my password and the password reset button is greyed out. What do?

edit This might (probably?) be the wrong place to post this. My apologies if so, I'm still fairly unfamiliar with how lemmy works.

Xo

 

Exploding-heads.com is another instance on Lemmy where alt-right MAGA types tend to reside. Some people on this server want us to defederate from them immediately, some people want to save defederation as a last resort. They have 104 active users (more stats below).

It seems that exploding-heads has also experienced a recent botswarm invasion. This is obviously another point in favor of defederating them, assuming you are worried about botswarms, which is currently being discussed here.

My advice to you all is please try to discuss this in a civil manner, we need not allow them to create divisive conflict inside our communities. No matter how the vote turns out, you're not going to be able to defederate from your fellow sh.itheads so be nice.

I've linked many of the previous discussions below so people who are out of the loop can get a general sense of the situation.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/216888 https://sh.itjust.works/post/225714 https://sh.itjust.works/post/281126 https://sh.itjust.works/post/410325

Lemmy.world just recently defederated them.

https://lemmy.world/post/747912

https://lemmy.world/post/577526

Although this could be considered a point in favor of defederation, it actually means even if we vote to remain federated, people have a great alternative in lemmy.world where they can still participate in our communities and simultaneously be protected from exploding-heads.

Ensuring diversity of servers is beneficial to the platform as a whole, but it is also not our responsibility to bear that burden.

TLDR, just wrap up any last points in this thread before we open the vote tomorrow. Please be civil.

EDIT: To clarify, this isn't the official vote, this is the final discussion. The vote thread will be posted tomorrow and you will only be allowed to make a single comment saying Aye or Nay.

EDIT2: Vote thread is up, this thread is now locked. Very lively discussion thread sh.itheads. Please try to be more respectful next time.

 

Seeing as I've arrived here first, I'd like to give a shout out to my trusty companion, the TinyMight 2, the noblest vape in all the land. May all your clouds be milky and voluminous.

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The River (1978) (m.youtube.com)
submitted 1 year ago by imaqtpie to c/springsteen
 

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2 days ago I posted in [email protected] and suggested we come over here and consolidate in this community. But now [email protected] has over 50 subscribers so it's actually significantly bigger than this one. Doesn't really matter which community prevails but I figured everyone should be aware of both communities.

 

One of the classic GoodNeighborStuff skits and the source for my new avatar. I think Kyle is one of the funniest people to ever exist. Probably gonna post a couple more of these skits here in the coming weeks.

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submitted 1 year ago by imaqtpie to c/mythology
 

A fascinating analysis of the themes and motifs common to the mythologies and oral traditions of a variety of ancient cultures. Campbell delves into mythology in search of some perennial or fundamental truth.

 

The NFL community on lemmy.ml has a head start so I'd recommend everyone subscribe there and let this one die.

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