I wouldnt mind the first kind if they didnt have a playbook to defute every single one of your points in a manipulative way. I really don’t give a shit what you support as long as it doesn’t directly involve hate or oppression, and as long as you don’t try to shove it down others throats or try to insult people with opposing views every chance you get.
I imagine a lot of people over im hexbear are chill. I hope so at least. However, every encounter ive had with them, feels like the conservatives over on reddit. They try to ‘own’ you with loaded talking points, and bad faith arguements.
“Dunking on libs” was the entire point of federating with other instances. Their users, including an admin, made that explicitly clear when they started getting backlash.
What’s cool about the fediverse is that we get to choose.
Do I want to be in an instance that federates with everyone, good and bad?
Pros:
More content.
Potentially insightful debate.
Cons:
More negativity.
Potentially giving a platform to extremists.
Or do I want to be in an instance that defederates on a whim?
Pros:
More positive content.
Taking a strong stance against extremism.
Cons:
Less content.
Potentially missing insightful debate.
Personally, debate I’ve had that was insightful was generally in good faith to begin with, and would be allowed on platforms like Beehaw, so I don’t see much use for “anything goes” kinds of platforms. Additionally, I’m not always in the mood for debate. I can just switch between different instances depending on my mood. Given that everyone can choose their instance, I don’t see much of a reason for trying to federate with everyone.
I haven’t seen much in the way of actual debate, more ‘soviets good west bad, da comrade!’
There’s nothing to be gained from arguing with crazies and naive college students. Had my fill of those types on reddit. Now I point and laugh until I get too annoyed and I’ll find a new instance
My boyfriend and I have been looking for a house to buy for a loooong time before we bought our current home. One of the things we would do after viewing a potential house is “the cat test” which ment walking around the neighbourhood trying to find friendly cats.
My little brother and I rented this game frequently because of the co-op play. I should give it another go. We’ll see if my wife can handle being my Dale.
Missed opportunity to talk about tar being a tape format that we just happen to use on disks too (so it’s accessed linearly, and in fact if you cat two tar files together they make a valid tar file… or you can create a multi volume tar file that’ll prompt you to change the tape).
GNU is an operating system that is free software—that is, it respects users’ freedom. The GNU operating system consists of GNU packages (programs specifically released by the GNU Project) as well as free software released by third parties. The development of GNU made it possible to use a computer without software that would trample your freedom.
And btw an OS is more than a kernel, the kernel is „just“ the foundation on witch the OS works. Hardware communication is on kernel level, for example.
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