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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 10 hours ago

Someone contact the mods of that subreddit and tell them to point to https://join-lemmy.org/ instead of lemmy.world

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Things invert when the instance "defending itself" has 1/3rd of the threadiverse active users.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

~~It seems the blahaj links don't work anymore~~

Wait no nevermind. Tesseract frontend is fucking up the URLs

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

yes and i responded to that. discussions happen either way. u can have them happen before drafting a vote text, or after. whether users have the energy to engage in them before voting can be up to them.

Honestly, I disagree. Doubling the amount of governance posts and extending (potential) decisions over multiple weeks just will lead people to check out of the whole process. I've seen very similar stuff in reddit/r/anarchism and I don't want to end up in a similar scenario.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

u seem to have skipped over my most important points in our discussion so far. namely the idea of a "discussion-post first, then vote-post" process (separate from proposal, amendments, etc.). and that the admin team is responsible for 100% of the voting posts so far, and therefore sets the example for regular (eligible-to-vote) users who might want to start a vote.

I did mention that having too many governance posts invites voting fatigue. This applies here as well.

As for having the regular people start a vote, the 2 times the post was opened at the request of a specific user, it was because they explicitly didn't want to open it under their own name, because they didn't want to invite abuse.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 1 day ago

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little peach?

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 day ago

ACAB. Nothing good will come from inviting state-violence into this.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I get the problem, this is why I also allowed the donation avenue as well (even though that can also be manipulated). You can be a supporter for like 1$ per month. Maybe less on liberapay.

If you have any ideas on how to improve the vouching culture of the instance, I'm all ears.

As for consuming just one comm, a lot of clients allow you to have multiple accounts, it shouldn't be too onerous to make just one feddit.org account for that comm and switch to it to see what's new.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 63 points 1 day ago (8 children)

mathemachristian just pinged me with the results of his investigation proving that this is a fake

This reinforces my thoughts that this was an deliberate disinfo attempt, and the feddit crowd felt for it hook, line and sinker. Just pathetic when the whole charade collapsed under the smallest of pushes, and ffs, who seriously tries to paint anarchists as neo-nazis?

For anyone who's going to try this again, a reminder that I have an online presence going back 20+ years, or which 17 of them was in anarchist spaces as well and I've been consistent in my beliefs all this time. You're going to have to try harder than that to prove I've been playing a long game of a couple of decades...

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (7 children)

i do need to wait, since i dont have voting rights. ive had issues with where the instance is going for a while, so i couldnt justify making a donation so far.

Your other option is then to become a valuable and visible enough in the instance to be vouched for. You can also just ask the admins or another person with voting rights to open the thread for you. Ultimately we need to have a way to limit manipulation somehow.

ideally a software could handle that in the background, yes. but there're lemmy apps that support blocklist imports already, so i could already do this. id just need to manually update them by hand, or id have to write a script to automate that.

OK so you can't do it already, you could just theoretically do some work to do this in the future if you wanted to.

I just have to ask, if this sort of instance already exists, and this sort of shared blocklist is so easy to implement for those who need it, why is it not enough for people who want to, to use those instances and shared blocklist software?

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (9 children)

I think you have a misapprehension about how our decision making works. Specifically, just because a vote is taken and goes one way at one moment in time, doesn't mean we cannot open another vote, or amendment about the same subject later on. You also don't need to wait for unruffled to make governance posts. Any person who can vote, can open governance posts.

theres a fundamental difference, tho: i can override the blocklist. i could make my own patches to it, but still keep the list updated. also, i could opt in/out at will without changing to a different instance with a different community and rules and governance.

Assuming the software handling the blocklist allows this. Likewise there could be threadiverse software that allowed soft defederation and people overriding it, but nobody built this yet. Anymore than they've build this shared blocklist format you imagine.

Anyway, this tells me you effectively want to run your own instance, without running your own instance. But as I said, there's instances that allow you to do that. Ours isn't meant to work this way.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

We once had a "moratorium" about using the -f switch on console commands (for those who don't know, -f is typically --force AKA, "execute this command no matter the consequences, I know what I'm doing.). I'll let you imagine the cause but we all knew who it was about.

Another time we had an incident where the whole login process died for the whole day. Next day we were cc'd on an email informing us that security team is not allowed to use scripting anymore :D

 

My comment was removed for "misinformation"

https://crazypeople.online/post/18266774

Apparently the mod likes using euphemisms for their extracting wealth from other productive members of society and really dislikes being reminded.

 

Cross-posted from "This programmer wants to use your phone to fight ICE" by @return2ozma@lemmy.world in !technology@lemmy.world


 

Cross-posted from "hell yeah" by @dickalan@lemmy.world in !fuckcars@lemmy.world


 

The video I linked for reference

I guess I was "sympathizing with invaders" because I said "Such an absolute waste of life, just for the vanity of one man."

Just patently ridiculous moderation...

 

I was watching a video yesterday which had a sponsor for deleteme which claims to go through data brokers to delete your info. I thought that might be a good idea, especially for those with radical politics. However it's fairly expensive (~200$) and also I mistrust sponsored links by default.

Have you used them? Have you used something else? What do you recommend people do to deal with the hundreds of data brokers which harvest your info? The point is not to disappear entirely, but pershaps to make it less easy for an employer, payment processor or whatever to blackllist you based on GenAI assessments etc.

 

Note I found one comment which works for me in there: https://huggingface.co/Lightricks/LTX-2.3/discussions/13#69b26bb65d8741ba168540b4

Use 0.987, 0.85, 0.725, 0.422, 0.0 in your upscaler sigmas. This seems to work for me, but ofc it adds one more step than before, so the speed is reduced. This works well if you're planning to re-use the last frame of the video to extend it or smt.

Another solution that works is to simply cut off the lat 18 frames from the video and make it 18 frames longer. Υou can just extract the last frame at the point of cutoff. What I do to avoid cutting off speech (if there is one), I might add "there's a moment of silence" in the end of my prompt. Then the cutoff frames don't interrupt anything

 

Cross-posted from "Is this true for you?" by @LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone in !autism@lemmy.world


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Fair point (piefed.cdn.blahaj.zone)
 

Cross-posted from "Fair point" by @LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone in !autism@lemmy.world


 

Hello again peeps, I come back to you with more exciting news. After last months vote passed to accept quokk.au as a member of the FAF, the vote on their end only just marginally failed for a 1-vote tiebreaker. The primary reservation people expressed back then was not wanting to follow the FAF defederations/bans as many people chose quokk.au explicitly due to their defederation list, particularly of Marxist-Leninist-friendly instances like hexbear.

Given however that there was willingness from admins on both sides to collaborate and provide mutual aid to each other due to our shared values, we went back to the drawing board to find a compromise. The main issue was that we wanted a way where we didn't want to sacrifice the tight integration of the FAF proper, but there is also an option "softer" version of the flotilla integration, which is less technical and more political.

So we came down to having two different tiers of membership in the flotilla

Consorts: These are the fully integrated members of the FAF. For all accounts and purposes, they count as a single instance, as they follow the same rules, bans and federations and their members get voting rights on all proposals. I.e. the original vision I proposed.

Companions: These are the more politically-only aligned instances.

  • They don't have to follow the FAF defederations and bans so they have no say in those either. However companion instances can optionally chose to follow defederations and/or bans, which allows them to vote on them as well.
  • They can take part in the voting for rules which don't refer to deferations or bans, and they have to follow those rules (e.g. golden rules, radical admin recalls etc). They are also allowed to propose new rule changes as well for the whole FAF.
  • They get access to FAF private matrix channels and benefit from our resident technical expertise and moderation experiences.

Naturally a Companion instance can at any time become a Consort by simply on-boarding existing FAF defeds & bans and therefore immediately get future voting rights for those as well.

After we reached internal consensus on these two tiers, we then re-approached @Quokka@quokk.au to see if that would cover their reservations and we're today happy to announce that they've officially joined the FAF.

On a personal note: It's been always my passion to grow a system that is not only technically robust, but also politically as well, and the only way we can achieve this is by reinforcing the mutual aid ties between aligned actors, while providing enough independence for self-expression. This is yet another step in that direction and I hope it can lead to more versatile fediverse structures like feeler networks and whatnot.

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