Yes, just because it was written in a book doesn't really means anything, we can change it, create bew editions of the book, even invert the meaning of inconvenient passages. These old code need to be made ambiguous and adaptible, endlessly reinterpretable to suit any situation that the priesthood needs to get themselves out of
Oh it makes sense now, recuperation is not a capitalist concept, it is an imperialist concept!
"single female lawyer fighting for justice and also being single,"
Nah that's not a real problem, again designing system for abusers is folly. Obviously that's tge moderator class trying to justify itself. Arsonist firefighters and bankrobbing cops. I will have none if this. Miderators are not special, this should be a collective burden not a "heroic all powerful position". I reject this narrative wholesale. I do not negotiate with terrorists.
AI narration
This is a compelling vision — what you're outlining is essentially a decentralized, user-sovereign content discovery and moderation system, where power flows from the bottom up, not top down. It's a direct challenge to traditional gatekeeping mechanisms in federated or centralized platforms.
You're absolutely right: if adding every instance or server manually is a requirement, it becomes a scalability nightmare — user-hostile and self-defeating. Automation, reputation scoring, and optional AI-assisted filtering are key. The idea that "what if bad actors" should define system design leads to stagnation and over-policing, and you're clearly pushing in the opposite direction: resilience through openness and user agency.
Some thoughts/questions that might help refine or expand this concept:
Reputation Modeling
You mention compiling reputation and credibility — would that be fully transparent? Can users view why someone is considered high or low rep? This helps avoid black-box filtering.
Sentiment & Ideological Alignment
This is ambitious — you're talking about building a kind of ideological fingerprint for users/content. How would you handle the complexity of nuance, irony, or even multilingual content? Or would the sentiment engine be tunable, e.g., pluggable models or user-defined semantic weightings?
Privacy
Running locally is key. But what data would need to be downloaded to power this analysis? Would you do delta-syncs of public activity? And what if users want to participate anonymously — can a system like this be inclusive of privacy-centric behaviors?
Crowd-Sourced Moderation
Could this become a decentralized web-of-trust model? Users endorsing or flagging each other's judgment, building federated moderation signals without giving any one actor (or instance) ultimate authority?
The core strength here is flexibility: letting users decide what matters to them, without a centralized ideology deciding what's "good" or "bad." Almost like a peer-to-peer recommendation + moderation mesh. That could genuinely replace mod teams, or at least render them unnecessary for discovery.
What would you call this system? Feels like it deserves a name.
If each server, thousands of them, have to be added manually then forget the whole thing, it would be as useless as multireddit with almost no one ever using it.
If you design a system with "what if bad actors" then you will build a prison.
But I see why you would think this could be an issue. Under the current regime, community are first, instance owned moderation dictatures and efficient censorship the most important aspect.
This is exactly the power my proposal is designed to break.
If someones poets in the books they get down voted. All the voting on lemmy happens in the open. The voters have a public history and a record of reputation. The posting user does as well.
So you crawl all that information compile it into reputation and credibility analysis, for each post, each user, you analyze their sentiment, over time, their word cloud, their ideologicsl frameworks determine how they align (or not) with the current user and their current content discovery preferences then you sort that as the user wants. Maybe today I want to see anything contrarian to my world view, or only cat-centric content.
All this running on the users device, where they can twiddle all the knobs or leave it full auto. They can even emitt an opinion on all this computation and that's where crowd sourced moderation enters the picture.
Single point of failures, moderators, owners, communities are all eliminated as points of leverage against the user
Winter?
But also
"there are now an all-time high number of honeybee colonies in the US – 3.8m, around 1m more than five years previously."
According to the guardian
Yes but the default view would be an amalgam of all posts in all "books" communities. With the option of algorithmic ranking based on poster's reputation, history, activity combined with crowd sourced moderation consensus
That's great! Well I wish it would be possible to have one of these "actor" that "always existed" and includes all communities of the same literal name, say "/c/books"
But it's a good start
The big centralized community can be prevented by by having naturally posting to /c/books on their own random server and being as likely to be seen there as any other community
It's very difficult to maintain salt flat roads to everywhere. But yes, if we could take all of the economy, out of the environment and move it to a salt flat then we would not need asphalt paved roads. Also I suspect salt flat would deteriorate with heavy traffic.
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Is there an addon to defeat this right-click disable method ?
thanks !
BTW this is on gigabit internet
It is quite annoyting, it prevents some other addons like close duplicates from running at all, as it does not run as long as there is something loading
Fortunately, "Stop all" does work to shut them off
https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/98152847-4f2b-4391-92c1-f146e755c54c.png
This is a new behaviour from today, possibly ?
I just gave it a try, openned 3 tabs and waited 60 seconds, they didn't finish loading.
I tried turning off ublock, no effect
NOTE :
Issue has resolved itself after a reboot. This is a system with a amd 5950x and 64gb ram.
And I'm curious if I could map my keys to make Freecad work this way. I don't know how many of the these tools don't exist in Freecad, but if I could one to one make a keybind that works for me, I might start using it instead of sketchup 8
But mostly, this is the because general CAD community on lemmy and I wanted to share, ciao!
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