join if you want

No one deserves a bad break like this. Her recovery is going to be long and painful.

It took more than 3 days to finish this, but I removed nearly all my data from reddit. I dont wanna share my knowledge and time with toxic companies that are owned by the few

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I will delete my accounts, but beforehand I wanted to update the comments I made. I have 5+ years of reddit history, all will be deleted. I am so sad :( But I dont want to share my data any more

Can we achieve something similar to human intelligence?

Cheers! 🍻

Mastodon Live Feed is gone

This is more of a rant (not sure if this comm is appropriate for it).

I've been watching Lemmy's ongoing discussion regarding PieFed. It turns out Mastodon got similar problems, too.

The largest Fediverse instance already shadowbanned people, e.g:

This profile has been hidden by the moderators of mastodon.social.

If you didn't find (and save) a profile before it poof'd, it'd be pretty much unreachable.

It's been a while since I've been using the Web solely for consumption of public content (esp. long texts). I ceased posting altogether (with this post breaking 2mo of silence) for reasons beyond the current scope. My source of content are firehoses (e.g. Lemmy /all sorted by "New comments", Mastodon Live Feed), partly due to the chaotic nature (it pleases me as ND) alongside my beliefs (Chaos Magick, noise as gnosis), partly due to how it's the closest to a true discovery algorithm...

Today, I opened Mastodon only to be faced with a missing Live feed:

This feed has been disabled by your server administrators.

Yes, public feeds are noisy, spammy, pornographic. But it should be up to the user to decide what they wanna see: I muted +3k spam accounts by myself as I doomscrolled the "Live feed" daily.

Then out of naiveté/maliciousness/both, some ppl love to parrot the classic ancap line:

Just do your server!

I mean, it's that trivial, amirite? As if the source of the problem wouldn't be replaced by CloudFlare (2nd Biggest Internet Cancer, only losing the topmost rank to the Ruler of the Tumors, the Online Advertisement), AWS/GCP/DigitalOcean/etc, Mastohost, or regional ISPs if you use a PC (doing your ISP, too? Also do your own ICANN and IANA, do your own ASNs and BGPs, everyone knows how it's so easy-peasy /s).

(As a sidenote, radio communication is truly lovely: no one's able to stop transceivers... well, except for ITU and their bureaus requiring operators "a loicense" for people to vibrate a quantum fabric of spacetime continuum that predates us hominids: after all, how'd the "Wise Ones" get to knock at ham operator's doors to seize "dangerous" Baofengs after suddenly becoming unlawful due to "Security"?)

Yes, mastodon.social (nevermind the "social" TLD) could be simply ditched, problem is how it's home for most Fediverse accounts me and others would like to discover and read/watch; problem is how it's "model" for other instances, pretty much the Fediverse as a whole. I wouldn't be surprised if this "trend" went viral: imagine no Lemmy feed other than your following list (didn't know the random, SEO-lacking, lone profile out there, shouting at the void things you'd deem interesting to your tastes? Don't worry, you won't!)

For me and unknown others who also lurk the global chatter, mastodon.social became indistinguishable from mainstream, lacking live global feeds. Meanwhile, people used to shout at the void will be pushed even further...

...But hey, we're safer now 😌 /s

@justpost@lemmy.world

Accessibility Version

People really are thinking that their Discord dramas etc. are important. And people really, really think, that because they have 100k subs on YouTube, they’re important, better somehow.

We have had all of the internet for decades and people’s media literacy has only gone down. A lot. People rather spend hours arguing online about who is evil and who is good instead of reading some bare minimum philosophy and doing a bit of introspection, checking their own thinking. I see people repeat painfully common talking points about the nature of reality as if we didn’t have tons of literature challenging every single thought you could ever have about it. “MaYbE wE lIvE in A SiMuLAtiOn”… Read about Plato’s cave. Read Nondual texts. Read BOOKS. And these same people are out there trying to change the world. I fucking promise you, every single profound thought you’ve had while smoking a bit too much weed has been discussed in philosophy for thousands of years.

People still say shit like “pull yourself up from the bootstraps” as if willpower and free will in general were some kind of endless resource everyone has but because they “choose” to be lazy/worthless/etc. they just don’t use it. And people are quick to agree with this when we talk about mental health issues, which is great. But ask them to apply the same logic to people they disagree with politically, suddenly “correct opinions” are just out there, available and everyone who doesn’t just adopt them just like that must be evil. Everyone who didn’t grow up smart enough, in an environment that encourages learning must be evil.

Good and Evil. Also things that don’t exist in anything else but the human mind and somehow, we kill people over it. You’ve been brainwashed into believing into good and evil since you were a kid, because we’re generations into people who were also brainwashed to believe it. It takes conscious effort to drop that belief, and a fuckton of willingness to NOT consider yourself morally superior. You value human well-being to whatever point you do and if you’re lucky, you’ll run into your personal trolley problem sooner or later. Whatever you think about yourself is nonsense anyway, you’re a different person every moment of every day. No, you don’t have mental illness about it, that’s the natural state of all humans but at some point we actually started to believe that we are supposed to come with a cute little description about our True Self on the box we were shipped in (thanks American media industry). Then we angst over not knowing who we are, or not living up to who we are supposed to be, or not being able to fulfill our potential or whatever spin you internalized about The Finding Out Who You Really Are© project. And most of all, whatever you think you are, you certainly aren’t good enough (buy this product, it might make you good enough).

People STILL in the year 2026 make an artificial separation between the mind and the body, all because Western psychology was largely colored by Christian beliefs in souls. At best, people go “oh yeah sure, exercising is really good for your mind”. True. Now let’s say that mental hygiene is good for the body and you get called an antivaxxer. Tell people that you practice Loving-Kindness meditation and people call you weird or tell you that it’s pointless because nobody is going to change because you send them good vibes. These same people are the ones spending hours online, calling others racists, cucks, libtards, rightoids, trannies, nazis, pedos and more. But the weird ones are those who cultivate compassion for 20 minutes a day and gently cradle their hate in love, instead of vomiting it on others. But let’s be trauma-aware, put in trigger warnings, consider accessibility and disabilities. The Buddhist monks doing the walk get shit because “they’re just walking” - yeah but they aren’t posting the upteenth tired meme about how much The Other Side sucks.

Propaganda still works. After all this shit past few years, people ACTUALLY somehow still believe that’s it’s a good idea to discuss politics on social media. Because they’re totally sure that THEIR side is impartial, trustworthy and flawless. There couldn’t possibly be bad actors on THEIR side with the sole intention of spreading misinformation.

People march over homeless people in their own city, protesting for some issue happening on the other side of the globe that they can’t do anything about.

It’s a weird fucking timeline.

If they are not employing us, or they don't give us enough money even though they can, I think it is best to work against them.

I am planning to create a trend like this. How does it sound? Do you think I might get a 6 figure job as an eastern European?

Here: https://lemmy.world/post/42451402

I am tired of renting it. This doesn't feel safe

… Which means unless (new maintainer|fork) , it'll become yet another local-only music player

OuterTune was unique wherein single interface both (YT|local) music (browsing|playback) , feat I imagine wasn't easy to implement . Really wanted it to be my "main" music player , but latest stable release very buggy for me (crashes more times than I can count|traces of items remain in album view even after removing them (unliking|removing from storage)|.*)

Where I live tap water is great for drinking but I only drink water from the kitchen tap, it's the same water in the same pipes but in my mind it's very different.

Does anyone else have weird 'rules'?