Fly, you fools!

Can’t believe it’s not called ‘sinister’

I don’t see how you argue that. Most companies today have some form of salary bill. Giving corporations a massive incentive to automate away lower paid jobs does not spread wealth.

Result - massive rich corporation staffed by small insanely rich exec teams and everything automated.

I’m quite intrigued as to what our modern world would look with corporation’s - what? - assets? - capped at $999 milion. It costs about $120m to build a single container ship, a Boeing 737-700 costs about $89m, Amazon set aside $1bn to film its Lord of the Ring series.

Probably the end of multi-nationals, I guess. Interesting

Yeh - accelerated quickly from ‘could be aiming for ironic humour’ to ‘I’m a idiot’.

Probably thinks Tiananmen Square tank man, or the Uyghurs use Linux

It doesn’t have to be apolitical- it’s how about the discussion is conducted and not immediately thinking a person who disagrees with you is evil incarnate. Very tough to moderate though, and requires participants to really be behind the ethos, I guess

Jokes on you

I don’t think this means what you think it means.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2093940/vividstasis/ - just in case like me, you had no idea what this is. Mind you, having just looked at that - I still have no idea :)

Thanks. In now. Was just a transient kbin glitch, I think.

Don’t seem to be able to sub at the moment, but if you haven’t seen this already - excellent, free alternative to the official app. … https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/energy-stats/id1644492526

You know what I really hate about the worldwide web? All these different websites. It is so confusing, how is anyone going to remember them?

It won’t catch on until it’s one big website that does everything

You’re in for a treat then.

Perfect. Thank you for taking the time to dig this out for me

This was the great promise of the fediverse

Promised by who, when? Seriously - I don’t remember it being a part of the proposition

I was wondering if they might port it to an ActivityPub instance

One of the nice things you can do on kbin, but I don’t think you can on Lemmy yet

Really interested in hearing OPs response to these explanations

Please keep in mind that this team moderates several communities together

What does thos mean? Not quite clear.

It usually doesn’t result in the immediate attainment of all the protests’ aims. It quite often makes some kind of difference

I mean - it may be that OP finds himself constantly coming across Young Earthers - but I am interested in hearing directly about the kinds of opinions they find the rest of the world struggles with.

I’d be interested in a example. What is an example of a truth that you have found it difficult to get people to accept?

And that’s a bad analogy. Really bad.

Why? School debate clubs are practice sessions, excercises in debate. They are tests of skill They aren’t designed to get at objective truth any more than Olympic fencing is about trying to kill your opponent.

Seriously, show me only a single instance of a debate in the larger public sphere where there was an actual search for a deeper truth and not just cheap shots. You won’t find any.

In the UK, I would point to many of the House of Lords debates, quite a few of the Commons debates (not Prime Minister’s’ questions- which are pure theatre). Then there are the areas which aren’t debates but involve forensic questioning, such as you would find in select committees, public enquiries and the courts.

Is what we are doing here, in the realm of cheap psychological tricks?

You can create your own Lemmy or Kbin server just for you and post whatever you want. Whether other servers federate with you is another matter of course.

The Fediverse gives you absolute freedom of speech and everyone else absolute freedom to block you.

What makes you say that’s the result? It’s practicing in making a logical argument to support a proposition. That’s not about “shoe” it’s about exercising and practicing a skill.

Do you get similarly outraged by people who do weight training because “they didn’t actually need to pick up those heavy things”

Oh it’s all over my federated feed already, but thanks

Nope

Think of them exercises or essays - they are designed to let you practice skill, not actually solve climate change.

Of course it does. The problem with truth is - it’s often nuanced, complex and difficult so knowing how to communicate is important

Rhetorical tricks and gotchas aren’t necessarily in opposition to the truth. You have to be able to communicate effectively to get the truth across, so knowledge of rhetoric is important for countering compelling bullshit.

I’ve been mucking about with the new claude.ai from anthropic, and thought I would ask it - here’s what it said:

Y

Yes, it is possible to set up a private Lemmy instance for use within a group of friends. Here are some steps to do this:

1. Install Lemmy on a server you control. Lemmy is open source software written in Rust. You’ll need a Linux server with Rust installed to run it.

2. Configure the Lemmy config file. Set the following options:

• federated_timeline_enabled - false
• registration_open - false
• external_federation_enabled - false
  This will disable public federated timelines and open registration.

1. Create user accounts manually. As an admin, you can create accounts for each of your friends on the Lemmy admin interface.

2. Consider enabling SSL. It’s recommended to enable HTTPS encryption on your Lemmy instance. You can get a free SSL certificate from Let’s Encrypt.

3. Share the URL only with friends. Don’t publish the URL publicly, only share with your intended friend group.

4. Lock down the server access. Use firewall rules, VPN, or IP whitelisting to restrict access to the server.

5. Keep Lemmy updated. Watch for security updates and upgrade Lemmy regularly to stay safe.

6. Consider private federation. You could federate multiple private Lemmy instances to allow a broader reach while still keeping everything private.

That covers the basics! With those steps, you can have a private Lemmy server for your friend group to use.

Thanks for that. I think I was getting confused between turning off all federation and defederating with an instance.

Setting all that aside, I would caution that even turning off federation isn’t enough to necessarily make it truly private. People could still discover it through random portscanning or whatever.

As I understand it, disabling federation stops you seeing other people’s content. It doesn’t stop others from seeing yours. Though how they would fibd yours is a different matter.

Absolutely agreed again

I absolutely agree about systematic change. But pointing at an oil company and saying “look this is the organisation responsible for climate change” is to misidentify the problem in my opinion. Setting aside for a moment the misinformation that the oil companies funded regarding climate change, which - yes - I would like to see people in prison for - the main problem, I think is that we are still very dependent on oil.

We’ll remain dependent on oil until there is concerted government action. That action will require that we change our lifestyles and are probably a bit poorer, more constrained. No-one will vote those governments in. So, we’ll sit here like boiled frogs

Shout out to all of us who buy anything shipped, any petroleum or oil-based products and those of us who aren’t vegan

Tumblr isn’t based on ActivityPub, so you can’t “defederate” from it.

A question for you. Is any Lemmy instance federated with Threads?

They aren’t. It’s just people want to be outraged

OK.

How to do suggest they defederate from an entity which isn’t federating with anyone?