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   Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Nov-2023 04:09:19 JST Alex Gleason
   The knee-jerk reaction is to look at "hate speech" with fear and disgust. But the right way is to see an opportunity to have public conversations you can't have anywhere else online. We have to remember other users are real people, and what they say reflects a real sentiment in the world. You can either try to sweep it under the rug or embrace it.
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     signal_and_rage (a3eb29554bd27fca7f53f66272e4bb59d066f2f31708cf341540cb4729fbd841@mostr.pub)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Nov-2023 04:19:48 JST signal_and_rage

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     so we shouldn’t ignore it?
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Nov-2023 04:19:48 JST Alex Gleason

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     @a3eb29554bd27fca7f53f66272e4bb59d066f2f31708cf341540cb4729fbd841 Ultimately, it's your choice. But as a protocol we should be pushing for a change in user expectations rather than trying to reinvent Twitter. I first learned this when I joined Gab, and everyone said "Learn to use the BLOCK and MUTE buttons". If what we really want is freedom, then users should understand that this is a different way to engage.
     
     This of course requires thick skin, and in order to grow we will need to adapt for the meeker among us. But that shouldn't be in the form of targeted blocklists based on specific users, specific keywords, specific domains, nor by some AI tool. It should be client-side settings like "hide posts from people I don't follow". Things that change the underlying rules of the client rather than the rules of what people can post.
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     7666 (7666@comp.lain.la)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Nov-2023 04:21:24 JST 7666

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     @alex you risk invoking Brandolini's law more often than usual doing this, but sometimes its fun to poke the bear and see what happens - at best they're not actually bad, at worst: new lolcow
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