Notices by Sashin (sashin@veganism.social)

Is the way that money works actually the way that power works?

For example is the rich get richer while the poor get poorer just downstream of people with power having more capacity to cement and expand their power than people without it.

@mekkaokereke All in all it's better to go slow than go bad. Let's hope for the best.

@mekkaokereke I definitely want all these things to be true.

It really is hard competing with money in money's world.

@mekkaokereke @kdw @aetataureate What were the exact problems they faced on mastodon? Were they to do with the platform itself or cultures and types of people here?

@rail_ Wait, should we just have one field for full name?

What do you mean "validate names for bad words" like swears?

@mekkaokereke I think we shouldn't even be friends with people that don't people on the basis of gender or race.

@dansup I haven't been able to use it? There's neither an android app nor web interface?

@Radical_EgoCom @kworker clearly he disagrees with that they know what they are doing

There's no real way to go further without a deep discussion about what's wrong with hierarchical organisation

@dansup So I'm not sure if this is widespread a problem, the for me the loops android app is working really haphazardly, the play button doesn't work most of the time

@AnarchoNinaWrites When I follow this link it takes me to a post earlier in this thread

@AnthonyJK by sending a signal to the democrats that they need to move left?

@AnthonyJK I agree fully that this is what happens. It gets worse and worse and both parties slide further to the right.

That's the best voting can do though.

I think voting for the lesser evil is the best option.

Their system is rigged and everything else needs to be done outside their system.

Voting is about picking an enemy.

The democrats care about their image a lot more than the republicans and are less free to be absolutely unhinged. Having to constant manufacture consent for atrocities slows them down. Overt fascists don't have this limitation.

@AnthonyJK I mean voting for them wouldn't give them the power to do it though.

I don't think voting can do real long term good on solving the deeper problems, but they can keep the most unhinged of to bourgeois out of power and signal to the powers how exploitable the masses are (the wealth for the richest went up when Trump won because their ability to continue to exploit and even ramp up their exploitation was secured).

@AnthonyJK But it was a first past the post system, there was no way they were going to win.

@fishidwardrobe @AnarchoNinaWrites I'm imagining we could have smart block lists, lists of instances and individuals to block, that could be subscribed to. To radically reduce the amount of work moderation takes, so the same instance or individual doesn't have to be reblocked over and over again.

The mastodon software can have as a default that one or more of these blocklists are subscribed to as a sane default. So individual instances don't need to reinvent the wheel of moderation each time.

@fishidwardrobe @AnarchoNinaWrites I guess that kind of power is like a honeypot for bad people. Or perhaps power itself is that.

@fishidwardrobe @AnarchoNinaWrites It could be opt-out rather than opt-in

Thinking out loud about moderation.

We could have block lists, of servers and individuals that individuals or instances could subscribe to.

Maybe even the default for when a new instance is created would be to be subscribed to some of these blocklists, with opt-out rather than opt-in.

@clarity Oh no, it had a good post game??? I finished the main story and stopped, I hated that Mario!!!

I've never played heat signature, will check it out!

@clarity It's so good.

Are there *any* games that come to mind?