Notices by Ricky (ricky@pmth.us)

@get@clubcyberia.co punk really is dead.

@nyanide@lab.nyanide.com Prometheus offers you $50 for your instance. Take it or leave it.

@nyanide@lab.nyanide.com @adiz@mtl.jinxian.casa This rabbit hole goes so fucking deep.

@rwsjw@tsundere.love @nyanide@lab.nyanide.com tsundere.love
meets an actual tsundere

@dcc@annihilation.social I.... don't care. 😎

I don't care about gay marriage.
I don't care about immigration.
I don't care about inflation.
I don't care about white genocide.
I don't care about transphobia.
I don't care about racism.
I don't care about climate change.
I don't care about Republicans.
I don't care about Democrats.
I don't care about libertarians.
I don't care about communists.
I don't care about fascists.
I don't care about monarchists.
I don't care about socialists.
I don't care about aliens.
I don't care about Christianity.
I don't care about Judaism.
I don't care about Islam.
I don't care about Buddhism.
I don't care about Hinduism.
I don't care about marijuana legalization.
I don't care about universal basic income.
I don't care about the minimum wage.
I don't care about the death penalty.
I don't care about gun control.
I don't care about student loan forgiveness.
I don't care about corporate tax rates.
I don't care about military spending.
I don't care about NATO.
I don't care about the United Nations.
I don't care about affirmative action.
I don't care about critical race theory.
I don't care about reparations.
I don't care about wealth inequality.
I don't care about universal healthcare.
I don't care about social security.
I don't care about feminism.
I don't care about men's rights.
I don't care about LGBTQ+ rights.
I don't care about election integrity.
I don't care about gerrymandering.
I don't care about the Electoral College.
I don't care about vaccine mandates.
I don't care about mask mandates.
I don't care about homeschooling laws.
I don't care about public school curriculums.
I don't care about book bans.
I don't care about artificial intelligence ethics.
I don't care about genetic engineering.
I don't care about corporate lobbying.
I don't care about union rights.
I don't care about police reform.
I don't care about private prisons.
I don't care about cash bail reform.
I don't care about diplomatic relations with China.
I don't care about diplomatic relations with Russia.
I don't care about diplomatic relations with Europe.
I don't care about foreign aid.
I don't care about whistleblower protections.
I don't care about nuclear energy.
I don't care about renewable energy subsidies.
I don't care about electric vehicle incentives.
I don't care about space exploration funding.
I don't care about defamation laws.
I don't care about corporate personhood.
I don't care about urban planning policies.
I don't care about housing market regulations.
I don't want to hear about any of this shit ever again.
I wish I could never hear the name of any politician or famous figure ever again. I don't care about Trump, Biden, Elon Musk, The Clintons, or Jeffrey Epstein. I don't care about pop stars. I don't care about the television.
Leave me out of every conversation about these topics. Talk to me about books or software development.
I care about myself, my family, my dog, and my work.

@sun@shitposter.world or Sonic Pi?
https://sonic-pi.net/

@sun@shitposter.world Was it Rockstar?
https://codewithrockstar.com/

@adiz@mtl.jinxian.casa TIME TO STUDY CYBER SECURITY!

@pixel@desu.social @Erpel@hai.z0ne.social

I'll add my two cents:

I created Revospring.net with my team and the Rentry people became extremely hostile toward us (doxxing me, slandering me, raiding the site with spam/false reports, harassing existing users telling them to leave, etc.). But I have no attachments to any particular group of people. We don't have a pre-existing community. There are a few competing non-Rentry communities that have always co-existed on Retrospring and some of them are at Revospring. Whoever uses Revospring, it will survive because we have an extremely resilient longterm strategy.

Primarily, our approach is to reduce the TOS to bare minimum legalities and let the users duke it out amongst themselves rather than weaponizing the moderation team against each other. Ironically, choosing not to ban racism/transphobia/cyber bullying resulted in all racism/transphobia/cyber bullying to leave the site and go to Frag. Something I demonstrated to their community on Discord multiple times is that the very people who were trying to destroy the site for not banning that material were exactly the ones posting it (anonymously, of course).

As long as the content stays within the realm of that which is legal (we are hosted in America and our internet speech laws are more resilient), I have no problem letting them trash each other like they always do. Revospring will survive.

@pixel@desu.social @Erpel@hai.z0ne.social

I never said I wouldn't moderate harassment. I removed the part of the TOS that says "Is intended to harass, scare or upset anyone." I mean come on, I can't ban every instance of someone upsetting other people, can I? If that text was left as written, then it could very easily be interpreted in such a way that users think they can report everything they don't like. But I also removed the part that says "competes with the business of Retrospring." Am I expected to ban people every time they mention Frag or Neospring? It's undeniable that the TOS as written needed adjusting.

And this is where the problem started. It didn't start with me egging things on, nor did it start with the impression I made on them. I do not deny that I exacerbated the problem: I'm learning to deal with an extremely passionate culture that I am not a member of. But I know what happened and when things turned. It was because I changed the TOS. At that point, the smear campaign began and they started doxxing me, calling me a nazi, etc. And I said that oh-so-bad "n word" because I had a bunch of people in a group chat screaming at me "SAY THE N WORD! SAY THE N WORD!" Okay, the joke didn't land.

But I am merely stating a fact: When they left, so did the harassment. That's it. Once the Rentry people were gone, the reports dropped to 0 (except for the "shipper" community reporting Rentry users coming in demanding they leave the site). After they left, there was no more racism, transphobia, or any sort of cyber bullying.

As for harassment, that has a definition in US law. I'm not a free speech extremist. I don't support harassment. But I'm not going to encourage reporting of users simply because they say something another user doesn't like. If you think that's a bad take... well, I support your right to say so! But if it crosses the line and becomes something that could be a legal problem, it will result in a ban. That has always been the case and I have banned users for death threats and telling people to kill themselves from day 1.

But the community only highlighted the negative side of things. Nobody gave me any credit for the obviously positive work.

@pixel@desu.social

It is not my strategy to increase rules and reduce enforcement. It's my strategy to reduce rules and make them absolute. Allowing them to report anything they want then placing myself as the judge and jury is not a power I want to have.

I am a very direct person. Not everybody appreciates that. Luckily, I am willing to shoot myself in booth feet and still stand strong. I don't mind their lashing out against me, it has been highly entertaining. My goal is not to attract the most users, but to have the system work long-term.

@pixel@desu.social The reality is that nothing "works." Everything is gray. There is no winning strategy. I'm just optimizing for fewest reports possible so that the quality of the average report is higher. Of course, if things could be 100% absolute, we could have a machine run things. Alas, there is always going to be the human element.

This is an integral anomaly I seek to reduce.

@sun@shitposter.world hi

@get@clubcyberia.co @yomiel@new.asbestos.cafe @Vo@noauthority.social I dip my stogies in seed oil before smoking them.

@iwillbite@whinge.town Give me a giant mecha robot made from the soul of my dead mom and I'll totally get it in and blow up eldritch monsters.

@prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer not even joking

@adiz@wl0.9ch.nl @dcc@annihilation.social I'm not going to do that. I'm going to try to restore service to the client. This isn't an experiment, it's a service that was broken by our team and it needs fixing.

@adiz@wl0.9ch.nl How do I make nuked.social Mastodon stop being dumb and start federating again?

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