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  • Kick a puppy

    If you have to resort to false equivalences like these, you’re not really making the anti-WEI crowd look good.


    *Edit: * There’s some massive misunderstanding about my comment.

    I called it a false equivalency because it’s comparing both the measures (“stronger safety”) and the thing is supposed to prevent (doxing and bullying) to puppy kicking.

    That’s just emotional manipulation done badly. We all call it out when politicians use pedophiles to warrant Internet surveillance, and now apply it ourselves? I don’t know about you, but when I see bad reasoning, I’ll call it out. Even if it’s done by “my side”.









  • In my experience people only follow people to new networks when enough other people have made the switch. Try convincing people to use signal or telegram instead of WhatsApp, for example.

    To move off twitter, one person will make the journey, find out that most of the people they want to follow (or be followed by) aren’t on mastodon, and go back to twitter.

    People don’t actively seek out content on Lemmy (yet). But if they do check it out, they will be more likely to stick around if they feel they don’t miss out on stuff they were used to on reddit.

    For some things like text posts and questions, comments / discussion is great. For other, more content based posts like photos, game discounts or adult content, I don’t mind one bit not seeing other people’s comments.

    Lemmit is meant to become obsolete in the long run, but it can help prime the network with content that makes it easier to switch over.



  • usernotfound@lemmy.mltoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlLemmy
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    1 year ago

    🤔 The server spits out html when it cannot reach the backend. So one could argue it’s a configuration issue because the admin didn’t provide enough capacity / didn’t set up a proper generic json error for backend failures.

    FWIW, Liftoff doesn’t handle these super gracefully either.

    At any rate I think it’s kinda awesome that we get to witness these kinds of infancy problems.