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I know, and I'm glad of it, but look: tech companies DO fuck around. A lot. There are lots of ways to pressure individuals into cutting corners, and to pressure auditors and controllers to look the other way. The regulators might catch them, but there's a very real possibility that a tech company fucks up REAL bad before they get shut down. They have a very long history of it.

You can swear on here. Stop censoring memes, it's fucking dumb.

And who's going to make sure these tech companies actually run a nuclear power plant responsibly? Have they ever run anything responsibly?

Unfortunately, the bees weren't attacking Mark Zuckerberg, they were just hanging out at the build site.

I'm ambivalent about this in some ways but what you're suggesting is compatible with what I would ask from them. If they're going to have a central directory, moderate that directory: that's one instance. Let others put up their own directories and moderate those; those are just additional instances. If the tech can be deployed to multiple instances, then it's federated by default.

I didn't say I wanted capitalism and American neoliberals, I said I wanted moderation or I won't put my identity and work and face next to people who want me dead. The app you're on, the community you're posting this comment in have moderation. Do you think the mods who receive reports about this thread are the Saudi government?

Cancel culture isn't real, grow up. The people who made the term up want you to demand that all conversations be treated equally, that all viewpoints should be able to shout down all other viewpoints until the internet is full of trash and we're all completely isolated. That's how fascism works: piss and shit into the discourse until nobody wants it any more. That is why X is becoming trash: because the person who owns it made it his first priority to start shitting into every progressive conversation until none of them wanted to be there any more. Taking away the ability to block and deplatform people SUPPRESSES minority voices, because that environment only rewards whoever shouts the loudest, and if you have a majority on the platform, you are shouting the loudest.

Everywhere is "beholden" to some person or organization that made the place and controls it. The stream directory of this app is already beholden to the people who put it up; their lip-service code of conduct suggests they don't want to platform nazis. The only thing I'm complaining about is that they aren't taking any concrete steps to ensure they're kept out.

The whole thing is dumb if you accept a premise of "infinite monkeys". An infinite number of monkeys will type the works of shakespeare immediately, because an infinite number of them will start with the very first key they hit and continue until the end. (So it'll be complete exactly as fast as a monkey can type it, typing as fast as simianly possible, with no mistakes.) You don't even need the infinite time.

It only becomes interesting if you look at the finite scenarios.

And BTW, the lifespan of the universe is finite due to the eventual decay of all matter, including the monkeys and the typewriters. There's no infinite time.

What about moderation or controls over the directory? I don't want to host a stream and be published next to nazis. Is anyone keeping them out? I do see a sort of lip-service "no tolerance" statement with no details about what fits that criteria and no claims of active moderation; without those two things it's toothless and the whole place is at risk of nazi bar syndrome.

I keep seeing people call it "X, the Everything App" and ngl it's funny every single time

Get it. This game is fantastic.

This comic conveniently omits that the Republican party has been incubating the fascist alien eggs in their party for decades. And then they attached the face-hugger to themselves.