🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@awethon

whether it is part of free speech or not the truth is, it will kill any such network. Either due to services boycotting it, or due to the atmosphere being so toxic no one wants to be on it.

ensuring your network has a vast majority of people that do not engage in hate speech but rather constructive or enjoyable discussions is necessary for any network to thrive.

@xkore

@awethon In the meantime you can yuse the "delete and reedit" feature. it will be very similar as it lets you edit the post and resubmit it. But technically its a new post, but from the user perspective the workflow is like editing.

@awethon yes it is a frustrating lack of a feature, however its on my todo list to add that capability to our server, probably in the next update.

@hansw "explain this".. explain what exactly? or do you mean numbers wont change someones opinion nomatter how convincing?

@hansw

If we are talking about people in general then I tend toa gree, most of the difference about gun opinions int he EU and america is far more cultural than fact driven on both sides.

If we are talking about what drives my opinion personally, that is a very different matter.

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@hansw

don't you guys have american movies though?

I dunno I canrt really think of any american TV shows with guns in them to be honest just cop shows and military ones and I never watch those and they dont really dominate the tv.

Another point though, if it was due to how I grew up as you suggested, then why was I strongly **against** guns into my thirties, it was a big issue for me and I often spoke out against them and pushed to make them illegal. It wasnt till my 30s that I changed position, which happened after a friend of mine challenged me to actually do the statistics on them myself and the data seemed irrefutable.

If your assumption was correct that it is cultural that pattern doesnt fit.

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@xamaxama

No reason you would have to use all the text limit up :)

@Science @General

@Demosthenes

We backup regularly and automatically and keep multiple instances of our backups in different geographic locations and with different providers.

@icedquinn @allison

@icedquinn

Oh wow if that is really the case that is scary and disgusting. I am no fan of republicans or democrats, but I would never ban someone simply for sharing those political ideas.

@allison

@biomedmax Makes sense. Seems that is the going consensus. I am the local admin here, feel free to reach out to chat anytime and hope you enjoy yourself here.

@joe Maybe, but if parlor users were have as obnoxious as Gab users (I dont really know as I never went to Parlor) I would think there would be a lot more rudeness going around and I am not seeing a whole lot of that right now.

@swiley Thank you, that is very reassuring to hear. I feel the same way. Hope you have a wonderful time here. I am the administrator of this instance and feel free to reach out to chat anytime.

@allison Makes sense. I knew they all banned trump, had no idea they were mass purging users as well. I wonder what their criteria for purging them happens to be, most of the people winding up here have been well behaved so far as far as I've seen.

I also wonder how many people who are coming here are people who have been actually banned from other social media vs people who just see the increase in censorship and are bailing ship on the principal of it.

@mathlover general adoption of decentralized software without a specific catalyst in the last week or two seems almost certainly unrelated. If that were the case the surge would have happened over the time span of a single week.

#QOTO is seeing a pretty big spike in new user signups this last week. Anyone know whats going on and what is causing the exodus this time? Is this all because all the social media decided to ban trump maybe? It is the only event of consequence I know of.

#mastoadmin

@doltamalte Are you asking with regards to your own personal account or for the entire server?

@sherlock_holmes ummm no not at all, I just want to categorize it by breast size for thoroughness!

@nate_river Thanks.

@hansw

I am not sure i ever once saw a commercial that had a firearm in it in the USA.. Unless maybe your talking about a commercial for a TV show or movie? In that case sure.

But dont your tv shows and movies also include firearms occasionally and if so wouldnt your commercials for them do the same?

As I said I pretty much grew up entierly removed from guns with almost no exposure to it. I didnt buy a gun until late into my thirties and even then my mom was very much against it.

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