Olives @olives@social.cleverlibre.org

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Oh no, I'm just thinking aloud. Never mind me. Although, maybe this is a bit relevant.

At least, when I see someone specifically cherry-picking numbers like that in another context.

To be honest, it's probably not terribly hard to tackle that kind of spam... I don't know how it lasted for long.

There was an interesting tactic to scare people by using spooky words like 700 hashtags, to try to imply scale, and then, the posts had something like a short bit of text and 20 hashtags stuck to the end, and were very repetitive.

That wasn't here. That somewhere else. Mainstream social media. That cursed place. Lol.

@tehstu You have a right to anonymous speech under the First Amendment (also, I think receiving someone's speech), because otherwise that might chill free expression.

The 1A is so powerful that it powers other rights.

He probably just wants more material to write about.

He probably loves Facebook (and Big Tech) as it's an endless spring of material that he can mine, complain about, to, and philosophize about.

Also, there is a whole lot of arguing / talking with a committee about some little minutia.

It's not as simple as "okay, so if someone deliberately runs a real child porn node, we will cut them off".

If he thinks he has some incident to escalate, and I really don't trust him at all, he is sus af, he can escalate that.

If he loves Elon or Mark so much, he can go use Facebook or Twitter... Sheesh.

*in practical terms

Searching the fediverse and finding a tiny number of hits. Ugh.

This guy is also fond of the idea of having "Facebook run the place", as if people couldn't get away from Facebook fast enough, and as if that was ever a realistic goal (given that the whole point is decentralization...).

While defederation is a blunt instrument, and it is probably used by some instances far too much for reasons unrelated to that, it's kind of rich for someone to smear mud onto someone, then to ask them to make themselves even more vulnerable to having mud smeared on them.

I saw a very strange take.

Someone wrote a literal hit piece about the fediverse, cherry-picking posts from *January*, using unreliable algorithms, and still making the fediverse look, in practical terms, clear of actual child porn (even where there might be a problem).

But, then, they were like...

Defederation is a blunt instrument. If an instance has something you believe to be real child porn, and they don't take it down, we shouldn't be in the business of blocking instances, we should just block that one post.

???

When you see / hear of things like this, you almost imagine someone with an American flag on their clothes angrily screaming, "Does anyone here know English?!"

She was also very preoccupied about the lives of black people there, because that is a big part of American culture, even though there are hardly any such people there, and there isn't that same dark history of slavery that usually underlies American discourse around this.

It all felt very, very strange.

Some of the things were embarrassingly bad.

If one idiot has a bad opinion, everyone has a bad opinion.

If one engages in a bizarre practice, the entire country does.

If one school engages in an archaic practice, all the schools do.

And so on.