Shit’s nuts

To shiten

I agree that it’s a difficult balancing act. Overall though, the role of a moderator is to facilitate conversation in accordance to the rules, not enforce their own narrative on the community. These steps are not perfect, but they are an attempt to try and get moderators to moderate more and dictate less.

I tend to agree, if there was a way to actually federate with Threads, I’d be curious to give it a go.

Motherfucker

I don’t think you did anything wrong, it’s just business and you only looked after your best interests. Your boss sounds like a great person, but the school is your actual employer. It’s nothing personal.

This is refreshing to see, good on you for daring to do this. There is no reason to fear respectful debate in the absence of an agenda.

Can this power identify specific objects, for example Sarah’s heirloom spoon as opposed to any other generic spoon?

Well, shit!

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That’s my stapler

It depends how you look at it, predisposition can be seen to run counter to randomness, since you can then work out the likelihood of something happening a certain way. It turns out the odds to almost everything we do can be worked out based on factors, just look at the insurance industry.

If humans are pretty good at predicting what other humans will do, then surely God is on another level.

Still though, an individual can defy their predisposition in every way. To say that randomness doesn’t exist would mean to accept that beyond predisposition, everything we do is prescribed. I don’t think this is the case.

For an analogy, let’s say you had an aquarium. It’s interesting to watch the fish do fish things, you care about them and want to make sure they have the right conditions to thrive. You can be fairly certain of what the fish will do, but you can’t control it - and even if you could, there would be no fun in that.

I think that was an old rant from before we were even federated, as to why I didn’t want to bother at the time. It was an exaggeration, overall we’ve been getting along great with everyone else we’ve federated with since then.

I wasn’t completely off base, for example a bunch of instances defederated us simply because we’re “EH 2.0”, even though they never interacted with us. At the time we were already defederated by a couple of the more zealous ones. The fine gentleman who runs Fediseer is recommending to everyone that they defederate us for being “chuds”. It’s all pretty childish.

Hey, I just randomly stumbled on this and thought I’d give you a reply, for what it’s worth. We’ve got a whitelist because there are thousands of Fediverse instances out there and many of them host questionable content (things like loli porn). It’s too much risk to ignore them, and too much effort to weed them out.

We’ve added everyone listed on join-lemmy.org who hasn’t de-federated us. I guess if you’re not on there then we just haven’t noticed you yet. I’ve added your instance to our whitelist now.

If anyone else also wants to be added and isn’t yet, please do reach out.

As you can tell by the comments in this thread, many people feel like they know us well based on what they have heard. I guess we are guilty of having a handful of members who used to be on the old exploding-heads instance, so we must be EH 2.0. All anyone would have to do is open our site and browse through the endless pages of shitposts for themselves to figure out how silly that is.

Who the fuck is Gaston?