The natural result of unregulated capitalism is something that mimics a monopoly. Monopolies are illegal in my town; I can't open an ISP because of capitalism.
They will always advocate for blocking over banning because they can easily make new accounts to spread their hateful message. To block a user you must first read their message; their mission is accomplished.
Should the community have to continually deal with this baggage so that hateful people can intentionally misinterpret what "free speech" means?
The comment you linked to is provably wrong per your post. You can test whether the alternate theory is correct by posting on beehaw from your Lemmy.world account and then viewing the thread from beehaw (just don't login if you don't have an account).
I think the other user nailed it. It's easy to look at the list of lemmy servers and defederate the bot farms by comparing "active users" to "total users". I guess once the bots are active that will look a bit different.
The natural result of unregulated capitalism is something that mimics a monopoly. Monopolies are illegal in my town; I can't open an ISP because of capitalism.
Yea- this was by design:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/03/27/coronavirus-trump-objects-oversight-provisions-stimulus-law/2931740001/,
https://web.archive.org/web/20230207030551/https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/06/11/trump-administration-wont-say-who-got-511-billion-taxpayer-backed-coronavirus-loans/
They will always advocate for blocking over banning because they can easily make new accounts to spread their hateful message. To block a user you must first read their message; their mission is accomplished.
Should the community have to continually deal with this baggage so that hateful people can intentionally misinterpret what "free speech" means?
With a question that loaded you're going to need lemmygrad.ml for the answer you're looking for.
Looks good!
You are federating but lemmy.world is bad at federating-out right now. So it's not a great place to test this.
This is very cool. Thanks for posting!
The comment you linked to is provably wrong per your post. You can test whether the alternate theory is correct by posting on beehaw from your Lemmy.world account and then viewing the thread from beehaw (just don't login if you don't have an account).
Let us know how it goes.
Point at them with your finger at a downward angle, towards their bike, then quickly transition to a thumbs-up/smile combo. Can't miss.
They've got it wrong about keyboard tilt. You want a neutral position for your wrists https://www.unh.edu/research/ergonomics/keyboard-ergonomics.
I think the other user nailed it. It's easy to look at the list of lemmy servers and defederate the bot farms by comparing "active users" to "total users". I guess once the bots are active that will look a bit different.
Happy to see you here, ljdawson. Long live Sync!