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Yeah, it felt a lot like “you need to prove you’re worthy” more than just proving you’re not a bot.

Adding to what others have said, opposing viewpoints are GOOD. Well reasoned opinions should be encouraged. I don’t want to end up in another curated echo chamber built by someone else. Add the tools for users to block an instance and for blocks to work better in general. Give us the tools to decide our content. Leave the curation up to the users.

Otherwise you’ll just end up with everyone spinning up their own instance and building a million individual echo chambers(tho it wouldn’t be bad if there were more instances lol)

Add the fact that lemmy.ml and others were/still are doing applications for sign up instead of an automated system. I applied twice for a .ml account and never got a single response, not even a denial or “your application is being processed”. I have no idea if my application was ever even seen.

On the other hand, I signed up to lemmy.world and kbin.social in minutes and have been using them ever since.

No worries. In case that came off overly critical, please know I just want you to shine. Not accusing you of anything. Just want your unique self to show through. That’s part of the beauty of an indie project; it’s not the same corporate stuff.

I can’t be the only one thinking that your image looks like a knockoff of “Star Wars: Rogue One”. Same font, same alignment of words… Make the game YOUR game. Don’t rely on familiarity with other brands to draw people in. They’ll be disappointed when it’s NOT a Star Wars game and you also open yourself up to legal issues from Disney, who owns the star wars brand.

No problem. I walk ~14 miles a day at work and they hold up nicely. I put some Superfeet insoles in them when I buy them. Here’s a pic of the old ones with ~18 months/4000 miles on them next to the same pair brand new. The old ones are still in working condition and have no real issues other than the cosmetic wear. Just wanted to get a new pair lol

Bought mine around 2020 and they lasted maybe 9 months before holes were forming in the toe area.

Bought Keens next and haven’t had any issues. Last pair I put 4000 miles on them and the rubber covering the steel toe had worn a nickel sized hole, but otherwise they were still in great shape and fully functional.

I feel like edits within a short window should be allowed for error correction. After that it should probably be locked.

If it’s left unlocked, either temporarily or permanently, there should be an edit history akin to Wikipedia to track the changes.

Better :) Use “copy URL” not “copy fediverse URL” next time though and it will keep the person in their same instance and they won’t have to login.

Dunno if you edited it, but now it links to the sidebar rules.

You linked to the Alexandrite app, not lemmy itself.

I caught the joke :) I mentioned playing devils advocate cus I don’t want to actually attack you or anything, I just saw an interesting opposing viewpoint that I hadn’t heard expressed yet. I think your closer to the best solution in general tho

I agree with the above convo you’ve been having, but your comment made me think, so I’ll play a little devils advocate here: do we want 1000 “I agree.” comments following each other comment? Not really. There needs to be a simple way to say “I like this but don’t have anything to add”. An upvote accomplishes this.

As for downvotes, yes they need to be more than “I disagree”. Something akin to “I don’t think this contributes”. I liked someone’s suggestion that we need more than the binary up and down. Maybe a “troll” vote too.

Your error is in thinking they “thwart” the crime. They don’t. They punish after the fact. That’s still upholding the law(punishment for breaking it) without protecting a person. There is no law that says they have to put their lives in danger, so they’re not breaking any laws when they don’t intervene.

It’s not mental gymnastics. It’s that laws are specific so as not to be too broad and overreaching and in this case, there is a massive Blindspot that has not only been allowed to exist, but has been further codified in legal precedent.

“Protect and serve” is a PR statement. It is not a codified law anywhere.

Basically no. They have an obligation to arrest the perpetrator. They can’t be made to risk their safety in defending you tho. So no, they don’t have to protect you in that situation and they can still do their “job” by arresting the perpetrator after.

https://www.thefire.org/news/protests-supreme-court-how-civil-rights-movement-advanced-first-amendment-legal-protections

I’m not saying protests didn’t have a use. Just that their main use was overshadowed. Peacefully sitting in somewhere didn’t do much. It was the legal things it lead to that did something. Without the legal precedents set, it would have just been brushed back under the rug eventually. You need to incite change, not just annoyance.

Protests actually weren’t MLKs strongest tool, and he himself admits it. Getting arrested for doing something and then challenging it in court now that you have standing was his biggest tool. Most of the protests were just a means to get arrested. It’s revisionist history that says it was the protests specifically that worked because it’s better to emphasize the tactics that didnt work than to point out what actually did and risk a reoccurrence.

Crossposted to BestOf@Kbin.Social

How is that any different than reddit with all the r/X, r/TrueX, r/AltX, r/X2 subs? Whether they’re distributed amongst one instance or many, it’s functionally the same. Just like we already aggregate content from numerous sources, the fediverse also aggregates the communities too.

I’m subscribed to many communities/magazines in a variety of instances. And many of those I found through word of mouth on here or just by browsing “Hot”. They weren’t hard to find. I honestly don’t see the problem. It’s supposed to be splintered so no central authority has control. That’s the whole point.

That said, don’t just call people out who downvote you. No one owes you an explanation if they thought your post was bad. I’ve already seen it once and it was pretty childish.