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Your absolutist statements ("based on nothing but emotion and ideology") do nothing but betray your own ignorance. As an American living in Switzerland, a "good policy" (whatever t…

When I, a white young boy, grew up in The South and saw the Klan, my father taught me to never do business with them, never enable their behavior, never let their organization rent…

Of Rousseau? ISBN: 9781981974566. Translated with an introduction by G. D. H. Cole. I did not do much research into different translations of this work nor the translator themselve…

I think you've simply found the "able-to-have-these-convos conservatives" to have these discussions with and haven't found the "able-to-have-these-convos liberals". Note that I hat…

I just finished Rousseau's Social Contract and Discourses , and I really recommend reading the Discourses as they paint a harrowing picture of how any government -- including democ…

We can skip the formalities then! Please state your full legal name, date of birth, current address of residence, bank account numbers, credit card numbers, email addresses, passwo…

I am not arguing that one has to be technical in order to benefit from those freedoms. I like FLOSS and agree users in general benefit. I am saying that your example, for instance,…

It may focus on user's rights, but it still requires technical expertise to exercise half of the 4 freedoms: #1 (inspection & modification) and #3 (distributing your modifications)…

Woosh. I know the legal definition of Corporate Personhood. This is not the same idea as saying "I believe corporations are human-people", which is what the sarcastic poster was pl…

Yeah my apartment neighbor, who is a corporation, broke down crying the other night from all the stress at work and the news. Cried really loudly, could hear through my walls. But …

> If you don't want to feel criticized when people point out basic facts to you Dude! As I said, you could treat me as a full fledged adult and we could have an actual intelligent …

Glad to know you think of my intelligence so uncharitably that you have to explain a tautological definition. I know that insurance only covers the insured. I charitably assumed th…

If you want to play the anecdote game: There's also a local Indian Restaurant whose owner was on the phone with the police while watching it burn on the local news, and he basicall…

I am 100% not straw manning them. I couldn't believe the conversation I was having. It's very few people that have this crazy of a hardline stance, but they're out there.

I'm sorry! Based on context, I understood your post to refute mine to support sneak. And sneak and I have had heated debates about the Fediverse before, and you've stumbled into th…

Main-instance Mastodon (run by the main dev) has made moderation choices that people disagree with. It means conversations here always brings out this same group group of people th…

You're right, my mistake. In some cases it is not transparent. However, this is not a systematic censorship problem, unlike centralized services with opaque policy language and a c…

Mastodon is just one ActivityPub software. PeerTube and Pixelfed let your loosely-connected Twitter clones also be loosely connected to Instagram clones. It's a big world. So I wou…

Sorry, didn't mean to put words in your mouth. However, it's very presumptuous to say: "I really wanted Mastodon to be where I can find everyone." That's Facebook and Twitter. And …

Instance banning is neither silent nor invisible. Every Mastodon instance has an About page (no login required) listing all instance bans and reasons, anytime. I would be in agreem…

> But admins can still choose to block instances in the future that I might have interest interacting with. It is like a gamble choosing an instance. Then have multiple accounts an…

You can't force user's eyeballs to read the bytes you ship to their computers unless you want to go full Clockwork Orange. Some people want to exercise the rights over their comput…

Oops, I think I misunderstood what I was replying to. I see what you mean. I'm more interested in exploring getting the entire AP ecosystem be encrypted by default, using Chris' wo…

ActivityStreams is a data format, not a protocol. ActivityPub is the protocol that Mastodon, Pleroma, etc use which shares ActivityStreams data.

Have you seen the "About" page on instances? It lists exactly what you want: what instances are defederated by the instance. Here's the page for the instance I reside in: https://m…