It’s a pretty hard thing to hold back the tsunami of assholes who descend on a company once it starts making above a certain amount of money, who want to use it for evil.

Yeah but why would the company run by the crazy person be the only safe place?

It’s open source. Just find a different host that isn’t run by a known unstable human. Literally any other. That would be my feeling on it, at least.

Yes yes this is a very good point, stay well clear of Wordpress.com, Automattic, or any similar nonsense. All I meant by “Wordpress hosting” was managed hosting from some third-party place like Bluehost or Hostinger. The software is fine, it’s all open source and the worst that will happen is 6 months from now, it’s not getting a lot of feature updates because the core company that was making it has imploded completely, and someone from the community has taken over security updates.

But yes you need to stay clear of the clusterfuck while it’s going on. Don’t use Wordpress.com or anything adjacent to it.

Edit: Wait, I didn’t even read closely enough. Why would Wordpress.com be safe? I had some vague impression it was connected with Automattic in some way, although I’m not sure, maybe it is just one of the third-party companies. I just feel like anything that’s in any way adjacent to Automattic or anything “official” about Wordpress would be best avoided for a while.

It’ll be vastly cheaper and easier to just get hosting somewhere.

Wordpress hosting (edit: THIRD PARTY Wordpress hosting, Bluehost and Hostinger are decent I think, see below) is fine for most small businesses and starts at about $10/mo. You can go fancier and more reliable and go up to $30/mo or something, or if you really need your own VPS you can go with Vultr or Hostinger and get a pretty similar price range for pretty much whatever you want to do.

I think the only reason to self-host is if you have some crazy special hardware or legal issue, or your own dev stuff that you don’t want/need to push to “the cloud” to put it online. Otherwise it’s such a buyer’s-choice market that it’s hard to justify.

I literally sent you an article with citations, for the idea that ToM in animals is controversial within “science,” with some alternate explanations like associative learning, and you’re still in the mode of trying to explain it to me, to help me out of my ignorance about it.

Read the article. If nothing else, just read the “History and Development” section where it talks about particular researchers and papers. I get where you’re coming from, because it’s hard to believe, because most sensible people (probably including pretty much all working vets, yes, or at least I would hope so) understand that animals have a ToM. But within “science,” it’s considered controversial. I think the question of what the psychology is that leads some people who do science to think that, would be a fascinating question that I don’t really have a firm answer for.

Well… we’re not still in the “animals don’t feel pain” days of science, but apparently:

The existence of theory of mind in non-human animals is controversial. On the one hand, one hypothesis proposes that some non-human animals have complex cognitive processes which allow them to attribute mental states to other individuals, sometimes called “mind-reading” while another proposes that non-human animals lack these skills and depend on more simple learning processes such as associative learning;[4] or in other words, they are simply behaviour-reading.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind_in_animals

Yeah. This stuff where animals don’t know what’s going on, and it’s a surprising breakthrough when we find out they do, must come from people who either don’t know up from down or have never interacted with animals.

Unlike us, they have to survive on their own and so they can’t afford to be clueless about stuff. We have the fancy fancy brain, but they’ve still got all the standard stuff for understanding the world.

My guy. They’re cutting big pieces out of the building we all live in, and they have a handgun at the ready if anyone tries to stop them, and they’re drunk. And you’re talking about “Well we’re DEFINITELY going to talk about this at the next house meeting.”

What else is there, to me, is file a writ with a federal judge asking for permission to use some specific authorized type of physical force to stop it, since it is illegal. Where things go from there, I have no idea, but “please don’t, you can’t” is a massive waste of time right now.

Edit: Actually, a better analogy is “big pieces out of the boat we’re all on.” You can leave and get a new building to live in.

Sen. Brian Schatz vowed to block Trump’s State Department nominees in protest.

That’ll show him.

USAID?

My guy, he already tried to kill you guys once four years ago. He’s having military and federal LEOs snatching people off the street, getting all their practice in for when it starts against non-migrants.

You’re not wrong but your urgency and priorities need some fucking help and reassessment here.

"At 7am watching the cars on the bridge

Everybody’s going to work. Well.

Not me. I’m not

Going to work."

-James Moore

Just say no.

React with surprise and indignation. What? No. I’m definitely not doing that.

What are they going to do, fire you? Okay. People’s lives are at stake for how much traction all this bullshit is allowed to gain. It’s really allowed to be just that simple.

“No.”

ATC staffing is at “not normal” levels quite a lot of the time. For as much money as this country has, and how “life-and-death times several hundred” important it is, it’s a sign of a very profound type of dysfunction that’s been going on for as long as it has. Simply put, the problem is that no one with the ability to fix it gives a shit.

Under Trump’s new orders, ICE is now allowed to target migrants at sensitive locations, like schools and churches, for arrests and potential deportations.

And FUCKING HOSPITALS. And quizzing people about their immigration status when they seek help for a medical emergency.

It would have taken fewer words to just not excise hospitals from your partial list of “sensitive locations,” but I can see why you wouldn’t want to talk about it. It’s real fucked up.

Billions of people earned a bunch of money, trillions of dollars, and part of our system is that we all give it to a big organization which is tasked with doing stuff that we all agree is necessary to spend it on. The reality is a little different from the theory in some very important ways, but that’s not a million miles away from what happens in reality.

And now, Trump is saying “What the fuck are you even talking about, that trillions of dollars is MINE, and mine alone.”

I don’t think this is quite accurate. Without moderation tools this place would be riddled with spam, porn, and so on.

Moderation is a software system. Censorship is culture. You can approve of moderating obviously abusive content, while still objecting to the idea of moderators enforcing a single point of view by deleting comments that disagree with them.

Of course, there’s a big grey area there. And some people complain about “censorship” when they are being abusive and being moderated for it, but that’s not what OP is doing, as far as I can tell.

Yinz guessing at what this guy mean “censorship,” and basing yinz advice to him on ya guess, needs taught to read the modlog.

Happy now? There needs to be a non-offensive second person plural. I didn’t mean anything by it, I just geniunely don’t know what I should say that would be satisfying.

Edit: More correct yinzer

Precisely lol.

OP was not the one “censored.” They participated in a comments section about keyboards, and the mod was going around deleting comments about FUTO saying “offtopic,” and OP asked why is someone censoring comments. That seems like a pretty fair question to me. Especially since some of the comments looked on topic to me, and then there was a second post “What are your thoughts on FUTO?” that also had some apparently-innocent comments that I guess the mod disagreed with deleted.

It sounds, to me, like OP has a point, and lemmy.world is doing its thing and just charging ahead with whatever the most stereotypical possible take someone could have on whatever issue is at hand, after seeing it and spending 0 seconds thinking, and then yelling at anyone who disagrees with that take. Maybe I missed something, but that’s what it looks like to me.

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OP has never been moderated themselves. They participated in a comments section about keyboards. Some of the comments about FUTO were deleted because it was deemed offtopic, even though it kind of seemed on topic to me. Then, there was a separate post about FUTO specifically, which also had some stuff deleted from it. So it doesn’t seem like the issue was the on-topic-ness, after all. Maybe I missed something in my cursory glance over everything, but it definitely looked to me like the moderator was picking what point of view was “correct”, and deleting comments that went too far in the opposite direction from that. OP asked, “Why is there so many censored posts about keyboard apps?” which sounds like a great question.

What did I miss? I could have missed something. What did you see that OP was talking about instead of that?

You guys who are guessing at what behavior this guy is describing as “censorship,” and basing your advice to him on your guess, need to learn to read the modlog.

@OP, not every instance is like that. lemmy.ml is notorious for censoring discussion as a way of the moderator picking a “correct” point of view and enforcing it. It’s weird. Don’t go to lemmy.ml and you mostly won’t have issues with it, although some individual political communities may tend to do it, depending. But it’s not a feature of all of the fediverse. It’s just sort of an unfortunate side effect of the way moderation is structured. Mostly, the culture here isn’t like that, though. Mostly. Sometimes it is.