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Heh. During the Trump administration when all the Republican elected officials we’re shouting Free Speech In Social Media because Trump was getting factchecked on Twitter, we fantasized about a state-serves social media platform that would be as free-speechy as the state legally allowed.

Not that it would be useful except to point at it and say if you don’t moderate your platform, it’ll turn into this!

I expected some poor bureaucrat would have to clear all the CSAM but the furry-futa porn would remain, as would all the advertisements for penis pills and Nigerian princes. The hate speech would stay up but get tracked until someone got radicalized by it.

Is there a community exclusively for users with strange names? And if so, how is qualifying strangeness determined?

Related to this topic is Masnick’s Impossibility Theorem, Mike Masnick observes that it’s impossible to do content moderation at scale well (that is without both malicious content slipping through while false positives get taken down).

A more humorous version of the same notion is found on Masnick’s proposed Twitter content moderation speedrun. Note that Musk not only failed to not trip over all these steps, but also found new ones to trip over, and now Twitter is… well what Twitter is today.

Having recently migrated from Reddit (and kept up with commercial social media hacks) I’m used to Nothing To See Here! We totally didn’t store your personal information in plaintext for hackers to snatch. Oh and maybe please change your passwords. All Part Of The Show!

So, by comparison, the response here is downright heartwarming.

I only gave awards after getting ones that gave me points to give awards, and then gave them either to sad posts or when someone said to someone else, I wish I had an award to give you so take this emoji! (🎖️) so I’d cover for them, as that was appropriate.

This is to say, I suck at awards protocol, and will write fancy comments whether I’m getting awards or not.

To answer your question, for the non-tech-savvy having to pick a server is, yes, too much of a leap. We are conditioned in the industrialized capitalist world against making decisions we don’t understand.

If we want to market it, we could make a wizard that randomly designates a server from a set of cooperating servers. Include also reminders that a user can join multiple servers and each one has separate rules (say, regarding posting NSFW material even to appropriate communities.)

I just talked to a Redditor who was entirely unfamiliar with the recent changes at Reddit.

I’ll have you know I am not (yet!) a Linux user. (Later this year, maybe.)

Welp, a short internet news search of period tracker led me to this interview on Slate

On TechDirt (which I use a lot for tech-industry news) reported this in 2021, so before the Dobbs ruling was leaked or released in May / June 2022.

So, it depends on to what degree you need it confirmed, but it doesn’t seem to be buried.

My most recent trans privacy freak-out was Texas AG Ken Paxton requesting a list of all Texas drivers license / state ID records that have requested a change of sex on their ID, which can also be found searching news.

I think the abortion and trans kids situations are putting into sharp relief the danger of large third parties knowing too much about us. Facebook is absolutely scanning its servers for signs of unwanted pregnancies and relaying that information to red state law enforcement. Other platforms may be doing the same thing.

Women in the US are advised not to use period-tracker apps, given they do often sell the data they glean, and don’t discriminate against far-right interests. And anti-abortion organizations are shopping.

Normies don’t exist. Like birds.