• @[email protected]
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    151 year ago

    Muting means other people can still comment on your stuff, and everyone else but you can see it.

    Its so transphobes and homophobes can continue commenting on LGBT people’s content.

    • Hot Saucerman
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      1 year ago

      Elon Musk really fucking hates his trans daughter. Dad of the century, right here.

      Seriously good on his daughter for dropping his scumbag ass. She deserves far better from a parent.

      • @[email protected]
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        71 year ago

        I wasn’t aware he had more children than the one with the weird-ass name. The private life section on wikipedia is a ride…

        • Hot Saucerman
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          He ascribes to Longtermism and like his associate Jeffery Epstein, he thinks his genes are magically special, and so he wants as many offspring as humanly possible: while not actually giving one shit about the quality of life for any of them.

          It’s really interesting, because he fucking hates his own father (Errol is also a creep who fathered a child with his step-daughter, who he raised from childhood), but can’t put together that he is exactly the fuck the same as his creep ass father.

          • @[email protected]
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            21 year ago

            Longtermism doesn’t have to do with one’s own personal genetics or lineage, though, and it certainly doesn’t belong to Elon.

            Longtermism is a notion coming out of population ethics, that since there will be more people in the future than there are today, that we should take the well-being of all those future people into account when making decisions today.

            This can be taken in lots of different directions — ranging from humanist environmentalism, to space migration, to concern about exotic existential risks.

            But a fixation on one’s own personal DNA is not really related to it at all. That’s more of a misunderstanding of evolutionary biology.

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      1 year ago

      Lemmy’s “block” is essentially a “mute” function, too. It makes it so that you don’t see any more content from a user, but they can still make comments on your stuff.

      • alyaza [they/she]M
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        61 year ago

        lemmy, at least, would have the excuse of being constantly a work in progress and i guess that not having such a large community that hard blocking is necessary. but twitter would be appallingly bad without blocks–it already is with them!

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          Also, Lemmy has the bonus of federation allowing instances to defederate entirely from abuse and spam-happy instances. The smaller instances can have more tight-knit communities and defederating from instances full of jerks might be as worthwhile as a “block.”

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            IIRC from reading about Bluesky, its strategy for dealing with spammer, trolls, hate speech, etc., was to have various servers in the Federation tag posts, users & servers with a “Spam” tag or “Hate speech” tag, and server admins can set their servers to not display posts so tagged, and to not pass them on to other servers.