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  1. Comment on I'm not ready to let this place go in ~tildes

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    Personally, if a community member who I knew left the community, I much prefer fond goodbyes to simply disappearing one day.

    Personally, if a community member who I knew left the community, I much prefer fond goodbyes to simply disappearing one day.

    5 votes

  2. Comment on Is there any interest in building a Tildes successor? in ~tildes

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    I don't see this as a shortcoming of allowing volunteer moderators in user-created social spaces as it is a refusal of the company running them to do anything about it. As far as I'm concerned,...

    Like even on a more prosaic note, WallStreetBets and assorted communities based on stoking degenerate gambling tendencies have almost certainly ruined many lives, flushed lots of inheritances down the toilet, and destroyed families.

    I don't see this as a shortcoming of allowing volunteer moderators in user-created social spaces as it is a refusal of the company running them to do anything about it. As far as I'm concerned, neither Reddit or Discord have clean hands here.

    Thinking about it a bit, the idea of giving users the power to create and moderate their own social spaces has quite a bit to do with the fact that it's the only way you can possibly create good social spaces on corporate-owned social networks, because you can't trust the platforms to do so, nor the community at large via gamified moderation tools.

    2 votes

  3. Comment on Is there any interest in building a Tildes successor? in ~tildes

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    Sure, that's a problem. I don't think that allowing for the possibility of bad volunteer moderators is a good thing. I just think that it's the best "bad" option among worse alternatives. For...

    Sure, that's a problem. I don't think that allowing for the possibility of bad volunteer moderators is a good thing. I just think that it's the best "bad" option among worse alternatives.

    For context, I grew up in the era of web forums, where the moderators of a forum ended up being whoever the person paying for the forum hosting said they were. As you might guess, the quality of forum moderation varied significantly between forums. Discord very much reminds me of this model, with the caveat that the friction necessary for creating new communities is much much lower than having to pay for and having the know how to host a web forum.

  4. Comment on Is there any interest in building a Tildes successor? in ~tildes

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    I don't consider bad moderators a problem, so long as the friction to create new social spaces is low. In fact, I think that having extensive moderation options is critical for the possibility of...

    I don't consider bad moderators a problem, so long as the friction to create new social spaces is low. In fact, I think that having extensive moderation options is critical for the possibility of "good" moderation to exist, whatever your definition of "good" is.

    Those same tools do allow bad moderators to exist, but I consider the alternatives of no moderation and user-delegated moderation to be much, much worse. The availability of user-driven moderation is why I don't visit Reddit or Hacker News anymore.

  5. Comment on Is there any interest in building a Tildes successor? in ~tildes

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    Discord solved #1 and #2 nicely. It gives users near total control over their discord servers - which I think is critical for the possibility of "good" moderation to exist - but the nature of how...

    Discord solved #1 and #2 nicely.

    It gives users near total control over their discord servers - which I think is critical for the possibility of "good" moderation to exist - but the nature of how servers and invites work mean that you can't really "squat" a term, and you can't squat an invite link without having an actual community behind it.

  6. Comment on Any significant changes to Tildes are extremely unlikely in ~tildes.official

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    The Something Awful Forums are still running, even though registering an account is $10.

    The Something Awful Forums are still running, even though registering an account is $10.

    6 votes

  7. Comment on PS3 emulation is fast on ARM now in ~comp

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    I posted this video in ~comp because the video is a lot more than a mere announcement. It gets into the weeds of fixed performance issues encountered with the ARM port of RPCS3, such as busy-wait...

    I posted this video in ~comp because the video is a lot more than a mere announcement. It gets into the weeds of fixed performance issues encountered with the ARM port of RPCS3, such as busy-wait optimizations and fixing codegen shortcomings in the recompiler.

    7 votes

  9. Comment on Zig creator calls spade a spade, Anthropic blows smoke in ~comp

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    Is it really more rigorous if it happily resorts to "unsafe" at every opportunity to make the code run?

    Is it really any surprise that making the lowest level of this tooling more rigorous helps this autocompletion loop write working code?

    Is it really more rigorous if it happily resorts to "unsafe" at every opportunity to make the code run?

    3 votes

  11. Comment on Zig creator weighs in on the Bun Rust rewrite in ~comp

  12. Comment on Sports entertainment makes me angry in ~talk

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    The OP of this post is a professional artist and clearly felt attacked.

    The OP of this post is a professional artist and clearly felt attacked.

    7 votes

  13. Comment on Sports entertainment makes me angry in ~talk

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    If by chilling speech you mean "Maybe i need to reconsider the words I say before I say them" then...I'd consider that mission accomplished, and I honestly don't see why that's a bad thing.

    If by chilling speech you mean "Maybe i need to reconsider the words I say before I say them" then...I'd consider that mission accomplished, and I honestly don't see why that's a bad thing.

    7 votes

  14. Comment on Sports entertainment makes me angry in ~talk

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    I apologize, but I'm afraid that I don't really understand how you can think that the original post was appropriate while this one wasn't. If one is bullying, than so is the other, for the very...

    I apologize, but I'm afraid that I don't really understand how you can think that the original post was appropriate while this one wasn't.

    If one is bullying, than so is the other, for the very similar reasons. You can't have it both ways.

    8 votes

  15. Comment on Sports entertainment makes me angry in ~talk

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    Self-reflection? Reconsideration of the words we use when we talk about something we don't particularly care for?

    What positive outcome is there here?

    Self-reflection? Reconsideration of the words we use when we talk about something we don't particularly care for?

    5 votes

  16. Comment on Sports entertainment makes me angry in ~talk

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    To me, the post illustrates casts a new light on how hostile the prior post actually was, and would encourage me to be more thoughtful if I ever felt the need to discuss something I disliked.

    What possible positive discussion do you see arising from this topic?

    To me, the post illustrates casts a new light on how hostile the prior post actually was, and would encourage me to be more thoughtful if I ever felt the need to discuss something I disliked.

    11 votes

  17. Comment on Microsoft’s Xbox to cut 3,200 jobs, divest five studios in major overhaul in ~games

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    With what investment money? The same investment money that's currently being thrown into the bonfire that is A.I.? Or perhaps another attempt at sportswashing? Just because the old is crumbling...

    especially now that so many laid-off developers have finally received the ultimate inspiration to open their own studio.

    With what investment money? The same investment money that's currently being thrown into the bonfire that is A.I.? Or perhaps another attempt at sportswashing?

    Just because the old is crumbling doesn't mean that what comes after is going to be new and exciting.

    11 votes

  18. Comment on Reddit will require you to be logged in to use old.reddit.com in ~tech

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    I don't think that's cynicism. Reddit was never fantastic at building communities - I'd argue by design - but their recent userbase pivot let most of the rest of the air out of the tires. For my...

    I don't think that's cynicism. Reddit was never fantastic at building communities - I'd argue by design - but their recent userbase pivot let most of the rest of the air out of the tires.

    For my needs, some combination of Tildes, lobste.rs, and Discord suits perfectly. I visit Reddit maybe once a month, if I remember to bother.

    17 votes

  19. Comment on Brave Origin, a paid, premium version of Brave is now available in ~tech

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    I use Firefox accounts with Zen just fine.

    I use Firefox accounts with Zen just fine.

    2 votes

  20. Comment on Brave Origin, a paid, premium version of Brave is now available in ~tech

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    Count me as a very satisfied Zen user.

    Count me as a very satisfied Zen user.

    2 votes