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I caught the joke :) I mentioned playing devils advocate cus I don't want to actually attack you or anything, I just saw an interesting opposing viewpoint that I hadn't heard expressed yet. I think your closer to the best solution in general tho

I agree with the above convo you've been having, but your comment made me think, so I'll play a little devils advocate here: do we want 1000 "I agree." comments following each other comment? Not really. There needs to be a simple way to say "I like this but don't have anything to add". An upvote accomplishes this.

As for downvotes, yes they need to be more than "I disagree". Something akin to "I don't think this contributes". I liked someone's suggestion that we need more than the binary up and down. Maybe a "troll" vote too.

I would upvote/boost this, but I get the same issue 🤣

Gotcha! I thought something was up with that. I noticed it seemed to not work either. Good catch.

I wasn't sure if you knew about messages or not because I've seen a lot of people miss features already. Even took me some to e to find a few lol

You're only doing this now that a trending post is calling you out. What about when they called you out before? You're just trying to win a popularity contest.

Thanks for making it clear that you prefer your way because it benefits you and your goals of being noticed instead of just being clear and direct and honest. This is why a lot of people get sick of the bots and just turn them off. Guess you'll just get added to the blocklist too

Again, tell me you've never been on a large forum without telling me.

threading won't fix anything

Tell me you didn't grow up using forums without telling me you didn't use forums. There's a reason even discord has added forums back. They work.

A "push notification" is just a notification sent direct to the phone, outside of the app. It's to alert you that "hey, this app has something to show you". The inbox is its own seperate thing in the app, and already does something similar.

That's just not feasible once the fediverse grows more. You're expecting people to memorize hundreds of names/avatar images or else stay in a tiny echochamber in order to know the people. And doesn't address the issue of other people coming in and having to scour numerous threads and comments to follow your "conversation".

Your error is in thinking they "thwart" the crime. They don't. They punish after the fact. That's still upholding the law(punishment for breaking it) without protecting a person. There is no law that says they have to put their lives in danger, so they're not breaking any laws when they don't intervene.

It's not mental gymnastics. It's that laws are specific so as not to be too broad and overreaching and in this case, there is a massive Blindspot that has not only been allowed to exist, but has been further codified in legal precedent.

"Protect and serve" is a PR statement. It is not a codified law anywhere.

Basically no. They have an obligation to arrest the perpetrator. They can't be made to risk their safety in defending you tho. So no, they don't have to protect you in that situation and they can still do their "job" by arresting the perpetrator after.