Yeah it's the lack of vote counting, more than the lack of downvotes, that I really appreciate. (Not to say I really miss downvotes or anything, I just really don't care either way.)
I'm also on Tildes and they also lack downvotes, but once you've been on there a week you get the ability to label things (noise, jokes, malice), which sort of functions as a more nuanced downvote button. But they share the lack of overall karma score, which keeps that same nice non-performative vibe.
Even more than that, you have the idea that 'similar users to yourself buy a lot of alcohol, so you probably will too'. Of course alcoholics, whether attempting recovery or not, are likely to buy alcohol. So if you're a recovering alcoholic, 'similar users to yourself' are gonna be buying more alcohol than usual, and so you'll see ads for it. Totally heartless and just for-profit.
I see what you mean to an extent, and I also just moved over, but it's worth remembering that Digg -> Reddit was the same afaik. Like Reddit had been around and established for a decent amount of time before the fall of Digg. (This is second-hand info because I wasn't around at the time)
I'd be interested to know from someone more tech-savvy whether googling advice, and then clicking on the cached version, still counts as viewing reddit. Because I'd ideally still like to append reddit to my google searches without giving them ad views.
AKA if someone monetises advice given for free, we should be able to freely access it.
I'd be interested to know from someone more tech-savvy whether googling advice, and then clicking on the cached version, still counts as viewing reddit. Because I'd ideally still like to append reddit to my google searches without giving them ad views.
AKA if someone monetises advice given for free, we should be able to freely access it.
The last point - "We can’t have people eager to separate “human, the biological category, from a person or a unit worthy of moral respect.”" is one I understand where they're coming from, but am very divided, perhaps because my academic background involves animal rights and ethics.
The question of analogising animals and humans is so tricky with a very long history - many people have a kneejerk reaction against any analogy of nonhuman animals and (especially marginalised) humans, often for good reasons. For instance, the strongest reason is the history of oppression involving comparisons of marginalised groups to animals, specifically meant to dehumanise and contribute to further oppression/genocide/etc.
But to my mind, I don't find the analogies inherently wrong, although they're often used very clumsily and without care. There's often a difference in approach that entirely colours people's responses to it; namely, whether they think it's trying to drag humans down, or trying to bring nonhuman animals up to having moral status. And that last is imo a worthy endeavour, because I do think that we should to some extent separate “human, the biological category, from a person or a unit worthy of moral respect.” I have moral respect for my dog, which is why I don't hurt her - it's because of her own moral worth, not some indirect moral worth as suggested by Kant or various other philosophers.
I don't think the debate is the same with AI, at least not yet, and I think it probably shouldn't be, at least not yet. And I'm also somewhat sceptical of the motivations of people who make these analogies. But that doesn't mean there'll never be a place for it - and if a place for it arises it's just going to need to be done with care, like animal rights needs to be done with care.
I'm not super over how the fediverse works mechanically; I was under the impression that users could create their own instances and interact with who they choose to?
I've heard of bi as experiencing both homosexual (same-gender) and heterosexual (different-gender) attraction. That's the definition I like, as it's not necessarily non-binary exclusionary and so accurately describes how I experience attraction.
Sure, when it's r/all by top. But a massive part of it is subreddits, which then constitute the front page. The majority of my Reddit front page isn't memes, because my main subscriptions are things like acting, patientgamers, askhistorians, piano, etc. Which don't have many, if any, memes posted.
Note that it might take a while though, so if anyone wants to get this done before the 30th (so you can use API-based tools to wipe comments), request it ASAP.
I requested...maybe two weeks or so ago? And it only came through today. So get to it y'all