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Teleporters are interesting because when you think about it long enough, you realize the person on departure end died.

You think about it more... and if the person that comes out the arrival end is an exact replica -- down to the atom -- and, further, has internal continuity of experience... You realize that if you accept they died then you kind of also have to accept that the "you" of any given instant is constantly dying and giving way to the "you" of the next instant. That person living that experience at that exact moment will never exist again; they're dead.

So you're kinda back to transporters being business as usual again, but with a fun new existential crisis on the side.

I will! I posted a couple more on Kbin but will mirror then here tomorrow.

A big part of it is people are just angry and stressed in general because the system we live in is fundamentally broken (pretty much no matter where you are in the world, though I am speaking through an American lens since the majority of Reddit is American).

Everyone can feel the effects of an economy and government that just doesn't work for them. We're fundamentally divided on how to fix it. Minorites are directly under attack and that manages to leach into most conversations, either directly or sideways. It makes people incredibly defensive.

The fediverse has a higher barrier to entry and, statistically, tech-minded people skew liberal. We're a self-selecting community that is just more likely to agree -- for instance -- that trans people are people.

Further, since these services are decentralizedv and self-hosted, we can literally make hate groups unwelcome/banned from our instances because there is no profit motivation for hand-wringing like there is with Reddit.

Joined! Just cross-posted over there. Hope that's okay!

PSA for non-developers: "six-months" in the software world is slang for "optimistically, one year".

Also the fact that they were involving the third party app maintainers at all. There's no technical reason that REDDIT couldn't put the payment mechanisms in place to block USERS from making API calls through Oauth Apps. If you pay whatever subscription fee your account can make calls through whatever third party app you like.

But instead they decided that they were going to charge the APPS for some inane reason, and put figuring out a user-facing payment mechanism on those maintainers.

It looks great, but the effects are still quite obviously models.

I would much rather traditional ads than crypto mining. I don't want Kbin or Lemmy to become environmentally unfriendly electricity sinks.

Voting out mods is a TERRIBLE idea. It means a very active minority can effectively control a large subreddit, and politically oriented / minority spaces are going to have constant campaigns trying to take them over.

Can you imagine what it's going to be like moderating TwoX, lgbt, or egg_irl if this change goes through? What a nightmare.

There's no easy answer for that. For me it's people who are data-driven in their opinions, will happily explain and share that data for scrutiny, and who are generally well-regarded in their field, and therefore getting double-checked by other experts.

The nice thing about peer-reviewed science is that you don't have to JUST vibe-check the person. All of their studies will have been reviewed by multiple scientists. It's not a perfect system, but it's the best we've come up with to date. If what they believe gets disproven by other studies, you can see how they react. Do they dig in, or do they adapt their world view?

Empathy is also important to me, so data-driven beliefs who's execution is informed by empathy.

Interesting. Someone should ask a lawyer about it. A class action lawsuit against Reddit right before IPO would be hilarious.

Oh I see. I misunderstood the comment then. Thanks for the clarification!