Notices by Laurelai Bailey (laurelai@mastodon.starrevolution.org), page 37

you know, all these issues with nazi urls would be rendered /entirely useless/ if you shift to a whitelist mode of server blocks.

im absolutely baffled as to why every admin on fedi deliberately chooses to constantly have to be on high alert for nazi urls as opposed to instantly blocking them all permanently.

why would you spend so much effort finding bad urls when you could be spending your time adding good ones to a list instead, and NEVER have to deal with nazi urls again

every single argument ive heard against whitelisting today could easily have been said by any so-called "free speech advocate."

servers and users should NOT be guaranteed a universal platform by default, and guaranteeing any schmuck with a server and too much free time access to your users is actively malicious and should be fought against

Ugh, I'm really not liking what they've done with the Earth series. The plot-holes are piling up way too much.

So, like, it was established back during the turn of the 20th Century that using fossil fuels could mess with the climate, and that was confirmed more and more. THEN they bring out what was thought to be some dumb Phlebotnum mechanic of a literal rock that just oozes energy at insanely high densities.

Like, really? /That/ BS is what you're gonna use to get out of the wreck-the-environment thing? Alright, sure.

Of course they use the rock to make bombs because naturally.

BUT THEN THEY NEVER EVEN USE THE ROCK FOR ENERGY GENERATION WTF?! I mean, a /little/ bit, but what was the /point/ of introducing the rock if the characters'll just ignore it and keep burning coal?

I think I'm gonna stop watching. It's too ridiculous at this point.

Deplatforming works.

Banning known neo-Nazis and their sympathizers from the official builds of your apps?

Not only A-OK with me, but downright encouraged.

We fought a war over this, and people - not just politicians - have been murdered by neo-Nazis in just recent history.

They're already illegal in many places where these apps are not just used, but *developed*. Not everywhere is as uncaring and enabling as the US.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/inside-a-texas-building-where-the-government-is-holding-immigrant-children

I can’t fathom treating children like this. Or even adults. They’ve got 350 kids crammed into a facility meant to house 104 adults... and not even blankets and mats enough for all of them. There for weeks and not being given a chance to brush teeth or shower, in filthy clothes and not being treated properly for illness / pests. They shouldn’t even be there but its beyond obscene to keep them there in those conditions.

@Laurelai when he sells it, people will finally understand.

@Laurelai nope, he's committed to his baby. sticking monomaniacally with the first bad idea that pops into mind, and heaping more junk atop it instead of waiting to see if problems crop up, is par for the computer-geek course

@Laurelai if you weren't shackled to an instance, to be a user on this pseudo-decentralized network, then maybe it would work more like it's supposed to

but instead, instances just accumulate members and it's not easy to move. some instances don't even allow deletion of your old account