Yep works anytime, and it’s a one-and-done rather than something you have to keep running so it’s very convenient to use

Thank you for your work on this! In the future, do you prefer bug reports here or codeberg/github/whatever forge you use?

When I add an image from the voyager app on lemmy.zip or piefed.zip that’s how it seems to be done - the image is uploaded to the pictrs server and then hyperlinked exactly like that. Piefed.zip is down right now so I can’t test if it’s the pictrs upload (suspect this one) or the hyperlinking, but I’ll play with it more later to find out. Thanks!

Does somewhere on the web include my instance’s pictrs server or is that managed by piefed?

…wait what? Can you elaborate on this?

I’m not sure I’d agree that morals are societal expectations, cuz imo you could still have a moral system in a vacuum and it’s relatively common to have a set of morals that disagrees (sometimes strongly) with what your own culture dictates as norms.

Like in my eyes my actions don’t need to be perceived to be subject to my own morality, and my culture’s perception of my actions also don’t affect their morality. As an extreme example, a citizen of nazi germany might have been perceived as immoral in their own culture for sabotaging nazis by assisting holocaust victims in hiding or escapes, but I don’t think most people would argue that makes that person immoral (probably the opposite). Obviously I’m not saying that’s your position in this, I know you already mentioned exceptions and that would def be one, just trying to show that a person’s morals can exist outside their culture’s perception of them.

IMO your morals are shaped by your culture the same way you’re shaped by your environment, but I definitely wouldn’t conflate them with societal expectations - I see them as a Venn diagram, where some expectations are based on morals but others are unrelated and aspects of a moral code can be independent of social expectations. Like I mentioned before, there’s social expectations around the way we dress that clearly have no moral basis, and examples of people morally dissenting from their culture’s norms are all thru history.

I definitely agree with your last point that a society where people don’t care about being moral can’t survive - but I’d argue like above that it’s not the outside perception (and resulting shame factor) that enforces morality but an individual sense of right and wrong that most people have and at least attempt to live by. There’s always gonna be people who simply don’t have or attempt to follow their own morals or sense of empathy ofc, but imo that’s what laws are for and trying to enforce norms with shame as well is unlikely to work on people who don’t have those things. Like you can’t shame a sociopath (also not a psychologist so using the colloquial meaning) into doing or not doing things - it’s just not a productive way to convince them to act pro-socially. IMO we should just enforce reasonable laws, stick to the tolerance contract, and ignore societal expectations as irrelevant- let people dress as they want and get up to whatever weird harmless shit all this pointless shame is repressing.

I’m not sure if I agree with this, imo morals and common sense are what people should follow and if society’s expectations can’t justify themselves using either then it’s the expectations that need to be adjusted. Living by expectations is too close to allowing outside shame to dictate your life for me personally, religions have weaponized that shit against us for too long already. In the not-too-distant past (and present, some places), following the expectations of society would mean LGBTQ+ people spending their lives closeted and unhappy and for what? Who benefits when people are afraid to step off the beaten path?

IMO the only social expectations that matter are the ones that can be backed up by moral or logical points, like not littering and treating other people like human beings with feelings, and if they need external justification to matter then clearly it’s not the expectations that are the relevant part. We have a lot of bullshit expectations we live with simply because we’re used to them, and breaking these expectations shouldn’t be occasional exceptions - it should just be what we do if we feel like it.

Someone was telling me about how she polices her daughter’s clothing recently and “has to” stop her from wearing stripes and polka dots together, and like… I get bonding with your kid by teaching them things, in this case fashion, and I’m not saying that’s a bad thing to do. But also, like, let lil girl rock her weird little shit if she wants to, what’s the harm? The social expectations are just stifling her experimentation with style, and they’re doing literally no good to anybody. Modern society crushes and commercializes your individuality anyway, it doesn’t need help.

Anyway sorry for hitting you with a huge rant outta nowhere but being authentic to yourself is a core belief of mine (where it’s not toxic to do so, anyway) and I’ve wasted literally years of my life trying to figure out what’s actually me and what’s just social expectations I was unconsciously shaped by, so this shit activates my sleeper agent mode lmao

wow what the fuck did you just call me stupid

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Worse in the sense of more errors, sure, but as you go you’ll pick up more of the rust patterns of thinking and imo it’s very worth it. It’s an odd blend and can be a bit verbose but I definitely prefer it to a pure OO or pure functional style language personally

I went and read your other comment before responding to this and @[email protected] said pretty much exactly what I would’ve responded here (except they did it with much less rambling than I probably woulda lmao).

What makes you say voting doesn’t work on the fediverse tho?

Comments that are overwhelmingly downvoted are at the bottom of the discussion (and iirc can be hidden by default), and when I browse a community it defaults to sorting by hot so that downvoted posts are below anything else.

Community consensus on what’s worth seeing / not seeing are all I knew to look for in a votes system and that seems functional on my end at least. I didn’t use r*ddit and I may be missing some aspect of it tho, so this is a genuine question

It’s also convenient that you could check a post with suspiciously high vote engagement and see that (for example) a bunch of “users” from a new instance have brigaded it. Luckily if this has happened yet on lemmy I haven’t seen it at least, and I hope and assume people won’t care about votes here enough to do it, but the transparency is nice to have imo

i personally don’t like the public votes in the same way i don’t like public comments or profiles. Pre-lemmy i just didn’t make accounts and didn’t interact with stuff, but here i’ve tried to consciously push myself to interact because imo lemmy (and libre social media in general) is worth the slight sacrifice of privacy.

r*ddit was the de-facto knowledge base of the internet, and letting corporations control the knowledge humanity creates publicly is a huge fuck-up we can only fight with strong legislative action (never gonna happen) or by collectively moving to libre alternatives. ik im preaching to the choir here, but my point in saying this is that we’re doing small but not negligible amounts of good by interacting here even at a loss of personal privacy - only you can decide if that’s worthwhile under your personal threat model.

also worth considering that on the other place people could absolutely scrutinize your votes, since administrators could almost definitely see them the same way they can here. the difference is just that here the admins are whoever chooses to run a server, rather than whoever r*ddit chooses to allow access to. definitely opens it up to more people, but imo feels more honest this way where it’s not faking a level of privacy it doesn’t have.

another note cuz im already rambling, iirc piefed has an interesting idea for this where only “trusted” servers federate the actual votes, and untrusted ones get fake alt accounts that total to the same numbers. i’m not sure i personally care about this, since to me this whole social media shit is already public domain, but if that appeals to you it might be worth checking out

Did I just voluntarily watch an ad? Worse, did I just kinda enjoy an ad??? You have me spiralling here lmao

AMD’s also apparently unifying their server and consumer gpu departments for RDNA5/UDNA iirc, which I’m really hoping helps with this too

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Alright the time travellers are selling, time to short bitcoin

I do think their point about not using E2EE enabling better moderation is worth considering, because it’s absolutely true that the server being unable to filter malicious content makes moderation harder. Still, imo any decent chat client should support it as an option, because if I’m talking to friends I don’t want any servers having access for any reason. Large guilds for public info, like the KDE matrix for example, shouldn’t be E2E encrypted for this exact reason (iirc it’s not, because matrix allows the choice and KDE has chosen correctly). Lack of encryption doesn’t mean all moderation issues are solved, though, cuz that same unencrypted KDE matrix had a pretty major problem with CSAM being spammed a while back.

So IMO the ability to disable E2EE is valuable for a discord replacement, but the author’s idea that E2EE shouldn’t be implemented… does not follow.

I look at all my old pics, and I have many thousands, but tbh I never really watch old videos. These days I try to be a lot more careful about what’s actually worth a video and what should just be a picture and a memory

How do I subscribe to your life hacks

I want people housed, educated, cared for, and trans specifically so they keep making great progress on all the open source software I use