.world

Sh.itjust.works

Sopuli.xyz

Lemmy.cafe

Don’t believe I’ve, personally, received those either.

Uh, I’ve never recieved gore or child porn on here at all

For the record, I’ve never received gore, child porn, or, for that matter, PMs at all from Drag.

You didn’t have to draw on me like that

“Rarely” is not “never”, reaction is faster than conscious action by the study’s conclusions (just not fast enough to offset acting first), and, furthermore, in an actual shooting situation, the important thing is not to actually be the second to draw, but to provoke your own reaction regardless of whether the signal you react to (ie an errant twitch of the opponent’s fingers) is genuine or a false alarm.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/reactions-faster-actions-study-finds-flna1C9442417

National armies would literally line up facing each other in uniforms with literal X-marks-the-spot targets.

The reason for armies meeting up like that, and in bright colors, is to avoid friendly fire, not because of honor or anything like that. When you have a bunch of peasants dragged from their homes and shove a musket in their hands, anything more complex than “Holy shit, holy fucking shit, do NOT shoot or stab the guys in BRIGHT RED, only those in BRIGHT BLUE” tends to get lost in the chaos of battle.

There’s no way to “fire early” because they are watching for you to reach for your gun.

The ‘conventional’ wisdom is to wait for the other duelist to reach for their gun because reflex is faster than conscious action.

But the extent to which the fediverse seems to like to do this stuff just seems really extreme to me, and a lot of times what it’s based on is just weird petty bullying nonsense.

Not saying that it isn’t a problem, but as someone who’s been Around™ online, this is pretty par-for-the-course stuff.

Ah, to remember the glory days of Livejournal and Tumblr… and don’t get me started back in the days when every fandom had a dozen sites which all hated each other for vague and extremely personal reasons.

Read the whole thing. Everyone involved in this, author included, seems to be batshit insane?

I’m about halfway through.

I didn’t realize Mastodon was big enough for so much fucking drama.

In the long run, whitelisting may become the norm for federation instead of blacklisting.

I was just offered 500$ to be someone’s friend. Of course, I refused - my friendship is worth much more than that!

But it’s… concerning that we’ve got this sudden spike in spam.

Crypto doesn’t really solve any of the problems that a payment processor wouldn’t also solve, unfortunately.

Real life. The offline world. Grassville.

I know that Federation is exciting, but all these ideas for federated services are really missing the reason why the Fediverse’s current bits are successful - because they have low moral hazard.

When you get into economics and meatspace relationships, moral hazard skyrockets.

Stole them from the US*

fucking what

Israel’s nuclear program development was dependent on French and British support

I wouldn’t place any high value on what we’re doing here. At best, you should view this as bitching about the news at the local college-kid frequented coffeeshop. Yes, there is an element of raising awareness and discussion - it’s not useless, but ultimately, it’s not going to play a major role in getting us out of this shitshow. We’re discussing matters because it brings us some relief to do so, first and foremost.

As is .world