https://www.fimfiction.net/story/62074/friendship-is-optimal

Yes of course.

But by what method or algorithm does this DECENTRALIZED SOCIAL MEDIA system protect us from propagandists and censors?

What is a method in THAT?

Distributed tagging and voting? The grace of our benevolent moderators? Something else?

I mean, combatting propaganda and censorship is the #1 issue here.

How do we protect ourselves from propagandists and censors? Large, small, popular and individual.

I find that the people who use terms like “right wing loser” are indistinguishable from the people who use terms like “left wing loser”.

That’s fair. But I actually admire the guy. And you people tend to witch-hunt like a bunch of Monty Python extras on crack. So you see where I’m coming from.

No. Can you link me?

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ok, watched the video. Ya, that’s a pretty fascist salute there.

This is mob insanity at work. There is no nazi.

He’s just waving at the audience for Christ’s sake.

I get censored here all the time.

Brave and creative.

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You should just answer the questions.

Everything written by Greg Egan for the first decade or so of his writing career

It’s a good point.

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The foundation of the common subculture is knowing who it’s ok to hate.

You just belong to the wrong subculture. Otherwise it would make sense.

Proof is constrained to mere intellect. Intellect is a coarse, low-rez thing.

Self-cultivation, otoh, has no limit. If you want to crack the simulation then that’s the way to go.

Cropping. I am a master of cropping

Laura Caron

But Star Wars!

(Movies about revolution, designed to program us to be terrible, inefficient, failing revolutionaries. In case we ever get ideas. It’s a long game.)