That is the Fediverse. “Threadiverse” was a buzzword made up by Meta when they tried to force attach Threads to us.

The nature of federation means that even if you never post anything to my instance, your garbage may still be visible to my people via tangential interactions on shared linked instances. Bans solve this on the local instance level and are by far the easiest way to accomplish this.

(To be clear, the “you” in this is not referring to you specifically OP, it’s a general term)

Someone must still be responsible for monitoring all this, pulling the trigger on platforms that fit the criteria, and then actually enforcing that trigger pull, though. They will be, by definition, one step behind the public at all times, following them from platform to platform to tell them “you can’t be here anymore”.

People want X (variable, not ex-twitter), the government doesn’t want people to have X, so the government bans X. The people still have X. This fits into the same nutshell that the War on Drugs does and the drugs are winning that one pretty resoundingly, and you have to actually go out in public and buy those. I don’t see a reason why the War on Social Media is going to go differently especially when anyone can set up a VPN from the comfort and privacy of their living room.

This is not sustainable at all and is going to lead to a chain of banning app after platform after app as users move to the next thing and the government struggles to keep up with regulation.

I can’t say I’m surprised by American government clown show tactics at this point but this is, most definitely, clown show tactics.

Linking to discord media seems unsupported in a lot of Lemmy apps, I’m getting a failure to retrieve content error as well on Sync.

Hell is a pretty cool goth club but keep your eyes open because you will find actual vampires there

Literally just opened this, said “Hell yeah”, and then opened the comments

This has turned no tables whatsoever, Facebook/Meta was founded under the intention of abusing their users.

The only way to get everyone to get along is to create a new, even lower underclass of citizen for the humans to all feel smug about. This is that.

This started as a joke but the more I think about it the more afraid I am that I’m right.

It means that folks are still expecting logic and consistency out of US lawmakers.

How about protect your friends and family from a predator?

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He’s good at that, somehow. Wouldn’t be the first time I’ve had that reaction to a video of his.

Point taken I guess. Personally I didn’t view this as some insidious plan, I just kind of assumed the internet is full of wacky folks. Which it definitely is. I like to be inclusive of all who return the favor and personally I’ve never had any sort of beef with Drag before in our limited interactions.

But then again I am not a moderator or admin so my opinion means very little.

If it is a bullshit troll campaign then it’s obviously designed to get people fed up about pronouns and sow discord. The intention is for more people to decide they don’t care about “this stupid neo pronoun bullshit” and for each person that gets fed up about this, trans inclusivity falls in the community.

If it is not a bullshit troll campaign then it isn’t any weirder than other folks I’ve seen before on the internet. Furries and/or otherkin and/or whatever. I might not understand it, but I’m not about to come out here and tell them their self expression is incorrect. Frankly it’s none of my fuckin’ business. Doesn’t hurt me any one way or the other and it might make someone else happy.

So with that as my perspective, I’m just going in whole hog on absolutely respecting the shit out of this, because if they are a troll then they’ll almost certainly get tired of this eventually, and if they aren’t, then I don’t give half a damn what you want to call yourself. Especially if you don’t make a scene when people don’t comply. I’ve never seen Drag make a scene about other people’s choice of what to call them, I’ve only ever seen other people raise questions about how Drag refers to themself.

So, yeah. Do I think it’s a little weird? Sure, it is. Is it harmful? Nah, not really. The only harmful part I’m seeing is how six people want to interrogate them about it every time Drag makes a post about anything and it always overtakes the comment section. It’s attention seeking behavior, sure, but it isn’t harmful to anyone, that I can see.

I’ll never miss an opportunity to link an exurb1a video to someone new, and especially not when it’s so topical.

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