Hello, Thanks for taking the time to respond I believe that pict-rs does support video files with sound

I believe it is only the default pict-rs of lemmy hosts that disables and auto-strips audio video files and images under 1MB work just fine

I understand that big tech has forgotten about audio files, but a good way to think about them is that they are just video files without a video track.

As for preventing comment tempering, a public key in the user profile and storing a signature as metadata of the comment would make comment tampering more effort than they are worth to future /u/spezes

As for vote privacy, I understand the convenience aspect of users not being made aware that their votes are public. I object in principle to the UI hiding this fact for convenience. I was unable to further express this disagreement as the thread was locked when the final decision was taken.

As for multi-reddit style community aggregation, I have investigated, and unless the default behaviour will be to make all /c/books across all federated server aggregated in a single default view, then I believe they will not be effective as countering Lemmy’s current biggest problem, the super-centralisation of all communities in a single big server in a single big community. For all intents and purposes, posting anywhere BUT the biggest community, is an exercise in futility. And this gives the owner class of that specific server immense reddit-like leverage over that specific topic not just on that one server but over the entire lemmyverse for that specific community topic. It will take extreme misbehaviour by the moderators to get the users to migrate out of the “big community”. As we’ve seen with reddit’s ability to misbehave with effectively no backlash, we can expect the same dynamic to occur here in the future as lemmy grows.

I cannot overstate how important it is for the power of federation to counter the power of moderators, that the default view of /c/books MUST include all /c/books or all federated server as the DEFAULT view. Anything else hands over all power of cultural control of that topic over to the big /c/books community on the big server.

I disagree, I am sorry, I really do. This MUST be supported.

1 terabyte of storage costs 5$ per month, 3 terabyte of data costs 3$ per month. You can host my 800kilobyte music file the same way you can host my 800kilobyte image and my 800kilobyte video It cannot be hosted elsewhere as page load means cognitive break from the original message, it ruins the message.

paywall the feature I don’t mind I will pay it forward

pict-rs supports video, search these terms

[media.video]
allow_audio = false 
PICTRS__MEDIA__VIDEO__ALLOW_AUDIO = true

Music is just a video file without a video track and video already works !

(message to rekabis, please don’t take the following personnally, this is the grudge I have been carrying in my heart for a long time toward all moderators, I’m sorry my experience gives me an uncompromising AMAB “all moderators are bad” unshakeable conviction )

(Also this is a raw text as written, but you can find a somewhat shorter TL;DR here)

(I know my text sounds extreme, but I actually failed to fully express how I feel about this, it is MUCH worse than this and my solution for it is much more complicated than the little idealized version. I think all datacenters should die, basically. )

I want to explain, just how much I disagree with the very idea of moderation itself.

I come from web0 and I find the concept of moderation offensive.

To me a moderator is first of all, someone that suppressed me as a person and manipulates my perception of cyber reality. To me a moderator is a private tyrant that owns the public square and rules it like a cop. They are like that kid who would take his ball and go home. Except he owns the whole street as well.

I have no need for moderation, there is no content on Earth, including the most vicious computer viruses that can hurt me. I understand there was a small period in time when there was spam and it was annoying. But the cure has been much worse than the disease.

And that was before we have locally running, offline LLMs who could do the job of moderation to our own exact specification.

And it’s not just the deleting I have an issue with, it is the manipulation of the content discovery algorithm.

I do not like the knob twiddlers, who fine tune our perceptions to their own desires and biases from the shadows.

The faceless, unaccountable and unknown moderators who mediate who cyber reality.

The supposed humble janitors of the internet who have become its ruling cultural elite. Who adjudicate on all aspect of social and private life. Who have apparently embarked on a project to reshape all of society to their own neurotic image.

My generation has really messed up when we dreamed of Web2 and handed over our agencies to the unaccountable untrustworthy cyber elites and that is a wrong that I hope to see righted before the Musks and the Zucks finish devouring the nerve fibers that connect us.

I know you have good intentions and you probably worked at it really hard but I, simply cannot ever trust the people in your position ever again.

I have seen the mod logs, the trivial things that warranted ban hammers. The moderators drunk with their petty power who lick their lips with their toothy grin at the opportunity to use it.

This is when the dream of Web 2.0 died for me and I saw that we went terribly wrong. Even places with some open standards of moderation like wikipedia, looking at how the sausage is made is quite awful but I respect their high commitment to openness.

The phenomenom of believing in “necroposting” is just one tiny protrusion of the disease that has metastasized throughout our entire communication systems.

The only acceptable future of moderation, is as a subscription service. If you think you’re good enough to moderate what I see, I will subscribe, I will pay you for it.

But I MUST have access to the absolute raw feed, warts and all. I must be able to see every single decision you have done for me as a delegate. I MUST have the power of recall on any of your actions at all time.

The problem with moderators deleting stuff is that while I can easily ignore unwanted content, I can perform my own searches and I can run my own content discovery algorithm. But one thing I cannot do is undelete data that you have destroyed.

There is no space for compromise, it is clear that the outsourcing of moderation to shadowy unknowns has been a grave mistake done out of our collective laziness and ignorance and that the fight to seize back control of our communication is hopelessly skewed against us, it is not a power that will be relinquished without a fight.

The only way forward I see, is the abandonement of centralized private servers that “own” speech. This has been the bedrock on which the power of moderators has grown, “taking my ball home” power and all the people who disrespect freedom of speech “because it’s private”. Public speech has no place on private platforms, you get to talk until the police comes murder you in your sleep ala Fred Hampton.

Ok now to address you points specifically

The signal to noise ratio is a side effect of the forum software antiquated view. You know the chronological ordering of “last posts”. This technical error has create a group of people who sit on the forum and focus on posts by new and compulsively sort, censor, applies rules to them. They forget that this is not how 99.99% of user interact with their space, but these people get all the power to decide what stays on the server that they own. This is an archaic leftover from the BBS area and doesn’t have a place in the future.

As for necroposting, you should know by now that time does not exist on the internet, there is no space and no time. Text written in 2005 and 2024 coexist seamlessly. The concept that there is an end to a thread is anachronistic. It is an aesthetic judgement. This is like saying “nobody will ever speak again of topic” and then the subject is closed forever. If you want to see the end of a thread, print it out on paper, the internet version of any thread will receive comments in the year 2525 if humans and their computers still exist

Do not ever lock a thread, for any reason, I don’t care about your aesthethic choice, you have damaged the fabric of the internet with your idea of necro posting.

NOOOO, creating a new thread is a bad idea. The thread that is found and weighted in the search engine IS the pinned thread, it is the ONLY thread that matter. It is hopeless and pointless to create a new thread on an existing topic.

If your secrets enter your clipboard, they are no longer secrets

Private keys on an anonymous, untraceable smartcard. PIN or Matching-on-card fingerprint for the second factor Everything else can go directly into the garbage bin

OTP in the password manager Private key pkcs#12 in a contactless smart card plus maybe a pin if I’m feeling fancy

I’m more worried that after splurging on EVs now we don’t go through with the act that actually makes a difference. After all we’ve already got the personal social reward of doing “the right thing tm”. We can party and forget the climate doomerism my new Tesla saved the world, yay ! Personal responsibility and the free market has prevailed !

The very idea of necroposting is the basis for these moderator opinions. It is not a neutral term, the idea of necroposting is a negative attitude toward all late posts, it is a permission that all moderators give themselves to delete late posts, lock threads or even, auto lock after a determined period of inactivity. It makes these ideas, prominent on search result into literally unassailable answers. Which is the secret desire of all moderators, to decide the final word.

A few percentage points reduction in co2 emission isn’t going to move the needle. The whole grid has to shutdown fossil fuel energy production for this transition to make sense.

This is the attitude that leads us to search results polluted with forum threads with bad, unchallengeable ideas (because they’re locked). Almost all web1 forum are becoming digital flotsam because of these bad moderator opinions.

How is that really different from the same comment 2 second after. It just isn’t.

Just ban hammer low the value commenters don’t lock the thread for moderator convenience.

fossil fuel power plant are tops 40% efficient while ice powered cars are around 33%.

If you power you EV off a fossil fuel power plant, then that difference, minus the grid losses, the charging losses and then the inverter and motor losses, is how much co2 emissions you are saving.

Of course that’s assuming your driving habits don’t change, with that high upfront investment and relatively lower per mile costs compared to using gasoline.

And that’s not to mention the one time emission from the production of that EV amortised on its 15 year hoped-for lifetime.

Beside capturing government subsidies and the arbitrage saving from using temporarily cheaper electricity as fuel, I don’t see EVs making much sense either from an economic or a saving the planet standpoint.

Without a zero emission energy production as the source, EVs don’t make sense beyond hype and cope.

All fossil fuel electrical generation, and that includes natural gas, has to be shutdown. Or else it will not make a lick of difference.

That is nowhere near enough. It’s 33% versus 40% difference between co2/kWh . we need zero co2/kWh or else it’s all a waste of time.

It’s only acceptable if we are transitioning to zero emission grid. If we stay on natural gas then it won’t even move the needle.

No , if you run EVs off a grid fossil fuel generator, that’s the difference between 33% and 40% efficient. It’s not enough to move the needle. It doesn’t even pay for itself in terms of emissions.

The energy source absolutely has to be ZERO emissions as well. If not then it’s just climate cope.

It was a 30 minute long video, I watched it last week. I searched and searched in my PC and phone youtuve history but can’t find it.

It had a bit about how every part of a supply chain is trying to leverage its position for dominance, and that this shape the end product

We already have to have key rings. Centralized DNS is just a second, superfluous layer of authority (and a massive grift) on top

Fossil fuel power plants don’t count. EVs running of fossil fuel make no sense. Remove them from the equation and my prediction becomes extremely optimistic.

Lol, no

Necroposting is a slur by the terminally online against normal people trying to get shot done. They’re the reason why every Google search that leads to a forum ends with some guy asking your question and being told to start a new thread instead.

I am desperately trying to find a video from last week but I’m very likely am never going to see it again