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A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it’s related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

This is not the place to gossip about other instances.

What is the fediverse?

Guide to the fediverse

Explore the fediverse

founded 2 years ago

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Bit idea: Let in a couple libs from the fediverse, but have them be rare. That way we can see posts to criticize like crystal lizards from Dark Souls (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net to c/fediverse@hexbear.net

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Pros: it will be exciting and engaging to see someone with a federated name and the notice their opinion being dogshit

Cons: mathematically proven to not have cons

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[–] sharedburdens@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If someone's posting bad faith arguments I would rather not waste anyones time interacting with them, they're certainly not there to be educated.

Chasing them off with mockery seems like the least bad option, if the other options are giving it credibility by trying to respond or ignoring it.

The problem is discerning the difference between the two can be inconsistent, leading to some users effort posting while others mock.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago

Totally agree. Bad faith arguments don't deserve the time or effort. If you do spend the time, at least spend it aware other people than the OP may see it.

I also agree there is no reliable way to tell bad faith from good faith, at least before they contradict themselves, but that takes time.