Signal is a chat app. It uses phone numbers for identity verification and friend discovery but messages go over an end-to-end encrypted protocol. While open source, it uses a centralized network and a single client.

It's somewhere between Matrix and WhatsApp. Open Source and friendly, but still centralized and anchored to phone numbers.

I thought this was a bug in Youtube. It's intrusive and annoying.

Do other video apps do this? Why?

No one's going to comment on "professional war crimes investigator" being a thing? His mental health professionals are going to need mental health professionals. You have to wonder how Nihilist his worldview is after 20 years.

A public good? Like roads, firefighters, etc? You want the government to pay for your Youtube Premium subscription?

Less snarky, if you're arguing that Youtube has earned a special legal status, a natural consequence is that Google gets to play by a different rulebook from all other competitors. That's quite a dangerous direction to take.

A lot of people are trying to justify the killing of Israeli civilians however.

If there's going to be an "open air prison", we should make one for the far right nationalists of every country so the rest of the world can live in peace.

means you’re allowing the courts into politics

Allow me to introduce you to my friend Chad. Hanging Chad.

Hasn't the F-150 has already preemptively destroyed the Cybertruck? I suppose most people driving pickups don't actually need a pickup's functionality. They're just told they need a pickup so that's what they buy.

The HOV lane is supposed to look empty. If it was packed full of cars, carpooling wouldn't have any advantage because you wouldn't go any faster.

I vote for defederation

Hexbear will not contribute to a healthy ecosystem. I do not believe they can uphold their promises to rein in their worst instincts, no matter how much they earnestly try.

It's evident that the mainstream Hexbear ideology is one of extremism and a fig leaf of barely concealed militancy. Fascination and celebration with violence or death against their political enemies is encouraged. Enemies condemned simply by belonging to a system or class. "We don't actually support violence but hey, just asking questions, why do we have capital punishment for murderers but not landlords?" These ideas are not the product of a healthy, balanced mind nor can we call them mere innocent political beliefs.

In this very thread, where they are under a microscope, there is a substantial amount of inexcusable behavior. It's impossible to believe that Hexbear is capable of the restraint required to behave outside of their own instance. They identify so heavily with their political beliefs that they leap to defend them against the most minor transgression and argue 10 layers deep into the comments. The topic could be whether the newest Pixel phone is any good or not but you'll find a long tirade about "imperialist" trade policies that you've seen a million times before and has absolutely nothing to do with anything. That is not how healthy communities grow and develop.

I tried to keep an open mind. I have seen insightful comments from Hexbears and yes, it is healthy to challenge my own worldviews. But the weight of the unapologetic and unhealthy behavior overrides that. Hexbear must be defederated. If I want to debate the finer points of communism (and I really don't), I know where to find them.

Can @Awoo@hexbear.net or another Hexbear user confirm that the comment referenced above is common and acceptable within Hexbear's CoC?

I think we’re capable of having level-headed conversations with other instances about toning it down whenever we step outside our own hive.

Clearly some of you are having a very difficult time with that simple expectation.

You reminded me of a legal case I read recently: Guardian of Sally v. Beatty

An unnamed(!) victim of slavery had an agreement with her enslaver to keep excess wage money from her work, which she used to buy the freedom of another person, Sally. Her enslaver figured she didn't have the right to own "property" and it was his lucky day to now own 2 human beings. The courts disagreed and said Sally was a free person. However this was still South Carolina so they made sure to patch up that little "loophole" after the case was over.

The full list is quite interesting. The ~1780 cases in New England outlawing slavery (while the Revolution was ongoing!). Dred Scott and Amistad, of course. Cases mostly from 1780 to 1859. But then heinously, but somehow unsurprisingly, there's a case from 2021: Nestle Inc makes an appearance using child slave labor for cocoa.

TLD - Top Level Domain (.com .ml .whatever)

Registrar - NameCheap, PorkBun, etc. Submits your domain.TLD request to a Registry

Registry - Maintains the list of domains for a specific TLD and the server infrastructure to run the TLD

ICANN - Decides who can be a Registry and for which TLD. Not involved in the nitty gritty of individual domain names.