We aren’t sure how this rebutts what we said. Commercial social media seems to us to be the problem for the most part, open source social media run by real people seems to be a lot healthier from what we have experienced.

Excessive social media usage helps no-one.

Only commercial social media.

Very good and well thought out reply! Thanks so much!

Yeah, Heroic is good but sadly it only supports gog and epic. Not everything is from those stores, sadly. Whereas Lutris supports a lot more sources.

Yes. However, before they started supporting and prefering linux, and working on proton then getting any game working on linux was a real mess and the average person couldn’t do it for most games.

Sadly most other games stores in the digital space like gog don’t give a shit about linux, thus there is still no galaxy on linux, nor are their preservation efforts coming to linux for a long time.

LMAO, I’m probably older than you.

What also tracks is you’re a pedantic asshole that somehow thinks that correcting random posts on a forum, and not the original author because it’s “Not my circus, not my monkey” (but it is yours to correct random internet posts, go figure) somehow makes you ‘better’ than others or others ‘better’ in some way when all it does is show how much of an asshole you are over things that ultimately do not matter and will not in any meaningful way change the world.

This isn’t a fucking spelling competition, it’s not an academic piece of work, it’s not an exam, it’s one fucking minor ‘mistake’ that, no really, doesn’t matter and is just a reference to “Comparison is the thief of joy.” Seriously, find something better to do with your obviously boundless free time, if you have so much of it you’d have the time to do this.

Instead of realising that language is about communication and as long as the original message comes across fine in non professional context then that’s all that matters, you’d rather come into some random thread so you can be a smug asshole from afar.

Now either have something meaningful to say about the actual subject or get out.

Winter actually.

Who?

I’ve been a moderator on many many things and this is what I’ve learned:

• Firstly, make sure we are a team with tonnes of support from the get go, both each other and mental health services etc as a bare minimum.

• Secondly, understand if people need to take breaks as it can take a real toll

• Thirdly nobody on the mod team at all should talk down to or criticise other’s work, especially not in a group or public setting. Ask them how they’re doing, ask them what support or information they need etc and then give it to them.

• Fourthly explain what is important and why it’s important in a way each person can understand. Have detailed documents also explaining this.

• Fifthly have for the users of the service etc easy to understand, non legalise rules, CoCs and guidelines etc

• Sixthly if someone violates the rules then you either talk to them personally, if it’s harmful then delete it and if it’s really harmful (such as CSAM) then you remove them and don’t allow them back on no matter what.

Edit: Oh and make sure the mod team is diverse as things caught by only one subset of the population would not be the same as caught by others. Having people of colour, queer, trans and nonbinary people, cis women, disabled, and neurodivergent etc people on the mod team is essential for good moderation.

That’s not an exhaustive list but what I’ve learned by both being a moderator on many many things and watching others moderate. Hope this helps!

Well, can’t be a market if it’s not on there 😉

Thank you. Is there a way to do so on iPad and does it have a sculpting app there?

Whilst this is terrible it’s a good reminder that companies that use automated bots, algorithms, and underpaid and exploited workers for moderation will never be good for social media platforms.

Commercial and social media should never go together in the same sentence if you want it to be good and truly for the people who use it.

any alternatives?

They still need to make the company a worker owned co-op. That would solve most of its problems.

A big thing they could do to convince more of us is to set up a transparency report like Signal has, so we can see any requests for information or legal orders they get, and their replies.

I don’t count that as being better, heh. Being better is things like behaviour not some random spelling someone got ‘wrong’ that ultimately doesn’t matter.

Abolish jails etc.

Awh, we got excited but then saw it’s for humans. Guess we can’t use it then ☹️

Well, it’s not exactly about privacy. But it does need a lot more time to develop before it is ready for ‘mainstream’ use, right now it’s very niche, they haven’t figured out how to get the same profile on multiple devices, there’s no proper ipad support and because it’s niche only tech people use it and thus I’m not interested in it until the average user can and will use it easily as I like all my friends etc to be on things I use.

Plus it doesn’t have as many audits, as say, signal, so that’s a big hmmm in my book. Yes, it’s not been around as long, so that might not be fair, but it has a lot of things to fix before it’s worth using.

Also, it really needs more ‘fun’ features, like signal has before most average people will use it. I think it also needs to figure out things like calling, especially group, but I cannot remember if that’s still accurate or not.

Oh, also, I remember there was a big concern about funding because they went commercial instead of doing the right thing and starting a foundation or some such.