How the fuck is this even legal?

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Wait until we see the video of that bear’s parents dragging him back there by the ear to Apologize to the shopkeeper.

Hear me out here, guys… Have we tried not honouring nazis?

wallpaper link please.

No we don’t.

One of the fundamental strengths of a federated approach is that I can, with no muss or fuss, see only my local instance.

I understand where you’re coming from, but you’re presuming that most instances are simply clones of each other, and that’s not true. (or at least that’s not how it’s designed to be).

For example, my home instance is mstdn.ca. Ostensibly, with a single button, I can focus my entire Lemmy experience on things important to me as a Canadian without wasting through everyone else’s bullshit. Canadian news. Canadian politics. Canadian hobbies, etc…

You’re idea presumes that all instances are trying to carry the exact same content, which is false.

Respectfully, who cares?

Hard truth… you’re not important. None of us are. No one cares enough about your opinions that they need you to “maximize your reach” by posting in multiple places. That is entirely a you problem, not an us problem.

No one is forcing you to post everything multiple times to multiple communities. You’re free to choose one and post to it. if it’s interesting enough, someone will likely share it to other communities. And if it isn’t interesting enough, they won’t. Simple as that.

that’s… how… it… works

Also, you talk as though browsing r/all on Reddit doesn’t also show multiple copies of the same post sent to multiple communities. Of course it does. Declaring something the “main” community isn’t going to change that anyway.

im not sure the term would exist if the racist term hadn’t already.

It definitely wouldn’t. That’s not really a term that occurs “organically” in computer language. “Rice” has nothing to do with computers, so it would have had to come from somewhere else.

Think of the movie Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift. It’s used to describe unnecessary modifications to a street racer (led lights, decals, etc…) that was mockingly called “ricing” because it was prevalent in the asian street racing communities. (rice eaters…har har har…)

I thought I was the only one who cringed whenever I heard that word. But this thread is making me realize I’m not crazy.

You’re describing this like we all, individually, are blocking Hexbear users. That isn’t what happened. They were defederated by a handful of individuals. They were censored. An authority blocking your words from reaching others is censorship.

No it most certainly is not. Not by any legal definition of the word. Preventing people from speaking is censorship. that’s all. “forcing people to listen to you” isn’t free speech. And I’m not even going to bother going into the fact that free speech is quite LITERALLY in regards to government’s and have absolutely nothing to do with private servers like Lemmy instances.

As someone has already mentioned, the right to free speech is NOT the right to an audience. Just because you don’t agree with that statement doesn’t make it not true. Facts don’t give a shit about your opinion.

Why uneasiness? This is federation working exactly how it’s supposed to. People are free to spout whatever garbage they want, and no one else is obligated to listen to them if they don’t want to.

No one is infringing on hexbears so-called “free speech”. They’re still free to shout into their megaphone. But the rest of us can close the damn door on them if we don’t want to listen. That’s quite literally the best of both worlds.

The only people that are “uneasy” are the people who think that “free speech” means being able to force people to have to listen to their bullshit. It’s not. Never has been. Never will be.

I for one love how federation tends to sort itself out without stripping away anyone’s right to free expression. Hexbear, or whatever instance happens to be controversial at the moment, can still say whatever they want. No one is shutting them down. No one is censoring them. No one is stepping on their rights. The rest of us just have the power to not have to listen to them. It’s a great system working exactly as designed and it’s absolutely how the future of social media has to be.

I would personally much rather fly over it on my way to BC. But can’t afford it sadly.

Very true. I was just comparing corporations to corporations. Craft breweries are certainly not evil; they’re the equivalent of local businesses for the most part.

Because alchol sellers aren’t widely considered as flat out evil as cigarette makers, meaning that they can still realistically grease the wheels of power with dump trucks full of money.

I’m sure cigarette makers would love to the do the same thing, but no politician is dumb enough to risk taking “campaign contributions” from people who are widely considered to be the scum of the earth. Alcohol makers still have a level of respectability that lets them get away with it.

As depressing as it sounds, I think it might be time to add a new entry to possible Drake Equation solutions:

“Stupid people stuck in a loop of hatred, bigotry and scientific denial kept society from moving forward fast enough to prevent destruction by climate change, conflict or lack of resources.” And that’s why we haven’t seen any evidence of alien life. But societal evolution always follows that path.

I think we all know the answer to that…

Yes. But it’s a common misconception that “colluding” is illegal in all circumstances. It’s not. There are unfortunately legal ways for corporations to coopoerate with one another on stuff like this.

It’s called an Oligopoly and it happens literally all the time because the CRTC is feckless and weak.

I’ve spent much of my career working for two of the big three, and the reality of this video hits hard. The CRTC is a joke.

https://youtu.be/0ilMx7k7mso