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  • True! It’s not unique to the right, but I do think it shows up there a lot. It’s a very Objective view of the world (there is a Right and Wrong, outside of culture), and there’s more objectivity on the right, and more subjectivity on the left. Not universally, but more.

    I think the way this manifests on the left is actually pretty different, perhaps even the opposite, to the way it shows up on at least the current right.

    The current right has Good People who can do no Bad, no matter how much wrong they do. So they can get away with a lot, even in the face of overwhelming evidence, and their base will support them anyway because they’re still a Good Person.

    Whereas on the left we’re maybe a bit quick to dismiss someone outright, or lose the forest for the trees, because we think of ourselves as the side of Morality. So there can be a person who does a lot of good, and seems like a Good Person, and then one thing can come out about them, maybe not even a substantiated thing. Maybe something they did 25 years ago, that they would never do today, and in an instant everyone has flipped on them. You see, people are either Good People or Bad People, and if you’ve done a Bad thing, you must not have been a Good Person afterall! You were a Bad Person in disguise! Thank goodness we caught you and ousted you, so we can continue to be the side of only Good People.

    Shouldn’t we be the side of spectrums? Of forgiveness? Of growth, and healing, and learning, and rehabilitation? Grace and second chances?

    I mean, don’t get fooled over and over by the same grifter, but there could at least be some room to say oops, sorry, and then do better going forwards.


  • Right exactly! Like the sibling comment says, in their minds Trans people are Bad. You can tell because “they’re sick”. (I don’t believe this, I’m mimicking this mindset). Minorities are Bad. You can tell because they don’t have money, they do different stuff than I do, which is Good stuff, and they do crimes and are bad parents or whatever. Doesn’t matter what.

    So anyway, this Knight of Justice, Paragon of Good, was out there saying the Good People are being passed over in favour of the Bad People, which is obviously unacceptable. And that the problems with society aren’t caused by Good People, they’re caused by Bad People. And then right in the middle of his speech, a Bad Person shoots and kills him! How do we know they were a Bad Person without knowing who they are? It’s self-evident because no Good Person would kill another Good Person.

    This is like if Superman died, and then the credits rolled! That’s not the way this is meant to go! This is an afront to nature! This is a tragedy. To them.



  • It’s actually, sadly, quite easy. In her mind there are no shades of grey, no systems, no circumstances. There are people who are Good People and people who are Bad People, and which people are which is self-evident and not as related to their actions as you might think. It’s just a case of identity. They’re Good when they do bad things, and Bad People are bad even when occasionally doing good.

    And so celebrating the death of a Bad Person is honorable, obviously, and celebrating the death of a Good Person is sickening and deplorable. Clearly.

    And if I agreed that this was the way the world was, I’d probably agree with her. Unfortunately for me, that seems fucking nuts.






  • Maybe I should create a new post for this but has there ever been discussions regarding SSO? So you have one identity across all fediverse services?

    This comes up from time to time, but usually not for what you want. Pixelfed and PeerTube and Lemmy and Mastodon are actually pretty different experiences. They don’t really do the same thing, they don’t appear to have the same verbs and nouns. So using one to talk to the other is actually a little weird, not because we’re trying to make walled gardens, but just because the focus of Lemmy is on the threaded topic, and the focus of PeerTube is comments on videos in my playlist.

    The fact that they can cross-talk at all is kind of an accident. Each system wants to federate with itself, and so they have a protocol to do it. And because it’s an open protocol, anyone can use it. And it is intentional that any compatible software should be able to use it, so Mastodon and other microblogs can cross-talk, that’s on purpose. But with these different “kinds” of services, they all picked the same protocol because it already existed, it already worked, and it met their needs. I don’t think the people making Lemmy really intended PeerTube users to use it, even though it’s sometimes possible in particular ways. They’re compatible because they both used parts of the same protocol, and so when you put them together they happen to have overlap, but that’s almost a coincidence.

    The reason SSO sometimes comes up is actually to solve a UX problem that’s plagued the fediverse since the beginning. If I’m a user of lemmy.ca, and I’m looking at lemmy.ml because I got there from a link it Google out something, and want to comment on what I see there, I can’t. Not directly. I can’t click the join button or follow a user or any of it, because this site is not my site. I have to first go to my site, where I have an account, and then find this content on my site, and then interact with it there. That sucks and has always sucked. So one of the proposals people have pitched to fix it is if I could login to lemmy.ml directly with my lemmy.ca account, then I could drive it remotely, in context, while maintaining my actual account somewhere else.

    The downside of this is that a whole bunch of random sites have tokens for me, every instance has way more “users” than users, and if any one of them has a security incident then it doesn’t just affect the users of that instance, because that instance also has keys for a bunch of other random instances. And overall the way I’d login on the remote site is to type my home site’s address, to kick off the SSO login, but if I’m doing that anyway I could also type that in and just have it redirect me there natively. So not great.

    If we’re talking about using SSO just to only have one credential, this is actually better handled with normal, existing, SSO. Like OpenID or whatever. If Lemmy and Mastodon and PeerTube and PixelFed all allowed creating an account with an existing SSO solution, of which there are several, then you can already create an account on each of them using the same identity provider and not make any new accounts. This is likely cleaner than requiring each of them to be, themselves, an identity provider just so they can all login to each other so you can start with any one of them natively, but from there only have one identity for all the rest. That would add a bunch of extra requirements to being a valid implementation, and maybe lead to some bad or insecure identity providers, and not give that much benefit in return.

    But I love SSO as a concept, so we should definitely support the much simpler thing, which is that all FOSS websites support SSO standards, not for fediverse reasons, but just because it’s nice in general. For me 😛


  • And so I’d say this also answers your broader questions. Since Activity Pub doesn’t allow me to join other servers, it also doesn’t allow me to join other sites.

    So a Lemmy post may be compatible with a Mastodon message sent to a group or something, that’s only because the messages Activity Pub sends are similar. But PeerTube is different software with different buttons, and the existence of those buttons on PeerTube doesn’t change anything about what buttons Lemmy has, and I can’t “login” to a PeerTube server with my Lemmy account, so I don’t gain any special abilities outside of what Lemmy can do.

    The only way it would be possible is if Lemmy added a feature for uploading videos that sent the same kinds of messages to other servers that PeerTube sends. Then, if they did that, someone on a PeerTube instance could see these messages coming from Lemmy and interpret them on their server as a PeerTube video or something.

    But all that Activity Pub allows is exchanging of information between sites. For them to interoperate in a way that makes sense, they need to exchange the same kind of information.


  • Quick clarification, because I can’t tell from your words if you’re confused about the concept of federation or not 😅

    If by “join” other servers you mean use their site as if logged in, or like you have an account there, then that is not federation. That’s single-sign-on (SSO) and is not a feature of the fediverse (Mastodon, Lemmy, Peertube, etc). That would be like the “login with Facebook” or Google buttons around, where by having this account on site A, you can instantly signup on site B without making a new password or anything. That’s not how federation works.

    Federation is like email. I can have an email with GMail, you can have one with Proton, and someone else can have Yahoo, and I can send an email to you anyway. It doesn’t mean I can “join” Proton with my GMail account, it doesn’t mean I have a Yahoo account, it means I don’t need a Yahoo account to communicate with Yahoo users.

    But, if by “join” you meant “join a community” as in subscribe to updates from a group on another server, then most other people’s answers apply. I wouldn’t call that “joining a server”, though, because servers host many communities and you’re not joining all of them.

    Joining a community works like joining a mailing list. Activity Pub allows accounts on different servers to communicate without an account on their own server, so my account would send a message to your account saying “I’d like to subscribe to this community, send me a message whenever something happens on it”, and then the other server says “okay, will do”, and then after that will periodically send my server messages saying “hey, here’s that update you asked for”. And when I comment, like right now, it’s like an email being sent from my server to yours, and then your server puts it into the history.

    This allows my server to present the community from your server to me, without me having account on your server. Without me having to “join” your server, I’d say.


  • Okay hang on. Yes, Ice Ice Baby and Under Pressure don’t have a lot of notes in common, in terms of absolute note count, but when the songs come on, the layperson doesn’t know which is which. Any normal person would listen to 10 seconds of Ice Ice Baby and go “oh yeah, that’s Under Pressure by Queen”.

    So yeah, if there’s a prompt that people can use to trick an AI into spitting out a chapter verbatim that’s interesting, but I would say minor infringment. No one is going to read a Ton Clancy novel by systematically tricking the AI to spit out each entire chapter one after the other, and it’s presented to essentially an audience of one, the promoter.

    But if I was to take that chapter, the one it spit out verbatim, and put it as a chapter of my book that I published, then yeah, definitely I could be sued for copyright, even if I didn’t do it willingly. Because people would read it and go “oh totally, that’s Pelican Brief”



  • I’m not an AI fanboy, but this is kinda a lame take. If the AI produced the same song it heard it would be a cover, sure, and subject to copyright, yes. But most of the time the AIs produce something that is similar to but different from its input.

    So yeah, if you listened to a bunch of AC/DC and then wrote a song that sounded like it could be an AC/DC song but isn’t an AC/DC song, that wouldn’t be copyright infringement.