Nothing makes me feel more powerful than getting downvoted and not caring while having a bunch of people who clearly care a lot about votes tell me I should care about downvotes.

Go ahead and downvote me, it literally doesn’t matter.

Ask yourself if you’ve ever met a socially well adjusted human who is a long term moderator.

I’ve met plenty of decent people who have moderated for a time (at the very beginning of a community for example) or tried it and then walked away.

But never someone who does it for years on end.

I assume it’s because long term mods seek power they lack in their own lives because of poor social adjustment but happy to read a paper on this.

I would love a platform that has collective community moderation through content flagging and voting which does away the need for mods.

There’s always something happening.

Like a war in the Congo for example. Be anxious about that.

I’ve already blocked Lemmy world and I’m OOTL what happened now?

Cries in avocado.

Do you really need to read volumes of theory to grasp what is fundamentally a rather straightforward concept?

Leftism shouldn’t be locked behind intellectual elitism.

TL;DR the capitalist state will use threats of violence/actual violence against threats to capitalism which includes those who stand for progressive ideals. Leftists believe this is a justification to use violence against the state.

I hope the TVs make a recovery.

What’s that about the Titanic’s front?

Mods so afraid they lost what tiny minuscule bit of power they had. Now desperate to remain relevant.

They should reevaluate their life.

I agree with you. There is legitimate criticism of UBI especially of the Yang flavor.

I’ve just always seen it as increased unemployment payments with fewer conditions rather than a replacement of the welfare state.

The UBI I support is only a replacement for unemployment benefits and all the welfare state social safety nets would still be provided for I.e. single payer healthcare, social housing

Is that still a capitalist nightmare?

Not sure I agree as it seems like black and white thinking.

I.e. I could imagine a scenario where someone is very obviously/admits to using neopronouns disingenuously and that would break my social contract with them to honour it.

If I make an assessment of neopronoun usage on a case by case basis I can still avoid witch hunts. It’s similar to how I determine in real life if someone is an asshole or not.

Another way; I can support a person who I genuinely believe uses neopronouns while denouncing and excluding someone who doesn’t.

My preference is for completely community moderated platform.

People essentially vote for content moderation. Likely susceptible to gamification but I’m still interested in seeing it in practice.

Is it still invalidating when someone using neopronouns is doing so disingenuously?

Mods will always be a problem.

I’ve yet to encounter a well adjusted human who voluntarily mods.

Yeah I don’t think that’s what happened.

Well there yah go, we didn’t even need to introduce it and it’s already not left enough.

This was pretty much what set me on the path to radicalisation.

The system felt so unfair and then to learn that there were people who could do exactly this just because they were born into a family with large capital it was infuriating.

This guy wrote a note to himself as a self love exercise.

To be very fair there’s a difference between giving a compliment to your face directly and writing a letter with specific details that could come off a bit creepy.

“Hey nice hair! You’re rocking it!” - said to your face as someone walks past.

Is different to what’s in OP.