Posts by mediocreape@qoto.org
(DIR) Post #AQY49SetONpnKQxPIu by mediocreape@qoto.org
2022-12-13T01:24:04Z
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@freemo the literal definition of 'Semitic' refers to contemporary ethnonationalities which share a root in the ancient Semitic family of language groups. The meaning of 'antisemitic' uses the sadly more common definition of 'semitic', which was popularised by German nationalist pseudoscientists and philosophers to negatively contrast "the semites" to the 'superior' aryan races. To be correct in your usage, anti-Semitisim would refer to antipathy towards contemporary ethonationalities which share a root in the ancient Semitic family of language groups which does indeed incorporate many Arabic and African ethnonationalities, but "antisemitism" refers to the more specific historical context of specific anti-Jewish sentiment. The elision of the historical context is a common trope of antisemetic rhetoric, along with 'well, actually, hitler was jewish".
(DIR) Post #AQYACERrHVphqlZ5xA by mediocreape@qoto.org
2022-12-13T01:26:23Z
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Questioning others teaches us only to reinforce our own biases. Question *ourselves* to teach ourselves. #qoto
(DIR) Post #AQko1wxxkjqonVkjIG by mediocreape@qoto.org
2022-12-19T04:54:41Z
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@freemo @ufoi I'm extremely new here but if one of the oft-repeated criticisms of what seems to be some kind of network of admins with a shared strategy of cooperative moderation that has gradually become quite large and influential (the name of which that I haven't yet clearly been able to identify - fedifence? fediblock?) is that it creates a walled garden and as such is anathema to the free and open principles of the fediverse, proposing a competing system of large coordinated cooperative moderation strategy but it's better because it's run how i like it not how they like it will likely result in an outcome that is not appreciably different.
(DIR) Post #AQkoK1GoUOPjMJBbAe by mediocreape@qoto.org
2022-12-19T04:57:58Z
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@freemo @ufoi @freemo @ufoi The difference appears to me to be one of opinion rather than function. The result is still a clearly defined 'inside' and an 'outside'.
(DIR) Post #AQkoajTjtIKJ6PCY9Q by mediocreape@qoto.org
2022-12-19T05:00:59Z
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Again, that appears a formal difference rather than a functional difference. There will be a garden, and there will be a wall around it.
(DIR) Post #AQkpFk1elHrwficWw4 by mediocreape@qoto.org
2022-12-19T05:01:47Z
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apologies, this train of thought continues thusly...
(DIR) Post #AQkpFkdwSwUgaSX6bw by mediocreape@qoto.org
2022-12-19T05:04:26Z
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There is nothing inherently right or wrong with promoting this proposition as a design for a better walled garden but positioning it as an alternative to walled gardens appears disingenuous.
(DIR) Post #AQkpFlK7w6EohIGnMe by mediocreape@qoto.org
2022-12-19T05:05:17Z
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(end of thought-train, all change please, your patience appreciated)
(DIR) Post #AQkpFlxpYTzsgQqVFY by mediocreape@qoto.org
2022-12-19T05:06:29Z
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yet another apology, I appear to have dropped the @freemo and @ufoi tags off my response. The training wheels remain a little longer it seems.
(DIR) Post #AQksns3JiybHH6MZLE by mediocreape@qoto.org
2022-12-19T05:48:10Z
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@freemo I think you misunderstand form versus function and are inadvertently arguing my case for me. I argue that the function of a walled garden is 'demarcate a space using a structure delimiting an enclosed inside and relative unenclosed outside'. The figurative windows and walls are indeed formal rather than functional, and holding the opinion that these formal addition make the garden more or less transparent according to what appears to be a 'publicly-accessible documentation' centric model of transpsparency do not change the essential walled garden.
(DIR) Post #AQkvElkhSMsbShboGG by mediocreape@qoto.org
2022-12-19T06:15:24Z
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@freemo yet again, building walled garden with a transparent wall is a formal, rather than functional difference, regardless of enforcement.I am reserving all judgement as to whether "your" or "their" walled garden is "better", so your arguments as to why it may be so aren't particularly relevant to this specific thread.My sole contention is that, based on personal observation, your proposal attracts a degree of ridicule and pushback by virtue of appearing to claim to "solve" the problem of walled gardens by implementing the problem differently. My recommendation is as simple as it is impossible; relinquish the oppositional mindset. Let "them" talk however they will of you. The difference of experience within your garden will be the only rebuttal of theirs you ever need to make.
(DIR) Post #AQmuv8eqyMjl1kQw7s by mediocreape@qoto.org
2022-12-19T22:22:43Z
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@aebrockwell @lxo @freemo As a cooperative code toward moderation, it is an agreement that gardeners will not build walls within the walls of the larger garden.
(DIR) Post #AQmuv96rIF8eQbXImG by mediocreape@qoto.org
2022-12-19T22:31:49Z
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@aebrockwell @lxo @freemo The issue i have here is the painting of this group's moderation as inherently good due to an adherence to a ritual strucutre of centralised public documentation, another group's moderation as inherently ungood due to not adhering to that. It is a microcosmic example of the same mechanism by which western knowledge is reified as 'true' by mere virtue of being the product of western knowledge. However, based on the origin of the proposal in an academic instance, and the motto of said instance, this is practically inevitable.
(DIR) Post #AQmwRyUBue08zQfRr6 by mediocreape@qoto.org
2022-12-20T02:46:16Z
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The stochastic nature of interconnection in contemporary 'globalised' 'culture' means there is no Good way to do things, only a commitment to continuous striving to do things less badly. As a starting point, rather than basing action on the assumption that you are correct, begin by assuming you are incorrect and reevaluate.