I do wonder why bureaucrat is so controversial here. Like nothing that bad happened with it unless the modlog was wiped. I think people were bracing for the gamer words that you would have seen come out of that account in any other community, but not here. Wasn't it more banned because the bit was over and getting annoying?

I don't think 3-5 hexbears in a trench coat are likely to go off the rails and make us look bad, and if they do it would be easily fixed.

I know that's out of context but you're the most recent reply so you get it

I don't expect we would have to. Cut it off after 5 people or something. I don't think people would really care much if we did anyway.

It wasn't supposed to have anything to do with site rules per se. I think just about every last one of us here would always like to become better informed and hold opinions that we have come to more thoughtfully. It's about that, moderation of the site is something else entirely.

I also want to know what went down in all these struggle sessions I always miss without having to comb through the modlog back and forth to peace it together honestly. I just want to know what was decided

It would be accountable in the same way @bureaucrat was, just like any account is. If anyone with access the account pops off you just ban the whole thing.

That's very cool! The solarpunk people are doing a great job what a lot of stuff. Do they actively hate us over there?

I'm doing the best at this

I think the whole account should be treated like any other, and held accountable for any of its actions, no matter who was behind it. Bureaucrat went a surprisingly long time without issue, and was adding new people constantly. There were probably dozens of people who had access by the end.

p2p ... poses many problems not found in the standard client-server model (open ports, nat, global discovery).

Tailscale breaks through that pretty well. It really does "just work" It is centralized but to the absolute minimum required to break through the barriers between you, creating as direct of a physical connection as possible. I'm hoping one day soon something like it will come standard. I'm surprised there isn't an easy way to run matrix, but p2p over LAN. Tailscale could easily do the rest, including encryption.

I agree whole heartedly about the corporate-friendly culture point. Particularly the abrasive culture of everything related to Gnome, yuck.

who am i to say what the party line is

Teach the controversy!

Hbomberguy needs to wake up and make a new video essay on all these HEAVILY UPVOTED AI generated images I see trending everywhere, where either no one in the comments acknowledges that they're AI or it's one person who is being grilled to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the image is AI generated, and the image in question is obvious as hell, like look at it for 2 seconds maybe?

Examples:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalHumor/comments/1i3fqlr/gonna_have_sooo_much_egg_salad/
• NSFW> https://www.reddit.com/r/furry_irl/comments/1hx36he/furryirl/ <NSFW

Come on internet dorks, set off the AI jihad already. Where's that net neutrality energy?

I don't think ironic bigotry is necessarily still bigotry. I am subject to some forms of bigotry in real life and when I hear them being made fun of here by being said ironically (even things which have been said verbatim against me), I feel supported, never othered or targeted. The difference is how aggressively and preemptively hexbear prunes and bullies users who do have bigoted ideas, so in this particular environment I don't have to question whether a joke is a """joke""", and even if it was there is hardly a larger group of similar bigots for them to dogwhistle to or provide cover for.

This is just my experience, no doubt other forms of bigotry I'm less sensitive to as I am not the victim, aren't as effectively stamped out as ones that target me.

It would be a good idea to have something like a hexbear ambassador account on a more "big tent" instance like lemmy.ml. This account would post tailored responses specifically to posts and answer questions in other instances which have to do with hexbear. It would also in a very neutral and un-bannable, but firm tone correct posts in other instances which promote obvious and provable misinformation about our community.

This account would "explain, while not necessarily promoting, the hexbear line" and flatly refuse to engage in any form of "debate" as being "out of scope for this account". This would get it past liberal tone-policing moderation, which silences hexbear voices and leaves "civil-toned" lies and implications.

I nominate @Civility@hexbear.net to run this account (/j)
I actually propose an @bureaucrat-type account run by a small number of hexbears.

In discussions like this I think multi-posting should be encouraged. Posters who have several points to make which are not directly interrelated should be encouraged to break them up into different replies. This makes conversations much easier to follow, clearer, and more direct, as well as making upbears directly count agreement with the specific idea being discussed (Not to imply we should care about/continue to have a points system, but since we have them we might as well).

In the interest of not rekindling old struggle sessions, what does everything think about a sort of wiki where the "party line(s)" are laid out clearly? This might help with signal/noise ratio and bad faith (and even good faith, but misdirected) accusations. You can also accumulate agitprop and evidence to support said party line.

Maybe the prolewiki people wouldn't mind helping us set that up?

That's a shame. I wonder why P2P isn't a more popular feature. Having to run a server in 2025 is honestly a pain. My ISP wants an extra $50 a month for "business internet" if I want a static IP and to turn off the default "firewall". Can't even run a minecraft server off my own computer anymore, the internet is just accepted as being one direction now. You're the consumer, of course you don't need to run a server, that's only for the likes of google and meta and X.

Also I don't want to just leave something running all the time just in case someone wanted to message me.

Even when I'm getting hollered at by someone on here I have to respect it, because I know that exact same energy would be turned in my defense if it came to it.

I'll give both of those a look. Briar looks very cool!

So matrix will do everything on my list except being p2p is that right? That's unfortunate but I'll bite that bullet if I must.

Sergei Rachmaninoff? More like Sogay Cocknom'emoff amiright?

Anyone who wouldn't like my butter bean minestrone soup must have a broken tongue or something. I feel sorry for them.