News 2: electric Boogaloo

I had to read it a few times, I initially made the same mistake as you. It’s all there but I’m not used to carefully reading all the text on a silly post lol

It’s illegal to hire people or refuse to hire people based on political beliefs or affiliation, so you’re not gonna have companies that only employ Trump supporters or employ no Trump supporters. Politics is considered a protected group wrt employment law in the USA and many countries.

But how would it actually work?
It’s not like it’s difficult to gauge employee sentiment about ICE. If your employees are strongly against it, then you simply don’t enter the competition for ICE contracts, or you choose to not renew the contracts when they expire.

They only have to make an example of a few to discourage the rest.

The only real safety is with the instances hosted and run in locations difficult for American companies to pursue legal action

Yeah, but at the same time it’s kinda good for people to be able to see the kind of shit they’re posting for themselves.

It is propaganda, but it’s not good propaganda, and that’s what the community fact checking thing is meant to counter, imo.

Even if that was true, which it isn’t, a company should reflect the beliefs of its employees and community.

If it’s an official govt agency I think it makes sense for them to be allowed on communications platforms and to be verified, so that people can see what they’re saying and know that it’s an official statement.

Then people can see the post and make their own judgements about it, knowing it’s an official agency statement.
Having twitter style factcheck for blatant misinformation is also important for this, though.

I think that tech companies taking a stand on what their employees and/or users believe in is a reasonable thing.

Idk what the employees of bluesky believe, but I’m fairly familiar with the bay area tech scene and I think that there is a decent chance that the employees would like to take a stand by not providing services to ICE.

That being said, idk if simply allowing them to have an account is providing services. I think it’s probably better to have govt agencies have verified accounts so people know when things are official statements, even if you disagree with the agency.

Im not sure how these stats are collected, I assume that they query each server for its to make the chart, rather than query every server every day and copy the results.

If they’re really copying the results, then you’re absolutely correct that temporary instances outrages would cause those correlated downward blips, but I’m surprised to hear you wouldn’t just be able to query servers to get this data on demand.
But then again if a server went permanently offline you’d lose that data forever. Hmmm

A statistician explain to me why these graphs seem correlated beyond general trend? They both seem to have localized events on the same day, but given their different timescales that doesn’t seem like it should be possible.

I raised the same concern on the other post too, but idk enough about statistics to for sure say something seems fishy.

But they should be offset. Monthly MAU departures shouldn’t reflect in half-year until 5 months later. And half-year departures shouldn’t influence the MAU at all.

The fact that they line up to they day strikes me as very suspicious.
But I’m not a statistician

Right, that’s why I suggest providing both an opinionated option and an opinionated option. Like a “recommended” section and a “full list” section.

Let people without contest and who don’t care to learn the context in advance use an opinionated picker, but don’t withhold from people who want to dig in.

But it turns out I misunderstood the example that was given - those instances aren’t shown because they simply aren’t piefed instances.

Ah I misunderstood your example, I thought you were saying instances were intentionally excluded from the picker rather than “instances that don’t support this platform don’t appear”.

I’m not going to opine on what constitutes a “real” leftist apart from saying that left/right dichotomy really doesn’t describe reality well.

https://join-lemmy.org/instances will send you to places like hexbear.net and lemmy.ml, whereas https://piefed.social/auth/instance_chooser literally never will.

Honestly I think this is a problem. I don’t think the instance picker should be so opinionated that it blocks (legal) instances. I want extremist to be directed away from the normie and moderate instances. I prefer to clearly characterize instances and let people pick their own, while also providing opinion for people who don’t care or lack understanding.

Although this is clearly a point of preference, and I can see why some people would prefer the opposite to possibly prevent the radicalization of a moderate.

this site

This isn’t a site. It’s a collection of sites (instances).
If there is an instance that doesn’t tolerate your kind of speech, then choose another instance that does.

Be aware that two of the largest hardcore left-leaning instances (hexbear, ml) have been widely defederated (instance-blocked), so it’s not fair to say that this only happens to right leaning or centrist ideas.

The beauty (and point) of Lemmy and fediverse is that if you feel like you’re being censored, you can join or make an instance of like-minded people, while still having access to the other area if you want it.
Lemmy is uncensorable, but doesn’t force people to listen to you.

It seems strange that these two curves so closely match eachother in shape.

When 6month active users drop that means 6 months ago a user stopped using the platform.
When monthly active users drop that means a month ago a user stopped using the platform.
So this would suggest that there is a correlation between user attrition 6 months ago and last month.

I’ve definitely had some rural evenings that would have been better with the ability to shoot some cans.

I don’t think that’s the kind of “better” you were talking about

Why do you keep bringing “am” into this.
again none of what I said has anything to do with the definition of “am”

And why are you being so rude on what is clearly a silly thread?

My “argument” isn’t that “midnight itself makes no sense”
My argument is that having the day start at midnight isn’t how people intuitively conceptualize a day, and wouldn’t it be nice if the calendar day more closely resembled our intuition about days (a contiguous daytime period followed by a contiguous nighttime period).

Pyjamas are for wearing wherever tf you want

You can still have that, but base the start of the day on dawn(ish).

I do like metric time in principle, but also base 12 is better than base 10 so I’m torn