Well yes, actually: if people who benefit from structural prejudices were able to see the ways in which they benefit from those systems along with the flipside detriments, then we might get more people within the dominant groups self-reflective enough to question whether their own behavior feeds into the systems of prejudice.

On race and gender privilege vs class privilege: it's very easy to ignore the privilege you have in favor of the privilege that you don't. Class is a large problem, but class issues cannot be easily separated from race issues when white america spent more than a century after ending slavery baking systemic racism into the economic foundations of the country.

I always did that on reddit as well, but it's a system that really only works if the comment section is worth a damn. :)

I've been listening to the Chosen Families series from DJ CPI as background music at the office. She's a really interesting DJ who makes album and longer length curated mixes, and there isn't a whole lot of her work that I don't like.

Directions to my Special Place

Glittering, Waiting

Always More Than This

Oh Glorious Perversions

Edit: I'm embarrassed by my inability to embed those mixcloud links, is that just for youtube/soundcloud?

I think that it's rather clever as well, since it taps into the same sense of 'us' from fascist or nationalist 'us vs them' sentiments, and then in the next breath explicitly rejects the notion of 'them'.

It's a different way, and better isn't a useful term unless you define your metrics for what constitutes better/worse. Users here are far more responsible for managing their own curation, and topic-specific communities will be much more weakly defined and amorphous. Significant growth of this site will be a real stress test for how this style of social media will work at scale.

One of the great features of reddit is the ability to create small, closeknit, well-defined, single topic communities that can be joined with little hassle by new members.

That's a neat program, but I already have the architectural design phase done and I need to draw up the construction documents for the permit process and so I can start ordering materials. Sorry for not making that more clear.

It's not the admins (read: reddit employees) making those changes, tho. The mods are the ones who're making those changes and decisions, and they are doing that in large part as a response to a shift in the userbase that has lead to a lot more bitter fights over anything related to social justice issues.

The actual changes coming from the admin team have been almost unnoticeable, and even the banning of FPH was reasonably in line with their banning of other subs like /gameoftrolls and /niggers.

Because of her specifically?

I've recently gotten back into D&D (because I my friend had an epic D&D campaign as his bach party, and it rekindled the habit), and I've been planning as a DM because no one I know where I live has ever played. What's been your experience with 5e as a newb?

I love you nerds.

Doom and Zork were the first two games I'd every played (after my grandpa told me I was "too old" for Reader Rabbit) so this was a really cool find for me.

To your point: there's a good reason why it reminds you so much of D&D.

:3

That's been my experience with reddit as well. if the post was older than a few hours I either looked for a subthread to comment in or just moved on altogether. I'm really hoping that doesn't happen here if it gets too big.

No, I brainfarted and added in the '.uk' on autopilot. it's a '.co' TLD.

And cheat the DM out of a crit fail?

I think it has less to do with the lax moderation than it does with the fact that the biggest proponents and most active users of it are the kind of people who get moderated out of most other places. If you wanted a more 'free speech' platform frizbee (which feels more like 4chan than reddit) seems more appropriate and won't be forced to go down the same path as reddit to become a pointless clone.

From both sides it hasn't exactly been polite, and the reasonable people noped out almost immediately.

Tying into this, I think that basically all of gamergate is a witch hunt to some degree, going all the way back to when it started out as the 'quinspiracy'.

That's wild, so the site is built using a LISP derivative?

What mechanisms are used to bring old posts to new people when someone comments on an old post?

Neat. This was something I'd noticed last night, and was looking for the proper place to suggest it. The fix I was going to suggest was to either be able to follow from the user tag page, or have a text box where you can manually type in tags to follow on the same page.

Thanks for listening and responding so fast to the community! :D

Thanks, I'm enjoying learning to navigate this new style of forum.

Interesting. I wonder how the database is designed and whether that is something that will need to to be added once hubski hits a certain size.

So posts and comments don't go into archive mode here?

Feels kinda weird, since I tend to raise an eyebrow when someone replies to a comment I made a week previous over on reddit or twitter.

The interesting thing about an entirely decentralized media platform is that you can have clients that choose to curate, police, and censor and clients that choose not to. Twitter, as originally architected, could have headed down this path. But for many reasons, reasons I supported to be clear, it chose not to.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like this is the model that hubski is based on, where each of our feeds is curated and censored as much or as little as we choose it to be.

I think a certain level of poverty can be tolerated in a competitive capitalist system, but what is not morally acceptable is for those in poverty to be denied access to education, housing, food, and healthcare. These should be basic guarantees to all citizens, and amenities beyond that can be purchased thru whatever work you can sell.

A bit local, but if we could get the the whole SF Bay Area organized into a single transit authority with proper funding then those with less income would be able afford to live in less expensive neighborhoods while still working elsewhere. The cost of owning and maintaining your own transit is a huge reason why living out here is so expensive.

:D

Thanks! I'm a big fan of alt-history, and your suggestion got me thinking about the what-ifs.

I play the bass guitar...

...badly. :P