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Mods should be banning people who downvote content that is well-cited and high effort

I haven’t even seen an instance with a sidebar that explains what the downvote button is for.

It has gotten much worse in the past year, but I blame the instance admins and mods for not even trying to educate their users



Downvote are an important method for controlling misinformation. We do need better info in side bars informing users what the button is for and what it is not for



We should definitely be copying and pasting authwalled news articles. Do what’s right, not what’s legal.


I don’t know why anyone would think any of this stuff is private. It can be pseudonyms, but that’s up to you.


But on a federated system, everyone can see all messages. That’s expected.



Why would you expect anything that you post on social media to be private? I don’t get it.



Wasn’t twitter really good about banning actual Nazis and not banning journalists until Musk came along? After Musk came, Nazis were unbanned and we saw a huge wave of journalists getting banned.


Because that’s the nature of FOSS. The good news is, if they trained on you data that’s licensed CC BY-SA (as all SO content is), then you can request their source code, and they legally must provide it.

This is a good thing.


Why does that matter? The content is licensed CC BY-SA. The point here is to prevent AI answers.








Just fucking cache.

If a GET request is breaking your server, you’re doing something horribly wrong.