EffortPost [any]

Good, thank you.

Any links to ways we can monetarily support them? If they are forced to ramp up to fully militant the state department could designate them as a terrorist org and cut them off from monetary access to comrades in the US.

Yes. Anyone complaining about “overzealous mods” isn’t paying attention, has never moderated, or has an axe to grind.

If :reddit-logo: had public mod logs, it would make it very clear that “free speech” is a complete farce regardless of platform. I was a low level mod on a couple of very large subs and the amount of mod level and admin level content curation there was significant and constant.

An organization being honest and clear about the actions they are taking != repression and devalues the struggles of those who are actually repressed.

Everyone has an ideology and if you aren’t looking for ways to advance that ideology with the influence you have then you are wasting your time in those roles.

Side note: My account on :reddit-logo: was eventually banned after trying to “coup” (lol) a main sub with other communists. :reddit-logo: is happy to let libertarians, nazis, and grifters take over subs, but are much more likely step in if any communists take “power” (calling sub ownership that sounds like radlib/ ultra shit, but you get my point).

Early on during occupy people were warning about how bad of an idea it was to organize events through the facebook platform

For fuck’s sake.

any good wiki is going to need good moderation too, so completely decentralized curation is likely impossible

Yes, absolutely impossible unless you organized federated groups controlling their areas of expertise. A federated wiki system is a fascinating idea, but I don’t see it taking off due to the amount of effort involved and because even many leftists still think wikipedia is somehow unbiased.

The alternative is a strict democratically centralized power structure that clearly dictates what is an acceptable mainline interpretation of a topic. China does this and gets a lot of criticism from westerners despite the reality that literally every culture does this using different mechanisms. The Chinese Communist Party is just being honest about their actions while the multiple CIA agents and feds manipulating Wikipedia articles are not.

On an explicitly socialist website, I think it can be accepted as a given. Anywhere with too many libertarians and/or liberals would fixate on that section instead of your actual point because it triggers their privilege and personal narrative of rugged individualism.

people view the designs we’re used to as not affecting our own behavior and therefore see any change in that design as manipulative

Interesting. If you set a manipulative design as standard at an early stage, then people will naturally be resistant to changing it even if it is in there interest to do so. Very reflective of the class system in our society.

design language has a giant moral component that I’ve only heard a handful of silicon valley folks discussing.

The UX thinking that has gone into identifying “dark patterns” is great reading. Once you know what it looks like you can’t unsee it.

Take a look at how Facebook events have decayed over time. They made them worthwhile so that they became a de-facto standard and then they kneecapped them by forcing you to pay.

I haven’t used Facebook in years so I had no idea they’d forcibly monetized this feature. Did they fully put a paygate in front of it or just lock new features behind a paid tier?

Thank you for calling me out on this lol I am not a devops person.

Not a problem. I think it actually further illustrates your point about this complexity being obscured by these giant corporations. DevOps is hard for even large companies to understand the value of because if SREs are doing their jobs efficiently it can seem like “nothing is happening”. A big part of the role is combatting entropy.

what it must have looked like to see all these small forums operating

Great point. I would imagine the DevOps burden for smaller forums is significantly lower. When I think about the early internet, I don’t particularly associate it with DevOps as a discipline in part because the role arose due to the pressures of running massive web-based software at scale during the early days of “web 2.0”.

To anyone reading this, please feel to correct if I’m misremembering my history here.

curation was in major demand for people who were overwhelmed by having an entire encyclopedia indexed and searchable for free at any time. Of course, a capitalist creating a platform and “borrowing” all these established social mechanisms couldn’t resist heightening the force applied.

Will potentially come back to this human need for curation. There’s very much something to this and it has always been needed by us, whether it was in the form of curated museums or well maintained libraries.