I downvoted (and reported) this because this isn’t a question, which is what this community is for.

Everyone can call geographical features however they like in principle.

There’s something similar here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_of_Japan_naming_dispute

That was a lot funnier on reddit where there could be only one community called “superbowl” and it was about superb owls. Here on the fediverse, “superbowl” on other instances can still be communities about the Super Bowl.

I strongly agree with the point made in the linked article that censorship is when a sender wants to send something, the receiver wants to receive it, but a third party (government, social media platform, whoever) keeps them from doing so.

If I want to see “weird little ideas of rightwing weirdos” (or of leftwing weirdos or any others), I should be allowed to. If I don’t, I shouldn’t have to.

Personally I follow slightly more than 100 accounts plus less than 10 hashtags and feel I’m already getting plenty of things into my feed, nowadays I tend to unfollow things that post too many irrelevant things more than I follow new ones.

I mean in principle this is just a matter of moderation being different from censorship.

But really, an “algorithm tweak”? I am still wondering when or why who decided that we needed to have “algorithms” that someone could “tweak” on the Internet at all. The first kind of “social media” I ever used was web forums where the entire “algorithm” was thread bumping, and even if you insist that we need to have the structure of a microblog: Mastodon does fine without an “algorithm” beyond reverse-chronological sorting.

it’s so easy to host an ActivityPub server oneself, there’s really no excuse for a government agency not to be doing that instead of relying on ex-Twitter

YouTube’s content moderation policies forbid “content praising or justifying violent acts carried out by violent extremist, criminal, or terrorist organizations.”

well so since Luigi Mangione isn’t an organization, sounds like that isn’t covered by these “content moderation policies”? Right?

Obligatory reading:

• https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/hey-elon-let-me-help-you-speed-run-the-content-moderation-learning-curve/
• https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/moderation-is-different-from-censorship

Some even brew beer from it. (I tried it on an AIDA cruise ship, it doesn’t taste any different from any other beer.)

Spaghetti is perfect for carbonara, most other sauces not so much.

Yeah discuss.tchncs.de has been serving me well so far too. I don’t really know how it compares to other instances because I haven’t had a previous account elsewhere.

Stereoblind people already see the world the way a camera does.

I am not sure how non-stereoblind people see in 3D because I’ve been stereoblind my whole life, but I do think it helps me when taking photos.

Commenting in part to save this thread for later reading when someone more knowledgeable gives a full answer.

Here is what I (think I) know:

• It is possible to follow Lemmy users on Mastodon, which gives you threads they start in your feed, but not comments they make (I have not really tested this, but this is what I remember reading).
• It is possible to follow Lemmy communities on Mastodon, which makes those communities appear as bots that share everything (posts, comments) posted to them (I have done this accidentally before, not realizing that an account I was following was actually a Lemmy community, then wondering why it was only boosting Lemmy posts until I figured it out).
• It is possible to post to Lemmy communities from Mastodon. I don’t know how exactly, but !kde@lemmy.kde.social is a community that gets a lot of posts like that, e.g. https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/27370850?scrollToComments=true - looks like they simply tagged the community? I am not sure how this works and have never done this.
• If you are seeing a Lemmy thread or comment on Mastodon through one of the above methods, you can reply to it; you can usually tell when someone is doing that when they put @ links to the people above them in the thread into their posts. Here’s a thread full of examples: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/27508474?scrollToComments=true

stereoblindness is bad when you’re an athlete in a ball game, good when you’re a photographer

I think it’s important to be allowed to create any community one likes in the fediverse. I wouldn’t moderate like that either, but if some people want a community like that, they should be allowed to.

This has to do with how copyright laws changed over time, for example there used to be a requirement in the US for works to have a copyright notice, or for copyright to be renewed, so some things that didn’t meet those requirements became public domain earlier than they could have if the copyright holder had cared about all the formalities.

you need to acquire a better drill then

Who is “we”? Speak for yourself, I usually poop after most meals; if I’ve eaten a lot or very spicy or fatty things, I might even poop more than once for the same meal.

Those keywords you mention were a thing before 2013.

Aaron Swartz.

Guy was opposed to any and all censorship and was politically left-leaning.

Almost immediately after his death, such people started to die out, opposition to censorship has been a right-wing cause for about the last decade.