This made us laugh, thanks.

Ew, calling? No thanks.

Someone didn’t grow up with MSN and other messengers, and ‘away’ statuses.

What about if you’re kind, but don’t have the self confidence to think it’s not you? What then?

Should have had better opsec. Also to have watched hackers: “Never hack from home”

Yes, I understand that. But not everybody can talk all the time like that, some people can only really have enough energy for social media, not talking one-to-one, I know a few.

Woah, I’m not talking about “seeking validation from strangers”. I’m talking about building actual community online, and that being all some people have due to either homeboundness, or other reasons where online is the only community they can know, I’m saying such a law would genuinely put those people in jeopardy, no matter what age they are.

Yeah, it’s sad that they don’t, gog really needs to get on it imo. Though have you tried running galaxy through proton?

I want that too, heck even Epic could easily make their games native to linux with a single button press but they don’t want to.

I have, sadly. On steam once the native linux version of a game wouldn’t run but the windows one would through proton.

However, yeah I agree, they could so I don’t know why they don’t.

Ah, okay, thanks for the correction!

That’s somewhat depressing if so as I’ve run into so many assholes here. Still, interesting to know.

There are people who literally cannot leave the house and their community is literally on social media. Are you saying their mental health would not decline if they were unable to reach their community due to some asinine law like this?

We aren’t sure how this rebutts what we said. Commercial social media seems to us to be the problem for the most part, open source social media run by real people seems to be a lot healthier from what we have experienced.

Excessive social media usage helps no-one.

Only commercial social media.

Yeah, Heroic is good but sadly it only supports gog and epic. Not everything is from those stores, sadly. Whereas Lutris supports a lot more sources.

Yes. However, before they started supporting and prefering linux, and working on proton then getting any game working on linux was a real mess and the average person couldn’t do it for most games.

Sadly most other games stores in the digital space like gog don’t give a shit about linux, thus there is still no galaxy on linux, nor are their preservation efforts coming to linux for a long time.

Who?

I’ve been a moderator on many many things and this is what I’ve learned:

• Firstly, make sure we are a team with tonnes of support from the get go, both each other and mental health services etc as a bare minimum.

• Secondly, understand if people need to take breaks as it can take a real toll

• Thirdly nobody on the mod team at all should talk down to or criticise other’s work, especially not in a group or public setting. Ask them how they’re doing, ask them what support or information they need etc and then give it to them.

• Fourthly explain what is important and why it’s important in a way each person can understand. Have detailed documents also explaining this.

• Fifthly have for the users of the service etc easy to understand, non legalise rules, CoCs and guidelines etc

• Sixthly if someone violates the rules then you either talk to them personally, if it’s harmful then delete it and if it’s really harmful (such as CSAM) then you remove them and don’t allow them back on no matter what.

Edit: Oh and make sure the mod team is diverse as things caught by only one subset of the population would not be the same as caught by others. Having people of colour, queer, trans and nonbinary people, cis women, disabled, and neurodivergent etc people on the mod team is essential for good moderation.

That’s not an exhaustive list but what I’ve learned by both being a moderator on many many things and watching others moderate. Hope this helps!

Whilst this is terrible it’s a good reminder that companies that use automated bots, algorithms, and underpaid and exploited workers for moderation will never be good for social media platforms.

Commercial and social media should never go together in the same sentence if you want it to be good and truly for the people who use it.

They still need to make the company a worker owned co-op. That would solve most of its problems.

Awh, we got excited but then saw it’s for humans. Guess we can’t use it then ☹️