Well that’s a slippery slope now, isn’t it? No one is saying just a little bit of child abuse is okay, and my entire argument is that I don’t see a correlation. Extremely distasteful? Sure, but I have no desire to censor or restrict another’s actions that don’t harm or affect others, which is why I say show the correlation.

Communities that are normalizing paedophilia and spreading actual csam are absolutely an issue. They need to be shut down and offenders need to be held responsible for their actions. Those are things I agree must be ardently fought against normalizing, however I reject your notion that using a sex dolls equates to just a little bit of pedophilia. I will again reiterate that I see that as the same viewpoint of playing a violent video games makes you a violent person, and we know this to be false.

Most people understand the difference between reality and fantasy and the moral implications of having a fantasy versus acting on it. A chunk of plastic does not equal a child.

I’m definitely gonna be in the minority here looking at the comments, but this is rapidly approaching thought crime levels of regulation in my opinion. If they want to regulate sex dolls, show there is a correlation, prove that this is a pathway to extremism so to speak.

If this evidence already exists and I’m ignorant of it, please share, because I will happily change my stance.

Otherwise it really just feels like video games cause violence bullshit to me and reaks on senseless vilification. I’m pretty sure everyone has had thoughts that they’d never act on and repulse themselves for having, just as I’m sure many of you have watched videos or played video games depicting actions you would never participate in in reality. I really struggle to see this as problematic.

I feel like with neurodivergent types it balances out to around that anyways. Yes, I may spend 3 days hyper focused on a task 10 hours a day, but the rest of the week or month it’s might just be 10 minutes a day I can focus lol.

Reading matrix’s blog posts they seem keenly aware of the issues surrounding it being a discord replacement and the complications with self hosting. It seems they are responding to the community but are also pretty stretched thin for having the money to develop it quicker and turn things more polished and user friendly. I’m hoping the influx of new users will also result in an influx of donors and some rapid progress.

That being said, if not matrix, I expect someone will take up the mantle and in the not too distant future there will be fairly literal drop in replacements that are oss.

This is smart.

Oh look, so they’re saying they’re already training ai on all the data they have on us? Yeah I feel my privacy being so respected.

They’re going to lengths to make it sound like oh there was some cached server they found after intensive searching that hadn’t yet been updated or some such nonsense, but reality is is that Google is part of the dystopian constant surveillance present we now live in and likely they save ever little bit of video and information they can get their grubby blood stained hands on and use it for ai processing, government contracts, or you know, to jerk off to in their free time.

Fuck I really need to get off my ass and degoogled.

I was curious so poked around a little online and found this very old albeit quite informative post: http://www.naimark.net/projects/zap/howto.html

Yeah I blocked this user now

Honestly this situation is wild. The whole article is a hundred percent worth a read. It’s just… So bizarre. Good luck to you wiki contributers navigating this situation.

No evidence provided for the claim in the article unfortunately

Hey I saw the other day a linguistic perspective of why all these pedos write like hot garbage but I cant find it again, can anyone help please?

I thought newer Samsung tvs ditched tizen?

Good to know. Thank you 🙏

Is that pretty standard a price for a standalone firewall?

The Buddhist word for this is sangha or community of like minded individuals. Not necessarily to suggested a sangha but most are non denominational and not strictly religious as well as being kind welcoming individuals.

The core concept though is just finding the people you vibe with, or “your people.” Try finding places that revolve around a hobby or interest of yours and you will likely find like-minded individuals.