Lemmy – A link aggregator for the fediverse

Re:Lemmy – A link aggregator for the fediverse by cortic on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @03:19AM (#28454103)

That's a really great question;

There are important conversations within the LGBT that would be really interesting, but asking questions that could be construed years later as homophobic, no matter now innocent can publicly destroy people.

I'd love to have a discussion breaking down certain ideologies, including the merits as well as demerits of certain controversial groups. But this could actually cross into criminal in the UK with the interpretation of some laws. And certainly come back to haunt me years later publicly.

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Re:Lemmy – A link aggregator for the fediverse by iaml on Thursday September 09, 2021 @08:54AM (#28469131)

Contrary to popular opinion that such conversations are censored to death on popular media, there are still discussions like that happening on reddit, for example in subreddits like /r/changemyview or /r/unpopularopinion. It's just that people asking such questions usually either don't even try phrasing them politely and detached from personalities, or are based on incorrect or incomplete data.

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Re:Lemmy – A link aggregator for the fediverse by reginold on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @03:25AM (#28454156)

Thanks for your thoughtful reply. Can you imagine the raw curiosity and interest we could unleash? Seems like incredible potential.

On the flip side, we have the ability for systems to mine through words and sentence structure and identify commonalities. Perhaps there's like an "on screen keyboard" for conveying meaning without giving up your specific grammar patterns. This kind of editing is so costly for the human race :(

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