Lemmy also doesn’t make that easy, since it’s not like e.g. Reddit or the phpBB forums of old, where everyone moderates on their own turf only, but each instance has to essentially moderate all other communities on all other instances too.

Nice claim you have there. Do you have anything to back that up?

If it’s so easy, it shouldn’t be hard for you to link a model like that.

Please, explain to me how the “No true Scotsman” fallacy doesn’t apply to the argument.

Yeah, sure, let’s do that. Throwing out some random fallacy names without understanding what the fallacy actually is is easy. Actually understanding what the referenced fallacy actually means is more difficult.

So let’s go to the Wikipedia definition:

The “no true Scotsman” fallacy is committed when the arguer satisfies the following conditions:[3][4][6]

• not publicly retreating from the initial, falsified a posteriori assertion
• offering a modified assertion that definitionally excludes a targeted unwanted counterexample
• using rhetoric to signal the modification

So u/andros_rex said:

I wish Christians in red states were Christians.

That was their initial assertion, which asserted that those who call themselves “Christians” in red states don’t follow the definition of what Christians are.

To which you answered:

They are whether you like that or not.

So we have an initial assertion, which you didn’t falsify, you just claimed that it was false.

To which u/ABetterTomorrow (note, a different user) answered

^understanding falls short.

Which means, the original commenter didn’t change anything about the original assertion, and neither did u/ABetterTomorrow.

Since no modification happened, points 2 and 3 or the definition of the “no true Scotsman” fallacy don’t apply either.

The whole situation really has nothing to do with the “no true Scotsman” fallacy, except of sub-groups within a larger group being part of an argument.

Which makes your argument that this is a “no true Scotsman” fallacy in fact a strawman argument, which itself is a fallacy.

Do you now understand what the “no true Scotsman” fallacy is and why you should actually try to understand what terms mean before using them?

Edit: What’s also important to know is why is the “no true Scotsman” fallacy a fallacy? It’s because the argument becomes a tautology, something that’s always true. “No true Scotsman will do X” means “A Scotsman who does X is no true Scotsman, thus no true Scotsman does X”. That’s always true, so it doesn’t mean anything. It takes the original claim “No true Scotsman will do X” and transforms it into a meaningless argument. That’s the fallacious part.

What u/andros_rex actually said meant was “If you don’t follow Christ’s teachings, you shouldn’t call yourself a Christian”. It’s a subtile difference, but an important one. The “no true Scotsman” fallacy argues against doing X by saying that no true Scotsman would be doing X. But what u/andros_rex argues for is that these supposed Christians don’t live up to the standards of Christ/being a Christian. It’s basically the opposite reasoning.

I think they might have meant the second commandment.

Is there any decent way to run Plasma Mobile in Termux by now?

YouTube gives me more value for free than a lot of services I actually pay for

That’s the really annoying part.

I’ve been considering swapping to other services for a long time, but to follow the creators I want to follow I’d have to subscribe to Nebula and Floatplane and I’d still miss out on quite a few creators.

Yeah, they don’t know how to make door rebates. They don’t even have that in their actual house doors leading to the road. And we over here even have them on toilet doors.

Toilets shouldn’t be high humidity environments (that’s what ventilation is there for) and gap-less doors don’t need to rub at all.

That’s what this European high tech that seems to be virtually unknown in the US is for: door rebates.

Really? That’s what I’d expect even in a run-down public toilet in a train station over here in Austria.

The issue here is that if you stay for someone else, someone else will stay for you.

My family agreed that if something were to happen in our country (be it a war or something political like in the US right now), anyone who can will make it out as fast as possible and prepares the path for the others. Because it’s much easier toget a visum if you already have family there and a place to live.

And yes, you are right, nobody wants Americans in their country, but that’s just why it would be helpful to have someone prepare the way.

“Components” means in this case the phone and the sticker.

Don’t you know, selling phones is an official presidential act, thus he has immunity.

Does this apply to smaller platforms like lemmy?

Except that Windows does it without.

Talking about it, which arch flavour is “btw”? /s

I guess you aren’t wrong. There are a lot of advances but stability and small but really annoying bugs remain a huge pain point.

GNOME is horrible. Looks pretty, but it’s opinionated approach means that nothing works as expected and you have to relearn how to use a stupid window manager.

I prefer Ook! Ook! over Ooga.

Are you using Arch btw?

True, but it only works if there will actually be a rebellion started by some higher-up.