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- Comment on Uptick in inflammatory posts 1 day ago:
Seems like the average user on here is smart enough not to get caught up in that bullshit thankfully.
I wonder if it’s still early enough to give people taps on the shoulder - “don’t feed the trolls, friend”.
- Comment on Uptick in inflammatory posts 1 day ago:
I’ve never understood the mindset that this social site is made up of a different mix of personalities than any other. It’s not.
On the other hand, this is often the case in small communities. Most Lemmy instances are general-purpose or large enough to have a typical mix, but I have been to a few sites which will moderate away any hostility whatsoever, and that does make the site unusable for some personalities. These kind of sites have rules like “No politics. No insults. No drama.” Toxicity isn’t inevitable, there’s nothing forcing community staff to tolerate mean people or mean outbursts, but it does take a mixture of design decisions and careful micromanagement which most communities, and especially most large sites, don’t bother with.
- Comment on Uptick in inflammatory posts 1 day ago:
But I will say that I’ve basically stopped checking my notifications because all of a sudden it seems like almost every time I go in there, I’ve got at least one insufferable, hostile, negative, etc response or message in there. It didn’t used to be that way.
I still check mine, but occasionally I’ll know I’ve said something that will have a hostile reply. Usually when I’ve asked someone to stop being hostile and inflammatory :)))
- Comment on Uptick in inflammatory posts 1 day ago:
That’s one of the benefits of having a forum small enough to have a community. Troublemakers stick out like a sore thumb.
- Comment on Uptick in inflammatory posts 1 day ago:
It’s not only about many people here being technical, of course you’re right that it plays a big part, and it’s also that the Fediverse is a rejection of for-profit, closed social media, so there’s a HUGE crossover between its users and the FOSS community (including Linux users) who really take strong issue to many things about Windows (and Mac) that Windows users consider to be normal. And with Lemmy especially, the initial userbase was largely anti-capitalists, since Reddit was banning many of their subreddits and was exploiting their users for profit with ads, blocking third-party apps, and bending to the demands of media companies and their owners. So plenty of people here are political about software.
- Comment on As governments around the world are set to make the Internet more restrictive and privacy-invading, we need a solution 2 days ago:
Enough folks drank the coolaid,
You say that like the UK all sat down in a room and most of the country said “please censor me”.
- Comment on As governments around the world are set to make the Internet more restrictive and privacy-invading, we need a solution 2 days ago:
with the only way to fully dismantle them would be to shutoff all access to the Internet
I don’t think this is true. It’s a bit complicated because there are ways to obfuscate the traffic, but generally speaking, I’d assume governments could track and block nodes just as easily as you can find them.
Tor is slow
It might trip you up for real-time things like gaming and you might take a while to download HUGE files, but it’s much faster than its historical reputation
and has a reputation of being used by pedophiles and drug traffickers
This is true for any privacy software. Encrypted chats, cryptographic currency, darknets.
- Comment on Owned (stocks) 1 month ago:
It’s a common and well-understood word, you’re correct, and really any word is a valid word, although it’s pretty clear the teacher was trying to teach formal English habits (which unfortunately can be useful to know) and it ain’t that.
- Comment on Little miracles 2 months ago:
The key word in that comment was “symbols”. The Nazi SS aren’t esoteric knowledge.
- Comment on Little miracles 2 months ago:
The post Man Wearing Nazi T-Shirt Gets a Beatdown from Fans at Punk Rock Bowling Fest appeared first on Consequence.
consequence.net/…/punk-rock-bowling-nazi-t-shirt/
and direct Instagram link to the video on that page: www.instagram.com/p/DKJE7UpxXYX/
- Comment on There were probably some people who just really liked "Never gonna give you up" and really enjoyed getting rick rolled 2 months ago:
I knew people still under 30 who put it on a playlist because they liked it and didn’t know it was a meme.
- Comment on Who needs it? 2 months ago:
My ISP doesn’t even know I’m downloading communism 🏴☠️
Only one of those entities could realistically deduce I’m making this post, and there’s no reason for them to care. Not that I’m particularly relevant to Western governments anyway. ¡Hola!
- Comment on We gonna fight 2 months ago:
Heh, don’t let that fool you, they still infight like crazy despite that. Examples include the hilarious collapse of the NJP, the assassination of Rockwell (leader of the American Nazi Party) and labeling every existing neo-Nazi group “feds” because they’re inevitably embarrassing and scandal-filled.
- Comment on How I view others in social media 2 months ago:
The video title is probably “Punchline”
- Comment on YSK if you have a library card or are a student, there's a free streaming service called Kanopy 2 months ago:
Highly recc Anna’s Archive.
- Comment on How can you tell 23 subgenres of equally shitty growls and screams apart, but not see the most Metal basics? 2 months ago:
- Comment on My Thoughts on the Fosstodon Drama | Kev Quirk 2 months ago:
I like high quality communities, which cannot maintain quality without staff, and which would probably struggle to maintain any funding.
One example of a community I became a moderator for was one which often had trolls occasionally show up and post obviously malicious content, and commercial ad spam. Due to timezone differences, these often took hours to be deleted.
So it wasn’t about morality, righteousness, money or power. It was about me wanting to develop a community I cared about.
- Comment on My Thoughts on the Fosstodon Drama | Kev Quirk 2 months ago:
It depends on the community. Larger general purpose communities tend towards that, the people who acknowledge you are typically people disputing a ban or who took it personally. On the other hand, for a Lemmy example, look at the admin Ada (and similar examples) who have reasons to regularly communicate their decisions and achievements and are clearly in line with their general community’s values – their community won’t have as many people crying about censorship because the community doesn’t pretend that they will tolerate bigotry.
Mods who just delete garbage posts (sometimes called “janitors” on other platforms) are typically faceless thankless volunteers, or abusive personalities powertripping. It’s a tough job, and someone has to put their hand up for it.
- Comment on Another Wikipedia Admin Caught Making PR Edits 3 months ago:
Yeah I realized my reply was a bit silly so I retracted it, I’m guessing I was a bit late and you’d already replied.
- Comment on LinkedIn’s cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you’re ‘not committed to winning’ 3 months ago:
A STRANGE GAME THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS NOT TO PLAY
- Comment on How is content like this banned on .ml for being "political"? 4 months ago:
It looks like lemmy.ml didn’t remove it, but their staff are certainly anti-ICE, plenty of posts there for weeks full of outcry.
- Comment on How is content like this banned on .ml for being "political"? 4 months ago:
I can’t see evidence that it’s banned. I’m on .ml and can see it just fine. It would be in the modlog if it were banned.
- Comment on "Tesla protesters are planning their “biggest day of action” yet, aiming for 500 demonstrations at Tesla showrooms across the world on March 29th..." 4 months ago:
Thanks for checking, it’s refreshing to see that attitude and care online.
- Comment on "Tesla protesters are planning their “biggest day of action” yet, aiming for 500 demonstrations at Tesla showrooms across the world on March 29th..." 4 months ago:
Ah, right. I’m not familiar enough with US law to realize.
- Comment on "Tesla protesters are planning their “biggest day of action” yet, aiming for 500 demonstrations at Tesla showrooms across the world on March 29th..." 4 months ago:
It has to be organized for one.
I disagree. Consider racist mass shootings by lone perpetrators. It’s clearly an act attempting to incite terror and tension, many of them make it clear in their manifestos that they’re trying to spark a ‘race war’. But it’s not organized, beyond being the result of stochastic terrorism.
- Comment on I believe that the "Nicole" images being sent to Threadiverse users may be intending to deanonymize accounts 4 months ago:
GOOD LUCK WITH THAT IM BEHIND SEVEN PROXIES
- Comment on So, after using Lemmy for 1.5 Years. You are telling I am not even allowed to use Lemmy? 4 months ago:
Ah thanks.
YPTB
What’s this?
- Comment on Post promoting lemm.ee hits 67,000 views and 1000 upvotes in 3 hours. 4 months ago:
True, although it looks like a pun so I wouldn’t assume it’s someone registering their local TLD.
- .ml is Mali, but I’m confident the .ml instances aren’t hosted in Mali.
- One can still register .su (Soviet Union TLD)
I can’t find their terms and conditions, but they do mention the GDPR plus their choice of 16+ instead of 18+ for age restriction makes me suspect it’s somewhere European.
- Comment on Post promoting lemm.ee hits 67,000 views and 1000 upvotes in 3 hours. 4 months ago:
I suspect it wouldn’t matter if you posted it once or posted it a hundred times. Lemmy is a rival service, and plenty of people have been banned for mentioning it before.
- Comment on So, after using Lemmy for 1.5 Years. You are telling I am not even allowed to use Lemmy? 4 months ago:
I believe the most an admin can do is block you from their own instance (e.g. lemmy.world banning you from lemmy.world communities), they don’t own your account on lemm.ee so they can’t ban you, and lemm.ee has no reason to ban you.
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