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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

So hopefully Lemmy doesn’t catch on so will that those folks come here in force, too. For now at least, it’s much better.

At the very least, I suspect Lemmy, as a federated network, has more power to filter them. We saw years ago what happened when the Wolfballs bigots tried to join, they were eventually isolated by most other instances who continued to run without them. So as long as we can retain a situation where the largest instances actually take a solid stance against assholes and trolls and bigots, then it becomes much easier to make them all optional, shunned to register on the more liberalist permissive instances.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uptick in inflammatory posts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
A father tells their child: “Remember son, women are VIXENS! They’re orchestrating the fall of man with the entrancing power of their satanic bosoms!”, the surprised child murmurs “wrow”. Ten years later, they’re casually telling a band interviewer that “Needless to say it was the most metal thing I’d ever heard in my life”; they’ve grown up, now presenting as a trans woman wearing a goth outfit and a guitar. By the way, because it’s a comic, the characters are both ravens.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Thoughts on the Fosstodon Drama | Kev Quirk⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
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A STRANGE GAME

THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS NOT TO PLAY
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⁨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..."⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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..."⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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..."⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Ah thanks.

YPTB

What’s this?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Post promoting lemm.ee hits 67,000 views and 1000 upvotes in 3 hours.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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.