ZombiFrancis
@ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Current events dictate that I post this. 1 hour ago:
Oops, all bad bombs.
- Comment on Current events dictate that I post this. 1 hour ago:
Say what you want about Bush, even that war criminal didn’t go as far.
Any point you might’ve had about land acquisition, separatism, or imperialism, is pretty hard invalidated by this comparison. Like, why add Bush as a qualifier?
- Comment on Administrative task management 1 day ago:
Derp I’d checked 1998 and then didnt check 1999 after I saw the shadow.
- Comment on Administrative task management 1 day ago:
Not how March was in 1998 or 1999. Also the shadow leading from the firearm along the arm is also bogus.
- Comment on Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products 2 days ago:
I think you’re supposed to switch accounts between comments.
- Comment on Which game have you been most patient for? 2 days ago:
I played that game so much in Early Access and then they redesigned the gameplay a fair bit towards the end and I didn’t enjoy the release as much. I wish they had some rolled back versions to revert to.
- Comment on How should Lemmy & Piefed handle voting activity from banned/deleted accounts? 3 days ago:
Not necessarily puppet accounts, just brigading in general.
It’s the rationale many instances used to defederate hexbear. (Even though iirc hexbear disables downvotes, so they’re defederated for users mass posting, usually that hogshit image, instead of mass voting.) It wasn’t puppets or bot accounts at any rate.
But then there’s repost communities where users share comments (especially in places they or their audience is banned from) or DMs for a group response.
Not to mention the whole ‘block and downvote all .ml on sight’ mentality. But hopefully that might be something this tool could catch.
- Comment on How should Lemmy & Piefed handle voting activity from banned/deleted accounts? 3 days ago:
I guess I approach it inversely. I encounter what looks like a troll post and I’ll only check profiles when either I am interacting with them, or there’s such deep downvoting already I’m just doing a morbid dive into someone’s history.
Most of the time though the user just has a deeply downvoted argument but otherwise normal and/or low engagement posts, so they wouldn’t be flagged by this.
So I understand that it can save some time with some niche cases.
But I can’t help but note that the system seems intentionally blind to targeted harassment, which can be a source, if not cause, of bad faith accounts. (And likely those need different approaches since those are also niche cases themselves.)
And maybe it’s all just because of my instance’s Local feed, so that’s what I see as a prominent problem on Lemmy.
- Comment on How should Lemmy & Piefed handle voting activity from banned/deleted accounts? 3 days ago:
That’s an interesting example of a user this is designed for/around.
The general system of up/downvotes seems to be doing its job quite as intended: their views appear routinely unpopular and there’s a seemingly pretty strong community consensus around that.
It looks like their threads have comments that solidly and clearly refute the garbage manosphere stuff. For some people it’s the opportunity to express a refutation of it publicly and directly. The public viewer gets to read those responses too.
So with that example: what do the flags do that the content of their posts don’t already communicate?
- Comment on How should Lemmy & Piefed handle voting activity from banned/deleted accounts? 3 days ago:
Are you saying that because they would get more upvotes, they could offset the downvotes they receive? Potentially, but this is where the second metric comes in (giving a lot of downvotes), and as we said, the two are almost always present at the same time.
Right, though it’s a mitigating factor. I guess there’s something I don’t know about piefed: Lemmy comments all have a default upvote from the user that makes it. But it can be revoked by the user. Does Piefed work the same way? My thought only applies if that’s the case.
- Comment on How should Lemmy & Piefed handle voting activity from banned/deleted accounts? 3 days ago:
giving a lot of downvotes is usually a sign of toxicity
Emphasis mine. When is it not a sign of toxicity? Rules are defined by their exceptions, so I am curious as to how this exception is navigated, if at all?
Essentially someone who posts with high frequency has a capacity to issue more downvotes without compromising this admittedly imperfect tool.
Now I was never really a reddit user, but the problematic karma farming of accounts associated with that place was directly linked to these kinds of tools and metrics, no?
- Comment on me watching that f1 movie solely for brad pitt 5 days ago:
Forgetting all about Thirteen Monkeys.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
About half the American electorate already has. Judging from the last big American election most voters aren’t swayed into flipping levers ineffectually for a system of lashing people to tracks.
- Comment on Acciracy 1 week ago:
Yes… Ha ha ha… YES!
- Comment on British Museum removes ‘Palestine’ from ancient Middle East displays 1 week ago:
It’s a broader term that is no less accurate. But it is also one more removed from political connotations since this is not just about using the term ‘Canaanite’ as it is also changing it from ‘Palestinian.’
Changing ‘Palestinian’ to ‘Canaanite’ in 2026 specifically means something more given the Israelite-Canaanite context.
It’s either malicious or stupid, and evidence is tending to the former for the group that sought the change and the latter for the museum.
- Comment on British Museum removes ‘Palestine’ from ancient Middle East displays 1 week ago:
Not disputing that, but even in that section of explanatory text it uses ‘Levantine peoples’.
- Comment on British Museum removes ‘Palestine’ from ancient Middle East displays 1 week ago:
‘Levantine’ would have been a more accurate term. The ‘Canaanite’ term is specifically what’s used to differentiate from ‘Hebrews’ in zionism, both before and after Israel was created. Biblically Canaanites are Phoenecians, which are one of many Levantine tribes and city states of the Bronze and Biblical eras.
- Comment on Sure, Jan 2 weeks ago:
I have always seen him as an absolute unapologetic grifter in it for the love of the game.
- Comment on Did you all know these things can be pickled??? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on idk which would be worse tbh 3 weeks ago:
So the thing about Evangelion…
- Comment on The dream! 3 weeks ago:
Isn’t the whole thing with expats is that they explicitly keep their US citizenship? Most the self described expats I know are overseas military that married a local so my perspective may be skewed here.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
That’s entirely possible, as it’s closer to being the very public conflicts of like a dozen people. You could have blocked one user and inadvertantly insulated yourself from almost all of it.
- Comment on Fun fact: you can't upload this image on piefed.social 4 weeks ago:
Sounds like a flood control for community creation would be appropriate.
It used to be in the early days instances would vet users at signup. Is there no mechanism for an instance admin to do the same for the creation of a community? They just can’t be vetted before creation?
- Comment on Fun fact: you can't upload this image on piefed.social 4 weeks ago:
That got built and implemented before that problem was realized and removed? Damn.
Even so, if the system is tracking votes as reputation, how were the anonymous votes actually tracked? That hash either hid the user or it didn’t.
- Comment on Fun fact: you can't upload this image on piefed.social 4 weeks ago:
It seems the chief complaint people have about Lemmy going to Piefed are how admins operate their instances. Not sure any of this will change that, or even help.
Not to mention all these are just a game for trolls and spammers to tool around with. Like: Up/downvotes were built before vote manipulation became a problem.
This stuff is the difference between building a bridge and governing who crosses it.
- Comment on Fun fact: you can't upload this image on piefed.social 4 weeks ago:
Which would appropriate for a client-side user-level filter instead of a server-side instance-admin hard-coded setting.
- Comment on Fun fact: you can't upload this image on piefed.social 4 weeks ago:
Looks like Piefed really is Lemmy with SpezTools.
- Comment on Fun fact: you can't upload this image on piefed.social 4 weeks ago:
current_user.reputation -= 1
So what exactly is going on there?
- Comment on Is it still seasonal allergies if they last all four seasons? 4 weeks ago:
You’ll show that immune system its in a whole world of shit.
- Comment on Japan's Takaichi dissolves parliament after only 3 months in office, setting up snap election 5 weeks ago:
I can’t believe it’s not Showa!
