As long as you dont go on lemmy.world, it’s not going to redirect you to all the stupid websites.
And I doubt whatever they’re posting (if they’re posting anything) is getting upvoted, so you won’t see it anywhere else.
And where are you getting “malware” from?
People are acting like it’s some crazy hack, and not the 4chan rejects from exploding heads finally guessing an admins password a week after they got defederated. And after all that time chasing the mailman, they had no idea what to do when they guessed it
But this does highlight an issue with instances. I doubt the handful of admins know each other. Like, maybe an email, but for the most part if shit like this happens during “off hours” it might be a while before the top admin even knows there’s an issue
What I’m getting at is a major website has at least a skeleton staff that can do something, even if that’s just pulling the plug.
I don’t even reply to most work texts after hours unless it’s someone saying they have to use sick leave. I don’t expect people hosting Lemmy as a hobby to be on call 24/7.
But I hope afterwards they’re transparent about what happened and how they’re going to stop it from happening again. If not, it’s easy to hop instances
I realized I interacted / posted / commented less and less on reddit these last couple of years. Couldn't even tell you why exactly. Now I've been here for a week and, I don't know, I just like interacting again... Hope it stays like this for a while :)
Is this new to post-blackout reddit is or has it been this way for a while. Top post of r/all is a tweet from like 2 years ago about a "current event" that no one has talked about since then and 100% of the comments are talking about this like this topic is the focus of today's or any recent time's 24 hour news cycle. Nearly 30K...
but I don’t think people realise how bad it’s become.
One time I made a main level comment, then replied to one of the most upvote comments in the same thread.
Seconds later a bit replied to me with my first reply, except for some reason it cut off the end. I don’t know if the bot ran out of characters because it was a cheap bot, or if it was an attempt to avoid automated detection.
Bots were a huge problem long before AI started trying to have conversations.
We all joked about it, but a lot of the accounts were really fake, and they usually got sold to advertisers after amassing enough karma and post history to look authentic
The first thing they taught us in my graduate level statistics class was:
Anyone can make a statistic that backs up their bias. You’re here to learn how to accurately represent a situation with statistics, and be able to point out when others are misusing statistics
They believe they’re wealthy because they have natural talent. It ignores lots of people are more talented, and never got the same opportunities to be successful.
In a real apocalyptic disaster, they’d be the ones real leaders sentence to death (either overt or shunning them from the group) to set an example for the rest of the group.
The Indian prime minister addressed US lawmakers as part of his state visit in Washington. US President Joe Biden hailed ties between the two countries, with Modi saying his visit opens a "new chapter" in relations.
We built a house 7 years ago and it's insulated and has double glazing. I've installed Home Assistant with temp sensors in the bed rooms and seeing 70%+ humidity levels. Temperature is always above 16c...
I've been thinking a lot about why I decided to come here and I know it started off as a "they can't make me use their shitty app!" while simultaneously using test apps that crash and navigating less content than Reddit. What is the primary motivation for all of this anymore? Is anger enough of a motivation to keep people away...
Big deals like this aren't made off one person's decision, there's all these metrics that are supposed to show the health of a company. But like anything, if you know the metrics you can just focus on that even if it's the literal worst thing to do. It pumps the metrics.
They're not trying to keep reddit alive forever, they want to juice the metrics so it's worth the absolute most on IPO day. It's all they care about.
On Reddit I browsed "new" or "rising" and just subs I was subscribed too was enough for a steady stream of content.
On Lemmy even including all instances, there's not a whole lot on "new".
Which is good, because it makes it easier to find communities to subscribe too and also the problematic ones so you can block them and never see them again.
But low users mean most communities are dead. There's a Fantasy Football sub for example, there's 3 other people on it tho, so it won't really be very useful this season.
With how small Lemmy is, I browse by "all" not just posts to this instance.
So not having downvotes here isn't a big deal. But in a lot of other instances where downvotes are allowed, I still can't downvote because I signed up through here.
I haven't seen anything on this instance worth downvoting, but I've already seen bigoted comments in other instances, and I'd like to downvote those so they're not the top comments.
It's not a big deal though, I can always just sign up under one of those that allows downvotes and abandon this login.
Every time she comes up it's always underlined that she is super transphobic. However, it's never been really clear to me what things she has said to acquire such a status. Whenever this is asked there is usually someone linking some two hour YouTube theory about goblin or a massive article that always feels quite tangential. If...
Everytime I see posts like this, it's hard not to think OP isn't just trolling or are just also bigoted and that's why they don't see an issue with it...
Maybe your problem is you just keep asking social media users instead of reading one of the many, many articles outlining it.
the Logitech F710 is a solid controller to get if you’re on a tight budget, but perhaps not exactly the type of equipment you want to stake your life on. [...] Reviewers on sites like Amazon frequently mention issues with the wireless device's connection....
Because at least on Reddit I could just block the problematic subs big enough to show up on /all.
But apparently we can’t block whole instances and they keep making new subs (or whatever they’re called) so it’s just whack a mole.
Did you choose to federate with that shitshow? Or does every instance automatically federate and pruning bigots isn’t something this I stance can deal with?
So, if someone from this instance subs to a nazi community, is that just a “different opinion” we all have to deal with?
I’m just curious if there’s a line at all, if you’re saying that instance isn’t bad enough to defederate, especially since when I looked the only thing going on there is bigotry and complaining about being defederated by a bunch of instances with active moderation.
I do really like the level of communication here, but I’ll probably just join one of the many many instances that have already defederated from them.
No worries
Edit:
That update that shut this down for a day broke stuff btw. My notifications won’t go away and trying to delete this account just refreshes the page…
So I guess you get a permanent zombie subscriber, I’ve got a feeling a lot of people had the same issue.
For everyone else:
Try out lemmy.world for an option that blocks problematic instances and allows you to downvote bigotry when you do see it.
PSA: LEMMY.WORLD WAS COMPROMISED
If you are a lemmy.world user, log out and log back in to clear cookies!...
It feels a lot nicer here on lemmy / kbin
I realized I interacted / posted / commented less and less on reddit these last couple of years. Couldn't even tell you why exactly. Now I've been here for a week and, I don't know, I just like interacting again... Hope it stays like this for a while :)
Top of r/all (old.reddit.com)
Is this new to post-blackout reddit is or has it been this way for a while. Top post of r/all is a tweet from like 2 years ago about a "current event" that no one has talked about since then and 100% of the comments are talking about this like this topic is the focus of today's or any recent time's 24 hour news cycle. Nearly 30K...
Anybody all caught up on From? (midwest.social)
I am equally enjoying and exasperared by From. Who else?...
Titanic sub CEO was on a 'predatory' mission to convince influential people to support his unsafe vessel, says expert (www.insider.com)
India’s protesting wrestlers to take sexual abuse fight to court (www.aljazeera.com)
Italian-American being tortured (1914) (i.imgur.com)
The statement Reddit gave us is the oldest trick in the book. (The Verge) (www.tiktok.com)
Youtube link
Modi says ties with US 'defining partnership' of the century – DW (www.dw.com)
The Indian prime minister addressed US lawmakers as part of his state visit in Washington. US President Joe Biden hailed ties between the two countries, with Modi saying his visit opens a "new chapter" in relations.
Greene versus Boebert: b**ch! (mpost.tribel.com)
Congressional catfight!
We've got an insulated house, heat it properly, ventilate it, but still see humidity levels of 70%+ in bed rooms. How to fix that?
We built a house 7 years ago and it's insulated and has double glazing. I've installed Home Assistant with temp sensors in the bed rooms and seeing 70%+ humidity levels. Temperature is always above 16c...
The only manned submersible that could reach the missing Titan is owned by Steam's Gabe Newell (wegotthiscovered.com)
How to hack sliding screen door to stop locking myself out on the balcony?
https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/d9aecec1-6977-4b9c-8a16-a77f66ea439d.jpeg...
If Reddit phased out 3rd party apps gradually and tactfully, do you think this would have gone the way it has? The Reddit app is terrible, but is it any worse than navigating and learning the fediverse so far? Be honest.
I've been thinking a lot about why I decided to come here and I know it started off as a "they can't make me use their shitty app!" while simultaneously using test apps that crash and navigating less content than Reddit. What is the primary motivation for all of this anymore? Is anger enough of a motivation to keep people away...
why would numbers matter?
In recent days I have seen these two arguments repeated quite commonly. From reddits side it was all about how "noones using Lemmy anyway"...
No Matter How You Frame It, the ADL is a Racist Organization (www.mintpressnews.com)
Feedback: Downvote Button - Yes or No (reddthat.com)
As part of a comment chain here a couple of users have expressed that they would like the downvote button back!...
Has J. K. Rowling ever said or posted anything explicitly hateful?
Every time she comes up it's always underlined that she is super transphobic. However, it's never been really clear to me what things she has said to acquire such a status. Whenever this is asked there is usually someone linking some two hour YouTube theory about goblin or a massive article that always feels quite tangential. If...
Missing Titan submersible is operated by a cheap game controller (videogames.si.com)
the Logitech F710 is a solid controller to get if you’re on a tight budget, but perhaps not exactly the type of equipment you want to stake your life on. [...] Reviewers on sites like Amazon frequently mention issues with the wireless device's connection....
Did we start federating with lemmygrad.ml? (reddthat.com)
I remember it was on the list of blocked instances, but now it's not,, and my page was just flooded with content from there - was that intentional?