AmidFuror

@AmidFuror@fedia.io

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can we stop bots on the fediverse?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can reduce bot noise on the Fediverse through a mix of server settings, moderation tools, and user-side filtering. Since it is decentralized, no one can stop bots everywhere, but individual servers and clients can limit how much spam actually reaches people.

  Server admins can require email verification or CAPTCHAs at signup, use manual account approval for new users, limit posting speed for new accounts, and block or silence servers that are known sources of spam. Many Fediverse servers already share blocklists and coordinate moderation so that problem servers get isolated quickly.

  Fediverse software is also adding better tools for detecting automated accounts, labeling bots, filtering low-quality AI images, and helping moderators review suspicious posting patterns. Some servers use anti-spam plugins or machine-learning filters to automatically flag or quarantine obvious bot posts.
  Individual users can mute keywords, block accounts, report spam to their server admins, or switch to a Following-only timeline to avoid noise from the wider network.

  Bot spam will never be fully eliminated, but stronger moderation tools, shared blocklists, and user controls make it possible to keep timelines clean without centralizing the network.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why is fossil fuel still used?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The mix of actual reasonable answers and "everyone here despises capitalism, so I'll just blame it on conspiracies involving the rich" answers is quite interesting.

  The simplest answer is that almost everyone is motivated by what they can get out of a thing, and petroleum is cheaper than the alternatives. The infrastructure is already in place, and the downsides (including climate change) are paid for by everyone, not just the producers and biggest consumers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard many studios also use IDEs, which make programming more efficient, thus cutting jobs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to answer someone who accuses you of being a bot because they don't like what you have to say?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here are a few effective, low-drama ways to respond when someone dismisses you as a “bot” just because they don’t like your point:

  1. Stay calm and don’t take the bait

  Accusations like that are often meant to derail the conversation. You can respond simply:
  “I’m not a bot. If there’s something specific you disagree with, I’m happy to clarify.”

  2. Refocus on the actual argument

  Bring the discussion back to substance:
  “Whether I’m a bot or not doesn’t change the argument. Which part would you like to address?”

  3. Use humor if the situation allows

  Sometimes a light touch reduces tension:
  “If I were a bot, I’d hope for better hardware. Anyway—back to the topic…”

  4. Set a boundary

  If the person refuses to engage:
  “If you’re not interested in discussing the topic, that’s fine. I’m here to talk about the issue, not labels.”

  5. Don’t over-explain

  You don’t need to prove your humanity. Over-defending yourself often encourages more trolling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which countries combine high quality of life and strong equality?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sir Thomas Moore's Utopia fits this bill if we assume for the moment that slaves don't count toward the equality aspect, beings slaves and all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You know things are good in New Zealand when it's a story that people were mean to a public figure online.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a word for when someone is not capable of, or doesn't try to understand verbal communication in a language, they are fluent in similar to functionally illiterate but for speech?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What's the word for when you can't think of a word? I used to know it....

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now I'm curious if you do anything with your partner that she really likes to do but you don't.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why are fitness weights filled with sand?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exploiting natural resources.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we have a healthy life only with fruits or fruits and plants combined alone, and if not why?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right? At a minimum, it might help mentally health to allow some things to ferment a but and then consume the toxic byproducts in moderation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It's not about the grammar. It's the underlying mindset that might lead to specific word choices. If someone exclusively refers to women as bitches, that may be because they don't hold much respect for women.

  More subtly, if someone always refers to women as girls but rarely to men as boys, it could be telling us that they think of women as immature and less like fully formed adults.

  For the word females, it's more subtle again. It would be normal to refer to animals as male and female. For people we have the gender-specific terms man and woman. If you refer to women as females but not men as males, you may be revealing an underlying dehumanizing attitude. This is corroborated by what seems to be a common trope of incels calling women females.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. I'm not saying the poster is an incel. I'm just saying the objection to misuse of "female" has been primed by incels (and Ferengi). Without incels, there wouldn't be such a knee jerk revulsion to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no idea what you're trying to communicate, but I do understand the logical expression you used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok. I somehow missed that. I scanned for other uses of "female" a few times but was blinded to the one right next to coworker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Incel behavior includes using "female" as a noun when talking about women. Using "female" as an adjective is perfectly normal and common. It is fine to write "female coworker" instead of "coworker who is a woman."

  Some people are hypersensitive to wrongspeak.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I'll get back to this, but I first need to complete my post called "Have you ever spoken to someone in person?"

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If animals could speak English in what foreign accent do you think that a certain species would certainly have ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You're the only one to comment with the accent of a people of color. You read my comment and then picked an African animal and gave it the accent of one of the African countries where it lived.

  Congratulations for proving me wrong after being aware of my comment. But your entry wasn't at all funny or enlightening, so we all lose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If animals could speak English in what foreign accent do you think that a certain species would certainly have ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It was a prediction. We need to wait for the evidence.

  So far groups mentioned have been Aussie, Brit, French, Italian, and Russian. At the time I made my comment it was Aussie and Italian only.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If animals could speak English in what foreign accent do you think that a certain species would certainly have ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This encourages racist responses, but no one will notice until a people of color are involved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If animals could speak English in what foreign accent do you think that a certain species would certainly have ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Pigeons would speak a pidgin language, obviously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who live in southern hemisphere countries: do your mall Santas dress for freezing cold weather?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Santa lives at the North Pole. He has to dress warmly. 2/3 of Earth's population lives north of the equator. Santa has to dress for the majority of the people he will visit as he doesn't have time to change clothes. Santa's helpers in malls are like stunt doubles. They have to dress like Santa dresses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never buying milk from Walmart again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If she lives in a patriarchal society, then the culture doesn't allow her to truly consent to giving up her milk for anyone but her own consumption, and that's assuming she doesn't do work or volunteering that somehow furthers the patriarchy.

  Or something unhinged like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'd like to control my air-purifier with one of those power-socket-timer-switch thingies – Is there a way to "auto-press" those non-mechanical buttons?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You just need a humanoid robot with the latest AI. Then you explain what you want it to do, and if it doesn't murder you or make you its slave, you might be alright.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'd like to control my air-purifier with one of those power-socket-timer-switch thingies – Is there a way to "auto-press" those non-mechanical buttons?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You just need a humanoid robot with the latest AI. Then you explain what you want it to do, and if it doesn't murder you or make you its slave, you might be alright.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is our President a pedophile?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually, it's called ephebophilia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you smoothened out the earth, how high would the water level be?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Water naturally spreads out equally on such a surface

  You've forgotten about tides.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I see now I read the opposite of what is written (people would treat each with dignity without religion).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There are some obvious historical counterexamples.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with breakfast in bed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Instructions unclear. Urinated on hooker and got charged extra.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with breakfast in bed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Your way is to have to pee all night.