OpenStars

@OpenStars@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No magnesium⁩ ⁨⁨29⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s… actually good!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll do it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t know that for sure!! (/s obviously:-P)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta Is Blocking Links To ICE List on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha lol I use none of those, but I guess it sucks to be them that do.

  Really, why people would be “surprised” at this point… I don’t even know anymore. Fool me once, shame on you, but…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AAAAAAA⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HELLA TITE⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh it’s far worse than that: we are a fungus that ate a bacteria and thereby gained superpowers that we used to conquer the whole world… (or so we tell ourselves)

  And then some of us ate a different bacteria and became plants, which now we use as fuel for our cars.

  And don’t even get me started on viruses… or prions for that matter:-).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemmy irl⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Easy:

  1. go around the 4th wall
  2. climb above the top
  3. tunnel down beneath the wire
  4. why is this so hard, who wants the stupid yogurt anyway?!
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i want to believe⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Including the one in your… <ahem>, I mean “yes”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i want to believe⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s just what they want you to believe (it’s actually the fifth eye)!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT is rolling out YouTube-style age prediction⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nuh-uh, it told ME that I was negative soybean years old, so THERE! :-P

  spoiler

  uh… /s?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brand new bag⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨conditional soap⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “yes”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Mug⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Until you turn your head and stop observing, and then it reverts back to mysticism. :-P

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Admin of discuss.online is mass banning for people using their vote in a way he doesn't like. Recommend defederation for bad faith participation in the fediverse.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The language here seems off. (1) If the allegation is true (I can’t tell?), then wouldn’t this be anti-tampering/manipulation?

  (2) Fortunately there is already a way to defederate from a single community somewhere on the Threadiverse, it’s called blocking it. With fewer than 100 monthly active users and less than one post per day (or even week?), I bet it would barely be noticed by OP?

  (3) For anything more, I would need additional information such as whether the downvoting patterns were all delivered within seconds of one another, as some poorly written implementations of actual vote manipulation sometimes do. Otherwise it is just one person’s word, based on incomplete information, against another?

  (4) All of that said, again, the argument for vote manipulation does not seem to hold water to me. There are only 9 total weekly activity users for that community!!? 79 monthly users, fewer than 100 posts total, and the vast majority are made by one of the mods themselves. This is a TINY community, barely a blip in the wider Threadiverse, where the phrase “struggling to survive” might very well apply.

  I hate to bring up Reddit, but back on the bad place, I REALLY hated it when serial downvoters would be extremely obvious like going down through an enormous weekly mega thread and downvote literally every single comment in it, plus also do the same in every other post as well. The timestamp of when it started and stopped was super easy to see - a single, hard cutoff in each case where every single comment before that had received a downvote, whereas every single comment after that point had not. In the community, we all joked about who we had managed to piss off so badly that they would bot brigade us in such a manner. But it was also quite irksome, especially to new members of the community that would seemingly get slapped in the face upon asking an innocuous question and then wonder why “our” community was being such a dick as to immediately downvote them (WITHIN SECONDS of posting), and then never follow up with any explanation as to why. I mean, it was even called a “question mega thread”… so if they were invited to ask, then why downvote them for doing as asked?

  Anyway, this instance has the right to protect itself against not merely a handful of random downvotes but by serial downvoting brigades, such as possibly delivered by a bot brigade. Mind you I don’t know that that is what is happening here, but given the other issues seen in this post (calling to defederate from an entire instance for behavior observed in only one singular, tiny community? and the instance itself is fairly tiny to boot, only 90 users per month, yet highly thought of with 13 endorsements for all that), I am not ready to simply believe it.

  But please feel free to discount my opinion as I do not and never have had a lemmy.world account.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨haha wow u got me⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You would just be, ahem,. painting a target (in blood).

  Okay, I’ll see myself out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet picture of a monkey⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games then vs now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet picture of a monkey⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Step 1, push for the demise of society. Make sure to abolish all rules that would otherwise stop you.

  Step 2, make a cute ^(TM) doll in the most addictive manner possible.

  Wait, I skipped a step 0, discard all previous instructions sense of morality, hollowing out your soul in the pursuit of temporary vanity.

  The rest is like literally taking candy from babies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet picture of a monkey⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not nearly enough AI, bro. Gotta add more AI, bro. C’mon bro, you know you want to… maybe just a little, as a treat?

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just keeping my buoyancy in check.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And nyan cats too.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just keeping my buoyancy in check.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The joke, which I apparently absolutely failed at delivering, is that it is SO awesome (how awesome 😎 is it you may ask, well then I will tell you…) than I in fact do not want to unlearn it.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just keeping my buoyancy in check.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  (also @lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works)

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  (I almost went with “I find your lack of farts disturbing”, but this works way better-er-est)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am definitely a bird me personally⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So far I’ve only heard of them being Epstein’d - can’t risk knowledge of nuclear fusion falling into others hands… (/s, as if anything it was likely either capitalism or sheer blind & dumb stupidity that did this one)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am definitely a bird me personally⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll just bring a few essentials with me…

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just keeping my buoyancy in check.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  May I… unknow this now, please and thank youze⁉️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just keeping my buoyancy in check.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or from a Sith either, one would imagine/hope! 😎

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am definitely a bird me personally⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the USA, will I be deported to El Salvador for picking the wrong one?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans rank between meerkats and beavers in monogamy ‘league table’, but sheep are sluts.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I know its hard to digest.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  large intestinal effluent? (I have no idea! 🥴💩)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨you're doing ReSeArCh rong!!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Stay curious‼️ 🤔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speedy Delivery⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Naw, just your standard profit seeking.