OpenStars
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Compassion >~ Thought
- 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. 2 days 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 5 days ago:
You would just be, ahem,. painting a target (in blood).
Okay, I’ll see myself out.
- Comment on Internet picture of a monkey 6 days ago:
- Comment on Games then vs now 6 days ago:
- Comment on Internet picture of a monkey 6 days 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 instructionssense of morality, hollowing out your soul in the pursuit of temporary vanity.The rest is
likeliterally taking candy from babies. - Comment on Internet picture of a monkey 6 days 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?
- Comment on Just keeping my buoyancy in check. 1 week ago:
And nyan cats too.
- Comment on Just keeping my buoyancy in check. 1 week 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.
- Comment on Just keeping my buoyancy in check. 1 week ago:
(also @lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works)
(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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
I’ll just bring a few essentials with me…
- Comment on Just keeping my buoyancy in check. 1 week ago:
May I… unknow this now, please and thank youze⁉️
- Comment on Just keeping my buoyancy in check. 1 week ago:
Or from a Sith either, one would imagine/hope! 😎
- Comment on I am definitely a bird me personally 1 week 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. 1 week ago:
- Comment on I know its hard to digest. 1 week ago:
large intestinal effluent? (I have no idea! 🥴💩)
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 1 week ago:
Stay curious‼️ 🤔
- Comment on Speedy Delivery 1 week ago:
Naw, just your standard profit seeking.
- Comment on Choose your Nope Rope 1 week ago:
Okay, I choose… that one!
- Comment on I GOT THAT VIRUS 1 week ago:
Ooh, a win-win scenario, noice! 😉
- Comment on Contain them 1 week ago:
- Comment on Serial killer 1 week ago:
But within a series who gets credit for the kill - do they all share equally (socialism), or only the one most proximal to the victim (merit, I dunno?), or perhaps capitalism is at play so the richest one in the set gets all the credit for all the kills?
- Comment on Touch Screens Are Over. Even Apple Is Bringing Back Buttons. 2 weeks ago:
Unfortunately the buttons are likely still controlled by the central computer rather than having standalone functionality.
When I was a kid if I wanted to turn off the radio I simply hit the “off” button.
Now in my Subaru when I start the car I have to wait for it to wake fully up, while it could be blasting out music very loud (think: if the music when I turned off the vehicle was softer, but now a commercial is the very opposite of soft) until pressing the off button finally thinks through all the ramifications of what it means (in the context of prioritization in relation to other tasks) to actually turn the sound “off”.
I love my car but I definitely prefer the older approach when off = “off”.
So button vs. touchscreen is only part of the underlying set of issues related to computerization and, for some vehicles, the increasing trend towards SAAS.
- Comment on Touch Screens Are Over. Even Apple Is Bringing Back Buttons. 2 weeks ago:
You either have to purchase special capacitance-enabled globes (like silver) or else take them off for every button press that you want to make. :-(
- Comment on You nomster! 2 weeks ago:
Hey, a personalized keyboard, neat! 😉
- Comment on We Should All Just Own It, FFS. 2 weeks ago:
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“only”, ftfy
- Comment on Anthropic Exec Forces AI Chatbot on Gay Discord Community, Members Flee 3 weeks ago:
Within context, it’s usually clear what is meant, e.g. the singular discord that is associated with a Reddit sub/community.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
MS bought several good products (then killed them), does that count?
- Comment on Positivity 😇 3 weeks ago:
