TORFdot0

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's Mastodon precious?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t particularly agree that it’s “greatly increased” by it. I’m on a server with them and I don’t see that much many more spammers. It seems like fearful hyperbole, I’m not saying there aren’t any I’ve certainly seen a few but it’s not as common as most people think it is.

  My mastodon instance rarely ever sees spam despite having open signups either. Maybe my problem is I’m worried about future problems rather than the current state of how things are. My concern comes from personal experience with legacy socials like facebook and twitter when it comes to spam that I report and the frustration of when I get the automoderation notification back and they determine it didn’t break their guidelines.

  I don’t want the cesspool of spam to become a problem on the fediverse as these experiences were a major reason I decided to join it.

  I appreciate your comments again. You’ve softened how I feel on the challenge of balancing open user sign ups with moderating malicious users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's Mastodon precious?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I appreciate your take and the thought put into the reply. I don’t mean to gatekeep the fediverse to keep normies out because that isn’t my desire at all. Merely my stance is while I believe that low engagement is very undesirable, high volume of scammers/spammers are equally undesirable.

  I’m also thinking of things from a moderator/instance owner point of view where trying to defend your instance from illegal activity, spam, and harmful content is greatly increased by having open sign ups. If the majority of engagement on your posts are from pussy in bio accounts then that is a put off from the end user as well.

  Trolls and assholes will always get through if they are motivated enough, fediverse platforms usually gives the end user enough tools to block them.

  Your perspective has a lot of valid points as well, I think that there is a compromise somewhere that is slightly more effective than a simple captcha that could also streamline onboarding and validating users.

  I don’t want the fediverse to be an exclusive club, I am already annoyed about how things can be an echo chamber even worse than legacy socials here at times. My hope that bridges and utilities will come that help people follow each other from bluesky/mastodon and allow account migrations from either as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's Mastodon precious?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It also acts as a filter to keep threat actors and spammers out. Open sign ups are actually a bad thing for the overall health of the network. Yes it also keeps out the lowest common denominator normies but those aren’t exactly the ones who contribute to the network as a whole anyway

  This isn’t capitalism, there isn’t a need for growth for growth’s sake. There does need to be a more simplified way to onboard users but not at the cost of the health of the network.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's Mastodon precious?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Bluesky is not decentralized if you have to use their relay to access the network from your PDS

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's Mastodon precious?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If the reason people only want bluesky is because it’s Elon-less Twitter then they are stupid and wrong (or just ignorant). But then they can move to the next thing in 5 years when the enshittification happens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's Mastodon precious?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Mastodon doesn’t silo its users, that’s what federation is for. Everything you post on the public timeline is essentially public for everyone that’s on a federated instance that hasn’t gotten blocked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why are fax machines still used by medical systems?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Providers have a market incentive to provide the most convenient experience to their patients. The market incentive does not exist for sending information to other providers so they will take the path of least resistance to be compliant with regulation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo sues streamer for playing pre-release, emulated Switch games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Whether there is something wrong with doing that is a matter of ethics and personal values…

  Regardless of those, it’s profoundly stupid to taunt Nintendo with confessions of piracy and threats to commit more

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PRESIDENCY, SENATE, HOUSE, AND POPULAR VOTE!!!!!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  2 jobs for everyone! (We’ll need them after tariffs increase the cost of goods)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Video Game Flopped Harder Than Anything At The Box Office This Year, And The Mainstream Press Barely Noticed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A live service game failing isn’t newsworthy. It’s newsworthy when one isn’t completely terrible

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dwyane Wade Hypes Heat Statue as 'Beautiful' and Among 'the Best That's Been Created'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That must be the statue of Wade Jones

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't know what he's doing wrong⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Anon:

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flappy Bird Returns but now with microtransactions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or in this case die a hero and then someone pays to desecrate your corpse and reanimate you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Actors demand action over 'disgusting' video game sex scenes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t recommend it, but going bass-to-mouth was a very popular and hyped feature addition for SEGA Bass Fishing. I’m surprised this is the first you are hearing of it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MW2 remastered multiplayer mod shut down by Activision day before launch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually RDR2 came out nearly 6 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MW2 remastered multiplayer mod shut down by Activision day before launch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel sorry for the goobers who bought this game before the mod was released. Sad thing is that activision could do this themselves but then they couldn’t gouge gen Zers with micro transactions so they won’t

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bet y'all are very familiar with this⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy doesn’t track your cumulative karma as far as I can tell. So it’s not really farming since you don’t even get a badge that says you have a big pp for it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Haters Immediately Flood Twitter With Sick New Hashtag - Pure Evil⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Pure Evil”

  This is the kind of extreme, absolutist rhetoric that led to a whacko attempting to assassinate DJT. Maybe we should have some self-reflection on whether everyone involved in politics should share responsibility in de-escalating the hate we have in this country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MODERN WARFARE: How Call of Duty 4 Changed a Genre Forever⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The RPG mechanics didn’t ruin the genre although I did prefer the mechanics of earlier CoDs where in multiplayer everything is unlocked and you just use whatever you want.

  What ruined the genre was the free-to-play style monetization and season pass paid update model.

  Black Ops 2 was the first CoD to have paid skins, but we would have no idea how bad things would become. By the time Fortnite came along the multiplayer FPS genre was already long ruined

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Non-binary⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Stupid sexy Flanders

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Atari Acquires Intellivision Brand⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t Tommy working for colecovision?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is very therapeutic to garden, though.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have any love lost for mega corporate farms and agree that we need more family and cooperative owned farms that would be more concerned with sustainability and environmental impact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is very therapeutic to garden, though.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Home gardening is an important element of individual food security. It’s not meant to replace industrial agriculture which maintains food security for the nation as a whole

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You are absolutely free to believe that not all beliefs are good or correct according to your own morals, and plenty of people will agree with you. Similar to going to a middle eastern country and telling them that women should have rights and shouldn’t have to cover up, don’t expect to be well liked for telling people that their beliefs are deficient or immoral.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As an example of internet atheists being as obnoxious as internet vegans, yes that’s my example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t remember when /r/atheism was a default on the other site?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People don’t hate veganism as much as they don’t appreciate being judged for their choices and chastised by other adults for beliefs that they don’t share.

  Personally I have no problem respecting the beliefs of people who are vegan due to their personal morals. Until they start disrespecting the beliefs of others who don’t agree with them with regards to meat, then they become annoying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Checkmate⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here I am…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do recommend eating this?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a sourpuss

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Legend of Zelda⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Its next on my list!