It’s a safety issue. You need to find a urinal buddy to help protect you from any perverts that might enter the bathroom while you’re pissing.

Remember the whole secret code involving narwhals and bacon that some of Reddit leaned into while others cringed? And a good portion weren’t even aware of it despite using Reddit.

Though that’s more like 16 years ago now I think.

These ones plus “this is a duplicate of <link to question that is only kinda related and doesn’t address the specific problem being asked in the newer question>”.

Fuck busy body moderators. The people you “have power” over can see how stupid and incompetent you are and being able to shut down forum conversations about it doesn’t hide it, it just means people know not to bother saying it where you’re looking.

When trying to find a copy of Forza 4 (or one of them) after being disappointed with the cut down version they had on gamepass, I discovered it couldn’t be sold anymore because of a deal MS made with Porsche that eventually ran out.

Also set up a standardized licensing process that breaks the mini-monopolies of exclusive content.

Personally, I’d also limit copyright to specific works and not the characters, setting, etc. Then protect trademarks and use those to establish canon. Like in the MCU and DC universes, Spiderman and Batman don’t exist together, but in the Superhero Fan Universe, they are roommates and play genius billionaire vs superhuman with a sixth sense prank wars on each other.

Yeah not to mention it’s not that hard to detect a shadowban if you’re aware of the possibility. Lemmy doesn’t even fuzz vote totals, so it would be trivial to verify whether or not votes are working.

I wonder if there’s a way for admins to troll back. Like instead of banning the accounts, send them into a captcha loop with unsolvable or progressively harder captchas (or ones designed to poison captcha solving bots’ training).

I really don’t want it to become worthwhile for the Russian troll farms that want every discussion to turn into a shitfest.

Or post about it and build a case for defederating from them or more users to block them individually.

Care to elaborate a bit on what it is that makes you like it so much?

It’s not so much about wanting this user base as it is eliminating potential competition and maybe stamping out a place on the internet where people can freely and openly communicate.

And I think that will go both ways. I mean, we all already have the option of joining threads right now to interact with those 100M users but I have a feeling most that are here aren’t.

Their joining the fediverse will be more disruptive than their leaving it I think. And that’s not even considering the higher costs to anyone running instances, since all that extra volume won’t be processed and stored for free (though admittedly I am not familiar with the implementation details of how federated content is handled).

Or from another angle, they won’t be able to entirely pull the plug. If they try to but users still want to be on mastodon, they can find another way.

That said, I support the immediate defederation with any threads instances.

But it’s the only standard we have so, why not keep it for now.

Because making new standards is fun.

Yeah, android is a lot like Windows in that they make choices that might benefit users who don’t know what’s going on but interrupts or harms things power users are doing. They are just better at not being as annoying with it and don’t beg people to use their default programs.

Yeah, that’s what I came in to say. Sugar might be equal but total carbs are way different, and all glucose contributes to insulin resistance and weight gain. Refined sugar is just easier to digest so can release enough glucose quickly to shock your system, but 17 begels aren’t much better.

This isn’t meant as any kind of defense of that drink, though. It’s still more sugar than several cans of pop, and even those are best to not drink frequently.

Interesting that they give you more up than down. Are you on a server plan or something like that?

Edit: lol just noticed what community this is, server plan makes more sense now.

Sure, but isn’t that something all of the instances will have to deal with, whether they allow nsfw content or not, I bet people will try to post it. And the trolls/sabouteurs will go for the sick shit.

Google should have added SEO detection that would allow a site to be near the top for enough time for an SEO consultant to get paid, then drop the site to page 4. SEO would have looked like a scam before long.

Assuming “hoping it works” is really part of his plan for the platform.