I like to watch a streamer and skip through the stream for anything that looks crazy
I’ve definitely been watching less and less because less is happening, but I’m enjoying the highlights
people who downvoted are clearly on the lowend of the imaginary curve
Is this just a re-posting bot? I literally made this meme this morning and posted it somewhere else. This user seems to have posted >10 memes over a few minutes.
Nope not a bot, I just have an RSS feed with notifications
Why am I cross-posting .ml content?
I cross-post from .ml to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly, the instance as a whole, to make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don’t want to defederate is because .ml still has some very large comms and some niche comms.
Some highlights from the link:
"Don’t worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/30580167
“See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn’t count!!” ~ Davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/30673342
.ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558 The original transphobic Comment from Nutomic: https://lemmy.world/post/18236068
“NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/31595035
General negative sentiment to other instances who haven’t “seen the way” yet ~davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/27426510
“If you don’t support Russia then you just don’t understand geopolitics” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/27352415
And so so much documentation on clear heavy handed censorship and bias also on the link. So much I can’t even put them all here because this comment would be really long.
I believe the behavior of its admins (the main admins are Lemmy devs) does harm to the overall growth of the Lemmy-verse and maybe even the Thrediverse (since Lemmy kinda kicked off the Thrediverse) because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform to spread harmful propaganda
On the outside, bringing up Lemmy frequently leads to comments like “Lemmy? Isn’t that the place with a bunch of tankies?” Or “Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left”. The best way forward from that I see is to either widely defederate from .ml like the rest of the Triad, or pressure them to put a fair and unbiased as possible admin team.
Honestly I’ve thought cm002 was a bot before as well, but they engage in comment sections often enough to say either it’s not, or it’s a user hopping on to check bot progress.
Either way, most likely case is it’s a user that saw a funny meme, and reposted it since not every sire is federated with others and some communities might not see it, especially if it’s to a world or ml domain.
Possibly related, I did not see your post from this morning, this is my first time seeing it. Not sure about federation between instances but yeah.
Also tangentially related, anyone remember the huge r*ddit drama over a poweruser constantly reposting things with top comment responses to farm karma? That was a fun glance into people who take imaginary internet points too seriously. I’m glad lemmy doesn’t keep track of total votes.
the thing with reddit is that karma has a function. for example new users can’t post in most communities until they somehow get a lot of karma and posts from users with lots of past karma get pushed by their algos.
that’s why immaginary internet points are very serious on reddit and accounts with lots of it can (illegally) be sold for thousands of dollars to advertising companies.
this is the reason, i think it’s important to have votes in lemmy etc only matter per post/comment and only for sorting/displaying.
I’m glad lemmy doesn’t keep track of total votes.
It does, it just doesn’t display it; sites running Mbin do, though:
Ew. Gross. I liked not knowing better. Ah well, at least I can’t check it myself so I don’t really care that much. I didn’t want lemmy to feel like a competition like I used to feel occasionally with r*ddit.
Also this is the first time I’ve noticed my name doesn’t show up as “Miles O’brien” for everyone. Now I’m sad :(
Does it? I thought mbin just tallied up the votes to get that number, I wasnt aware it was a tracked value for the fediverse.
I’m not sure tbh, but it makes sense if it’s just a tally
no they farm karma to sell the accounts for various purposes
I think you’re right. But why?
Just an RSS feed with notifications lol
Why am I cross-posting .ml content?
I cross-post from .ml to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly, the instance as a whole, to make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don’t want to defederate is because .ml still has some very large comms and some niche comms.
Some highlights from the link:
"Don’t worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/30580167
“See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn’t count!!” ~ Davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/30673342
.ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558 The original transphobic Comment from Nutomic: https://lemmy.world/post/18236068
“NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/31595035
General negative sentiment to other instances who haven’t “seen the way” yet ~davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/27426510
“If you don’t support Russia then you just don’t understand geopolitics” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/27352415
And so so much documentation on clear heavy handed censorship and bias also on the link. So much I can’t even put them all here because this comment would be really long.
I believe the behavior of its admins (the main admins are Lemmy devs) does harm to the overall growth of the Lemmy-verse and maybe even the Thrediverse (since Lemmy kinda kicked off the Thrediverse) because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform to spread harmful propaganda
On the outside, bringing up Lemmy frequently leads to comments like “Lemmy? Isn’t that the place with a bunch of tankies?” Or “Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left”. The best way forward from that I see is to either widely defederate from .ml like the rest of the Triad, or pressure them to put a fair and unbiased as possible admin team.
I thought I saw comments from you, but there are people taking other’s names on different instances. A name doesn’t mean much anymore. I wish sh.itjust.works would move to piefed and we could have a tagging system.
Lol yea, I had that imposter account problem myself some months ago, like the ones on tucson.social and lonestar.mooo (and others) are all imposters
It’s partly why I like having so many accounts now, it helps mitigate a future occurrence lmao
I still follow the news cause as a trans woman, I gotta know if I’m allowed to do things like travel and pee and get groceries.
I’m with you 100% on this. I wish I could turn it off and do something more important. But the way things currently are idk whether I’m gonna have basic rights one day to the next.
And it’s such an exhausting cycle. Trudging through the constant deluge of hate and fear, finding some little glimmer of good news, and then back into the fire.
The headlines are the worst thing to only read. Sometimes they’re flat out wrong and other times you’re being lead by the nose. Headlines are for an emotional response and/or propaganda.
If you read the first 3 paragraphs, that’s usually okay. If it seems like they’re fluffing it up, then try 3/4’s of the way down and skim the last paragraph.
So now I see previews are useful here on Friendica 😁
That’s why I read the headlines and the expert commentary in the Lemmy comments.
Forty years ago you still had the daily paper and the Sunday paper.
Even then you only needed the Sunday.
Forty years ago the newsrooms were staffed and the editors edited (sure they’re biased but they had some ideas of integrity) and you could read the paper. Now there’s just so much noise.
I find my problem being news source that expect me to read once a week; instead of assuming I’ve read twenty times yesterday
You can either read all the news and talk about all the things that should be happening.
Or read just enough to get on with doing something useful in the world and avoid getting yourself stuck or depleted
The evening news is where it’s at.
