Your average science guy, Linux nerd, and Minecraft player. Left Reddit for this place and haven’t looked back. :)
Website: lostxor.com
I’ve had a great experience here on fedia.io. It’s a smaller instance, and it is running Mbin instead of Lemmy, but everything federates over so you get the same content. Might feel a bit weird switching from Lemmy, but if you feel like it I’d recommend giving it a try. :)
Nothing at all. That’s what captchas are for.
For the first problem, just use a throwaway email service (I like temp-mail.org) to make your account.
Karma isn’t visible on Lemmy, but my instance (Mbin) shows it as “reputation”. If you’re curious, yours is 39482.
That’s a problem inherent to public social media platforms. Web/API scrapers have existed forever; the fediverse just makes it a little easier since you can run your own instance and gather data automatically.
I think there are better things to do with $500k than throw it all away for a useless domain name, like distribute it to the people who maintain fediverse software and host instances.
Nice, not worth $150 though lol.
That is usually how males and females of a species are differentiated in general: males have the small gamete and females have the large one. (As you said, some individuals may not produce gametes so it only applies in general).
Of course humans are a lot more complicated. We have a concept of gender which doesn’t necessarily align with biological sex, and many people modify their sex characteristics to match their gender, so applying generalizations blindly gets you nowhere.
AFAIK yes, users from instance B can downvote the post, but the downvotes won’t federate to instance A, so only users on B and C will be able to see them.
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Teenager ≠ underage, 18 and 19 year olds exist. But thanks for your concern. :)
As a teenager who is relatively tech-savvy and on the fediverse, can confirm. I think it’s gotten to the point where even less technically inclined people can join fairly easily, but the more savvy are usually the first to flee from enshittifying platforms so we see a lot more of them here.
I think it’s useful to quickly check if a user is trolling, but you can always just look at their recent activity.
North and South Dakota? Nah, here we have East and West Dakota.
Even if this was 100% accurate, which it obviously can’t be, what’s stopping someone who’s under 16 from just using someone else’s hand? Seems little better than the classic verification method of entering your birth date.
True, though all they can see is the domains/IPs and the rough traffic flow, nothing specific. And I’m not fearmongering, I’m making a joke. :P
They raise the barrier of entry for creating spam accounts from “make a bunch of API calls” to “set up some kind of AI captcha solver/pay someone in India to do it for you.” It doesn’t stop spammers, but it makes it harder for them.