There is no effective way to ban a person. As long as that remains true, moderation tools don’t really matter.

Israel alone is putting $760 million into propaganda. Lemmy may not be big, but it’s worth 0.2% of that budget.

And that’s just Israel.

You should assume everything you post here is being used to train LLMs. It doesn’t take an admin to do so. It takes anyonr who feels like looking. And there’s already evidence that we’re being scraped.

That site changes the content of the articles. It’s not to be trusted.

We haven’t, really. Our “complete neutrality” is infested with troll farms, where people are employed to make hundreds of accounts to spread propaganda.

I’m thinking the answer is to implement a huge barrier for troll farms, but a small speed bump for real people.

It could be oauth with Steam or your cell provider, where you can make an account if you’ve spent over $250 with them. Actual credit history would work. You can combine these and allow any of them, which might let one person make 3-4 accounts, maybe, but that’s still limited enough to make things difficult for troll farms.

There is an issue where billionaires that want to influence us have absolutely absurd resources, and maybe paying $1000 per account isn’t enough of a barrier for them. But at least it gives us a chance for the bans to stick significantly more than they do now.

Yeah, I am on .World which for some reason still federates with .ml. I’ve moved over to Piefed on Desktop, just not on mobile yet.

Just read these 14 books from 1930 if you want to have an opinion. No, I can’t summarize anything from them. They can only be understood in their entirety.

All hail Putin, Xi.

If you want to find out if they’re an actual tankie, just look for anything related to Russia or China. They out themselves pretty quick, usually.

You should leave any instance that is federated with the Triad, imo. Lemmygrad, Hexbear, and ML are all Russia sponsored/supported instances that should be shunned by Lemmy as a whole.

You’re encouraging people to “stay home in well-earned disgust”. That serves the fascists.

End of story.

There are ways to say what you want to say carefully. But in my opinion stopping the Nazis needs to come before any other priorities.

I think some of it is intentional, and some are just taken along by that.

Also it’s always easier to throw rocks from the sidelines than to actually lead. It’s so much easier to find something wrong with everything than it is to try to figure out the right thing to do.

Plus nuance is always difficult. Better to just treat everything as back and white.

I wouldn’t buy that laptop if I knew ahead of time.

If the thousand instance users are controlled by three people, it’s not that hard.

We might not be there yet though. Elections are far enough out.

I expect 95% of Lemmy to be propaganda and manipulation when we get closer. There’s only so much that can be done to keep out nation states when all the users are anonymous.

And when you put your real name on things, you get cancelled.

It’s a bad time for the Internet, and I don’t have easy answers. Just be very aware that what seems to be “consensus” opinion might actually be twenty accounts controlled by the same guy or organization. They might even argue with each other, and just have the side they want to lose present weak arguments.

Okay, but what’s with the line of cars and how does that relate exactly? I can speculate given all that, but someone else would be better to fill in.

Any context?

It is exactly the same as Twitter in all of the ways that matter.

I think the fucking Nazi at the head matters.

I’m on Boost, but should probably look at Voyager.

The other difference is that promoting more and more obscure, useless shit ruins your credibility for when you’re trying to get them to Lemmy or Signal or Mastodon.

Signal is an absolutely fine product and doesn’t need to be decentralized right now.

No mention of Lemmy. Hardly a mention of Mastodon. The leading image is all the oligarch apps. I’m not impressed.

2024

It blows my mind that places like the transit systems that were on Twitter haven’t migrated over to their own Mastodon server. They’re not that hard to set up, and there’s so little risk when you just don’t accept public signups on your domain.