cowvin

From what I’ve read, the troll farms mostly operate funded by Russia but are physically located outside of Russia. For example, Macedonia had quite a few.

I’ve been using Mastodon since Twitter was taken over by Musk, so I’m not a super long-term user, but I can give my perspective:

Platforms like kbin / lemmy are more like “topic” communities. Like people on kbin create “magazines” and on lemmy they are actually “communities”. From the user perspective, you can just look for these communities you are interested in and sign up to get updates from them.

Platforms like Mastodon are more like you and specific people you like to see content from. So you find people you like to hear from and you follow them to get their updates. They may post on subjects you aren’t interested in but oh well, that’s up to them.

Both formats can produce desirable, tight-knit communities, but they just use different structure. In my opinion, the kbin / lemmy style is more accessible in terms of finding people interested in a specific subject but feels less personal since you are just all there to talk about a specific subject. On Mastodon, when I find people posting content I like, I end up learning more about the random nonsense they are interested in. Like my feed there has a ton of moose pictures now because one person I followed likes to post pictures of moose. I don’t mind seeing them, but I never expected to see so many moose.

TLDR: Mastodon is about following people, kbin / lemmy are about following topics.

Well they mention Github artifacts in that message so it sounds like it’s more like they may have obtained source code and that sort of non public stuff.

Usually what happens is that these sorts of blackmailers will leak small, verifiable pieces of data so people know they really got something. We don’t see that here, so for now there’s no reason to take them seriously yet.

This isn’t ransomware. This is standard blackmail.

It took me a while to accept cloud storage but I use it now. I backed up all of our family photos on Google photos.

The head wobble doesn’t have one simple meaning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gbrB8KwES4

I worked for many years with someone from south India and he would do the head wobble so over the years he tried to explain it. I still don’t fully understand it. Haha

Yeah, right-wingers are trying to suppress people being educated about this part of American history. They don’t want people to sympathize with the victims of the slavery era.

It was an awful time and we as a nation need to do better.

Boosts are like retweets and Upvotes are like likes. On a threaded discussion format like this, boosts are kind of pointless, so nobody uses them.

I had a couple of Motorola phones back in the day. Most recently I had a Moto Z2 Force, which had a shatterproof screen. I really liked that because around then I had my first kid and kids cause accidents all the time. LOL

I think that would defeat a piece of the point of a decentralized system. In the current design, what will naturally happen is that if one instance has all the good content on a particular topic, most users will gravitate toward it anyway. We can read across federated instances anyway so I, a kbin user, have no problem reading something on lemmy like this.

Then let’s say one day lemmyworld@lemmy.world gets taken over by people who want to post stuff I don’t want to see. If I miss how it used to be here, I could go make lemmyworld@kbin.social and it would be fine.

People who are afraid vote for someone they perceive as strong. Thus you’ll see that right-wing media and politicians are constantly trying to instill fear in people. They want their voters to think that their way of life is under attack and there are enemies everywhere. The only one they can count on is their fearless leader to save them!

People did that on Twitter and Twitter has been resurrecting old, deleted posts. Reddit could easily do the same. Deleting doesn’t really delete any data.

Post more content here and help make it less boring. More content will attract more users, which will result in more content. We need to grow the community.

The Republican party serves the rich. Poor Republican voters are just temporarily embarrassed millionaires so they are cool with suffering themselves as long as other poor people are suffering. Other people deserve to suffer because of skin color, religion, “laziness”, or whatever, so they keep voting to cut services for themselves.

I prefer public transportation, but I have to drive to save time when I commute to the office. If I drive myself it takes 25 minutes. If i take a bus, it would take like 1.5 hours (there’s no direct route there). So my choice is like literally 3 hours a day on a bus or a bit under 1 hour in my car. With long hours of work and limited time to see the kids, I can’t throw away 2 hours a day on transportation. Since COVID, though, I’ve been able to WFH so now I almost never drive.

Be aware that browsers saving passwords usually store them in some plain text or trivially decipherable format. So someone with physical access to your drive can steal all your passwords, basically.

Remember that in an interview, they mentioned that they used fake accounts early on to control the discourse on Reddit.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z4444w/how-reddit-got-huge-tons-of-fake-accounts–2

Not saying I have any proof they are doing that now, but it does show what they are willing to do to control the platform.

Yeah, but they aren’t fun if you run into cheaters. They’re a blast if you play with some of your friends. There are other similar games too, so I recommend you give the whole genre a shot.

Hmm this still doesn’t quite work for those of us visiting from kbin because from kbin we access this community as: https://kbin.social/m/youshouldknow@lemmy.world/ so even the /c/ doesn’t match up.

We probably will need some special markup that each instance converts to their own local community / magazine format.