Max

two people (so far) did not read your post to the end lol

my every-time-i-took-edibles-i-thought-i-would-be-the-first-person-to-die-off-weed would like a word.

i suck at estimating how much weed to put in my brownies lol

“i am no threat to you, so please lower all your defenses. ignore the past 20 times i abused this to attack you again. this time will be different, pinkypromise”

i got a pixel 8a used for cheap. installing grapheneOS was a breeze and took less than 10 minutes following their guide (i watched a youtube video in advance as well, but did not factor in the time.)

installed f-droid and aurora and have access to all apps i need, avoiding what i need to avoid :)

i still have my one plus with google services and apps like whatsapp that i will slowly transition away from. my biggest problem is that i can easily switch to communication apps like threema and signal (and have years ago) - but the sad truth is that many of my contacts are still on whatsapp

back when reddit was not just a meme shithole, karma was used to motivate people to post quality content. 90% of the stuff posted on reddit nowadays would get downvoted into oblivion back then. typo in the title or image caption? downvoted. repost? downvoted. low effort? downvoted.

but with growing popularity the flat number of (usually young) users grew that hat other quality standards grew and these kind of faults were ignored. meme became bigger, and there was a general shift in reddits userbase. they changed the algorith to calculate your score and suddenly you could get just so.much.karma from cheap posts.

some communities became very strict in their content to avoid shitposts. some used karma to prevent trolls participating in their subs. nowadays high karma accounts are being sold as they can be used to participate in subreddits with a high reputation (due to participation limitations) and upvoting/downvoting and commenting on certain post can very heavily skew its visibility and impression of the discussed topic on “neutral” users.

so yea, karma used to be a good thing (good content motivation), became a bad thing (karmawhoring), which was still utilized for good things (participation limitation), which led to even worse things (karmafarming bots).

lemmy will have to deal with this sooner or later. there will be bots brigading communities on certain topics and there need to be some kind of indicators to distinguish honest users and trolls.

ok sorry :(

i am just worried that the idea of karma on lemmy starts to gain traction :D

i dont know, i dont think so (without a user asking them to?). i think it would be less trouble for them to just create new accounts on their own. same result, but nobody can claim that their deleted account was restored. i think restoring deleted accounts could lead to legal trouble?

thats another thing. no internet points, so no bots to farm them. upvotes really only indicate the quality of the post or comment that receives the upvotes. no way to use the total number of points to claim validity of your posts or to brag with them.

that being said, at one point we will need to figure out a way to identify and prevent bots that just post propaganda. while we wont have the problem of karmawhoring bots, they dont have the need to karmawhore and can try to spread their propaganda immediately.

PSA: delete your account!

being banned is funny and stuff, but reddit can, has and will unban accounts to inflate their user count for their investors.

delete every account, post and comment if you can.

dont get banned, just delete your account. reddit is notorious in unbanning people to inflate their user count to investors.

imagine this sentence 10 years ago!

rip Kabosu, your alias was not meant to be stained in such a way :(

having some similarities does not make them identical. having all similarities makes them identical. having one community generate traffic and distractions with memes does make a big difference.

both communities should coexist. siphoning users from one to another community is a dickmove. however, i expect most users to be smart enough to just join both. i think a 3 day ban is not the end of the world, especially since you make it sound like your only input in their community was advertising for another community. i guess nothing of value was lost on that front and it had a nice side effect sparking this discussion.

i think posting your issue in this community here is also a dickmove.

maybe you should contact the mods privately and talk with THEM on that matter. i think your comment was phrased fairly and did not really say “hey, leave this community and join us!” - so i think it is worth trying to find a solution.

from my experiece: this style of displaying content is only ass if you visit the website for the first time and have a huge backlog of content.

ongoing comics with regular updates will mostly be frequented by visitors that already know all strips and just want to read the most recent one.

BUT (big but!): the fact that the navigation buttons for each comic say “previous” and “next” but will navigate to the next and previous chapter tells me, that the layout is not used as inteded. so… valid criticism!

I feel the same, but it helps to not just browse “subscribed” but to also check out “local” and especially “all”

You can also take a few minutes and check out the “communities” overview and join those you recognise by name or browse a few of them to decide if you want to join them.

It does not matter on which instance most of the time. Also, I am subscribed to similar communities on different instances, cause why not. Worst case scenario: I get duplicate news.

looking forwards to free hamburgers on free borsht

Hunt Showdown did this in the worst way. they got all Call of Duty with their UI, after they got a CoD manager on their team. surprise, shit sucks now.

Man I hope that is just a me-issue, but I work with excel a lot for work and try to use libre office at home. And the excel alternative is not great. I can see the similarities to excel, but when I want to use it, I have a lot of trouble finding things and using them as I am used to.

You WILL be able to do basic things and I am sure it will almost always be possible to get to similar results, but the way there does not feel the same.

Another comment in this thread you might already have seen by now:

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/17100252

And there were other instances mentioned in other threads as well.

Some problems are not tied to a platform, but to their users. Power hungry people try to grab power where they can. If they can’t be mod on reddit, they move to Lemmy. Here they can try to grow “their” space. If a topic already exists on one instance, they can move to another and shape the narrative and enforce rules how they like.

if that is your primary motivation, i have bad news for you… you might have to move on. here you will get bans for downvoting “the wrong” comment or post as well.

on top of that the US has shown that it can never be a reliable partner. why would any country in the world try to build lasting alliances with the usa if they have to expect a knife to their back every four years or so?