Ah it’s just lemmy.ml with the soft ban. The main “dev” instance.

I will say that I would be a lot more willing to donate if the soft ban on Ukraine news was lifted.

Hexbears are just trolls. They generally aren’t coming into threads to have real discussions (and when they make attempts at it they often seem confused about their own stated ideology) - the unstated goal is to be disruptive to deny “shit libs” a platform.

I mean, there is a hard coded word filter which doesn’t allow you to use the scientifically correct term for a female dog. Which is pretty wild.

Hexbear is far more obnoxious than lemmygrad imo. At least lemmygrad doesn’t turn every thread into a middle school “#random” message board by filling it with cringe jpeg emojis.

It’s ok, you can say hexbear. They know they are annoying and everyone hates them.

The first one was botted as well near the end. I know because I wrote a tool to do it in about an hour using my private bot farm I had been building for years. I never gave it to anyone else because it was sloppy and integrated with the bot creation tools I had, and that would have revealed all of the tricks I used to create and protect the bot horde. But I used it myself, and I assume I was far from the only one with the same idea.

The interesting thing is that reddit basically condoned it. They are usually pretty decent at detecting bots if you don’t take measures to make them look human, but with place (at least the first time) they seemed to intentionally have that functionality disabled. I kind of assumed that they doing it specifically as a bit detection scheme, but they never cleaned house afterwards like I expected.

Right. “Bumper sticker politics”

I’ve heard very few good ideas which can fit into 160 characters.

Room temp superconducting magnets should make motors and power generation a bit more efficient. Magnetic plasma confinement gets a shit load easier as well.

I have blink cameras on solar panels that work pretty well as a mostly “no wires” solution. The motion detection can be a bit slow, but they do everything I need.

I modded a 10M+ sub for years and years and it is laughable how inept reddit’s engineering team must be when it comes to developing mod tools. They literally have open source teams hacking mod tools into browser extensions and they still couldn’t figure it out.

After a while it became abundantly clear that this kind of boring, iterative feature engineering was just not well funded compared to other parts of the company.

It’s like early reddit, except they replaced the conservatives with tankies.

Yeah I never understood to pearl clutching about downvotes. It just reeks of “everyone who drives faster than me is a lunatic, everyone who drives slower than me is a granny” mentality.

Fuck you, I disagree.

Is that better?

Undercook the fish? Bot, believe it or not.

Because it’s easy. Someone is just testing some basic tools, to which they can add countermeasures later.

These things are always going to be an issue on Lemmy though. Alt detection will basically be impossible.

Played it back when Arena Commander (?) was first launched and was top ten on the leaderboard for a couple of months. Stuck with it on and off for a couple of years. I have like $250 into it maybe - my ships are a freelancer MIS and like two other basic ships.

I got tired of it when they stopped actually pushing wide releases and just decided to pick some random influencera or whatever as a much smaller testing community. Testing releases actually kept me engaged with it, and I made lots of bug reports and was on the forums a lot as well. I just lost interest when that all went away (and was kind of pissed I didn’t get asked to participate tbh). Maybe I’ll revisit it again at some point

That remains to be seen, doesn’t it?

This is a bad take because you used the most extreme example of why defederation is a practical necessity to justify a significantly less serious issue. I personally would want the bar to be much higher for this kind of thing.

I also don’t “misunderstand” anything here. I just strongly disagree with the decision. What’s next, beehaw gets upset that other instances allow downvoting?