sounds like Bolo

Funnily enough the instance my masto is on also uses that motto, tho for an entirely different reason

You have to know that they’re doing this though. Suppose some troll is self-hosting, or part of a very small instance? You’d only know they’d do this if they told you

Would a two way block be even practically possible on a network like this? Whatever server they are on would see your posts, so all it would take is for that server to use a slightly modified version that doesn’t hide your posts to blocked users and they’d see them anyway.

If you don’t want your posts/content to appear on other websites from the one you posted it on, why would you use a federated platform in the first place? Isn’t the entire point of these kinds of platforms that this kind of content is shared between sites?

And on a mostly unrelated side note, that bit about people trying to force the website to display CP to get the owner in legal trouble is exactly the reason why strict liability crimes that don’t care about intent are a bad idea

hypothetically, what stops a spam group from creating their own instance to register accounts on, or several such? It’d get defederated quickly once the attack got going, sure, but it would take time for this to get done, and in the meantime the spam gets in

My assumption would be that either a reply like that is someone who really doesn’t believe self driving will ever be viable (thus if all the cars are mandated to be driverless, people will give them up out of frustration with their flaws and be forced to go to alternatives like cycling instead), or someone who does expect the tech to work and expects them to be developed to a point of being significantly safer to be around than human drivers (thus as one reason people might not cycle is being or feeling unsafe due to the actions of nearby car drivers, a car that somehow did not have that issue becoming dominant would lead to people feeling more comfortable cycling).

It’s not really a great sign for the developers if their game doesn’t have a ton of replay value I imagine. Consider Skyrim, it’s the same general type of game, but people play that game over and over and make modifications to it to keep it fresh and enjoyable even now, and as a result Bethesda has been able to resell it for other platforms or with extra content or related merch for years, because people like it enough to keep coming back. If Starfield isn’t managing the same despite being the same sort of game from the same company, then that both serves as a warning to those who haven’t gotten it yet that the game probably isn’t as enjoyable by comparison, and also doesn’t give the devs as much incentive to keep making any improvements to it.

Honestly I like snails, they look kinda cute. I get excited whenever I happen to find one

Plot twist: its actually the same person making the snail memes today, yet to be caught and looking for new ways to stay one step ahead of the snail

I mean, isn’t this exactly what we would expect? Big influx of people when reddit does something unpopular and people want alternatives, then a decrease as the anger fades and people either decide they don’t like Lemmy for some reason, or just settle down into their normal, less active amount of posting, stabilizing at a number of users lower than the peak but higher than before the influx. Assuming that Lemmy still is around the next time Reddit gets people mad, it’ll happen again, just like how Mastodon gets an influx of new users whenever Twitter does something to upset it’s userbase.

I suspect that firefly might survive as well, not because of anything particularly special about their launcher (though having flown it does put them ahead of the many companies that haven’t even done that yet, even if they’ve not had all the flights that rocketlab does), but because they have that contract to supply rocket parts for Northrop Grumman as well to provide extra revenue and experience compared to if all they sold was rides on their own rocket.

Wasn’t that sub also rife with cost-cutting measures to an ultimately unsafe degree? I also seem to recall stories of it’s owner, prior to the incident, saying that it had not yet reached the point of being profitable. That doesn’t mean that running a business off extreme tourism to rich people isn’t viable of course, but I’m skeptical that it’ll be all that big or successful of one.

Can confirm I got this too just now on my G Stylus

It does make me vaguely curious what happens if you try to make one of these on the more powerful end explain step by step how its own program works. I dont really expect it to be accurate, given that if people dont know how the thing works, it probably wont find much about that in it’s training data, but if what it learns ultimately enables it to make connections about how the real world works to some degree, could it figure out enough to give even marginally useful hints?

“Your honor, let the record state that there is a common saying to the effect that “the internet is a series of tubes”. Now, PVC pipes are also a variety of tube. Therefore…”

I mean, it’s more of a threat than it was. In all likelihood, this won’t be the last time reddit does something to really anger it’s userbase. There is a much higher chance of people leaving in future incidents if there is an alternative platform with enough users to actually have the content people want.

That isn’t how we view writers at all though. Writers can refuse to sell you a physical book if they’ve made that, sure, but they can’t stop someone from selling you a used copy, or one that ended up in the hands of a library from being lent to you. They can’t stop you from sharing your copy of their book with a friend, or reading it to someone, even if they don’t want that someone to see it.

Still not the same as actually being a tech expert though

I’m a bit under 24, have the limit of my tech skills being the ability to install and sometimes troubleshoot minecraft and Skyrim mods, and have never used Linux (I’ve thought about it admittedly, but ultimately didn’t switch to it as it doesn’t look to be compatible with my vr system.)

So there are some of us here that don’t fit that demographic. From talking to some of my friends though, even the idea of having to pick an instance understanding federation/defederation has been hard to explain to some, doable but they generally prefer things that are self explanatory enough to not have to be talked through them. I’ve tried the whole email analogy but to be honest most of them don’t use email that often anyway.