it is pretty great not having to deal with fash on the regular.

uncanny tho how every time i go into the wider lemmy there’s someone complaining about troglodytes/untermensch/degenerates

i can promise you fuck isn’t censored on .ml

i’m showing my age being unaware then! piefed getting unexpected downtime due to an llm-identified vulnerability has been a bit of an ironic twist after there was just that fearmongering post from rimu about db0 ‘moderating with llm’

PTB, the misgendering is gross too.

regardless of how shitty the piefed crew has been behaving lately, releasing the security vulnerability as yogthos did was an asshole move and is something i disavow.

i mean you did kind ask for it this time.

i was an anarchist long before i read settlers, it didn’t really change my politics, just heightened my distaste for the united states

sci fi and fantasy is fine, i also like trashy stuff on ao3 and visual novels

here ya go https://readsettlers.org/

you should read it!

hell yeah, that’s commitment

i am definitely more of a strategy game enjoyer these days, that and retro things like modded GBA pokemon

I’ve never played that one! i really should though lmao

Wild to read someone read/experienced うみねこのなく頃に.

beatrice is iconic, i definitely relate to her a bit

iirc hexbear has had a ‘disengage’ rule since before even dbzer0

Doesn’t “ML” instances do raids/agit spams?

not as far as i’m aware; i moderate on [email protected], which is for all reactionary content and even has a rule against going after federated instance mods/admins. lemmy content is a small fraction of the content posted there and when it is posted, half the time there’s going to be someone complaining in the comment section about how they don’t care about other instances at all

obviously cross-posting something will get people who want to comment engaged, but people cross-post things on the fediverse all the time, it’s kind of the point of a platform like this

also the meme image i posted was just a joke, people are always throwing around accusations about other posters being alts and yeah they’re all alts, my alts!

there’s also a block component to that as well, his ‘qanon’ blocklist is something you toggle on and can manually edit it via ui; it pulls from a github he runs and contains leftist sites like grayzone as well as sites like wikileaks.org.
here’s how the interface works, you either click every button on the list or edit the database/use a different one

quoting davel here:

domain blocklist, which is not mandatory on install—though most new instances choose it—and can be removed by an admin with either the patience or the database skill to remove it.

relevant thread for what i’m referencing

users like say, Diva or Db0, have a bit more credibility in my eyes. Could just be that a lot of people agree with them.

why thank you!

i’d like to think that’s not by happenstance, i do try to put in the effort at understanding where people are coming from.

in the past i’ve even had disagreements with a fair number of people on this list, my orientation is always to try to squash a beef if the other person is receptive to it. particularly if it’s with someone i can tell would be a comrade otherwise.

as long as the technical implementation is not biased.

Piefed has been baking in biases though, like adding a bunch of leftist/international sources in a huge blocklist labelled ‘qanon’, which if you then want to disable it’s got to be done manually.

Not to mention clear disregard for breaking activitypub interoperability.

Edie getting caught up in the ban wave 😭

how dare people read the posts he makes and have opinions!

in your case as well it doesn’t help that there’s a subset of ideologically motivated people just waiting to jump on any comment to run a smear campaign on it.

for me actions speak louder than words and despite my initial disappointment following the dm leak, years have passed and i haven’t seen that turn into a pattern of behavior.

i will say i kind of prefer that lemmy isn’t a company, in part because frankly i trust a handful of communists to not just hand over user info and ip addresses to the alphabet boys more than i would any sort of company