A get out of jail free car.
I noticed this Black Friday, almost all name brand items totally disappeared, and most deals were garbage Chinese knockoffs/non-name brand. Then immediately after Black Friday, I saw a huge return of name brands in their featured products/deals.
I also bought a new Microsoft Surface Slim Pen 2 (for $90) recently and got a total Chinese knockoff piece of shit in a package labeled "fashion jewelry." Total wish.com trash listed as name brand.
Amazon didn't publish my review (I'm assuming because I said this was becoming a rampant issue on Amazon. Did refund me, but the Chinese knockoff listed as a Slim Pen 2 is still listed on Amazon.
I went and paid the same price on ebay for a factory-sealed brand new legit one. What a change we have undergone when eBay is a safer marketplace than Amazon..
That's pretty wild for 1910.
This sparked my memory of the modification the Zodiac Killer claims he made:
"...What I did was tape a small pencel flash light to the barrel of my gun. If you notice, in the center of the beam of light if you aim it at a wall or celling you will see a black or darck spot in the center of the circle of light about 3 to 6 inches across. When taped to a gun barrel, the bullet will strike exactly in the center of the black dot in the light. All I had to do was spray them as if it was a water hose; there was no need to use the gun sights.” Source
Tis the season.
Yeah attracting (active) users is the real challenge...
I created [email protected] and hoped that I could cultivate some active posters before I ran out of my years worth of content from r/vans on reddit, but that didn't happen..
I haven't given up on it (definitely took a hiatus tho..) and need to post some new material, but it's not easy to cultivate active communities. Especially when all of life's bullshit gets in the way.
But I remember early communities on reddit where I was one of like 5 active posters for a long time, then users would eventually overwhelm the community. r/MisleadingThumbnails is an example.
I think this is a great idea for a community. I'm not aware of any such community on lemmy yet. You could always create one.
I believe the users within instances should play a role in the instances' decisions on the topic. I believe you should have as much say as I do in arguing your perspective.
I'm simply making a case for why I think it is the wrong decision. I believe Threads should be treated like exploding heads and not be federated with.
If you want to see such content, you still can. You can subscribe to that source, an instance federating with it, or host your own instance. But refusing to federate with it insulates the community from propoganda, misinformation, and radicalization.
I wasn't referring to people disagreeing with me. I upvoted users I disagreed with in this post's comments to promote discussion (such as upvoting your downvoted comment here).
I was referring to people that engage in disingenuous argumentative tactics clearly pushing an agenda, whose presence is also accompanied by what seems like blatant vote manipulation/brigading. This was present when Threads federation was originally a being discussed a little while back. That's what I was referring to.
I don't think I'm going to go out of my way to track down examples, but you may be able to find some from the link to where my comment is originally from.
You can also assume I'm wrong, and that's okay by me. But astroturfing is absolutely a tactic Meta employs. Source
Yeah I can't believe how much more common I see them now! Also rooting for bees haha. We've screwed them up and they're a keystone species.
There's no hypocrisy; you're just stating a false equivalence. Not to mention totally ignoring the entire argument about radicalization on threads/inability to moderate it on lemmy.
And you keep stating that my points establishing character in regard to Meta/Threads are irrelevant, but you aren't making a good argument as to why. You fixate on that as a strawman argument while ignoring my point that lack of moderation on threads will negatively affect fediverse communities with toxic/extremist content.
You're arguing like a petulant middle schooler with ad hominem and strawman tactics. Get back to me if you can speak like a grown-up. Otherwise I'm not going to engage with you. (Before you "no u" me with another false equivalence, my remarks were not on the same personal attack level.)
This makes me think of the Real Water hydrazine poisoning as another example. Or all of the PFAS pollution...