Givesomefucks

And how many people answer that on Sunday night?

What I'm getting at is a major website has at least a skeleton staff that can do something, even if that's just pulling the plug.

I don't even reply to most work texts after hours unless it's someone saying they have to use sick leave. I don't expect people hosting Lemmy as a hobby to be on call 24/7.

But I hope afterwards they're transparent about what happened and how they're going to stop it from happening again. If not, it's easy to hop instances

What impact?

As long as you dont go on lemmy.world, it's not going to redirect you to all the stupid websites.

And I doubt whatever they're posting (if they're posting anything) is getting upvoted, so you won't see it anywhere else.

And where are you getting "malware" from?

People are acting like it's some crazy hack, and not the 4chan rejects from exploding heads finally guessing an admins password a week after they got defederated. And after all that time chasing the mailman, they had no idea what to do when they guessed it

But this does highlight an issue with instances. I doubt the handful of admins know each other. Like, maybe an email, but for the most part if shit like this happens during "off hours" it might be a while before the top admin even knows there's an issue

People are able to have different opinions

...

So, if someone from this instance subs to a nazi community, is that just a "different opinion" we all have to deal with?

I'm just curious if there's a line at all, if you're saying that instance isn't bad enough to defederate, especially since when I looked the only thing going on there is bigotry and complaining about being defederated by a bunch of instances with active moderation.

I do really like the level of communication here, but I'll probably just join one of the many many instances that have already defederated from them.

No worries

Edit:

That update that shut this down for a day broke stuff btw. My notifications won't go away and trying to delete this account just refreshes the page...

So I guess you get a permanent zombie subscriber, I've got a feeling a lot of people had the same issue.

For everyone else:

Try out lemmy.world for an option that blocks problematic instances and allows you to downvote bigotry when you do see it.

So...

Something like this:

https://exploding-heads.com/

Is going to be de-federated soon... Right?

Because at least on Reddit I could just block the problematic subs big enough to show up on /all.

But apparently we can't block whole instances and they keep making new subs (or whatever they're called) so it's just whack a mole.

Did you choose to federate with that shitshow? Or does every instance automatically federate and pruning bigots isn't something this I stance can deal with?

but I don’t think people realise how bad it’s become.

One time I made a main level comment, then replied to one of the most upvote comments in the same thread.

Seconds later a bit replied to me with my first reply, except for some reason it cut off the end. I don't know if the bot ran out of characters because it was a cheap bot, or if it was an attempt to avoid automated detection.

Bots were a huge problem long before AI started trying to have conversations.

We all joked about it, but a lot of the accounts were really fake, and they usually got sold to advertisers after amassing enough karma and post history to look authentic

There's a shit ton of upvote bots and subs had free gold to give out all the time.

Admins like it because it looks good to advertisers and idiots think buying gold is normalized

Mods like it because it boosts sub visibility and got more subscribers

And some users chase karma so theyre onboard too.

There wasn't much authentic about reddit

Is there any problem with the statement that the far-left is trash and sucked as much as the far-right?

Only if you don't have an issue lying, if you're fine with lying, I guess you wouldn't have an issue saying that...

Ever heard of horseshoe theory?

Yeah, it's that thing trumpers and "moderates" constantly talk about. There's no logic or facts to back it up, but they sure love repeating it.

I have a question tho, why are your only two comments talking about how "nazis aren't really that bad"?

Elvis was though, he dyed his hair

I mean, it's not for purely altruistic reasons...

Lead fucks people up and slowly turns them into rage addicted assholes.

We got enough of those these days, I'd like the amount to go down over the next couple decades. So I never skip a chance to talk about the dangers of lead exposure

The good news is it's not something that really changes.

Just test your home once, it's not like you need to constantly monitor it.

We were/are worried that there’s a lack of direction and they’re just generating mysteries without any intention of solving them.

Yeah, that's the most likely ending.

It might be a fun ride for another couple seasons, but I have no faith there'll be a good ending

I boil mine because I like the way it tastes–it’s sweeter

That's actually a really bad sign...

The most likely thing to make water taste sweet is lead, and heating up water with lead makes it even sweeter.

And that's 100% a problem you need to look out for in America.