Umm… whoah

you’re claiming that they’re misusing the anti-CSAM feature to remove comments from the modlog

Right, that was one aspect of that, but at the end of the day?

What ML has clearly done is to fuck with the integrity of the Lemmy-sphere across multiple, fundamental levels, and that’s what I and many others find completely unacceptable, and have of course stated as much.

Seriously, how is it even possible that you’re browsing the FV and haven’t seen this shit…?

Yes, yes-- I get the fact that you’re a ‘self-declared weirdo!’ “Big proponent for killing all cis men! Token Trotskyite!”

You DO understand of course that civilisation is collapsing fast, much of it due to our bloody inactions, is it not…?

Absolutely.
I will make it a special point tomorrow to look up the many, many posts upon that matter made in the last couple days across the FV.

One also wonders what people like you were doing in the meantime, but never fear-- please DO add on with any more requests for such information in the coming days. I will be happy to do the lookups and get back to you. ^^

as far as im aware there is no evidence that anyone has misused this specific admin power

In that case, then congrats for living in your own little delirium, apart from the many, many reports people have made reporting those specific abuses.

Well then, good for you.

Meanwhile, there’s been a legion of solid users here pointing out across the FV that the ML has in fact been abusing its admin powers, or did you think that the whataboutism of CSA would somehow, magically erase that shizzle?

If so, then shame on you.

That’s fine on ‘paper,’ but can you seriously not understand how it’s being shamelessly abused on the Tankie / ML front?

It’s more than just that IMO. It’s breaking the stated aim of open federation by tampering with comments, posts and mod records, which in turn get propagated or de-propagated to connected instances, right?

Yes, you may say that ML is of course free to screw with their own instance, but 1) one instance (particular a significant one like ML) affects other instances, and 2) they’re breaking the spirit of their own software by shamelessly abusing admin powers, in turn helping to normalize that behavior to the Lemmy side of the FV.

What’s the point of leaving oppressive, commercial social media only to run in to the same kinds of abuse of power on a supposedly transparent, user-run, P2P social network?

the devs have absolutely no say over how the software being used

It seems like they have some strong say when it comes to their own instance. According to some recent posts, ML admins (and maybe even mods?) have the ability to erase any record of mod actions, for example disappearing critique of the CCP’s brutal actions in Tiananmen Square that were posted on ML. That left no record in the public mod logs, and the users were never informed that their contributions had been (completely) deleted.

I’m only a 1yr Lemming myself, but I never saw such a critique aimed at any other instance, hence why I’m skeptical that the devs don’t have influence over how the software is used.

Yes, I found it well-written but not all that enlightening. I recognise that it made sense for SpaceGhost/CheapSkate to build his sites out by hand in the true spirit of DIY, but that doesn’t seem too practical or advisable for most folks.

The various federated software & networks may have their weak points and inconsistencies, but far as I can tell it’s still best for volunteer site runners to work within that framework so as to remain connected to something bigger than just their little personal corner of the internet. Is it really so expensive a thing to federate? I seem to recall that some instances can host for only ~US$20, which doesn’t seem bad at all. Images are arguably best stored at other sites like Imgur, anyway.

@Blaze@reddthat.com

lemmy alternative

As long as it federates, hey?

https://suno.com/song/f5f887be-c5b3-4a59-ae7f-21e8d1be5f80

I set it to play in the background and was thinking: ‘this is very good for AI, and a decent (but not very interesting) song,’ and then came back and took a closer look at the screen. Holy hell, my mind instantly asploded.

Matching the vocal so well to the text and having it sound so nuanced and well-sung is… almost terrifying. oO

Let’s see your best examples, OP. Walk the walk, please.

Me, as an article-writer and content creator I try to low-key share links to such on Reddit, but also try not to go overboard.

Knowing one’s community is also key, as some will welcome fairly overt links, while others will become greatly offended at even subtle Lemmy content.

I guess for some folks this is all quite hilarious, but on the more serious tip:

From what I understand, the man was in late-stage cirrhosis, which heavily undermined both his blood-clotting ability and the integrity of his blood vessel walls. Evidently due to air pressure issues and the drinking of hot tea, two veins in his throat area burst, and it was like turning on a spigot, with no way to turn it off.

A pretty chilling cautionary tale against being a chronic alcoholic and flying, I guess.

One thing I hadn’t thought much about until recently-- the quality of comments is so much higher here, and I don’t have to typically scroll through a wasteland of dudebro jokes to get to relevant replies.

So, comments are also ‘content,’ and from what I’m seeing, Lemmy already has a distinctly smarter / more mature userbase.

They’re probably conservative dickheads.

Hah! It doesn’t even take that. All you need is a middle-management who doesn’t support the rights of their workforce, is inconvenienced should a customer gin up complaints about OP’s hair-color (whatever it is), and is generally just lazy and indifferent, learning from upper mgmt that growth & profits are 99% the things that count, followed by limiting liability situations. The workers themselves are just an inconvenient expense in the equation.

Lovely. And what might that be?

They look good, thanks.

Also seem a bit in the Guidus genre.

EDIT: Yeah, tried the first one, and it seems like it really needs a physical controller. Static onscreen joysticks have never really worked for me. :/

What’s the difference between Reddit admins and a room full of monkeys pushing buttons & pulling switches?

Uh… the monkeys aren’t wearing blindfolds?

Wow; I didn’t realise how low they’ve been sinking.

Regular removals are just [Removed] for others, while you as the original writer can still see your comment like nothing happened.

What would really help is being able to create a Chrome tab which didn’t access cookies, so that I could check out my Reddit comments as an unlogged-in user. Not sure if that’s a thing, tho, or what it might be called.

EDIT: Whoops; I’m an idiot. “Incognito window” does the trick.