Will this post be a target of exactly, you’ll get a few downvotes. Why are you worried about that exactly?

Often when brigading happens, it’s not just the one comment that gets downvoted, you’re whole post history gets downvoted. Heavily downvoted posts don’t show up in feeds, and you end up struggling to interact with the community. Some communities will outright ban (or shadow ban) a heavily downvoted account. Its forced ostracism.

Once again, it’s a question of incentives. People operating individual servers have no interest to allow corporate interference on the platform.

It may not be openly allowed, I understand that. The problem is when you have bad faith actors and shills. They pretend to be not associated with a corporation, but they subtly push an agenda.

I’m not convinced. You’ve made several claims, and maybe it’s obvious to you as to why it’s hard for corporations to infect the fediverse, but not to me. I’m probably too smooth brained to see it.

Here is Phil Jamesson using the behaviour of Reddit and the upvote system to get to the top of /r/videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69bFOYklP-E

What is stopping the marketing team of a corporation to influence the fediverse using similar and more advanced techniques? Lemmy uses an upvote system. Why can’t it be abused like Reddit’s system?

I’ve already seen several examples of small scale brigading. I can’t mention examples because it would immediately make this post another target.

As long as it’s not run by corporations there’s no problem.

Just because the fediverse doesn’t have sponsorships doesn’t mean corporations aren’t interested in poisoning the well. Anyone could be a bad actor. Heck, it could be anyone. I could be a corporate shill and you’d never know.

Wikipedia runs on donations. Does that mean that outside entities aren’t interested in biased editing?

Don’t forget it were the original Usurers who plotted against Jesus

Isn’t it a major theme of the New Testament that we all would have killed or deserted Jesus? Isn’t that the point of the story of Peter (Jesus’ bestie) denying him three times?

My brother in Christ, we’ve all switched to bidets anyway.

You okay, bro? You seem upset.

You lost me at “their church”.

Yup, I’ve heard this one before as well. Got anything new to add to the discussion?

unfortunately they continue to occupy positions of authority in our society.

No need to pick on religious people in this case. There are plenty of people with various character flaws in positions of power / authority.

If religious people were actually dismissed in the way you describe I could understand your perspective. They are not mocked liked this though and are very much taken seriously.

So you don’t know about:

• Bill Maher
• Bill Hicks
• George Carlin
• South Park
• any comedy movie that involves a religious character
• the Internet

The problem is that the joke is old and isn’t interesting. It’s like talking about weather and then claiming you’re Oscar Wilde.

Person: “Hey, aren’t religious people wacky?”

*Crickets*

It’s the only way to show that you are a true professional. 🥇

Yeah, one comment keeps it simple. We’re just stress testing.

Is there actually a limit to how far a comment thread can go?

My brother in Christ, this isn’t about the money. This is about meeting business deadlines. OP can’t be using time trying to figure out something on Linux when his clients are waiting.

His first clients are also going to be where his solo practice either sinks or swims.

You should be spending 1% of your homes value on maintenance each year, which many people don’t/can’t budget for.

Yeah, that money comes from the rent that the tenants are paying. This isn’t rocket science, it’s financial competence.

If you’re a business owner, but can’t budget in expenses then you’re a bad business owner.

This is the reason why some people recommend we have a landlord licence. We’re playing with people’s living conditions here.

the ever growing list of maintenance tasks is getting exhausting.

This is why some landlords delegate those tasks to other people (e.g. tradesmen, property managers, etc).

It is always used as a political tool; for good or evil.

The Nobel Prizes themselves were a political tool for Nobel himself.