Reason number 5,386 to delete your Reddit account and encourage your friends & loved ones to do the same.
and incidentally, reason number 5,386 to make your online profiles hard to track down without actual active measures (like NSA attention).
[…] allegedly throwing an improvised incendiary device that ignited part of an exterior gate before fleeing the scene on foot.
The suspect was ultimately located about an hour later near OpenAI’s headquarters, roughly 4.8 kilometres (three miles) away, where he was allegedly threatening to set the building on fire.
ngl disappointing performance. If you’re going to do an adventurism by yourself, which I generally don’t advocate for tactical reasons, then at least make it worth the prison time.
Defenestrit
Adblockers have been mentioned a hundred times, as they should.
Annual reminder to donate to Invidious too. YouTube has done some serious work to try and block most of the instances.
What’s been your favorite non-Abrahamic, non-local celebration?
It seems to me like many have arrived from huge mainstream sites and don’t realize that the fedi is actually pretty big. There are many thousands of us, just look at this community’s stats alone!
When you’ve explored beyond the core of the internet and found websites where there truly are dozens of you, it’s much more calm and communal (or as screentime enthusiasts would call it, slow and ded). I actually was on Lemmy back when there were mere hundreds of us, when many were yearning for the day when reddit would shoot its own foot and bring people here. So I’m very grateful that there aren’t dozens of us! Welcome!
Perhaps its too late for the largest instances, but the idea of a site like this being a spectator activity, about consumption, rather than creating communities. Some smaller instances, and even some larger ones, have an actual unique atmosphere and have larger projects across the instance. When we suddenly got a flood of reddit users escaping from the third-party API fiasco and the Luigi bans, that was huge enough to dilute some of the communities with large amounts of people used to simply voting and commenting, or having a website premade for them.
What’s the actual point of holding someone back from joining your online community if they don’t have enough “points” on their comments or posts?
It is a legitimate anti-abuse tactic. Like you’ve mentioned, there are obvious flaws, but it does help prevent brigadiers, advertisers and other bad actors from easily spinning up throwaways to harass or manipulate a community.
Another way to do this could be account age testing, but this can be defeated by pre-registering empty accounts.
Codeberg works for me. I used to use a couple of indie instances of gitea for various smaller project, but both have either gone down or been at risk, so I mostly use Codeberg which is more organized and failsafe.
That’s it, I’m deleting the internet
Someone posted an image that says “Verify you are human”, with the test being “I stand with Palestine”.
The implication is that those who do not, are not human.
Yes, joking about how Zionist scum (and apathetic people) lack humanity is dehumanization. The image is very literally saying some is not human if they don’t stand with Palestine.
And to recap what I said, this isn’t some moral objection - death to the Zionist Regime and those who empower it. The problem is that dehumanization of humans is an anti-materialist delusion, which has historically led to underestimating enemies.
Oh hey, my anniversary is coming up.
For base daily driver on desk and lap, just a stable standard beginner friendly distro. I’ve customized it a lot, added custom hotkey scripts here and there, but it’s so close to base that a stranger could use it. VMs for anything specialist, a couple of portable USB distros for presentation/demo/one-purpose OS environments, but for the most part I’ve just kept it simple and clean.
I’ll slapfight that, because that’s a waste of time and water.
No, it isn’t standing with Palestine, nor standing against it. It’s simply pointless and a tactical error.
Dehumanizing is a mistake that the Nazis made, leaving them vulnerable to their own propaganda. They expected all their victims to be sneaky, cowardly and inferior, and they paid for that mistake.
Dehumanizing the new wave of fascists leaves us open to the same mistake.
The people committing genocide in Palestine are human, and it’s important for us to stop them by any means necessary, including killing them.
Unfortunately it initially made me think of the red triangle badges in Nazi Germany’s concentration and extermination camps.
huh, guess my habit for picking smaller indie providers is paying off.
Clean McStainKill
My approach if adblocking isn’t an option is switching tab/window and muting the tab (on a computer, that’s just two click at the top of the screen) or on a phone, muting and putting the phone out of view.
Has there been any discussion to host official .onion / I2P / etc. addresses to avoid domains? I couldn’t find any in the FAQ.