That said, if I wanted to spam the Fediverse, I’d just spin up my own instance of Lemmy or Mastodon.
Its actually smarter for spammers to infiltrate populated servers. Admins aren’t going to have a problem defederating from a pure spam instance. They’ll think twice about defederating from an instance with lots of legit users.
I saw a little of it. Then I saw the offending instances quickly banned. Then I saw a comment from the admin that they didn’t like having to implement bans of entire instances, but it became a necessity until admin of those offending instances took action.
I dunno, seems like it is working exactly as intended to me.
And it’s far better than a monolithic tech giant. Pointing at Mastodon and calling out spam is utterly silly when compared to the amount of spam on large services. This article reads like a hit piece sponsored by Xitter.
Die Bart die
I hear that anti-geometrists are trying to get the pythagorean theorem banned in schools now.
Mine is Eric and the Dread Gazebo.
And realistically, there’s nothing stopping them from setting up a bunch of nondescript shell instances to gather data anyway.
The exact two that I thought of. I honestly enjoyed Silent Hill more than I expected and even liked it more than Resident Evil.
The other beautiful thing is that if you aren’t satisfied with the behavior of mods and admin on one instance, there are literally hundreds of others to choose from. You aren’t stuck dealing with bad actors if you want to participate. And if moderation of a particular community upsets the users, they are free to move to or create a similar community on a different instance.
The major downside of this is that it’s going to create echo chambers, but that’s unavoidable. It’s not like this is a new problem. Communities that reject outside ideas outright have existed long before the internet.
This post on programmer humor is now funnier as a result of your analysis. Everything is funnier when it is 100% accurate.
I’m here to spread the good word about JSONC. It is the way and everyone should adopt it in place of JSON wherever possible.
How precise are your scissors?
It’s not a request, it’s a challenge.
It’ll take 20 hours. Unless it’s harder than I thought. Or it’s easier than I thought. Or it’s exactly as hard as I thought except there’s one little thing that I get stuck on for 5 hours.
We’re all NPC’s in some grand simulation running on a server in a warehouse long forgotten about and abandoned by the gods.
Comments can also be useful for explaining what the code is intended to do when debugging.
“Hey this function says it should return the number of apples, but looks like someone, not saying who, but someone had a brain fart and typed oranges in one variable. Who wrote this code anyway?”
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Past me sucks.
Strict vs loose equality has gotten me so many times, but I can sort of see why they did it. The problem you mention with integers 0 & 1 is a major annoyance though. Like it is fairly common to check whether a variable is populated by using if (variable) {} - if the variable happens to be an integer, and that integer happens to be 0, loose quality will reflect that as false.
But on the other side, there have been plenty of occasions where I’m expecting a boolean to come from somewhere and instead the data is passed as a text string. “true” == true but “true” !== true
It’s not as easy as moderating individual posts. Remember, Lemmy is decentralized. If you start your own Lemmy server and I federated with it, I’ll get all the stuff you post on my instance too (intentionally oversimplified).
Its up to you to moderate communities on your instance the way you see fit, and up to me to moderate mine. Even though our instances are federated, I can’t moderate on your behalf. It just isn’t feasible both in terms of the technology and in terms of the sheer volume of content you would have to try to moderate.
If you have a community that posts a mix of things I agree with and things I don’t, I really only have a couple options on my end. Basically I can block that community on my instance or block your instance altogether.
The reason why someone might block a community may be more about the legal risk than any moral justification. Depending on where you are, it might be illegal to even host that information. And since Lemmy instances cache posts from other instances, it could be argued that because that community is federated with your instance, you’re responsible for the content posted there.