cowvin

From what I’ve read, the troll farms mostly operate funded by Russia but are physically located outside of Russia. For example, Macedonia had quite a few.

Well they mention Github artifacts in that message so it sounds like it’s more like they may have obtained source code and that sort of non public stuff.

Usually what happens is that these sorts of blackmailers will leak small, verifiable pieces of data so people know they really got something. We don’t see that here, so for now there’s no reason to take them seriously yet.

This isn’t ransomware. This is standard blackmail.

people will sell insurance for just about anything. for example, you can buy alien abduction insurance that will pay out if you are abducted by aliens.

It took me a while to accept cloud storage but I use it now. I backed up all of our family photos on Google photos.

The head wobble doesn’t have one simple meaning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gbrB8KwES4

I worked for many years with someone from south India and he would do the head wobble so over the years he tried to explain it. I still don’t fully understand it. Haha

I think that would defeat a piece of the point of a decentralized system. In the current design, what will naturally happen is that if one instance has all the good content on a particular topic, most users will gravitate toward it anyway. We can read across federated instances anyway so I, a kbin user, have no problem reading something on lemmy like this.

Then let’s say one day [email protected] gets taken over by people who want to post stuff I don’t want to see. If I miss how it used to be here, I could go make [email protected] and it would be fine.

People did that on Twitter and Twitter has been resurrecting old, deleted posts. Reddit could easily do the same. Deleting doesn’t really delete any data.

Post more content here and help make it less boring. More content will attract more users, which will result in more content. We need to grow the community.

The Republican party serves the rich. Poor Republican voters are just temporarily embarrassed millionaires so they are cool with suffering themselves as long as other poor people are suffering. Other people deserve to suffer because of skin color, religion, “laziness”, or whatever, so they keep voting to cut services for themselves.

Remember that in an interview, they mentioned that they used fake accounts early on to control the discourse on Reddit.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z4444w/how-reddit-got-huge-tons-of-fake-accounts–2

Not saying I have any proof they are doing that now, but it does show what they are willing to do to control the platform.

Hmm this still doesn’t quite work for those of us visiting from kbin because from kbin we access this community as: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/ so even the /c/ doesn’t match up.

We probably will need some special markup that each instance converts to their own local community / magazine format.

Harming animals is absolutely a sign of someone being deranged. Many eventually escalate to harming humans.

Hmm, surely there must be a way to whitelist other instances you want to federate with so they don’t get blocked by cloudflare…