Hey, if they get traction, it’s a start.

You can also search for “starter packs” of helpful people to follow in whatever you are interested in, e.g., history, cooking, overthrowing the government, etc.

Haven’t been there in a decade despite having been there for a decade and helping many real people in real life from there, and I’d have to say: depends on who the target of the violence is and whether or not it’s phased in the subjunctive mood.

Well you have just described Metafilter. I’m a liberal a lefty as can be, and eventually even I got tired of the drama and obvious virtue signaling. And at the end of the day, drama and less-than-appropriate virtue signaling were what the mods wanted.

This is a good answer and probably the right solution (still not 100% convinced defederating isn’t, ultimately, going to be the answer though).

But your Jane/Joe Average User doesn’t look to see which instance that pr0n cute picture of a cat holding a teddy bear is on. They probably don’t even understand the concept of different instances showing content from others. Hell I’ve been online since 1992 and it took me a couple of days to get my head around it when I joined.

So I think we need some kind of step by step “If you see X, then do Y” sticked to the instances that care about this for the people who (like me) do care about this issue.

I too am skeptical, but there have been so many of these the last few days… is it just a new meme?

And the SWIFT System.

If you finally achieve this please make a post about how you did it!

Saved, thanks.

I would I would! But I cannot seem to find a decent one since Google killed theirs! What’s a good one?

I could keep up with so much more when I used RSS.

Not related to the article, totally anecdotal, and n=1, but it seems Google Maps has really dropped the ball as well.

I like the cut of your jib!

The privacy on that site was horrible, and I stoped de-selecting vendors who want permission to track me after two minutes.

But I wanted to ask you: are there any biologics based on this discovery in phase I or even II at this point? Any odds on one of them making it to III?

(also re: your last comment, read William Gibson’s The Peripheral; you are describing his “jackpot” scenario)

More upvoting of posts.

I know that sounds a bit dumb/lame, but when I first got here and every post had like 5 upvotes, maybe 20 and then maybe once a week you’d see one with more than 100, it was jarring. Made the place feel empty and without interaction. Which it’s really not, but that was my and I think perhaps a lot of peoples’ first impression.

It would be very useful if you found that again and posted it.

Thanks!

So it’s a scaling problem. Can we not fight bots with bots? And thanks for the answers, btw, really helping me understand more about the underlying architecture, which before seemed rather abstract to me.

I see your point. But the owner of the server/instance can still kick the user and their community out right?

Post saved for when I have time to do this, thanks!

But at least we could defederate those instances once we realize what they are doing, yes?