Exactly! I vote to defederate from them on our end, because otherwise they can just decide to federate themselves and brigade and troll their way through our magazines. Some Kbin magazines might not be prepared for that.
Nothing they do is in good faith, so why bother with them?
I’ve seen their brigading on lemmy communities before. They will also serial downvote anything they don’t like.
Personally, I would vote to defederate from both Hexbear and lemmygrad. Kbin is nice because it feels like the majority of people are posting, commenting, and overall discussing in good faith. It’s a nice culture. Neither of those two instances fit with it.
Right? I never quite understood who it was actually for, either. I mean, notepad makes sense, but wordpad just seemed like a worse version of MS Word.
I guess it could have been for those who needed something more sophisticated than notepad but didn’t want to spend money to get Word?
Idk, that’s the only reason I can think of right now lol.
Here is an example from today:
Artemis.camp: https://artemis.camp/m/Neoliberal@kbin.social/t/50419/Donald-Trump-Says-He-Would-Prefer-Being-Abroad-Than-in
At the time of writing: 11 upvotes, 2 comments, 6 boosts
Kbin.social: https://kbin.social/m/Neoliberal/t/325935/Donald-Trump-Says-He-Would-Prefer-Being-Abroad-Than-in
At the time of writing: 35 upvotes, 9 comments, 6 boosts
Lemmy.world: https://lemmy.world/post/2975647
At the time of writing: 36 upvotes, 9 comments
Yeah, same. It’s uncomfortable seeing that type of stuff pop up in the feed.
I am sure he will get to it, but for the moment my solution has just been to block the users when I see them, their community/magazine and sometimes the domain.
I am not sure you can from Lemmy, but you can from kbin. You would have to search @*username*@mastodon.social, and the user should come up.
I don't know if this capability has been added to the Artemis app yet for kbin - it's still in beta.
Seriously - the kid lost his hand, and they’re fined just over a grand?
I’m pretty sure some smart phones cost more than that. This might as well be pennies to the owner.
Checks out. The most stressful part of my cat's day is deciding which of her favorite spots is the most comfortable place to sit lol.
It's a tough life, being a house cat.
While I think plenty of people have been standing up to him, it’s good to see someone like Jack Smith put a name to what Trump has been doing.
Trump’s strategy is to conflate the legal battles and the political battles, all the while having them reinforce each other. I wonder what a gag order would do to this strategy?
I feel like on average their conversation quality is higher than the other alternatives. However, as you said, it is not very diverse.
Tildes also feels very “primp & proper” so to speak. While the conversations are generally very civil and of good quality, I also feel like the place is ruled with an iron fist; step a little bit out of line, and you’re pretty much gone. This is then coupled with the fact that you’re not able to make custom communities.
In the end, its good for civil discussion within the bounds of what is already considered acceptable by the admin. I almost feel like it has the opposite problem Reddit does - whereas conversations on Reddit are largely driven by bots and the hivemind, Tildes is controlled by Deimos and whoever Deimos approves of.
Interesting. I do not have a mastodon account, but I wonder if this is not why boosting a comment or post might accelerate federation? I have noticed that (some) of my own comments or posts do not show on other instances unless I boost them myself, which not something I prefer doing as upvoting/boosting my own post seems kinda weird...
Yes. I vote for a preemptive defederation lol.