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MathGrunt

@ MathGrunt @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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  • I've been lurking for 6+ months, barely vote, no post or comment. I was banned for spam.

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  • They have not replied. At this point I think they don't intend to reply.

  • I've been lurking for 6+ months, barely vote, no post or comment. I was banned for spam.

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  • Thank you for that clarification. I'm surprised, but then I suppose there really isn't much else they can do about vote bots and brigades. A warning would have been nice, but given that Lemmy is starting to show evidence of the kind of bots that are killing reddit (and all social media), I can understand their position.

  • What the actual science says about “brain rot”

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  • I don't know anything about Lemmy.world.

    This video is 25 minutes long and worth the watch. If your ADHD gets to you, try watching it at 1.5 speed. Totally worth the 16 minutes of your life.

    Quick summary of what you'll see: A quick overview of attention spans and if (and how) doom-scrolling may be affecting it.

  • I've been lurking for 6+ months, barely vote, no post or comment. I was banned for spam.

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  • I don't have a screenshot of comment or post that caused the ban, because I haven't commented or posted anything whatsoever in more than six months.

    Mod has been very active over the last 24 hours but hasn't responded to me.

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    I've been lurking for 6+ months, barely vote, no post or comment. I was banned for spam.

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  • I hope you're right, but my cynicism has doubts.

  • What is the recommended way to watch the Star Wars series?

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  • Completely agree except you forgot Rogue One.

    Also, the Han Solo movie was OK.

    Prequels were bad, sequels were worse. Mandalorian was good but ended meh. Ahsoka looks promising.

  • thelemmy.club's Nazi bar problem: defederation worthy? [problem resolved]

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  • Thank you! I appreciate you and everything that you do!

  • thelemmy.club's Nazi bar problem: defederation worthy? [problem resolved]

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  • I'm confused on how to vote. The vote tally shows for/against, and then "outsider sentiment support", and I'm not sure what that is, and also who and how gets to vote.

    Also, I'd like to vote and that's what I really care about.

    Defederate that shit quick.

    I'm not sure if it's possible, but ban/block those accounts as well. Too bad we can't do more about preventing those cancerous people from doing more damage.

    MathGr

    Edit: I take back my unofficial vote to defederate. We should wait and see.

    Also, lots of love out to our Admins here for (1) noticing this, (2) attempting to rectify and and (3) being reasonable (i.e. not using a sledgehammer) when it seems that appropriate steps have been taken at this time.

    However, having seen this right-wing cancer destroy other social media platforms, I want to stress that we should be as proactive and ban-happy as we feel appropriate, because this shit is not going away.

  • An open source Peer-to-peer serverless decentralized social media protocol built on IPFS

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  • I was there for the early days of Voat, which was an earlier version of a Reddit clone. Those first few months were nice, but it quickly devolved into a hate-filled N*zi safe haven.

    Fediverse has an early version of a bot problem, which is ubiquitous in all social media these days (thanks to state actors and also corpos that want you to think/feel a certain way). idk how the fediverse is handling the bot problem, but for now it seems to be less noticeable here than other places.

    If the platform is truly "free speech" without any moderation, then it will quickly devolve into worse than 4chan.

    Voat is gone now, which is a good thing, but if you have an programming background you can use an LLM to study the way it self-destructed by looking at the archive.org snippets. See how it quickly became theDonald but worse.

    That is what will happen to this un-moderated decentralized social media protocol.

  • What's something that's seen as Obsolete, but isn't?

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  • Pencils. The ones where you need a pencil sharpener to sharpen them every so often. Mechanical pencils just aren't the same.

  • Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this?

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  • You are absolutely correct. The unfortunate fact is that propaganda works. Even if you know it is propaganda, it still works.

    A bit like a placebo in that regard.

  • What apps would you love to have open-source alternatives for?

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  • I would really like an open-source alternative to Facebook. The connection idea with friends via a social network platform I like, the bots and ads and force fed (propaganda) news I really don't like.

    Plus, an open source Facebook would really hurt Zuck and that's also a win.

  • mathematics @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Animation vs. Math on YouTube

  • Introducing The Lemmy Overseer

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  • Thank you for trying to get ahead of the spam influx. Trying to beat the spambots is a thankless task, but thank you anyhouw.

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    Simultaneously see all sides of a Rubik’s Cube

    imgur.com /UvhXxBX
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    The Nobel Prize in physics 2022

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    The Nobel prize in physics 2021

  • physics @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Will Starlink & Other Satellite Networks Ruin The Night Sky For Astronomers?

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    Floating water bridge between two beakers

  • The Devil they Knew: Chemical Documents Analysis of Industry Influence on PFAS Science

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  • Thank you for the article OP.

    While this doesn't surprise me, I can't help but wonder how many other parallel situations there are where an industry of many separate entities distort, hide and otherwise lie to the public to maintain the publicly harmful gravy train.