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Also, context ?
If you want a good one, [email protected] has an interesting thread
Aha, I finally rediscovered the source of this comment:
We are discussing the request for defederation, but the consensus is that this may not be needed, since the 0.19 Lemmy update is expected to roll out in the upcoming weeks. This update will also enable users to block whole instances, and hopefully, address a big chunk of the issue we seem to be having here.
The original seems to have been deleted. The comment did not age well, since instance blocking turned out to be more of community muting, and even what little bit it did was later rolled back, allowing the users to trigger notifications by replying to your comments and for you to see all such communications. i.e. it is not a “block” of the “instance” at all, yet apparently the merest whisper that such a block might come in the then-future caused the entire Fediverse to avoid blocking places such as lemmy.ml and hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml for over a year.
the merest whisper that such a block might come in the then-future caused the entire Fediverse to avoid blocking places such as lemmy.ml and hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml for over a year.
It sounds just like the effects of Elon announcing the hyperloop.
1 announce new tech that solves all the problems
2 don’t give a release timeline
3 profit, due to delay
4 the people you lied to finally figure out the problem solving promises were actually lies.
I think we should call this type of scheme hyperlooping
I’m not sure if Lemmy is large enough to attract a realistic disinfo campaign, but on the other hand it’s probably ingrained so deeply that it’s basically habit reflex, and you never know what might pay out in the future, like perhaps the ability to maybe swing an election or two if you can encourage some people to ah… not vote maybe?
Bc according to some, bOtH sIdEs SaMe:
Maybe I’m not being charitable, but I think they’re saying the recent hexbear thing is HB, .ml, and lemmygrad trolling, and they’re all russian bots.
They’re not all Russian bots.
The internet is full of these obscure micro-cultures. The themes are different, but everything else is the same, comprised of the same type of person/mind.
Insecurities are easy pickings, just make them feel belonging and they’ll be washed in no time. But make sure you empower them to identify that it’s not them who are weak, it’s “everyone else.” That way when they’re challenged, they lash out and are rewarded with more sense of belonging; get to a self-sustaining level.
None of us are Russian bots, the admins of any instance would notice. Hell HB wasn’t even federated for 4 years. Do you think Russia was running a bot farm that wasn’t connected to anyone outside of the farm?
But liberals find it easier to accuse anyone to their left of being a bot than question their own views.
Unless of course … the admins of your instance are also Russian bots.
That’s what a Russian bot would say
Did you just float the idea of Russian bots and then accuse “liberals” of floating the idea of Russian bots? You’re the only person anywhere in here mentioning bots
Reread the parent comment and focus on the second half of the first sentence
This meme doesn’t state or imply anything about bots. You jumped in with “the liberals are blaming bots” from absolutely nowhere my dude
Did I? The two comments above the one your first comment responded to mentioned Russian bots and neither was written by me
