HarkMahlberg

y-yes it is? you linking to another thread does not change what this thread is about??? man you gotta touch grass, for your own mental health.

Indeed.

This is a major blind spot to the fediverse and it was easily exploited several years ago, when a disgruntled hacker made a bunch of accounts on unsecured misskey instances and used them to spam the whole network via federation. People tried to defederate from the instances, but the attacker eventually started spinning up his own. All he needed was to ensure at least one user on another instance would see his new instances.

Russia and other NSA’s could easily use the same strategy: no effective countermeasure was developed, the attacker simply got bored and stopped.

sir, this is a Wendy’s Sony thread.

I knew this phenomenon by the name Eternal September, though we might call them tourists or larpers today.

That said, a gently influx of new users is important for any hobby community to survive and thrive, and noobs are always slow to pick up on the conventions and norms of the group. It’s only a real problem when the group is unwelcoming to any number of noobs, or when the noobs flood in with such numbers as to overwhelm the existing group.

Sony is deleting 551 movies people bought on PlayStation, including Terminator and Rambo

Yeah I hate that argument too, because it’s true.

Return the slab but chrome.

mbin does federate e.g. @syuilo@misskey.io, the founder/lead developer of misskey. I can at least see the text content of their posts and replies, but not image attachments and reactions.

You may be able to register with a Misskey instance that isn’t Japanese but still federates with misskey.io. For instance, I made an account on misskey.social which is an Italian-based instance. I still see posts from misskey.io, from anybody there that I follow.

Not sure what it looks like as a guest, but when I set my feed filter to “Global”, it is lightning fast. If you set that filter to “Social” you’ll see only who you follow, which will naturally slow it down.

Be warned that misskey.io has a lot of R34 art on it - keep that Sensitive Media blur up and running.

I suppose you mean the limitations per diem on voting is what encouraged the hive mind, but even without those limitations Reddit and Lemmy have developed hive minds of their own, with similarly SOHC behaviors.

I wish Mbin had even a fraction of the childlike whimsy that Misskey has.

I also miss old school PHP bulletin board systems, which had similar emoji style votes where each one had different meanings, probably similar to what the op was talking about.

To be fair to others less knowledgeable, I’ve seen first hand someone admitting they joined .ml because it was the first/largest server they learned about, not knowing it was a marxist-leninist joint, and they were asking how to transfer their account up on outta there. That was a fun thread lol

My point is, just like we can’t judge people based on their national origin, we shouldn’t judge people from their home instance. But as a general rule, yeah .ml reeks lol

Increasingly harder to tell the difference since 2014.

Well you said it best, “it costs more than money.”

I’ve never heard of the site until now. But indeed, there is no such “Register new account” page, it all goes to the stupid “Sign in with the Big 3” modal. What a fucking joke.

It doesn’t help that I learned this site operates on a “gem” economy, and I just do not fucking understand why commercial manga sites do this. Steam charges you cash for games, Amazon and Netflix charge cash for movies and series, even the Google Play Store just uses USD (or whatever local currency). Why do manga sites operate like a fucking pachinko parlor?

Wait what, they don’t run their own accounts?

brain in a box so he doesn’t have to think anymore

Even Chinese SA’s have access to VPN’s, proxies, etc. It’s not like they would tie their own hands behind their backs to spread the good word, ya know?

Russia only needed a small number of inroads to influence the 2016 US election, and now? Pff, they hardly need to do anything, we’re completely self-sufficient in propagandizing ourselves. It’s entirely possible China’s already created their own army of Overseas Useful Idiots.

ML stands for Marxist-Leninist, that’s more or less the Tell. They’re not merely socialist, but authoritarian. Like MAGA, they treat dissent as hostile.

Don’t worry OP, you could always move to a different instance. You’ve already done the hard part, figuring them out lol.