“Let Chaos storm, let cloud shapes swarm; I wait for form”

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Cake day: August 14th, 2023

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  • Hear me out, there are trans people who are indeed extremists (I should know, I’ve been victim to many of them). However that doesn’t mean all trans people are. Trans people are just people, and like all people there are good ones, evil ones, and ones who make mistakes.

    Hexbear are extremists though, there might be some decently alright people on there but for the most pat the active ones there are very extreme and tend to spam, lash out, throw insults, and it’s very likely they were the ones who DDoSed Lemmy.world in the days of frequent outages shortly after Lemmy.world denied them. OP you made the right call, it is a very bad idea to recommend people go to hexbear.


  • A solution I thought of is that we could potentially create a bot that checks if a downvoter is subscribed to the community they are voting in. If they downvote more than 3 posts a day in such as community they get a 3 day ban, second time they get a 7 day ban, third time they get permanent ban.

    Also if they downvote more than 70% of a community’s posts they get permabanned either way. Downvote happy subscribers are clearly trying to game the system, so they don’t get two chances to correct the behavior before a permanent one.

    Could have the rules be customizable or not, basically it would check those two statuses and impose a ban if correct conditions aren’t met or the user goes overboard with downvoting. Users who would want to use it in their community could simply add the bot via photon or the API.











  • I would agree with this, except on the merit of moving instances, community blocking exists for the purpose of curating your feed to remove content you dislike.

    I know a lot of people do not take the time to get to know the instances of the communities they subscribe to but they probably should, since the values of the communities on an instance are greatly shared with the values of the instance itself. Instances aren’t just random servers either, they’re like larger meta communities with their own culture and value. And generally if you don’t jive well with the instance you probably should steer clear of the communities it homes, as they will mostly share its values. That’s why the instance sidebar is displayed beneath the community sidebar on all remote communities.

    Also I would like to take the time to say that their comment blanket comparing AI tools (including/not excluding those developed as an open-source or community effort) with fascism and fake news, feels extremely disingenuous and like a bad faith comparison. I’m not saying they should get in trouble for it but it feels like a very bad faith attack on our community. This kind of reminds me of the time that AI banner generation was announced on !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com and a lot of anti-AI trolls crawled out of the woodwork to complain, or even call for action against the community. I don’t know I just think people need to know how to read the room and know the space a bit better. @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com @Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com Any thoughts you’d like to add on this last part guys?