I think the Fediverse.observer stats for the 19th are off - it's showing that drop across all software categories - Mastodon and Kbin show the same dip.
Agreed. I did a rewatch before I posted it to the @13thFloor and I was amazed (hadn't seen it since I was a kid). Some of the most intriguing and beautiful surrealistic animation ever, and the story is remarkably good - generating a sort of slow clinical terror in the viewer that flows and builds beneath the bright alien landscapes.
@MargotRobbie I'm getting PTSD from this post, and an urge to say "this". You've officially become my favorite version of Margot Robbie (although Harley Robbie is close on your heels).
@izzydata Odd behavior on the part of the admin there, especially as they were adding you as a mod to communities less than two months ago. Feels like they have a stake in Synch bringing in some revenue, and aren't happy about your criticism.
You ran a great community over there, and it's clear you're getting the shaft. If you ever are looking for a home for your content, you've got an open invitation to the @13thFloor - always looking for great scifi across all media.
There's just email verification at the moment. 2FA is on the roadmap, but I'm not sure if it will be in the next release. Here's the kbin codeberg site for more detail.
Hi - mod of a small kbin.social mag here - @13thFloor - and a lemmy.world user. Is there anything we can do on our end to help mitigate the problem, or make it easier to flag spam that makes its way to Lemmy? I'd be more than willing to include a note to the lemmy.world admins if a spam post is deleted off of a mag I mod here- just need to know who to contact.
Side notes - Ernest (kbin.social admin) just responded on the spam issue here. The community has been actively working over here to flag and remove spam accounts (I've personally flagged close to 100). According to the most recent news from @ernest earlier last week, we've got a software update incoming, and a magazine cleanup in the works that will hopefully make an impact.
Being able to follow other users makes a huge difference to content discovery - there's a lot of immediate content you're missing out on if you're only on Lemmy, and Mastodon users miss out on most of the long form content and discussions.
Agreed. Spez's support of TheDonald was the beginning of the end (although as he was a mod of jailbait before it was banned, it was clear that Trump wasn't the genesis of Spez's sickness), and now there's nothing left of the communities that made it great. There's hasn't been anything rewarding about contributing there since about 2014.
Depends on the context, but generally it indicates a lack of critical thinking and a capacity to be easily swayed by sensational claims. Joe Rogan has no legitimacy as a journalist, and a checkered record when it comes to the veracity of what and who he presents on his show, which has shifted significantly rightward over the years, going from pot smoking and ancient aliens to diet supplements and anti-vaccine narratives. Generally, in the US, Joe Rogan fans are predominantly white, male, and right-wing with a libertarian bias.
10k will last you about 3 months comfortably, 6 if you're single and willing to scrimp or live in your car. That's your time limit to get a new job.
I had about 3x that saved and took a year off after working a decade at my previous position (I was pretty burnt out and hadn't been able to take more than a week off since I started). Having that padding gave me the time and peace of mind to look for something I really wanted, and gave me the freedom to turn down offers that would have put me back into the burnout cycle.
I ended up with a full WFH position with a 50% bump in salary. Within a year, I made back what I had spent simply by maintaining my budget from my previous salary.
If I hadn't had the cushion, it would have been pedal to the metal and accepting the first position offered, and I would have likely hit burnout before a year was out.
Had a feeling this is how the political dynamics would play out.
Trump made a lot of enemies in the GA GOP when he first dragged Raffensberger through the mud and then cost GA a senate seat by telling his supporters the special election was rigged. I've said it before - those good ole boys down south never forget a slight. Hell, they're still pissed off at Sherman down there, and that was 170 years ago.
Kemp knows that stepping in now to disqualify Willis would give the Dems a lot of ammunition for turning GA blue in 2024 - I can't see him sticking his neck out for Trump here.
Abandon society - yes. Commune - JFC no. Vagabond gypsy caravan? Possibly, but only if there are werewolves and mysteriously sexy tarot card casters involved.
The instance owner determines what's on their "public" tagged activity feeds. If they remove the "public" tag from a post or user account, it's restricted from non-authenticated requests from outside servers. You're correct that this shouldn't grab user IP addresses, but they could if an instance owner is including that information in what they mark as "public" profile feed data. I should reiterate that I know of no instance that does this, but the capability is there in theory (and I do know that certain forum software packages outside the Fediverse collect and publish this level of information, although it's a dying practice).
I'm not advocating instance owners turn everything private, but it's clear they're going to have to examine what they're providing through their feeds to Threads if they're serious about their users' security and privacy. The safest bet is to defederate from Threads until it's clear what Meta's intentions are (aside from their rhetoric, which is always deceitful when it comes to user privacy).
As to what Meta will do, they absolutely will scrape that activity data for marketing use, if they aren't already. It's what their entire business model on Facebook is built around - targeted ads based on user activity. Anything they say about protecting that data is lip service at best given their past performances and lawsuits. It also very likely that they'll merge it with their existing data hoards, and do their best to de-anonymize accounts so that they can increase their data accuracy and thus their profit margin.
I think the Fediverse.observer stats for the 19th are off - it's showing that drop across all software categories - Mastodon and Kbin show the same dip.