Maybe, I guess it depends on how much of an issue bot-spam is to them. I mean if lemmit.online was considered an issue to them, they might want to look into this.
Edit: seems they've already been removed by the moderators of Lemmy.world.
They're making a post here because bot spam is generally considered a problem on Lemmy. Not something that people just don't like, but actually something that is against the site's terms of service.
Honestly we really need to stop delegitimizing these concerns and default to telling people to close their eyes because they "don't wike it 👶" (that's what encouraging people to block it is) because people bring real problems to the table that need to actually be addressed.
Lemmy isn't a free speech platform where everything goes and that's kind of the point. Part of that is that when people or communities step past the threshold of what is acceptable, somebody needs to report it or speak up so that it gets addressed. And that's what posts like these are.
I think that WordPress integration has been added to Lemmy, so you should be able to also follow WordPress blogs right here, they show up as communities.
I mean I'm not sure how well it works, last I checked it was very glitchy.
I guess depending on the instance it's not necessarily over-using it, as the point is to report content that isn't up to the instance or community's standard. On some instance that includes disinfo, on others it doesn't.
I think brave should be disregarded as something safe and privacy respecting if they were willing to silently whitelist Facebook trackers in the past. Then there is their whole crypto obsession.
Because play protect is a piece of shit that is not very reliable. Google mostly uses it to block installation of apps or remove apps that they don't like such as cracked apps, or apps that are used to crack other apps.
The real malicious apps are typically able to sneak past it.
It's worth mentioning that the mod could stop working with future updates of the game, however.
That's why it would be good if somebody had the source code, not just a backup of the mod. Available source code will allow somebody else to tweak it or more easily make a better one in case Sony tries to break it.
I blame the news outlets for making it public and screaming from the rooftops that they were bypassing it.
We should put our efforts and energy towards fighting back against the companies that do this and not against each other. Pointing fingers at each other doesn't do anything.
These companies have their own intelligence divisions whose job it is to find out about projects like this. They don't find out about it from the news they find out about it from their intelligence divisions long before it becomes popular.
If anything projects like this being popular is better for them because it means people like us can copy them and redistribute them faster than they can issue takedowns.
If anything I would say that this mindset is exactly what these companies want, they want these projects to be obscure and copied by very few people so when they issue the takedown, it's not saved by anybody else. They also would prefer it over the retaliation that some people might do to them, I mean just look at what people are doing to Rockstar right now. They would rather we fight with each other, then fight back against them. They are the enemy and they always have been, the sooner we realize it the better.
Good news is that many instances on Lemmy are less tolerant to alt-right trolls and climate deniers. Best to use that report function so your admins, or even better, their admins, can snipe them.
I mean anyone is free to try their hand at reproducing it better, I'm sure the spot hasn't changed that much since the modern one here was taken, and if it has, well it'll just make the comparison that much more dramatic.
I looked around and there do seem to be backups out there, would suggest people download them and reupload them. Same way was done when they tried to go after YouTube-dl.
He could simply make his account invulnerable to it if that was his goal, no there's a deeper reason why he's making the change. Likely because he realizes too many people are blocking the alt-right users part of his paying simp army.
A lot of them are in-denial. I've seen them argue that Twitter isn't a Nazi platform and is used by normal people. Serves them right I guess, they were told it was a problem and they didn't want to listen.
The best way to cure network effect is with pain and suffering, and eventual forced deprivation (when the service shuts down).
I think the main problem is that this type of reasoning can't actually be proven scientifically, even if we have a study there's not a guarantee it's unbiased (who do you think funds research on advertising effectiveness). Then there is the problem that every product or brand in modern advertising is likely one of the handful of pseudo monopoly brands. One might argue that a person bought their product because they heard it in an ad, but in reality they might not have really had much choice, that makes it hard to say if people buy the products because they're familiar or if they just don't have much option.
The main point I'd like to make is that advertisers would like to believe they aren't wasting money or time, they need people to believe it in some capacity, because if enough people don't, eventually the dumb and blind companies who give them money will realize it too and stop giving them money. That's why the ad-funded internet is considered a bubble, it's not worth it, or necessary in a lot of cases, and the moment the dumb and blind corpos realize that, they'll stop dumping money into a hole.
and making them server site, while possible would introduce tremendous amounts of lag, and put that much more load on the servers. Imagine a server that has to handle playback of billions of users all at once. That's probably quite a bit worse than most average, or even high-level DDoS attacks.
Totally no bias in these studies at all either, they totally wouldn't try to skew these studies for personal gain and to try and justify the huge spending on ad money right?
Oh great news, I take both, well kinda. The ones I take are a combo of Ibuprofen and Acetaminophen.