TangledHyphae @ TangledHyphae @lemmy.world

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Shoutout to https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

It uses 0.0.0.0 for tens of thousands of bad domains, so I use this as my baseline on my systems.

The sweet irony of this is that digg.com is coming back. I'm on the early subscription list for when they finally release it. There's going to be a point in time where reddit is just 80% bots talking to each other, I bet.

Is it possible to join an instance but filter out specific federated posts? Like I would like to join an instance like that but filter out hexbear.. a little too psychotic for my taste.

I'm on my 2nd 7-day site-wide suspension on this new account as of today. Had two older accounts permbanned. Then I recently got an automod to tell me my account was flagged for upvoting "hateful content" likely related to me upvoting Luigi posts. Reddit is fully unhinged at this point, what a cesspool.

Same here! My second 7-day site-wide suspension, I'm guessing ban next. I got flagged with warnings for upvoting something related to Luigi as "violating the rules by upvoting hate posts." It's like fucking 1984 over there now.

Same here, but the bots don't even tell you the "wrongthink" post that you upvoted so you have no idea how to avoid upvotes that will flag your account with a warning/ban. It's fucking psychotic on reddit now. Like watching the Titanic sink at this point.

Makes me wonder if a social site could advertise a "bot-free" environment somehow. Some sort of verification system, one e-mail, one verification picture (handwritten note picture maybe, not face or anything.) And only 1 account per human, no bots... I feel like that's going to have to happen eventually at the rate AI is going. Facebook is probably half-AI bots at this point already.

I signed up for hexbear out of morbid curiosity, that place feels like an insane asylum.

I went through a phase where I would find good posts on reddit and then just copy the link and post here.. but as of now, reddit is like 95% anti-Trump posts so it's all noise. Lemmy is fairly noisy with that lately too but not as bad. I need to figure out a better way to filter out politics because it's ruining online discussion even in non-political threads, somehow it devolves into "orange man bad" somehow at some point and it's just tiresome going over the same topic over and over with the same talking points. Musk nazi, orange man bad.. when you see it 50000000000 times it just gets old after a while, with RES I am able to filter out subs which helps immensely but I don't think that's possible here. But like r/pics, r/interestingasfuck, r/lotr, r/lego, r/technology, r/news, many many others.. 90% political now, so the majority of the site is useless to me now. And it feels like it's majority bots now, probably LLM-generated discussion through an API, dead internet theory is in full speed ahead mode.

I think the mainstream isn't quite ready for the fediverse yet, I see people complaining about not knowing which instance to sign up for and how it works on reddit here and there. I just got a 7-day site-wide suspension because I guess I said something the admins didn't agree with (didn't violate any ToS, they just see something they don't like and banhammer.) This is why decentralization is the key to the future, reddit admins/mods are psychotic power hungry assholes 99% of the time it seems.

I've exclusively used firefox to watch youtube on Arch and Ubuntu for years, never had a problem so far for what it's worth. I keep a laptop in the livingroom with Arch specifically to have adblocking and piping the video out to the TV. The youtube apps are terrible on the Roku last I remember, haven't tried it in forever but I think the main reason was I didn't want to see ads anymore.

I got a warning for upvoting a Luigi post (or a post that reddit deemed as "wrongthink"), the bot didn't say which sub or post that triggered it so it's kind of impossible to say for sure or even avoid getting banned from upvoting something they don't like.

I'd like to take this opportunity to point out that the RDDT stock price has dropped 40% in the last month, and it's not surprising. That site is a sinking ship.

I got a notice this morning just for upvoting a post related to him saying if I keep upvoting anything similar I could get permbanned. The best part is they don't let you know which post you upvoted that got you flagged.

Aren't a lot of crops grown in Mexico and imported through the Arizona channels? Because produce is way cheaper in Arizona than California.

Most of the time you don't have to insert the man page, it's already baked into the neural network model and filling the context window sometimes gives worse results.

I mean Jesus did literally walk into temples and flip tables over and kick people out for bad behavior, so this isn't far off.

Thank you kind stranger! I actually started a hexbear account just to see what that instance was all about... but those people seem ... somehow beyond psychotic, hard to even classify because of how unhinged they are. It almost reads like satire half the time but not in a good way. So I just want to thank you for giving instances that block that toxicity.

I had a feeling that was the case. Going to have to switch instances and set my own up and only federate with ones that aren't so censorship heavy.

I'm getting my comments removed just for mentioning discrepancies between different country's border security. Why is censorship so heavy here now? Didn't seem like this earlier this year.