flamingos-cant @ flamingos @feddit.uk

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I got the same timestamps with:

 sql

    
select name, score, comment_like.published from comment_like 
left join person on comment_like.person_id = person.id 
where comment_id = 16354453;

  

IDK, I just don't think this is the pattern of someone boosting their comment (see !albumartporn@lemmy.world for actual vote manipulation), or at the very least I don't think it's Plinky doing it (he's a fairly regular contributor to UK threads and this is the first time those accounts have interacted with his comments here).

I don't know why Hexbearers are so insular (I have also noticed they rarely interact with stuff not from their own instance), it could be malicious or just another aspect of the annoying culture they've developed over there.

I checked in the DB and the other Hexbear votes happened quite a bit after the comment was made. I don't think someone doing voter fraud would wait 50 minutes, then another 15, to boost a comment, but maybe I'm underestimating their dedication.

Sex isn’t a “gender orientation” it is really simple biology.

Gamete size – its really simple.

Congratulations infertile people, you are now officially sexless.

Though this content could flourish in pockets of the fediverse, the scary scenario of prevalent child sexual abuse material is not the case. There are many moderation tools, including shared blocklists, that prevent it. However, the idea that the fediverse is full of harmful content was used by Elon Musk to justify his anti-competitive decision to block links from X to Mastodon.

Didn't he unban someone who posted one of the worst CSAM videos known?

At this point they should just hire the Heroic devs, I doubt anything they could build themselves would compare in terms of quality.

If a post contains content that is not allowed, the post should be deleted, that’s it.

OK, but what about content that is allowed, but has certain restrictions, like needs to be tagged NSFW. The current workflow to get this changed is: A mod comments under a pot telling the creator to tag it NSFW -> Remove the post -> wait for the creator to edit the post -> restore the post. This seems needlessly complicated and labour intensive, no?

Just because they have other means of doing link tracking doesn't mean they aren't using this link proxying to track stuff.

Most importantly, we shouldn’t allow that to happen via the API.

My view is that not adding this to the API will only encourage admins who want this to do it through less transparent means, like injecting fake activities into the sent_activity table. Most admins are reasonable people, and have good relations with their users, so if admins explained themselves then I think most users would be pretty accepting.

You’re free to start a “Should mods be able to edit user’s data?” discussion, but I doubt it would get much support, especially from reddit allowing this and it souring everyone to it.

I mean there's been like 3 or 4 GitHub issues opened about this, so there's clearly some demand for it. Should I make a post in !lemmy@lemmy.ml? So users not on GitHub can chime in.

You can read over the discussion here, but we will never allow mods or admins to act as / impersonate users, or edit their content.

I really don't get this. Why is editing user content with slur_filter or modifying URLs accepted but allowing mods/admins to change the NSFW toggle isn't? It also ignores that savvy-enough admins can edit user content with SQL queries.

Yeah, if I was building something production ready in Lisp, Clojure would be my choice even though I prefer CL. Ecosystem is ultimately king.

Oh, to be able to develop Lemmy with something like SLIME or Geiser, now that would be a dream. Too bad the CL's library ecosystem is so much worse than Rust's.

https://lemmy.cafe/post/14863524

Will Lemmy can become easy like Bluesky? Are there plans like that?

Echoing @Die4Ever@programming.dev, it's hard to comment on something so vague. Of course making things easier for users is an important goal.

Lemmy will change the way it handles DMs in 1.0 specifically for Masto compatibility.

You should be a Luddite because they were right. My point wasn't that we should embrace AI (trust me, I'm one of its most dedicated haters), but that just because technology produces lower quality goods doesn't mean it won't catch on. It's going to take more than jeering mockery to stop capitalist embracing something that lets them deskill workers.

I'm about half way through Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant, a book about the Luddites, and one of the things he's emphasised quite a lot is the complaints of people at the time about the lower quality of automated textiles compared to artisan-made ones.

I haven't actually played WoT since they added tier 8-10 light tanks, but god did I sink a lot of my teenage years into it. I have been really craving it lately, but I know better than to go back to it.

World of Tanks, which is pretty funny considering the image.

gtk2 is gone 🦀🦀🦀

Doesn't matter if they do, Lemmy cuts off the connection after streaming the number of bytes it wants.