Otter @ otter @lemmy.ca

I waddled onto the beach and ~~stole~~ *found* a computer to use.

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We might need that in the future, but for now I think we have enough moderators to users to deal with brigading and bad faith arguments when it happens. So far users have been excellent about reporting it to us

I also don't love doing blanket bans based on participation alone. Sometimes people comment on content to call it out, and without following the thread carefully and being familiar with the topic, it's hard to tell who's arguing for what. That being said, if it's clear that someone is a problem in other communities, I think it makes sense for mods or admins to preemptively ban them.

That's fair, can you link some of the posts? You can also DM me, or @admin@lemmy.ca

There isn't much brigading since it gets dealt with, but it's not impossible

Yes it's hard to tell what they're looking at, but I imagine the less info they can collect from your device the better?

I usually lookup 'alternative frontends' and then find a list like this on github type sites. They go out of date often

https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends?tab=readme-ov-file#facebook

With the proxy websites, it's more of an alternative frontend where you still need an account on the platform.

What might be happening is

• your device or IP address is flagged from your previous attempts
• they've connected it to your real name / shadow profile somehow

So if you really need to use it and there's no alternative, you could do one of

• make the real account, ideally from a privacy friendly browser, and give the absolute minimum info you can. Name and email, no profile image, privacy settings to max
• make an account on a new device / wifi network, and have it be believable for the kind of person joining Facebook for the first time. I haven't tried this myself but I've heard it mentioned before

Whether you made an account or not, you can keep an eye out for alternatives. Over here there are a few alternatives, and one of them (Karrot) has been growing in popularity

https://betakit.com/south-koreas-neighbourhood-buy-and-sell-app-karrot-hits-one-million-canadian-users-builds-toronto-engineering-hub/

It might enshitify at some point, but it's been nice so far

Thanks :)

The community !tech@programming.dev could also use some love

It looks like there are a number of reports on this post. If you could edit a tag into the title, such as [satire], that would probably make everyone happy

You can find our posts about this here

• Our nomination thread
• Our voting thread, which also had a list of all songs nominated for Canada
• The three winning nominations that we submitted to the contest

Happy to have you here 😊

This is something that's hard to describe with words

This video has someone going that speed, they also talk through some of the considerations on how to do that safely

4K HDR POV: How to drive 300+ kmh on German Autobahn in a McLaren

There's also this video with a motorcycle doing something similar

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ix-cjgrzmZE

We are :)

https://fedecan.ca/en/donate

We have some donation options listed here, and we're going to look into adding more options down the road

In addition to moderating, I think the biggest help would be to participate in the smaller communities. Regular posts and discussions go a long way

Just saw the new MapleMusic community, subscribed :)

Sorry about that, I'm thinking next time we'll end the nominations much earlier and leave the voting up longer.

Since lemmy.ca is federated, you can see content from everywhere. However you also have a lot of control over your feed, and you can either block communities you don't like or (my preference) primarily use the 'subscribed' feed and only subscribe to the content you want to see.

This guide page might help: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/detailed-overview

If you look on !canada@lemmy.ca, we maintain a pinned post with a list of Canadian communities to subscribe to

For sure!

For now I can say that all your songs got points, and I think one of yours was in 4th place :)

They're from Niagara Falls Ontario!

Isabelle Rezazadeh (born 28 March 1995), who is known by her stage name Rezz (stylized in all caps), is a Ukrainian–Canadian DJ and record producer from Niagara Falls, Ontario.

Nice, I like it :)

You could add a word or phrase to remind people that it's being given away for free to anyone that wants to run it. That might get people to think about any benefit they are getting out of it, and how much they want to donate in response.

I'm not sure what is the best wording for that, but just be careful in case someone misunderstands and thinks it might become paid someday. I've seen that complaint in the past

For example, this could be misinterpreted:

and if you want to keep using it for free

You can also add a note about the frequency of the messages. Saying that you will only remind people once a year is nice to hear, and that way people won't dismiss it thinking they will do it when they are reminded the next time

Welcome! 😊

Bonjour! 😊