theDoctor @ theDoctor @lemmy.sdf.org

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Did you read the article? Pretty clear it’s more than even harassment…

“These jurors have signed their death warrant by falsely indicting President Trump," a post on a pro-Trump forum read in response to a post including the names of jurors, which was viewed by NBC News.

Also, Grand Juries are secret, regular juries are not. That’s why these articles are all referring to them as the ‘purported’ jurors.

If they did somehow actually get the jury members names and release them, that alone could (and should) be seen as a threat considering the secret nature.

I questioned my sanity for a bit after your first response until I realized what the diet actually was. I was properly confused!

If you are on their network they can see what you are doing. At the end of the day, the business will protect itself.

Do what you want at your own risk. But never assume that any company is on your side.

I know this is ancient history at this point, but I wanted to circle back.

I was not familiar with FODMAPs at all before reading the article. And since the article starts by calling it a ‘diet’ I made what I thought was the reasonable assumption that it was a traditional diet.

After you responded I looked it up more generally and now understand that it’s less of a traditional ‘diet’ and instead used to help prevent some medical conditions from flaring up.

That’s on me for not doing full research, and on the article for assuming everyone knows what FODMAPs are and why they are so important to some people.

Sorry for my ignorance.

I wonder what the historical timing was between filings for GPT 3 and 4 and their public announcement/release.

Please do not link anything the Orange Idiot is associated with to a state sponsored service. Truth.social is so far separated from the BBC or any US sponsored service they may as well be in separate universes.

What the BBC is doing would be akin to NPR or PBS starting a Mastodon instance, which I’m all for.

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. The fact that these articles are making fairly large headlines is proof enough that this event is backfiring.

A couple days of engagement traffic do not outweigh the negative PR and advertising impact from this event.

If you were a company, you might think twice before advertising on a site that has their users actively, publicly, and loudly trashing on the CEO. It says a lot that it’s happening in the first place. Says even more that they aren’t able to stop it.

Also, look at the activity numbers here. I’m not trying to trash on Lemmy, but we are a drop on the bucket. It’s far more effective for us to be visible and loud than silent and ignored.

For clarity sake, I’m not encouraging anyone to go do anything, nor the other way around. But if you want to, ignore the comments, saying that this is going to say, Reddit with traffic and engagement from you if you go. It clearly isn’t, and your loud protest is valuable. 

A couple days of traffic scores does not offset the advertising nightmare that this is causing them.

Be real for a sec…

100k is way too low of a number.

~~What in the pseudoscience is this crap? Avoid garlic entirely, but no limit on the foi gras? ~~

Edit: FODMAP is not a ‘diet’ in the traditional sense, it’s a diet tailored to avoid triggering flare ups of medical conditions such as IBS. Wish the article had been more clear for those without knowledge of what FODMAP is.

They did.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-column-great-debate/column-why-a-medieval-peasant-got-more-vacation-time-than-you-idUKBRE97S0KU20130829

And this is from 2013. The last line is particularly poignant.

Speaking of Congress, its members seem to be the only people in America getting as much down time as the medieval peasant. They get 239 days off this year.

I'll add my intro here:

US based freelance software developer, former network engineer and systems architect. I previously worked for a major US corporation until I got out and have been doing everything I can to stay out. My biggest area of passion with this movement is unionization among high-tech jobs.

Mod Application:

Honestly, I may not be what you are looking for based on your post, but I figured I would offer.

While I wholeheartedly support the anti-work/work-reform/anti-corporate movement(s) going on, I don't know that I would say that I'm...close to them? I'm not organizing protests or scouring the web for posts. I support it. I'll interact when I have something relevant to say, but I'm not someone that may be able to drive the engagement you are looking for.

That said, I founded, run, and own a large (20k+) member Discord server built from nothing. I'm a freelance developer including more custom discord bots than I can count. I would be dabbling with automation here, but I have no real drive as of yet. While I'm not active as much as some, I check in to Lemmy fairly often through the day.

So I may not be your community driver, but I am familiar with moderation to say the least. If you end up needing someone with a very long moderation, community management, back-end planning, and development experience, I would be happy to help. If you find those qualities in other applicants, I happily cede my application to them.

I guess everyone else replying to you doesn’t get what you are saying.

They aren’t threatening to leave like it matters. They are expressing concern that preemptively defederating with anyone that hasn’t blocked Meta/Facebook/Threads/Insert_Bad_Actor_Here is a horrible idea.

No one is saying that we shouldn’t defederate with Meta. We are saying not to make the mistake of fracturing a community that, in internet terms, is in its infancy.

I’m willing to bet most people here don’t like being told that they can’t do something for arbitrary reasons. So why would you care what another instance is doing? If you don’t like your instance, move. If you don’t like another instance personally, block them.

Defederation is a powerful tool when necessary. It can block toxic communities, stop raids, and remove spam centers. But defederating by association is a drastic step.

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this is the kind of stuff that makes me … say “Screw it. … I guess I’ll sign up at Threads” Has no one responding seen all the posts by people confused about Lemmy as is?

You know how you kill Lemmy, fracture it and make it so difficult to find/understand that the general populace, not early adopters, not techies, normal people give up.

So if you want this content you have to go here, but they won’t talk to this other place, so if you want that stuff you should get another account and go over here… oh and these guys won’t talk to anyone so you will need another account for them.

And where will they go? Maybe a place run by a company that they already use. With a shiny new app… AND 30 MILLION PEOPLE that already have it.

Congratulations, in your attempt to kill Meta you have just alienated the vast majority of potential users and sent them straight to that which you were trying to destroy.