…and they are BIG!

Yet…

This bullshit just infuriations me. Nearly every country ALREADY HAS LAWS that prevent minors from buying vapes (and cigarettes, etc.) Just enforce the damn rules rather than turn two pack a day people back to two pack a day people and then have to pay for their cancer treatment.

Jesus these fucks are dumb.

This is a good answer and probably the right solution (still not 100% convinced defederating isn’t, ultimately, going to be the answer though).

But your Jane/Joe Average User doesn’t look to see which instance that pr0n cute picture of a cat holding a teddy bear is on. They probably don’t even understand the concept of different instances showing content from others. Hell I’ve been online since 1992 and it took me a couple of days to get my head around it when I joined.

So I think we need some kind of step by step “If you see X, then do Y” sticked to the instances that care about this for the people who (like me) do care about this issue.

It’s all linked to Russian commodities, especially oil, and the dark fleet. No, I will not explain how I know this.

I’m not sure your grasp of the situation in BE in WWI or NL in WWII is …accurate. It’s certainly no longer relevant.

This person petroleums.

Yeah, no. Crude and coal are still 95% USD denominated, and that’s more than half Russia’s exports.

Seriously, is there a better example of positive masculinity than Aragorn?

More upvoting of posts.

I know that sounds a bit dumb/lame, but when I first got here and every post had like 5 upvotes, maybe 20 and then maybe once a week you’d see one with more than 100, it was jarring. Made the place feel empty and without interaction. Which it’s really not, but that was my and I think perhaps a lot of peoples’ first impression.

It would be very useful if you found that again and posted it.

Thanks for the detailed answer!

How can one avoid this “trap?”

Thanks!

So it’s a scaling problem. Can we not fight bots with bots? And thanks for the answers, btw, really helping me understand more about the underlying architecture, which before seemed rather abstract to me.

I see your point. But the owner of the server/instance can still kick the user and their community out right?

Post saved for when I have time to do this, thanks!

But at least we could defederate those instances once we realize what they are doing, yes?

Thanks everyone for informing me - can you use the same credentials to log into that interface as you use here?

Post saved for future use, thanks!