gofsckyourself

I would greatly like to be able to filter posts that link to certain domains.

For example, I want to filter all posts that link to the gamingonlinux website, because the owner of that website sucks and I find that site to be overall useless.

I guess that this 50501 movement has somehow gained some recent popularity from somewhere, but the sheer volume of content, communities, and even instances seems weird.

Where did this all come from and why did it seem to come as a sudden flood?

Is there a way to limit the size of posts in the "full" layout? I prefer this style over the cards, but some posts are really.... really.........reaaaallly long.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26491035

life changed due to shrimp

Does anyone happen to know of a list of items that can burn?

For example, if I want to set off a fire trap but don't want to lose an item.

Thanks!

Today, I changed the batteries in all my smoke detectors. I noticed that the battery light in one was blinking. Instead of only replacing the one with a new normal 9v battery, I ordered a pack of 10-year lithium 9v batteries and replaced them all. Now I don't have to worry about changing them for a handful of years.

Edit - Funnily enough, dinner put them to the test. I was going to test them tomorrow when the kiddo is at daycare.

The link on the sidebar of https://lemmy.ca/ is linked to lemmy.ca/c/support

I noticed the other day that the majority of the content on [email protected] are made by accounts that are deleted after making some posts. Most often no comments are made by these burner accounts, but sometimes they will create a new separate account to respond to comments.

Is there any real privacy benefits for this over something like having a single separate account you post only images and no text posts?

Is there a tool that facilities creating short-term accounts like this?

I have noticed some very odd behavior in [email protected]. I saw by chance that a user no longer existed shortly after making a handful of posts on [email protected]. I made a comment about it and a user responded very rudely and accusatory, which raised a red flag. I clicked on that user's profile and, once again, that user seems to no longer exist. This struck me as very odd.

So I started paying attention to the users of posts on [email protected], and I now see that this is a very frequently recurring pattern: A new user is created and posts about 3-8 comics in a span of about 3-24hrs and then the user's account disappears. Every day this happens, sometimes with multiple accounts.

Since you can't view the user's profiles you can't see what other kind of posts or comments these users are making and it seems very suspicious. It seems like a single person or group of people are taking advantage of some sort of system that creates short-term accounts? Is there some service or bot that does this sort of thing that I am unaware of?

Though the behavior I've found here is only making some posts on the comicstrips community, besides the one rude comment, it still is a giant red flag. Is this happening in other communities? What other behavior is being hidden by using burner accounts? What benefits could there possibly be for this? Are communities being manipulated somehow? Surely it makes no sense that someone would anyone go out of their way to constantly create new accounts just to post comics?

I also wonder how other people feel about this. Am I alone in thinking this is weird and a big red flag?

Edit 2025-03-08
It seems peace has been restored to [email protected]. It's nice that people's posts will no longer get buried by one person's spam.

Though, I see there's been some mass downvoting in this whole thread. It's likely the individual is still trying to get some sort of revenge. I'd pity them, but... nah

It seems the moderators have stopped participating in Lemmy. The last modlog was 4 months ago.

@[email protected] has no activity for 2 years and @[email protected] has no activity for 5 months.

Thanks

Recently, I saw a post on Lemmy of an article that piqued my interest, at least enough to try to validate the information in it. When I followed the link, I was greeted with a clearly AI generated image (it showed trump with an extra finger).

I immediately lost trust in the article and made a comment regarding that. (Link)

But the reaction to this was surprising to me. I got a response stating that the author has a background of being an established writer and reporter, as well as received a lot of downvotes. However, no one responded to my points on the use of AI.

My thoughts are that if you are making money on something, then you need to avoid AI when possible and reasonable.

What's going on here? Am I wrong and this is somehow an acceptable use of AI?

[Edit] side note of something that that just occurred to me: don't go to that thread to manipulate the votes or start ""brigading"" against it for the AI. I just wanted to discuss it here. Thanks.