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4 days agoTurns out it’s not a Cloudflare issue, but a lemmy.world admin issue:
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1·4 days agoVPNs usually add IPs all the time.
That’s not usually how it works.
It is apparently how it works for lemmy.world, as of at least this post from two years ago:
To those who didn’t click onward, the answer in that post is apparently 2 years (by implication of its post date)
Ironically it also invalidates the top comment in this thread claiming they aren’t concerned with VPNs, just specific VPN IPs that have been abused in the past.
1·4 days agoHot take because Line Must Go Up is being blamed on "For the Shareholders!" lately, but:
It’s not just publicly traded companies. Private companies have greedy C-suites too.
At a guess, such cooperation would undermine Lenovo’s profit margin and would thus be a non-starter for them.
Enter government regulation, to pinch corporations by the ear and drag them to doing what’s right for society.
Apologies - didn’t realize I was talking to someone who has bouts of nihilism mixed in with their political activism like rocks in a salad.
Enjoy the block!
True, but your implication that I’m not doing enough while I’m sitting here complaining is just as well-served to the mirror.
1·5 days agoI just have a thing for people who look down their nose at others
Speaking of making assumptions…
How is that an assumption? You were looking down on Redditors for having less sex than Lemmings, were you not? Or was that a different /u/Almacca?
defended [sic] by me telling you off for being dumb
Are you asserting I made a grammatical error? By all means, point it out. Don’t be coy.
Haha [sic]. Sure [sic].
I mean, we’re equally affected if you want to play that game. You’ve replied to every one of my comments.
Honestly I don’t know why I didn’t block you sooner. It’s clear you take pleasure in shitting on and getting a rise out of people. Bye, Felicia!
I just have a thing for people who look down their nose at others, especially if the target is objectively higher up on the matter in question.
You can guffaw at your own assumptions about me based on who’s defended by me telling you off for being dumb if you want. Doesn’t really affect me and it appears to make your day better. At least that way you never have to work on self-improvement!
Build a large enough catalogue of bulk data and anything can be used to track you.
We bought “It’s just so we can catch the terrorists!” hook, line, and sinker post-9/11.
But when “terrorism” is redefined as “making people in power upset,” we’re in big trouble.
So don’t say anything rude about Donald Trump or the FBI will seek you out:
What did we get from Detroit? Bloated low tech shit boxes that barely make it past warranty.
Don’t forget the bailouts:
Jokes are supposed to be funny.
Reddit hasn’t been majority nerd for at least a decade now.
Lemmy, on the other hand…
In other words, people in glass houses probably shouldn’t throw stones at people in brick houses.
God, it always feels so weird to see people lying to themselves to have a circle-jerk about something they dislike.
MAGAs see that reading the Communist Manifesto is a requirement for entry and simply don’t bother. They have X, Truth Social, Reddit, etc. to party on, and they’re fine with the downsides of those platforms, i.e. supporting oligarchy/technocracy.
It’s not that they “get their asses handed to them,” they’re just not here.
Compare your perception of reality with election results. Even if Trump cheated like he probably did, I doubt it was bigger than single digit percentages.
TL;DR: You simply don’t witness enough MAGAs and you naturally assume they must not exist.
I hate seeing this comforting fiction.
The truth is there are absolutely tens of millions of people who think Trump is fantastic and will bend over backwards to vocally support him for virtually anything he does. Some of those people have Reddit accounts. Most of those frequent /r/conservative.
Are there bots among them? Almost certainly. We do see slowdowns there whenever overseas propaganda mills go down. Then there’s the Twitter fiasco where so many of their MAGA influencers turned out to be from Eurasia.
But patting each other on the back about how 80% of them are bots serves only to undermine the passion with which people should be opposing MAGA. I guarantee many would-be Clinton and Harris voters stayed home because they were sure MAGA was an extremely vocal minority almost entirely propped up by bots. Just look at the aftermath of those elections on Reddit and Lemmy; it’s generally mass confusion.
I’m guessing there’s just so much money (and power) in that kind of thing that it’s simply here to stay.
1·16 days agoUnlikely. There are a lot of badge bunnies out there.
Again, that angle is largely you seeking solutions to a problem that doesn’t exist; ICE agents aren’t trying to trick people in order to date/befriend them.
As I said, they don’t want anything to do with people who hate them.
Yes, that is what it claims.