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@ cm0002 @lemmy.world

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  • Lemmy.ml continues to allow misinfo/propaganda sites "articles" so long as it's anti-west aligned while removing good credible news sources. Instances that federate with them help their spread

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  • Radio Free [Region] is a perfectly credible news source that does a fair job of minimizing bias

    In any case, bias != Mis/Disinformation. They're vastly different beasts. One just tries to subtly write things in a way that makes the reader favor their position the other is just straight lies and made up conspiracy theories to force a certain narrative among the populace

  • If you had a time machine that could set the internet back to what it was like in a certain era, when would that be?

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  • Lemmy.ml continues to allow misinfo/propaganda sites "articles" so long as it's anti-west aligned while removing good credible news sources. Instances that federate with them help their spread

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  • Instance blocks are nothing more than a comm mute, even if it worked as one would expect, it does nothing to stop them from spreading their toxic misinformation and propaganda to unknowing new users.

    And downvoting to oblivion is not something to be relied upon, IME only obvious ones get downvoted like RT or ones with headlines like "UKRAINE WILL FAIL SOON SUPERIOR RUSSIA..."

    Subtler disinformation, from lesser known sources, can still end up with positive upvotes and is just as dangerous

  • Average Landlord/Tenant interaction

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  • That doesn't sound unusual, it's probably the heat they wanted

  • Destroying 50 years of women’s health samples is like ‘burning the Library of Congress’

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  • is like 'burning the Library of Congress'

    Don't fucking give them any ideas

  • This happened one day in the window well outside my office. I got banned from r/pics for posting it.

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  • Just as the prophecy foretold!

  • This happened one day in the window well outside my office. I got banned from r/pics for posting it.

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  • It's not, the needles or whatever are way to consistent, even in the darker areas. AI would have fucked all that up

    Also, it's a basement well window, I have one of these as well. So OP would be standing on the side of the window in his house and the pinecone is on the other side in the fire escape well

    Think of it like looking into a really big terrarium

  • It really fucks with my recommendations, but fuck em™

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  • Interesting, I actually just adjust the volume knob on my desktop speakers so I didn't think of this when I wrote the meme.

    But now I kinda wanna see if I can hijack this monitoring it does and fake 100% volume to the application at all times...hmm welp to the mile long project list it goes!

  • It really fucks with my recommendations, but fuck em™

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  • Tl;Dw?

  • Nobodywantstoworkanymore!!

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  • Try to pivot to contract/consulting IT work, it's more of a PITA because you have to take care of things like health insurance on your own, but it might be a tad easier to pick up work that way since companies are always more willing to drop a grand or 2 here and there over hiring someone that needs commitment, benefits, support, training etc.

  • If there's a will there's a way (Until a cyclone comes along)..

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  • Even comes complete with drainage!

  • 8BitDo announces its controllers now have Steam (SteamOS) compatibility

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  • Well at least it's "just" software issues, software can always be fixed, but hardware issues are usually only fixable by needing to buy a new version lol

  • I knew some memes felt perfectly timed…

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  • Many block .ml comms as well as it being under a boycott. It's also why I crossposted it

    The below will explain why:

    I cross-post from .ml to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly, the instance as a whole, to make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don't want to defederate is because .ml still has some very large comms and some niche comms.

    Megathread on the issue

    Some highlights from the link:

    "Don't worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/30580167

    "See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn't count!!" ~ Davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/30673342

    .ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558 - CW: Original transphobic Comment from Nutomic

    "NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!" ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/31595035

    General negative sentiment to other instances who haven't "seen the way" yet ~davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/27426510

    "If you don't support Russia then you just don't understand geopolitics" ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/27352415

    And so so much documentation on clear heavy handed censorship and bias also on the link. So much I can't even put them all here because this comment would be really long.

    I believe the behavior of its admins (the main admins are Lemmy devs) does harm to the overall growth of the Lemmy-verse and maybe even the Thrediverse (since Lemmy kinda kicked off the Thrediverse) because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform to spread harmful propaganda

    On the outside, bringing up Lemmy frequently leads to comments like "Lemmy? Isn't that the place with a bunch of tankies?" Or "Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left". The best way forward from that I see is to either widely defederate from .ml like the rest of the Triad, or pressure them to put a fair and unbiased as possible admin team.

  • How many friends does it take to pay off a gambling debt?

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  • TRUE communism!

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  • I'm popping my popcorn, I'll be back later 🍿

  • People will call you smart too

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  • Behold!

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  • MAGAts: 🙈

  • I knew some memes felt perfectly timed…

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  • Ok, but when do I start a worldwide scandal that dominates the news cycle for 24 hours?

  • me_irl

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