gofsckyourself

~~They will also delete any comments that complain about AI at all, even though there is no rule against it.~~

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After second look, that's not entirely true, but they definitely have a trigger finger for it and leave plenty of other "off-topic" comments.

Considering the amount of posts deleted, it should have just been locked instead of nuking comments with a negative view of AI

Here's the thread in the screenshot:
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/43426671/18476015

Also, here you can see other's seem to think this was an attempt to silence dissent (though, I don't think that this coming from drag is a great point for it):
https://lemmy.ca/post/43313594

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Just look at this completely insane comment from an instance admin:

I got a DM from a brand new user created on lemm.ee that is using my username. The DM came through at 3 minutes and 10 seconds of the account being created.

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

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.

I noticed the other day that the majority of the content on !comicstrips@lemmy.world 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 !comicstrips@lemmy.world. I saw by chance that a user no longer existed shortly after making a handful of posts on !comicstrips@lemmy.world. 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 !comicstrips@lemmy.world, 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 !comicstrips@lemmy.world. 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.

@LillianVS@lemmy.world has no activity for 2 years and @STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world has no activity for 5 months.

Thanks