Empricorn@feddit.nl made a post on lemmy.dbzer0.com a couple of years ago to attempt a mass defederation campaign against an instance I was on because they didn’t like some of the news links I was posting.

The admin of The Lemmy Club chose to side with the campaign so I ultimately left voluntarily to an instance more friendly to free speech, and to prevent The Lemmy Club from being defederated over stuff the admin didn’t even fully support.

https://feddit.nl/post/30629695

I guess that’s what happens when they haven’t blocked your instance or banned you from their communities first. That’s usually what they do to me.

Nah. Tankis are super sensitive, they’ll block you on their own, eliminating themselves from the conversation. It’s nothing to worry about.

I think it worked.

What?

I suspect the guy who said this game will save people money became a self-made millionaire by convincing people to believe tripe like that haha

Nice

I only posted because in the past, when I’ve seen this, they ended up being quite large campaigns affecting many people.

Thankfully, it seems that doesn’t seem to be the case this time around.

Someone should make a westernized fork of Qwen.

Heck, I’d use QWest, or whatever it’d be called.

Edit: Ooh they actually released it:

https://huggingface.co/hirundo-io/models

How is this site better than FediDB?

Everything listed under ideological liberalism is something “conservatives” used to claim as their values.

I don’t think that means that conservatives are liberals, I think that means that they’re liberals who changed their minds or abandoned their values.

I wouldn’t say that. Conservatism, at its core, is about preserving a specific way of life, while liberalism is about finding a balance between a laissez faire form of governance and having an ordered society. They aren’t congruent in terms of political policy.

Y’all remind me of Republicans asking if the actors in a movie are Democrats before they decide whether or not to watch it. Give it a rest.

I’m genuinely shocked. We all knew that he did it, but I’m surprised he (and the organization) are getting punished for it.

However, I do think that he should be forced to relinquish ownership of the Clippers. I could see how that might be difficult to do legally, though.

Running out of time, or tokens?

I was starting to wonder because of your lengthy posts and use of emphasis, did you use AI to make this post?

Uploading AI slop and posting genuine content (reposted or “spammy” or not) are two very, very different things.

I’ve had multiple accounts banned over one or two posts that somebody didn’t like. Months of posting, comments, engagement and contributions can effectively disappear from a community because of a couple of moderation decisions.

And the more you contribute, the worse the odds become. If you make hundreds or thousands of posts, eventually you’re going to post something that one moderator somewhere doesn’t like.

You don’t need one moderation team to tolerate you. You need multiple independent moderators and admins, across multiple servers, to remain aligned indefinitely.

This is why free speech (or at least free speech adjacent) instances are important. They don’t ban people nearly as frivolously. Build your communities on instances that are not hosted by bullies.

Although, I will say, your premise is a bit flawed here. Having more moderation isn’t the problem, the problem is the type of moderators that are here on Lemmy. A lot of them are the same hall monitor types that were on Reddit, but even more strict!

Things have gotten better over time, especially with bridges. There are a few Bluesky users who talk about sports, and there’s also sportsbots.xyz which mirrors sports-related X accounts to the Fediverse. Also, @NBA@lemmy.world is a pretty poppin’ Lemmy community that talks about everything and anything NBA-related.

Honestly, the best thing that all of us can do are post about the sports we’re watching, and use the appropriate hashtags so that it’s easier for sports to trend and for us to find each other.

I will say that boosts can make posts spread on Mastodon a bit more quickly than I’ve seen Lemmy posts spread on Lemmy. But Lemmy posts aren’t particularly Mastodon-friendly, I do wish they were formatted to be a bit more readable.

I see. I am not sure how this will help!

I’ve never been very much into GTA, I played GTA 5 a couple of times and was actually underwhelmed. I am saving for my first console and am more excited to get RDR2 and the new Lego Skylines game than GTA 6.