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This is a genuine honeypot from our collection. It has no ulterior motives. But, to be safe, please do not pass it any state secrets.
@jwz Connecting to your site times out for me, as it has for weeks if not months.
@xentrac I have had to shitcan the IP blocks of half of the planet to stop the AI scrapers from making my site fall over. Presumably you are in one of those. So you can thank the slopbros for that.
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They do ask for funding from time to time, though. It’s definitely not cost-less running a big website.
Just like having buying and selling things is not necessarily capitalism, an organization that gets and spends money is not necessarily a company.
Crazypedia won't Comply 🧿
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Just a reminder to please please please have a plan right now. Posted anonymously from an international DFIR friends’ chat. Anyone in consulting IR can confirm it’s horrible right now and we can’t likely help if you don’t have a plan or retainer.
If I "commit suicide", I didn't.
That's modern American for I'm about to criticize the government while doing journalism.
Love y'all.
for Carl ❤️
@chris I don't recognize the movie.
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Welcome to the abandoned land
Come on in child, take my hand
Here there is no work or play
Only one bill to pay
There's just five words to say
As you go down, down, down
You're gonna burn in hell
Oh, burn in hell
Twisted Sister - Burn In Hell
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@TheBreadmonkey You know what they say, if you love your trousers, set them free. If they come back to you, they'll be yours forever. If they don't come back to you, they were never yours to begin with and you probably grabbed the wrong pair from someone at the gym.
Hello fediverse! How's it going this evening?
@mike I'm pretty wowed by the Harmony chat software I've been trying out. Cross-instance Discord competitor? Hell yeah!
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I don’t know, size made it pretty bad. Subreddits with hundreds of thousands or more users create environments where no one is trying to have a discussion. People are just vying for attention. That creates an environment where comments are either all jokes, or all snark. It’s really, really hard to have anything that resembles a human experience in a place like that. People stop recognizing each other as people, and just treat everyone as an audience.
That makes for a pretty bad experience.
one sub i recently visited talking jobs/layoffs got meme-fied recently. because happen tor each the front page a couple times, it drawn into many trolls and bots.
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size is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004
reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).
the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.
another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.
size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.
we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.
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Thank you, you absolute delight 💜
