Encouraging people to contribute only goes so far when this place is simultaneously discouraging people’s contributions. It is systemic, not limited to ML, and needs major efforts including enhanced technical capabilities to try to solve. Note that if ML ever were to be defederated, the absolute most toxic trolls would simply switch to using their alts on some other instance such as Lemmy.World, which they have announced they will do in advance, several years ago. They even indicated that they would make apps that automate the process of trying to send messages to someone, cycling through an array of alts until one is found that is not banned on that instance (or by that recipient?) - no truly does mean to simply push forward all the harder, for some.

But making a more firm stance would also send a signal about what is desired vs. not. Are calls for murder of all people in the Western World acceptable? Apparently, judging from their presence, yes.

Most places are defederated from HB - which was not always the case (I was on both StarTrek.Website and Discuss.Online prior to blocking them), but now that it is I don’t worry about them so much as ML that is still sending out content that turns people away.

I don’t know how to solve this problem, I only showed references in support of the fact that the problem lies there in front of us. Or at this point, behind us, since once a reputation is gained (for e.g. nostr, 4chan, etc.) it is exceedingly difficult to change.

On the whole, I think our reputation is closer to nostr and 4chan than it is to Bluesky. Institutionally at least, anything goes - including the worst CSAM. Something must be specifically blocked in order to filter it out (either that, or a new instance can include only trusted existing instances, but that runs into problems where new ones pop up all the time and will get excluded, so this approach seems not to be used by the vast majority of existing instances, at least the major ones).

I’ll take a stab at looking at decoupling and identifying key instance on-boarding differences that effect retention.

Wonderful!

Looks like Pylova likes the subscribable block list idea

That team is so energetic and helpful, it’s a pleasure to see it! 😁

Dust + Duo = Crunch

@daringfireball I'm still clutching onto my iPhone 13 Mini. I think it didn't sell well because there's no real money in "less" phone. It's not a market Apple should excel at. Maybe if the Mini was much cheaper, or if the Duo was much smaller, there'd be product-market fit. The funness of the Razr was that with one *clap* it'd disappear

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Honestly not everyone will agree, but personally I can’t see any flaw in using AI to read through your code and point out security flaws. It’s going to happen regardless of whether you initiate it. It’s not like us sys admins are going “well I’m not going to patch the dirtyfrag vulnerability because it was discovered with AI”. I’d say knowing if AI can find a vulnerability in your code, is just a requirement right now.

@ariadne never stop being rabbit

I've heard that cheap RISC-V chips and small lithium-ion batteries are mostly being used to drive little LCD screen animations on vacuum-driven heater element rigs...

But I don't know about all that. Sounds like some vaperware to me.

They want us to be dangerous pervs. We are unfortunately just women :3

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A 2 column row consists of 2 texts with a bit of layout calculation.

The reader status bar consists of some calculations, a duplicate if slightly-different rendering of the battery icon, page numbers text, & possibly-truncated title text.

And a popup menu consists of some layout calculations, a couple texts, some title text, a line, & some text for each menu item. WIth a rect for the selected one.

6/6Fin today!

A look at Meta's role in Brazil's runoff, where Lula da Silva alleges Meta restricts his content and a court ordered it not to interfere; Meta cites glitches (Augusta Saraiva/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-24/meta-unseats-musk-as-tech-villain-for-lula-in-brazil-s-election
http://www.techmeme.com/261024/p10#a261024p10

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Also no apology yet for continuing to materially support the ongoing genocide in Palestine by white fascist colonizers. Or for the 27 million Russians killed in WW2, the largest group of victims by far. Or for murdering over a million socialists. Or for financing and arming the anti-communist genocide in Indonesia in 1965/66. If Germany is anything, it’s consistent. Not one bit less eager to commit genocide today.

@Alice

Goddammit, my mum wants Millennium so bad, and you're the second person on Mastodon to post about it 🤣

while partially true, there is a very big caveat, at first it wad not like that at all, it was a textbook extracvist colony, that could only trade with their colonizers directly, all foreign trade was mediated by portugal

and even after the crown of portugal moved to brazil and brazil gained status of kingdom, and in a personal union with with portugal (thus estabilishing the united kingdom of portugal and brazil), the majority of the population was still slaves and that will still be case for a long time, the now Kingdom of Brazil still operated mostly as a colony, just now the capital to which it responds to is Rio de Janeiro and not Lisbon

Sheesh, heaven forbid a cat have a hobby..

@mike @rolaveric *Hands over a $NaN bill*