Yes, stupid huge ads like that spaced out looking bird in the Etsy ad. They make me want to avoid the companies that advertise on there with obnoxious ads lol. Also suspending people for deriding nazis and laying blame where it belongs. Demanding liberty, freedom and justice for all, including women and all discriminated groups, supernatural or not, no excuses to not allow all to self-actualize and unfold their DNA how they choose.

@OrangeR

I only just made it up.

I haven’t really gotten that far…

Yeah… except no - nothing at all provided in Lemmy restricts users on that instance from trolling you in your DMs, and in posts in communities located on other instances.

You either have to block each user account one by one (and keep repeating that as new ones pop up), or else switch to PieFed to gain the ability to apply a true instance block affecting all users on it at once.

In fact I hear that lately PieFed.social even applies a user-level instance block against Lemmy.ml by default for all new joiners. It is easily removable and a DM sent to the user explaining how. The feature is transparent as a bag of rocks - I cannot even find solid confirmation that it actually exists - but aside from that it’s a good step IMHO to protect the reputation of the Threadiverse from exactly OP’s scenario.

Getting a ban from lemmy.ml is a badge of honour that many like to collect.

This was timely from @qmacro.

**GitHub affordances as human-agent conveyances: **https://qmacro.org/blog/posts/2026/11/11/github-affordances-as-human-agent-conveyances/

@gvwilson had just filed a Bram issue asking for "Willison-style PRs" with aggressive folding of LLM-written contributions. This was a dopeslap for me as I am a huge fan of HTML's summary/details pattern which is also now well supported in various Markdown contexts.

It's /so/ important, and I've extended it beyond PRs to all agent-written prose on GitHub. Everything will be a lot more scannable from now on! Thanks again for the nudge, Greg, and thank you DJ for drawing attention to GitHub's* latent support for human/machine symbiosis.

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*When I say GitHub I really mean "forge" which is the generic term Bram uses for GitHub, GitLab, and other backends it could support.

@ColesStreetPothole lololol

#ClimateCollapse is coming for our normality.

Today: for our breakfast cereals. "The classic puffed rice foodstuff now no longer contain actual rice grains, at least in UK and European markets, the manufacturer Kellogg’s admitted. And the reason for it is grim: climate change."
https://futurism.com/science-energy/climate-change-rice-krispies

One reason AI companies are so eager to report FOSS vulnerabilities is that doing so creates the perception of need. Doesn't matter if they're mostly low-risk or low-priority. Doesn't matter that they were mostly discovered by actual cybersecurity researchers. The perception of need is the point. Volume serves that aim. Dropping 50 reports on a project makes people to think, "Wow, we're cooked without AI." That many reports at once overwhelms the maintainers? Guess they need AI to keep up.

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.

Fwiw, one can be a Marxist Leninist and think Russia’s government sucks. It is anything but Marxist or Leninist.

I know you didn’t mean that, but figured it needed to be said.

@ai6yr And you know what image our first album cover will have...

@petko @hbons Especially for software that comes "as is", with no warranty, express or implied, not even the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Oh you found a vulnerability in a piece of software you use, that was given to you "as is"? I guess you are vulnerable now, probably should do something about that, dear multi-million dollar company.

@srol i have this theory that half of game design is how you make promises to the player that explain what they can do and what kind of experiences they are going to have, often using things like "the game's manual" or "the trailer" or "the title". you could probably do like a taxonomy of the way radically different vibes are communicated by naming the game after
- the protagonist
- the antagonist
- the setting
- a really cool move you sometimes/all the time
- event the game centers around
etc

LA Times: ‘Only in L.A.’ columnist Steve Harvey, chronicler of the amazing, amusing and absurd, dies at 80

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-11-10/former-los-angeles-times-columnist-steve-harvey-dies-at-80

#rip

the blobcats are everywhere

The All-In podcast contemplates the "ornery mood" of America's "bottom half of non-equity holders."

https://www.404media.co/silicon-valley-podcast-hosts-try-to-understand-why-regular-people-are-mad/