When I started using federated social media I had to block a lot of people* who just mindlessly churned out posts with links to often dubious news articles etc. It became much better after that.

And often they see themselves as knights in shining armor that “help the fediverse lift off”.

It’s just another version of the terminally online forum regular.

* judging by the usernames, often the same person using accounts on different instances

Hi it’s me, the person you’re talking about.

Let’s get one thing out of the way first: you’ve admitted that your posts are automated, as if it wasn’t obvious. You’re a bot. You’re not tagged as one, but sanitation@lemmy.today is a bot that a human sometimes uses.

Now as for the content you bot, I don’t have an issue with a lot of it. Go ahead and post your links and memes. Meme culture is built on theft, anyway. I don’t dislike you any more than any other mass poster who is rarely present in the comments of their posts

It’s the content you steal from OC communities that drives me crazy. You justify it as “encouraging content” but that sure hasn’t planned out - you’re the dominant poster in every com you repost to.

You take every joke from shittymoviedetails and, by not linking the source, basically claim it as your own. But don’t think the solution is to include a link. Just don’t repost it at all.

You copy and paste other people’s complaints to a community for venting about minor gripes. And since they’re not YOUR complaints, you aren’t getting the catharsis of the original poster. You’re literally just spreading negativity. This one especially pisses me off because THAT COMMUNITY WAS DOING FINE before you flooded it.

If you’re gonna be a spambot, at least show us the respect of fixing your shitty repost machine to deal with long titles.

TL;DR: You’re an untagged bot making the Internet a worse place by reposting the dumbest shit from reddit

Seems you post a lot of duplicates. No wonder your posts get deleted if you keep spamming exactly the same post multiple times??!!? And then you violate community rules… After that you seem to be doing ban-evasion… I mean… Seems to me like Lemmy is working exactly as intended?! This isn’t a place to dump random spam posts? You gotta learn what this place is about.

You can’t just throw some dogfood at people and demand they like it. You’re not the center of the universe. Maybe start your own community if that’s your thing. You’d be able to make up your own rules there. There’s a button in the top menu bar.

@MattHatton @roknrol yes

You made it leftist but forgot to change the title.

Last I heard their hosting provider was a Russian hosting provider in a danish hosting provider trenchcoat and was taken down like 2 months ago and their last backup was very old

I think I read earlier It was a server that got taken down. I believe they’re trying to see if they can restore the data because the last local backup was kind of dated. There was like police involved stuff in another country so it gets kind of murky with communications I think. Hopefully in time it will be back though?

NO ONE, ESPECIALLY VETERANS, SHOULD BE HOMELESS

Would be better without the ‘especially veterans’ part. WTF makes veterans so special? Why is a homeless veteran more concerning than any other homeless person?

I am a veteran, by the way. But fuck this shit.

Sorry but the liberals in governments all over don’t act like they believe much of this at all.

@lancehomer

That's not the point. The New York Times is an information warfare operation. They assert malign influence through what they choose to promote and what they choose to ignore. When they put a nothing burger like this on the front page while ignoring the role of the DOJ in covering up serious crimes they are trying to affect the midterm elections in favor of the GOP. This is how they operate.

@jalefkowit @glennf they’re all absolutely leathered. No wonder Gen X are the way we are, growing up watching stuff like that every night

Yo wtf

Wait wait wait wait, no no no no

I was wondering where those posts were I thought it was my feed 😢

What happened to that server?

@ariadne i've personally found it the opposite of useful when it comes to the former, and largely useless when it comes to the latter, but i agree that this is one way you could use this tool

what i think it's not useful for, specifically, is for building a sense of self out of