Hope you have a lovely day! ☺️

Hello ☺️

it’s funny watching people downvote us for saying hello to each other lol

I think you may have made a typo of “pay” instead of “play” :) Either that or I’m mistaken about what kinda game factorio is…

Regardless of whether it has original content (of course it does, its userbase is massive 😅) it does still absolutely have a bot problem, and reddit has way more resources to throw at the issue than we do. This is pretty much all community built and run with donations.

I’d just make a new gmail, proton mail, or tutanota address you can provide with no other connection to other stuff 🤷🏻

The threadiverse really does have to be more guarded against spam and bad actors. The servers here are largely run by volunteers, and community projects with no full time sysadmins, fewer devs and moderators, and less fancy protections are a very appealing target for trolls and bad actors. If I remember right lemmy was actually hacked sometime early in my time using it and I think instances running a certain version went offline for a while while they tried to fix the vulnerability. And there’s a well known bad actor who periodically shows up in a thread with like 50 accounts and makes hundreds and hundreds of comments drowning everything out with angry gibberish

Federation combined with an anonymous platform modeled after reddit makes it in some ways a lot harder to ban people. So all his accounts get banned and he just comes back.

This is all managed by volunteers being paid donations and occasionally sponsor money. Thats part of what allows it to be independent and resilient to enshitification (combined with federation, and being self hostable, and free license open source software) but it also means we don’t have the same luxury of resources that reddit does.

Thanks, thats helpful additional context

I’m glad its appreciated ☺️

Love your username! Hope you have a lovely day my friend

I think maybe we should stop short of saying we know for a fact what did or didn’t happen with her. An outside investigation does absolutely help, and hopefully if anything was wrong it has now been rectified.

But there are lots of ways that companies can clear their names, and bringing in a company to do an investigation could either be done in good faith, or be a very effective way of cleaning up an enormous PR mess.

I think we should be warry of making snap calls about who was factually in the right in these kinds of situations unless there’s hard evidence available to us. Often these situations are about our gut feeling of what happened, and our gut feeling isn’t objective. And getting it wrong in either direction has the potential to be enormously damaging (though in this case I believe there was no specific alleged perpetrator for the allegations like sexual harassment)

I feel this is one of those situations where nuance and being okay with not knowing exactly what happened is important. Though perhaps you know more facts about the situation than I do, and have more concrete reason to believe it was highly exaggerated

Thats very fair, I vaguely recalled there was some initial handling of the issue that wasn’t great or something, and that was what I was talking about. I’m glad to hear the longer term response has been a lot better! (Assuming I’m even remembering correctly that the initial handling was crummy)

Thank you for adding more info and context!

Are you joking…? I didn’t find anything online 😅

There were kinda three separate things that rolled together, mind you, I’m not especially in the know about any of them, so hopefully others can expand

1. the auctioned something that was supposed to be a small company’s prototype water block or something, it wasn’t theirs to sell
2. they started making too many errors in their rush to do large scale testing and when people make decisions based on the incorrect info you’re putting out thats not great
3. there was an employee who used to work at LTT after being a fan who they built a PC for (maddison, I think?). When the other two items above were brought up by gamer’s nexus and it turned into a whole situation where people were being critical of LTT, she shared that she had an absolutely horrible experience working there, crazy crunch time, I think there was sexual harassment or something, I don’t recall all the details. She explained she didn’t share it sooner because she expected people would just turn on her for criticizing LTT and it makes sense she would feel more able to share if people seem like they might be more receptive to criticism of a huge channel like that

The first two that were brought up in an bombshell gamer’s nexus video were, imo, handled very poorly (EDIT: I should clarify, I meant the initial first reseponse), though again, I don’t remember details (about the very first response I think I remember not being great, or otherwise 😅)

The last item I’m honestly not sure how it panned out but my impression is that nothing really happened with it. LTT was gonna transfer CEO to being a new guy with Linus being more of a face and direction guy, and the new CEO guy I think was the one who had an outside investigation of some kind conducted. I don’t think there was ever an update about that investigation? I dunno. I didn’t watch much before the whole situation and just kinda stopped watching when the initial criticism from gamer’s nexus was poorly handled

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Nacent revelations allege that Donald sucked off “Bubba” (presumably Bill Clinton, former US president) and that Putin has pics.

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What…?

This looks fantastic! will it possible to use purely locally as just an android app in the future?

I think for a lot of folks it might be nice to have the option to just eschew self hosting for synchronization and just use local storage, and then have a route to expanding and adding muti device ability should they go set up a server ☺️

You should also crosspost this to [email protected] and [email protected]!

This looks neat, I’ll have to sit down and give this a proper try some time ☺️

Cuddle anyway coward. 🔫

Bonfire social seems cool as fuck, but I wish I understood exactly what it is a little better-

Am I understanding right that its more fediverse building tools for folks who run instances? Or is it a platform like lemmy, mastodon, piefed? Both? Something else entirely?

It feels hard to pin down what it actually is 😅

Love seeing more novel, non-linux foss stuff, thanks for sharing! ☺️

I don’t use it but axio has been rock solid in my experience.

I like gramophone but it’s had some bugs, where auxio just has just done anything I’ve needed without issue when I was trying it out

I’m just fussy about user interfaces, and while axio is a quite nice material 3 ui, gramophone is more beautiful to me

As another nontechnical person, it’s very obvious this post isn’t appropriate for this community. Please be respectful of the spaces you’re posting in.

It isn’t considerate to go into other (technical) people’s spaces and hand them confused questions that are barely related to the community