(I don’t want to come across like I’m nitpicking because no, to be clear I’m genuinely interested in this.)

That many communities are hostile to the devs shouldn’t be surprising, because unfortunately the lemmy devs are openly bigoted and most communities don’t like that. And that’s ignoring how Des is also a genocide denier and dismisses the human rights abuses of china while championing authoritarians (ex: their profile banner is currently an image of Mao), things many communities explicitly do not allow.

Without knowing which user you’re referring to I can’t speak to the scope of what they’re doing, but a single user isn’t exactly evidence of hate groups or hate communities specifically set up to target the lemmy devs. That’s just reprehensible people being criticized, and then one potentially freak user taking it beyond what is reasonable.

I’m not entirely sure what that means.

I know you’re accusing me of taking this too seriously, but I fat-fingered the downvote button and a few minutes later, on a 22 hour old post, you go thru and downvote everything I’ve said? I don’t even know how you’d notice that since it was only for a moment before I reversed the vote, but man if your attitude in a discussion is that malleable that’s concerning.

Edif: Yeah, saw that coming…

Yeah, exactly.

I think you’re dismissing my well founded concern over the eager acceptance of misinformation because you don’t want to see it as a problem to make fun of your enemies - sure, it’s fine to make fun of trump, but even in this thread people are going well beyond just making fun of him and are acting like this is clearly established fact.

A sound is audible, yeah. I can’t believe I’m using this argument but anyone in that room full of people could have farted, and it feels like the people really championing this have never watched another one of his pressers - he ends them abruptly like this all the time, the body language of the people behind him is always weird (they’re big enough freaks that they’re willing to be filmed standing behind trump), there’s really nothing abnormal (for trump) happening here.

If you want to believe trump shit his pants sure, you can do that - but the willingness of people to latch onto this and insist that it’s true (in the face of so many reasons to be skeptical), even presenting red-string-on-board evidence like in that youtube screenshot, should worry you. If they’re willing to accept this with no evidence, what else are they accepting with a similar degree of scrutiny just because it’s something you want to be true?

Those seem like… real stretches. When she “Gestures it’s a code 2” she scratches her nose, and the staff hot mic is extremely indistinct, to the point that even listening for “I really can’t do this again” I can only barely hear it - it could be anything, including an apology. Even the initial “shart” noise is an incredibly minor sound in a room with a whole lot of extremely minor sounds.

I hate when people leap to support this kind of rumor, because it’s just such a waste of time - there’s never going to be any proof, everyone is just putting string on a corkboard and insisting it makes sense. There’s so so many exhaustively well documented things to hold against trump, why in this case do we need to literally make shit up to feel superior to him? Isn’t the part where we’re not stupid corrupt racist genocidal narcissistic homophobic hypocritical monsters enough?

There was a weird noise in a recent press event at the oval office and then reporters were ushered outside - rumors are that the reporters said it smelled like he shit himself, but I haven’t seen any primary source stating that. Seems most likely that this is a rumor and something else was going on, though it would be amusing if it were true.

Theee are hate comms for the lemmy devs? I’ve failed run across them, huh.

It’s a testament to (if nothing else) the ability of the piefed devs to behave like adults that I know nothing about them personally. Nu/Des are horrible people, both politically and interpersonally, but that’s the beauty of FOSS: Those of us comfortable with separating the software from the creators get to stick with the software we prefer over one that lacks features or broad support (i.e. all the piefed apps I’ve tried have been pretty rough). Same energy as why people still use windows instead of linux.

A lot of people hesitate to promote lemmy because of how transphobic / authoritarian the lead devs are. It’s unfortunate, but if you’re concerned about that then piefed really is the more attractive option (I like my comment history too much to have switched yet but… man, it’s getting hard to justify not having done it.)

Right now the moderation tools available appear to be on the level of “thog bang rock on other rock - make smaller rock, easy to eat” and efforts are primarily aimed at introducing Thog to the concept of fire so he can at least cook his rocks.

The few automoderators I’ve seen attempted have been “ban you over a couple downvotes” bad, so AI content moderation seems like it may be a bit ambitious right now. It’s a good idea, but more work needs to be done before we’re at the point it’s feasible to start working on it. Like teaching Thog the concept of nuance, and getting him to stop trying to eat the keyboard.

I can’t imagine the effort that moderating a project like that would require, I suspect that the ongoing efforts to address fediverse moderation will need to progress a great deal more before a project like that becomes viable (unfortunately)

He didn’t.

The email at the center of the viral post was not written by Bill Gates. It was written by Jeffrey Epstein — to himself.

Both the “From” and “To” fields list Epstein’s personal Gmail address. The message appears to be a draft, written during a period when Epstein’s relationship with Gates had deteriorated. In it, Epstein alleges that Gates asked him to delete messages related to an STD. But the document does not show Gates making that request, nor does it provide independent confirmation that any of the claims are true.

Chemical analysis takes a while even with a cooperative law enforcement system - unless he fesses up or it was something really obvious I doubt at this point that anyone knows what was in the syringe.

How often do you check the summaries? Real question, I’ve used similar tools and the accuracy to what it’s citing has been hilariously bad. Be cool if there was a tool out there that was bucking the trend.

Strangest feeling of deja vu…

The horse is a show horse trained to wear costumes that has been performing for years, at least according to the article I found last night. No mention anywhere I could find of the horse refusing to let them take the costume off, however the horse is very cute so I’m willing to negotiate on suspending my innate dislike of horses just this once.

I mean… as far as I can find the story is fake, but the costume is both real and wonderful!