Food for the AI. This is where the money is.
Look at a big sub of reddit: today it's made of one liners that we collapsed. This is worthless to an AI.
Would you ask questions to an AI if it gave you a reddit like answer? No.
They want the content creators, and the content is in the comments.
Go troll somewhere else.
Meta won't federate anyone. They don't want to host illegal content on their servers, that would be an absolute PR disaster for them. And this is what will happen if they federate with a random instance. Even clean instances will want to play tricks on Meta if federated.
They are the prototype of the mono instance federation. They want control. They want to attract the people leaving Twitter. I don't think they care about us, what they want to avoid is that our instances become too big and start to offer an alternative.
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Why don't you block me yet?
I don't downvote you on sight only anything I disagree with.
You disagree -> you downvote. This is exactly the problem here.
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Yes I upvote my own comment. I think that's a sane default kbin should have along with notifications on.
You try to boost your score, everyone can see it, almost no one else do that. Have you tried not upvoting yourself?
You make these great thread titles but how you further express your ideas isn't great.
I got good feedback from people who are interested on the topic. Too bad spectators like you are only here to downvote in disagreement, not giving any input.
I strongly suggest that you block me. That's what the function is designed for.
Is there a list somewhere with all those special kbin url lines? like /magazines
edit: oh boy, I tried
https://kbin.social/d/lemmy.world
And it's only memes, it's even worse than reddit on a bad day.
The problem is one of those evolutionary arms races, for a reason in your observation: if the points are useful in seeing the popularity of a given post or comment, then why not simply create a bunch of fake accounts to boost said post/comment (which is exactly what the OP was complaining about in the first place).
Exactly, creating accounts doesn't stop them. If a user has leverage on the editorial content of kbin, then they will multiply the accounts.
I fled reddit because stupid stuff was upvoted for popularity. If we allow the same vote system we will have the same problem here. The trolls have already learned the behavior on reddit, they are just surprised to see that their votes are public on kbin. But the underlying problem is still here.
My preference goes to "no vote" system and just rely on the report button, but it's a complicated problem for sure. What helps us is that the population of an instance is not unlimited, like on reddit. We can use that.
It's controversial because you downvote me on sight! It's you who keep downvoting even a question I asked about a wiki function. Why downvotes that? Even asking for a function to add some info to a magazine is too much to handle for you, "Mr controversial"?
Wow, you even boosted and upvoted your own comment. Talk about reddit mentality after that!
It's like talking to the police: the more you talk, the more you incriminate yourself. Never talk to the police.
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Guess other instances do not care regardless even if its correctly flagged and tagged and everything. I had a discussion about this topic with the mods of feddit.de, but they are firm to block whole instances if there is any NSFW community on it. No matter what. I am now on kbin and deleted my account there.
Why don't you open an account on one of those instance instead of pushing it in our throats?
Find a mostly European instance. Problem solved.
Americans are desperately trying to globalize their concerns everywhere.