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There’s just some really salty people who browse /All.
I’ve banned a couple of people who’ve been downvoting random things in my instance because they don’t even live near where my region targets (based on their post history).
For fun, look at the Tesla communities, it’s littered of random downvotes from salty people.
I’d eventually like to see a feature to limit voting to communities someone is subscribed to. Sure it can be worked around but it would take a smidge of effort.
Completely disagree on the scalability argument and I find it silly.
Most instances are small. Not everyone is going to run a 20,000 person instance where all 20,000 show up on the same day.
If you’re a big instance like lemmy.world, then sure, I can buy the scalability argument, but once you’re at that point you’ve likely established that there is an active and engaged admin team.
As a bonus, it even serves as a great asshole filter. If someone gets upset they had to wait a day for an approval, imagine how they’d act once they’re in.
People need to understand there are consequences if they’re going to host an open server and are ultimately responsible for how it interacts in the network.
Keeping defederation minimal requires a high degree of trust with all instances, regardless of size.
If the instance has open reg, hosted spam for multiple days, has no activity from the admins for ever, and might be several versions behind, that’s entering “I simply don’t trust your ability to host” territory.
I run a small instance. I turn on registration applications, spot-check new accounts to make sure there isn’t spam, keep an alert active so I get notified when updates are available, and occasionally post from an admin account to indicate it’s an active instance. I even check reports at least once a day. This all takes very little effort to do. If you’re a small instance, the burden of proof is on you to show that it’s being maintained.
Some of the spam instances have had spam up for several days now. Sure, maybe one or two people may be on vacation and aren’t aware, but I doubt that’s the case for every host.
We’re fortunate the spam (at least what I’ve seen) didn’t blatantly display malicious content.
Not all of the ones involved in the spam attack….
IMO by default everyone should put up a barrier to registration, be it manual approvals or email verification.
Both have their own set of flaws and can establish a sense of false security, but it’s the bare minimum to slow down spam registrations.
Obligatory I think X is a shithole etc etc etc
That out of the way, Yulia’s account seems to be back now.
Having a lot of spam won’t help adoption either.
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I think the issue with Organic Maps is the lack of real-time traffic data (unless that’s changed).
That said, Organic Maps routing doesn’t seem. I occasionally compare routes from Apple Maps, Google Maps, my car’s nav, and Organic Maps. Organic Maps hasn’t given a route that I’d say is unreasonable.
The significance of this is that it should make seeing updates to OSM data a lot quicker, and I’d assume making the “look” a better too.
This has been spamming my YouTube recommendation feed for months, definitely not something started in the last few days.
How it’s getting tied into the broader ecosystem feels very forced, too.
Advertising the ability to take spatial video from an iPhone months before the Vision Pro launched definitely left a bad taste in my mouth.
https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/record-spatial-videos-for-apple-vision-pro-iph6e3a6d4fe/ios
Usually Apple’s tie-ins feel additive — I’m not given a product that feels like it’s missing a feature if I don’t own another Apple device. When I buy additional product types, I feel like I gain the missing features. Seems like that changed with Spatial Video. You get to stare at a reminder that you don’t own the headset every time you take video.
I don’t like that.
There are a LOT of people who browse “All” like it’s a day-job.
The drive-by comments from people who aren’t subscribed and clearly don’t know what they’re talking about in an interest community is overwhelming.
This kind of bullshit ruins the whole point of even trying to have an interest community.
It doesn’t have to be a walled garden, it could just be a system where they only do first-party development of products they product and leave it to the community to expand to others.
This game is so much fun, I completely get why it’s so popular. It’s also fairly inexpensive all things considered.
It’s a rip of Pokemon, BotW, and $logistics_game but it’s done reasonably well, multiplayer works well enough to have fun, and the graphics are fantastic (like seriously, kudos to their art/design team)
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I’m using a EnGenius EWS377AP and don’t have any complaints.
I had Ubiquiti gear but had some quirks and still wanted something a bit advanced. I don’t know how well meshing works though.
Because in yanks number out of ass 87.74% of threads of “why use X? Linux has Y, it’ll do everything you want”
Ardour/LO/etc are great for what they are and have their uses, but there are some apps that just aren’t available on Linux and the claimed alternatives really don’t work.
Practically speaking, go to the Technology community on LW. A lot of perfectly sane and rational takes get downvoted because a bunch of people simply disagree or it isn’t on the right side of the fanboyism everyone’s expected to have on some topic.
The downvote button already gets used as a “I disagree” button. Distributed moderation gives more teeth to a “I disagree” button that isn’t particularly helpful.