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And still somehow a thousand times more real than Limp fucking Bizkit

Fred Durst is and has always been a boot sucking poser. He has never protested anything beyond a groupie telling him “no.”

OP was born in 1991 and was too young to have lived through the proper grunge revolution, but was just the right age to experience the corporate grunge poser revolution.

Limp Bizkit does not deserve to be anywhere near this list. They are a piss stain on the seat of the limo Kurt Kobain’s brother rented for Prom.

Absolutely shocking that there are some power users and admins in here defending this because they are weirdly hostile to the idea of user privacy on the fediverse.

Well that is surely not my intent.

There is no privacy, or there can’t be privacy?

So your argument is that meaningless internet points are more important than user privacy? I just want to make sure we have that on record.

The quickest path to enshitification of the fediverse is precisely this kind of large scale scraping and data mining. There are extremely simple ways to avoid this but the collective admin cohort has decided they like this tiny bit of internet power over innovation, because innovation is a tiny bit more difficult.

Vote manipulation only matters if votes matter. Just make down votes placebo or get rid of them entirely. There are other engagement metrics to use for sorting. Just make votes a small portion of a bigger algorithm and it dilutes the problem away. On the other hand, it seems like a ton of people on here outright refuse to consider that this is a problem, and are I stead choosing to live with their head in the sand.

Either way, right now public voting does nothing to stop vote manipulation, it just gives the sockpuppet and astroturfing accounts great feedback to target certain demographics.

The piefed implementation was a great compromise imo, and the only reason it was abandoned was idiotic forum politics. It did exactly what it set out to do - provide a layer of protection against large scale data mining and long term storage, and added a significant barrier to vote stalking, while still leaving mechanisms to ban voting agents.

Definitely called this. Can we have private voting now? These people are scraping the fediverse and the current state of things is a privacy nightmare.

Luxury items, particularly watches and shoes and shit. Conspicuously ranking your wealth like that is cringe as fuck. “Ah yes, I see you can afford the DoucheKeeper 2121. That’s ok I guess, if you can’t afford the DoucheKeeper 2424.”

It makes far more sense to just dress well below your “status” imo. Real confidence is being above all that vanity, and real intrigue is keeping people guessing about your “status.” You want to know what I do and how much money I do or don’t have? Get to know me, and you’ll discover none of that shit matters.

At first, it will probably work. But you will likely lose access after a few days and your servers will be scanned for exploits, so make sure your shit it up to date.

Source: hosted an XMPP server which was summarily banned after 2 days of access from China and then probed/attacked repeatedly until I took it offline.

The part a lot of people miss in these threads is that European commutes are often also an hour on public transit, but that one hour radius is wider and there is actual useful last mile service in the suburbs. That’s the big thing the US frequently lacks - the development patterns mean there’s no way to run frequent busses that don’t just get stuck in traffic. So in the US that one hour transit commute can easily turn into 90 minutes or more if you don’t make connections, whereas in European cities it’s much easier to plan around.

Urban busses will be slower than driving in most situations since they have to stop every few blocks. That’s not really unique to the US. The exceptions are where there are BRT routes which can avoid commuter traffic, and this is becoming more common in the US but still lags behind the best European systems.

I beat my dick into submission daily.

One twin getting inside and their erstwhile companion starting the cycle is absolutely possible.

In the animal kingdom, the stronger siblings will often murder the weaker ones to assert their superior evolutionary fitness. It’s best not to interfere and allow nature to take its best course.

Fun fact, this is reason 69420 that I don’t have a toddler

Anything I have not published should be lost forever.

I do not want anybody to have any access to any of my online presence after I am dead. I want that shit nuked hard. I legitimately cannot believe there is any other thought on this.

Local causality doesn’t imply unbroken universal causality. In fact, the idea everything is a purely deterministic projection of some initial state is far weirder than the idea that stochastic actions can influence a partially deterministic state.