Elkaki123 @ Elkaki123 @vlemmy.net

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Holy shit what is this level of cringe!!??

Instance level blocking??? This is awesome, really, thank you so much.

Did you also add a karma count when looking at people's profiles? Or was this there before and I just didnt notice?

Seriously the amount of work you are pouring into the app is impressive, and it is pretty much unrivaled at the moment.

PS: May I suggest a feature? Profile notes, where you can add a note to profiles so you can remember some people you interact with. In case it isnt clear what I mean, both Mastodon and Kbin have this feature, you go to a profile and it says "add note", there you can write something about the user that only you can see and it helps keep track of people here.

Already responded, seriously, edit your comments instead of replying twice, it is really annoying.

Emmmm, kind of disingenuous. And by that I mean a lot.

First of all, who takes the word of someone at face value that they didnt commit a crime. One thing would be a confession, which you can of course still doubt if there are proper reasons, but a defense saying "what I did is not a crime" is useless in itself.

Second, he is being disingenuous here. He mocks the loverboy methos like it is a fake accousation with no meaning behind, seriously describing it as "being nice" is sick.

If you are actually interested on why it is condemned and considered part of traficking, read the part on grooming here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_trafficking

And here is a law firm article on the matter: https://www.carlsonattorneys.com/news-and-update/loverboy-andrew-tate

Seriously though, this clip is no reply. He literally deflects the accusations "I pretended to love girls to make ticktock for money", no, that isnt the accusation, it was forcing them into porn by coercing them and placing them in situations where it is difficult to reject. The allegations are serious, one thing is to defend himself saying he didnt do it, but to try to downplay what he has been accused of (and even said himself he has done years ago) is sickening.

But a counter is that much of that information is already public and can be scraped, they aren't gaining much on outside meta users that they aren't already able to do.

Best advice at the end of the day is that for social media, unless advertised on privacy, never post anything you dont want to be public. And for cases like lemmy, expect even metadata to be available for anyone interested.

I understand the wish to not interact with meta, even if its for privacy concerns.

But Im a firm believer that it is the user first who needs to make that decision, not the instance. But as I said, Lemmy being the only one of the big fedi platforms right now that doesnt have a feature for instance/domain blocking user level kinds of screws this up.

Good points. I'm sure there are other potential solutions to reduce the fear of EEE taking place here. I don't really think EEE would work, since instances are supposed to be small and operate horizontally, it is kind of impossible to kill Lemmy as long as we understand that we need to spread out a little bit (otherwise huge instances being defederated hugely impacts the user experience)

One thing though, Mastodon does allow for blocking domains. I just tried it over Mastodon.online and also through the fedilabs app, both are working. Kbin also has that feature, wish they implemented it to Lemmy so that we can empower users to customize their experience without needing to self host.

Why? If you have blocked meta shouldn't you already be exempt from seeing comments and posts by their users on other instances? Why is this punitive approach needed

Edit: (Alongside downvoting, an explanation might be better suited to change people's minds, I just eant to know the advantage of this approach since you are excluding yourself from many users and you would have already blocked meta in this scenario)

I agree with the sentiment, I'm not a fan of preemptively blocking meta on instance level, especially when everyone was touting about how the fediverse is corporation resistant and by design it is resilient because of it's horizontal nature, but at the first sign of threat they resort to the nuclear option.

Having said that, Lemmy specifically lacks tools on the user level, especially blocking instances. If a user doesn't want to associate at all that is understandable (privacy concerns, not wanting to interact with hate groups, etc) but right now they can only block communities and users individually, which would make it impossible to block meta.

Lastly, I feel there are avenues that haven't been properly explored, like forcing them to open source if they want to federate. (On the grounds of privacy concerns and security) In practice that would be the same as blocking them, but it would laid out a good foundation for new companies that want to enter the space without having to discriminate on a case by case basis.

Problem is that blocking is the nuclear option and everyone blovking before something comes out, which no one knows the danger yet like a hate speach platform would entail, goes against the spirit of the fediverse.

(psts, you can edit comments)

https://archive.ph/xqJXv

Here is an archive of his old website, which he has now deleted, I wonder why.

I can't be bothered to search for the clips themselves, as I really don't want to hear him talk anymore. But I remember a plethora of yt shorts were he described this one easy way to make money...

Out of context? Mate I'm not basing my reasoning on a bbc interview I haven't watched to begin with...

I have two objections to this, although I'm not the biggest fan of cooking manga (I don't really seek it out), first about unknown taste and second about mixed taste. Both are kind of interconnected.

This unexpectedly ended being kind of a large answer.

So for unknown taste, I might not know how a dragon tastes, BUT, I also don't know how a turtle tastes. But I can enjoy reading a cooking manga where they cook a turtle into a soup and I even kind lf imagine how it tastes like. There are also many descriptors yhat are vaguely useful, like sour, tender, etc that coupled with the image hives a rough idea regardless of how wrong it may be in actuality.

Second is when they make their fantasy ingredients contradtable to IRL ones or a mixture of other two ingredients. It is the same as when people tell me frogs taste kind of like Chicken, if you told me a dragon had stiff meat due yo all the muscle and that it tasted kind of like a hard bird meat, I would completely believe it and wouldn't detract , now if it says it tasted like a gorilla we come back to completely unknown flavours and imagination has to do some heavy lifting.

At the end if the day I think we can appreciate some of the beauty in fantasy food, taking heavy inspiration on IRL dishes but with twists that sound delishious.

While making this point I was constantly thinking about dungeon meshi and toriko, the first utilizes fantasy tropes appropriately to subvert your expectations and make unexpected but reasonable flavours out of fantasy beasts (also dome of the cooking methos are hilarious, like for the trap chest at the beginning). Then you have Toriko which used a lot of fantasy fruits that are mixed of what we have, like it's not that difficult to imagine what a caramel melon would taste like.

At the end of the day, I don't think fantasy cooking is that much worse, but the authors do need a lot more creativity to pull it off.

To finish, here is an analogy, It's kind of like fixtional sports manga (although not 1 to 1) most people wouldn't seek out reqding sport manga based on rules that were though by the author but that no one had ever played, those sports tend to have inconsistencies on rules, sometimes they aren't fun to watch, they can be unintuitive, etc. Those are inherent problems that these works face that normal sports manga don't because of the simple fact that sports have been developed across many years by a lot of people into something people enjoy, also the familiarity is an aspect that boosts enjoyment. But those being inherent problems doesn't mean fictional sports in media are bad. They do require a lot of creativity and thought, especially if the author is gonna focus on them or else you get a shitty sports like quidditch.

PD: love that more manga discussions are creeping into the community, I lowkey hate [DISC] posts being so frequent, although I fo understand the necessity to keep things alive, but most people aren't keeping up with more than a few manga and that makes it so there isn't much discussion to be had unless the community grows to a large enough point that you have people reading everything.

"Without evidence" bruh he has described using the loverboy method himself, consistently for years.

And even if you were to say he is lying (which would be a weird thing yo lie about) you do have 2 rape allegations back in the UK plus allegations in Rumania, if you go and ignore it all saying there is 0 evidence that is on you...

You might say there is no definitive evidence yet, but that is just because he hasn't gone through trial, which says nothing about culpability

Eow that suuuuree is some strong evidence that he hasn't committed any crimes

POV: you see someone who doesn't believe what Andrew Tate has said himself but is a fan

Oy, unrelated question, did you changr instances??? I can't see the posts you made yesterday. Or did you delete them/were they deleted?

Also, must say, I'm quite enjoying your posts. It feels like a mixture of bait low effort trolling with a little bit of honesty behind and I just find it hilarious, so don't stop (well of course until you get banned)

Wait how has Maatodon treated BIPOC? Is this about the users or a particular instance? Frankly I had never heard about this, I frequently use mastodon and it's really welcoming of queer people (I feel overall, but at the very least it is true comparedd with the rest of social media) so I didn't think there would be an issue with POC.

Iris Zero

Same, that one was interesting too, I remember reading it pre pandemic and it had been in hiatus for a while. Didnt realize Ruri Dragon was on hiatus

For me its Saitou-kun wa Esper Rashii

https://anilist.co/manga/56651/Saitoukun-wa-Esper-Rashii/

It was some dumb comedy with an overconfident protagonist meeting actual espers which was so dumb funny to me, also it included a mind reader which is one of my favorite tropes in manga. It does have some of that 2000s and early 2010s ecchi which I feel has aged kind of poorly as it feel forced, at least for me. But the comedy is good, the main cast is funny and the protagonist is just really likeable in a sense.

Only problem is it lasts 26 chapters and the ending was so rushed it is nonsensical, I love this series but man when I reached the ending I was in disbelief seeing end that way.

This wasn't working, but then I realized you come from Kbin, I logged into Kbin and turns up you guys have this feature! It's not on lemmy yet.

Kbin looks so appealing, but there isn't an android app at the moment (right?) and I'm kind of growing attached to lemmy, but I probably will try to use Kbin more once I get an app for it.