And how many people answer that on Sunday night?

What I'm getting at is a major website has at least a skeleton staff that can do something, even if that's just pulling the plug.

I don't even reply to most work texts after hours unless it's someone saying they have to use sick leave. I don't expect people hosting Lemmy as a hobby to be on call 24/7.

But I hope afterwards they're transparent about what happened and how they're going to stop it from happening again. If not, it's easy to hop instances

What impact?

As long as you dont go on lemmy.world, it's not going to redirect you to all the stupid websites.

And I doubt whatever they're posting (if they're posting anything) is getting upvoted, so you won't see it anywhere else.

And where are you getting "malware" from?

People are acting like it's some crazy hack, and not the 4chan rejects from exploding heads finally guessing an admins password a week after they got defederated. And after all that time chasing the mailman, they had no idea what to do when they guessed it

But this does highlight an issue with instances. I doubt the handful of admins know each other. Like, maybe an email, but for the most part if shit like this happens during "off hours" it might be a while before the top admin even knows there's an issue

but I don’t think people realise how bad it’s become.

One time I made a main level comment, then replied to one of the most upvote comments in the same thread.

Seconds later a bit replied to me with my first reply, except for some reason it cut off the end. I don't know if the bot ran out of characters because it was a cheap bot, or if it was an attempt to avoid automated detection.

Bots were a huge problem long before AI started trying to have conversations.

We all joked about it, but a lot of the accounts were really fake, and they usually got sold to advertisers after amassing enough karma and post history to look authentic

There's a shit ton of upvote bots and subs had free gold to give out all the time.

Admins like it because it looks good to advertisers and idiots think buying gold is normalized

Mods like it because it boosts sub visibility and got more subscribers

And some users chase karma so theyre onboard too.

There wasn't much authentic about reddit

Is there any problem with the statement that the far-left is trash and sucked as much as the far-right?

Only if you don't have an issue lying, if you're fine with lying, I guess you wouldn't have an issue saying that...

Ever heard of horseshoe theory?

Yeah, it's that thing trumpers and "moderates" constantly talk about. There's no logic or facts to back it up, but they sure love repeating it.

I have a question tho, why are your only two comments talking about how "nazis aren't really that bad"?

Elvis was though, he dyed his hair

I mean, it's not for purely altruistic reasons...

Lead fucks people up and slowly turns them into rage addicted assholes.

We got enough of those these days, I'd like the amount to go down over the next couple decades. So I never skip a chance to talk about the dangers of lead exposure

The good news is it's not something that really changes.

Just test your home once, it's not like you need to constantly monitor it.

We were/are worried that there’s a lack of direction and they’re just generating mysteries without any intention of solving them.

Yeah, that's the most likely ending.

It might be a fun ride for another couple seasons, but I have no faith there'll be a good ending

I boil mine because I like the way it tastes–it’s sweeter

That's actually a really bad sign...

The most likely thing to make water taste sweet is lead, and heating up water with lead makes it even sweeter.

And that's 100% a problem you need to look out for in America.

Yeah, wasn't the first time, won't be the last.

Rich people always assume they know better than the plebs.

It's hows they justify treating everyone else like shit.

Every argument against pineapple on pizza can be made about tomatoes.

It's the result of Prosperity Jesus.

They believe they're wealthy because they have natural talent. It ignores lots of people are more talented, and never got the same opportunities to be successful.

In a real apocalyptic disaster, they'd be the ones real leaders sentence to death (either overt or shunning them from the group) to set an example for the rest of the group.

Yep.

The first thing they taught us in my graduate level statistics class was:

Anyone can make a statistic that backs up their bias. You're here to learn how to accurately represent a situation with statistics, and be able to point out when others are misusing statistics

That's the hard part

Even if they do, every article about Twitter comes with:

Twitter responded to inquiries with the poop emoji, as they do every time.

This is worse, because reddit is saying if anything was wrong, they would have responded. So it looks like reddit just agrees with anything that doesn't get a response.

How funny would it be if it leads to a shit show where actual journalists start demanding their fair share of advertising generated off their articles?

Reddit can beat mods because of money, but these giant media conglomerates both have money and are hurting their own advertising numbers because 99% of redditors never read the article. They have motivation and opportunity to get legal

The BJP government has said they will press charges against the high ranking BJP politician who sexually abused the wrestlers...

I hope I'm wrong, but I fully expect the BJP to investigate themselves and declare they found no wrong doing.

There's two reasons Biden said it was a good thing

1. The military industrial complex will make a bunch of money off India.

2. Modi's desire to fuck over his own citizen to grab the title of "the world's sweatshop" from China.

We can do better than someone willing to pretend Modi is a decent human and not a racist monster.

Unfortunately our next presidential election the choice will be Biden or trump/DeSantis.

So we need to wait another 5 years before that's possible.

It made sense trump and Modi got along.

But fucking embarrassing Biden acts like a far right religious authoritarian is in anyway a decent person.

They both just want India to become the world's next sweatshop

It's gaming an algorithm.

Big deals like this aren't made off one person's decision, there's all these metrics that are supposed to show the health of a company. But like anything, if you know the metrics you can just focus on that even if it's the literal worst thing to do. It pumps the metrics.

They're not trying to keep reddit alive forever, they want to juice the metrics so it's worth the absolute most on IPO day. It's all they care about.