One of three countries. I imagine it's the one that created Sputnik. I have a couple of friends from there and have heard about the restrictions on the internet, but like the Great Firewall of China many people know how to bypass it.
Banned from a sub Reddit, but you wouldn't be banned from Reddit site wide - unless you off the scale heinous.
As much as I dislike Reddit's direction and have had site wide temporary bans myself, i find it hard to believe you were properly banned for what you described. I was temporary banned because I was flaunting that I wasn't abiding by Reddit's rules, and even then, it was only a 2 week ban on a single account.
What you describe is the main reason that's stopping me from 100% leaving Reddit. There isn't enough variety and there isn't enough activity in communities that isn't in the few popular ones. At the moment it feels like +80% of current users fit into a specific demographic.
I think that says more about the channels you watch and your viewing habits. I enjoy STEM and STEM related channels; I don't experience the same as what you've described.
You still have to believe the author and the peer reviewers did the correct thing through the process. You have to believe the results presented are real and accurate. Etc, etc.
For example, one of the many scandals of recent times is Franchesca Gino at Harvard publishing false research papers that present false data. People believed it was all real and genuine until a group of people started to do a deep dive into her research.
I don't know much about Mbin. I'll have to look up what it's about
Yeah that's the exact reason why I dislike the .zip TLD, and the same goes for .mov. The TLDs can be easily abused to look like something they're not to trick people into visiting their website that downloads something malicious.
If you saw ChromeUpdate202506.zip, then what do you believe it is? A downloadable update for Chrome or a website?
What if a malicious person has purchased that domain and filled the website with something malicious, a virus, an info stealer, etc?
I block the .zip TLD because the domains can be used maliciously. Within the first few days there were hundreds/thousands of domains registered with names to look like zip files for updating software and the like.
I also block the .mov TLD for the exact same reason.
Sure on a good day you can spot the malicious intent from a mile away, but I like to protect for when I'm having a bad day. I also block the TLDs for the whole family as well because unfortunately they're not as tech savvy or meticulous.
Bots submitting content on behalf of people? That sounds like spam does it not?
Good good. I hope that's the case. I'd prefer to see the variety of instances that people enjoy. :)
I like the idea of self hosting; I'm just concerned about being defederated by an admin/mod that's taken things the wrong way.
I'm not a spicy person, but I'm sure I've upset some people, some how. I say that, but I know I've upset at least one person online.
The person stated they do a thing, and me being curious, I asked them a question about it because I wanted to know more. They replied with a really angry message. It sounds preposterous but it really was as benign as that. I've seen the same person respond to others in the same unreasonable manner. It's this type of person that I'm concerned about.
There are some instances far worst than others other. I think hex bear has been defederated by many for example.
And I agree with the crazies; I think it's true for any group that's large enough, regardless of platform or real world communities.
Any website or service that utilizes the .zip TLD 🤮🤮
I'm sure there are great websites and services that utilize it, but I have a strong opinion that the TLD should have never been put out there for people to use. I block all .zip TLD domains with no exceptions; and so unfortunately, I cannot use lemmy.zip.
To be fair, I have no real opinions about lemm.ee. It was one of the instances that had the most users when I joined Lemmy, and as far as I'm aware it hasn't received any real negative press.
I'm more bothered about seeing or being associated with spam and/or an instance full of toxic people. I'm not a spicy person - or so I'd like to think.
I've never clocked on that the colors are in the order of the rainbow. Mind blown that it's taken your comment to highlight this for me.
I also like that the colors surrounding are shades of lightness... cough cough let's ignore the brown.
I'm looking for a new instance since lemm.ee is closing by the end of the month. What's a good instance to be on these days?
I'm looking for a instance with the fewest trolls, bots, and anyone that likes to take things to the extremes.
I think i might be ND just going off what your wrote as I can relate to most of it... sheet.
At least normal European people are locked into a platform that doesn't care what device you're using, unlike iMessage - so it's not all bad
If it's a website use a website preview online service.
Is there a method to see which domains were seized, when 3 letter agencies seize them due to piracy.
Within the past month or two, Europol et al seized ~100 IPTV domains. I'm curious to know what these domains were. I've Googled but my Googlefuu isn't good enough.
And I'm curious in general for all piracy related domain seizes.
Reddit is removing the 1000 submission/comments limit on user profiles. Profiles will soon show all submissions/comments from the day the account was created.
Reddit is providing a method to delete all content by emailing redditdatarequests@reddit.com or via their form https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=360001370251
The submission link here on Lemmy takes you directly to a Reddit's admin submission that talks about the change.
Edit: typo, use > user Edit2: another typo
It looks like there are many submissions now being downvoted across many subs.
Before the API change I never really noticed mass submissions with zero votes. Now i see multiple zero vote submissions daily and I browse Reddit for about 20 minutes a day. My feed is set to sort by hot, so I don't see many submissions that have just been created.
Is this a sign of the type of people using Reddit these days, a lack of moderation, or could there be some bots floating mass downvoting?
I've experienced it today where the app doesn't show the comment if I click one of my own comments or the reply to it. It shows the parent comment and other comments in the submission.
I've checked the modlog for the community and neither comment has been removed, so it looks like it's a bug with the app?
Is there such a thing as shadow banning submissions, comments, or users on Lemmy?
I'm having trouble seeing a couple of comments that I know were there at some points, one of them is my own and I haven't deleted it. So it got me wondering, is shadow banning a thing here.
I've noticed we have bots copy pasting Reddit submissions. Is there a method to block them all?
I assume they mean good by 'generating' content in communities, but I don't see a reason why anyone would comment on them since the OP is on Reddit and will never read them.
I know I can block each individual account as I come across them but I'd just prefer to block them all so I don't see their content at all.
They appear to do the nice thing by adding a line in the submissions about it being an automated submission. Is there a filter for words/phrase found in the body of a submission?
I'm interested in looking at newly registered domains for bad actors.
There are services out there that offer zone files for 'all' TLDs but are too expensive for individuals not backed by a company to pick up the bill. I've also found some free lists but they appear to be incomplete.
So I've gone down the route of attempting to obtain zone files or at least newly registered domain lists from TLDs themselves. Obtaining zone files for gTLDs is straight forward with ICANN's CZDS service. But obtaining zone files for ccTLDs appears to be quite interesting. I attempted to Google but couldn't find anything so I've started to email ccTLDs; it already feels like I'm spamming since I'm sending the same email - I've only sent it to 10 TLDs so far. It looks like there are a few hundred ccTLDs.
Is there a better method than emailing each ccTLD and hoping for the best?