That’s a good point. But then it creates a pretty ugly facade for the network. People who arrive at Lemmy and see a bunch of posts from ghosts that everyone in the know has blocked would create two images of the fediverse. One for people who have curated their experience, and one that is more “raw”
I think it brings up an important question about ban evasion in a fediverse context. How exactly can we ban someone from a community if they can just create an account on a different instance? IP banning isn’t really an option. You could say that you would defederate from instances that let them in, but that’s a very “throw the baby out with the bathwater” type solution.
When their account creation consistently lines up with the last comment of the previous account. When they use the exact same language to describe themselves. And when they keep posting about the same topic with the same tone.
Hey, it’s @fookreddit69@lemm.ee and @Kimdracula@lemm.ee again? Jeez dude, just get off the internet already. You keep getting banned for a good reason, and it’ll keep happening as long as you keep posting stupid bullshit like this.
For anyone coming into this thread with the intent to give OP any kind of positivity or support, I promise you OP will make you regret it. He is an incel and a troll and he’s up to his third account now from being banned so many times. Just downvote and move on.
After years of screaming into the void on one of these apps, I did eventually find my current gf there. They have a very poor ROI in terms of time, but they are also where most people go nowadays to meet people. Protip if you’re a straight guy: have a woman friend help you craft your profile, including potentially a dedicated photoshoot.
Based on my own experience talking to men and women who use dating apps, Hinge is the one to use if you are looking for an actual relationship. That is the one that eventually worked for me. And I know quite a few couples who met there.
Bumble used to be decent too but they keep removing features. The speed dating feature on Bumble was a godsend for people who can’t get by on looks alone, but who have a decent personality as well.
Tinder is basically only to be used if you are looking for ONS hookups.
Note that as a guy you may have to pay for premium features on these apps in order to stand out from crowd. The gender imbalance on the apps is too real.
That’s the thing that gets me. Undercutting is the quintessential anticompetitive practice, and it’s Epic’s entire business model. They give away games for free because they are trying to siphon some of Steam’s customers. They make exclusive release deals with publishers because they want to force people to use their platform. They are trying to compete with Steam using their resources from the success of Fortnite and Unreal rather than compete with the storefront by actually having a better storefront.
Bortles!
I was making a joke about abusing Chinese censorship in order to stop them cloning GitHub repos (assuming that was something you wanted to do). The joke being that the CCP suppresses information about their human rights abuses. That is not true of the US. You could absolutely make a GitHub repo detailing the crimes of the US government. Nobody will stop you.
Not out of pocket, but it allows them to inflate the perceived value. Like if there’s a pill that realistically should only cost $5, they can claim it costs $1000 but with a $980 “discount”. Suddenly you are paying $20 for a $5 pill.
Apparently they aren’t respecting licenses. It’s possible to have source code publicly available on GH but have it not be truly FOSS. But that’s generally not a great idea since you’re effectively relying on the honour system for people not to take your code.
It’s funny how much effort you’re going to debating my word choice instead of the meaning and content of my rebuttal to your stupid comment. Do you have an actual point here? Are you claiming that what you were doing above wasn’t whataboutism? That it’s somehow a valid counterpoint to my joke about CCP censorship to say that the US also does bad things?
Lmao it’s literally the name of a logical fallacy. How is the term itself fallacious?
Also I harbour no racism or ill will toward the Chinese people. My girlfriend is Chinese and I care about her a lot and love learning about her culture. I just don’t abide the human rights atrocities (or censorship thereof) committed by any government.
Life imitates art
Dude that’s like 6 months away based on your current commenting frequency. You need to live in the present, not think so far ahead into the future.
I’m not American. I don’t even like America.
That’s not Cheddar! That’s just some common bitch!
Also, if it isn’t from the Brie region of France, it’s not technically Brie. It’s sparkling cheese.
Yeah I figured as much. It was mostly a joke. At the end of the day, if stuff is on GH, people can take it. It’s barely even stealing. Unless the license disagrees of course but then you were putting a lot of trust in society by making it public in the first place.
I think with Frostpunk specifically it’s meant to be more like a portmanteau of Steampunk and Frost, because the vibes in that game are definitely built on the Victorian/Coal power/industrial revolution era aesthetics.