Wow you’re still here? I actually forgot about you, but I guess you’re still thinking of me, projection much?
I’m glad we had this conversation because it’s rare that people like yourself have your faulty logic and shitty opinions challenged. But if you want to stop hearing from me, there’s an easy way to do so, though I don’t think you will because just how you said it, I’m living rent free in your head, and you just can’t stop thinking of me.
Let’s not forget about the fact that there need to be general purpose viewer instances that users can sign up to for watching content, because uh while accessing through Mastodon or Lemmy is a cool feature people want to be able to save Video lists and have watch history, things that don’t work at all or well when using a Link aggregator or a Microblogging service to access the content.
It is sad, really thought they were trying to do something good but I guess they were just trying to chase trends, they’re pursuing the AI trend now heavily, and a lot of Firefox users are pissed about it, many think they are shutting down because they don’t get the positive feedback and enthusiasm about AI that they were hoping to on Mastodon, as they do on other platforms like twitter and threads.
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It was you who decided to continue replying after a whole day and you had nothing left to say, because you can’t address any of the points I’ve made with real logic, or try to devalue it by trying to claim people aren’t reading it, because you don’t have a better argument. Your whole first page is full of replies to this thread, you’ve thought about nothing else besides this for the past few days, yet you don’t think you live rent free in my head 🤣
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I guess it seems I’m the one living rent free in your head lmao
Mastodon has the ability to blacklist certain email providers, and I think also email IP addresses.
That’s one thing that nobody really ever talks about when it comes to discussing payment verification. The fact that the people who are willing to commit scams and fraud are also willing to steal credit or debit cards.
They usually get found out pretty easily and then defederated by everyone. There’s a service called fediseer which allows instance admins to flag instances as harmful, which other admins can use to determine if they should block an instance.
In order for that to really work they would have to rotate between a lot of domain names either by changing their own instance’s domain or using a proxy. Either way they’d run out of domains rather quickly.
It’s way easier for them to just get accounts on the big servers and hide there as if they were normal lurking users.
I think it’s unreasonable to call every instance that doesn’t update immediately with every release “unmaintained” if anything a lot of these bleeding edge instances which update to the latest version immediately without waiting at all are kind of reckless.
After all everyone remembers the Federation bugs that were present in one of the releases and ended up being very bad for a lot of the instances, it caused content to fail to be federated between the instances. Not good.
So I’m really not into the idea of trying to force or incentivize updates to unstable and untested versions if admins are unwilling to do it. And I’m especially not into the idea of criticizing admins who prefer to hold off on updating until they are sure the versions are stable.
I mean if a new account or an account with no content on it starts downvoting a lot of things or upvoting a lot of things that’s generally a red flag that it’s a vote manipulation account. It’s not always but it’s usually pretty obvious when it actually is. A person who spends their entire time downvoting everything they see, or downvoting things randomly is likely one of those bots.
Could they come up with ways around it? Sure by participating and looking like real users with post and comment history. Though that requires effort and would slow them down majorly, so it’s something that they’re very unlikely to do.
I know that this comment can be seen as insensitive but honestly, the OP is a terrible person who engaged in abusive practices in their community such as creating toxic posts, abusing their moderator powers to silence any criticism (downvotes included) towards them, and openly threatened the admins of the server because they stepped in and took action against the post which seemed to promote harmful misinformation.
When she was eventually kicked out by another moderator she decided to take to her alt account and tried to foster ill will against that moderator and get them removed. Which ultimately failed.
Recently she has deleted all of her accounts, at least all the ones that are publicly known likely to escape accountability for her horrible behavior.
I think it’s to be expected with their current decisions of chasing the AI trend and buying an advertising company, but mostly from chasing the AI trend. After all as much as the few AI-bros here would like to claim most of Firefox users are not happy about the idea of AI chatbot integration into Firefox, and especially aren’t happy about AI search history integration into Firefox.
Many people think that Mozilla is trying to cut off communication with their customers or move to more corporate social media like threads or Twitter since their AI efforts are not being well received in this community. And will I definitely can say it’s more complicated than that, that’s not a wrong idea either, since their AI efforts are absolutely not well received by this community.
They’re going to continue chasing the AI trend right up until the bubble bursts. At which point they’ll continue wasting money on the next big trend, assuming that the bubble bursting doesn’t kill Mozilla in the process.
Think like Microsoft recall for your browser history. Yeah that sounds awful, it’s not surprising why people would not want it. Just goes to show that Mozilla is dumb and blind like all other companies.
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I have a feeling it’s so they can use the money for more AI garbage. They’ve been heading in that direction lately, so it wouldn’t surprise me.
Honestly I’m starting to think that their “experiments” are more about chasing trends than actually trying to provide good products and services for their users.
You seem to have a very strong delusion that you are in control or somehow winning claiming that you have “shut me up” when the only thing you have done is continue to make unsubstantiated claims about the OP based on your own opinion alone, and all but admitting that they are completely unsubstantiated while you try and strawman my arguments, claiming that I am blaming linux or proton, or trying to claim that I am debating whether the OP is actually banned, yet another strawman.
As much as you dislike it, I will continue to point out the fallacies in your arguments as you continue to make them, even if you insult me. I’m not afraid of you, I see through your lies and your deceptive tactics, as do many other people here, I’ve debated hundreds of trolls like you in the past and you are no different than any of them. The content of our discussion may be different but the tactics are the same.
Whether you accept it or not EA is a terrible company who is well known for being hostile towards their customers, and has already had many similar incidents happen before already. This is an opinion very commonly shared both by people in this community and Lemmy as a whole (which generally leans towards anti-corporatism). An opinion which is still an opinion but is backed up by the history of this company and their practices, which have been hostile towards their users but also their staff and developers too.
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