I remember the creator of the bot that does the bans insisted until he was blue in the fact that it doesn't ban based on downvotes while spewing a lot f technobabble that ultimately ammounted to banning for downvotes. So yeah, he's trying to bring back one of the worse features of Reddit, that being an ass kissing requirement, that's what karma requirements are, they are an ass kissing requirement, because the way you get karma points is by kissing ass, the way you lose them is by sharing new or different ideas. See the issue with them? The system punishes people for having ideas that other people don't like, not that are wrong or evil, but that other people simply don't like. That's not even mentioning people who cheat the system by doing vote manipulation to their own comments or to other comments.
ml is a cesspool. It's best not to even bother engaging in their communities. They'll ban you for stupid shit. This needs to be made more well known to help break the network effect they have going on with some of their communities.
Xenia is so awesome.
Just checked my SDF Inbox and noticed a message from them:
Hello and thank you for using lemmy.sdf.org!
There has been a recent uptick in new sign ups, so we'd like to get in touch and welcome you as well as provide updates to existing members.
Currently, the lemmy instance is running v0.18.5 and we're watching 0.19.x beta efforts. We do have testing on a smaller instance and once there is a formal release, we plan to upgrade lemmy.sdf.org
For those who have set up 2FA there has been a reported issue where a user can get "locked out" from their account. If you are in this situation, please reply to this message from the email address you signed up with and we can get you reset.
During the Summer there was a large "reddit exodus" and lots of folks signed up with new instances. However, many of those instances have either have become ghost towns or have disappeared all together.
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Still seems very sudden to update the main instance to 0.19 considering there hasn't been a formal release and it is still very buggy as @GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org pointed out the Instance block feature isn't even functional, but more importantly almost none of the Apps out there actually work with this version.
Also broke the inbox on desktop, was showing empty for me even though it shows the notifications. I had to manually go to the thread to see this message (lucky I keep tabs open).
I agree that this unannounced upgrade is quite the shock to the system and also lemmy 0.19 hasn't even officially dropped yet so it seems kind of strange to update to it now.
These are very cool comics.
It seems weird for them to do it because it's so close to spawn and it could be considered an ugly build.
I also wonder if it was from a player not here or banned, though it still wouldn't make much sense to grief their house instead of just taking it down or giving it away.
Also it seems like they're extending the subway tunnel underneath it as well as carving out a tunnel for the nearby road through the hill.
For anyone wondering it says "Fugu" which means pufferfish.
As far as I can tell Instance rules are basically don't do anything illegal and don't be an asshole. Each community has their own rules as well.
This is the US Server, the EU server is at lemmy.sdfeu.org.
Funnily enough I have to hide terminal windows when updating while I'm around any of my less tech savy friends who think it's scary or creepy. I really dislike them portraying this as "hacking".
sdfjp one isn't working either.
Karma requirements only punish people who have different thoughts and opinions and who are honest enough to not cheat by using bots or upvoting their own comments with alts. It's not a good solution, it punishes people who are honest and don't commit vote manipulation. It's why the Lemmy Devs removed score from the API, it's still possible to get it but it's harder, and more effort since you have to get it from each comment and post and add them up.