That's my Subscriptions feed, sorted by hot. This is the only post that's about that orangered site.

PS: Oh, if you're wondering, yeah, that's from Lemm.ee I am using my lemmy.world account right now to make this comment though.

• Global Head of Community at Duolingo
• Reddit's VP of Community

Duolingo, the language learning app that profited so much from volunteer input, only to kick them out once they outlived their usefulness.

Reddit, the content aggregator whose lifeblood is user-generated content and whose distinctive feature is its army of volunteer moderators.

Do I hear an ironic echo here? Or is it just me?

Proper dental hygiene is something that one should make a habit from a young age. By the time one realizes its value, like I did, it might already be too late.

Ditto with sleep hygiene. Those two are habits that I think should be learned and reinforced from a young age.

And he deserves a long vacation after all the shit that has happened to him. I'd even understand if he'd go low profile from this point on.

The character assassination Steve Huffman unleashed on him would make a lesser man just want to disappear (online).

It's not just OPs strange and mysterious predicament that has made this thread epic, but also the genuine efforts of some of us to help OP in the midst of wild, off the wall, guessing.

And then there's the misplaced reply that ended up in the perfect place.

And I'm glad to have seen it first hand.

Granted, but your thoughts are transmitted to the person looking at you.

It is indeed goddammed hilarious. (Literal) shit gets old, but this is gold!

I am amazed at how much fuckery these motherfuckers have come up with to mess with‌ Reddit and I am loving it.

Oh no, they did literal shit posting, didn't they?

EDIT: I had to go check it out (via Teddit). They're not posting literal shit, but it's funnier than I thought.

I'm a bit out of the loop here, what might have happened on June 18 that have precipitated this spike in new accounts?

On a possibly related note, over here in Lemmy.world, there's a post by the admins that have touched a little on automated account creation. I don't know if those two are connected though.

I went to their wiki and looked at their commenting rules. I don't think I see anything about comment editing and deletions:

However, I might have run afoul their "absolutely no bots" policy. I have set my deletion tool to edit my posts before deleting. It might have been detected by their own bots and have flagged my account accordingly.

That's awful. I wonder if there's a way to automate deleting all of our posts and replies—and repeatedly run it on a schedule via a cron job or something, maybe once an hour or something. And let it run until their API becomes locked down.

That first article, though I have read it through a translation app, is truly insane. The judge's quoted statement is just terrifying:

> « L’ensemble des membres de ce groupe se montraient particulièrement méfiants, ne communiquaient entre eux que par des applications cryptées, en particulier Signal, et procédaient au cryptage de leurs supports informatiques […]. »

Translated via DeepL: > "All the members of this group were particularly suspicious, communicating with each other only via encrypted applications, in particular Signal, and encrypting their computer media [...]".

Clandestine behavior, he says. Is the judge seriously thinking along the lines of “if you've got nothing to hide…” and associating ‘clandestine behavior’ to being a criminal? That's scary.

EDIT:

English language version of the first article (much thanks to @vanecx@mastodon.pirateparty.be):‌ https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2023/06/05/criminalization-of-encryption-the-8-december-case/