That’d be nice.

The frustrating thing is we’ve already learned this lesson. But b/c people don’t pay attention in school, we have to learn it the hard way all over again.

Honestly, a recession would be best case, wouldn’t it? Everything I read makes it seem like a depression is inevitable.

How about fucking doing anything?

With a firm minority in both chambers of Congress, what, exactly, would you have them do besides raise awareness? This problem is on the voters who elected all these clowns, and right now, they’re the only ones who can fix it. And that’s not going to happen until 2026.

I mind my own damn business. That’s my view.

Dennis Takes a Mental Health Day is probably the most accurate portrayal of me ever written.

I flat-out refuse to do business with any that requires I use an app. I won’t even scan a QR code for a restaurant menu; that’s my cue to go eat elsewhere.

Those truck nuts are clearly aftermarket / gender-affirming care. Someone should point that out to the truck’s owner.

If one server is misbehaving, then they get defederated.

If the instance the spam is originating from is nothing but spam, yeah. Most instances only defederate from another as a last resort and/or if the offending instance is a total lost cause or dedicated to spam/trolling/etc.

Is there anything about Lemmy’s architecture that will prevent this problem?

Yes. Applications for new registrations assuming admins can be arsed to turn them on. It won’t 100% prevent it, but it will reduce it by probably 90%.

Most spam on Lemmy comes from instances with open registration (ones that do not require an application). Lemdro.id is probably the biggest offender and pain in my side. Email verification and CAPTCHAs are not effective barriers. They may slow down spam signups, but do absolutely nothing to stop them.

Instances that have 24/7 admin coverage do okay with allowing open signups (again, without application approval) and keeping spam to a minimum; some still slip through, but they’re usually quickly dealt with due to having an admin available 24/7. Instances with round-the-clock admin availability are rare, though.

Instances without 24/7 admin coverage (roughly 99% of them) should, IMO, NOT have open signups and require applications. Some spam may get through, but the admins can at least have eyes on new registrations.

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I think fry.gs is the main mod’s own instance.

Though best practice, as much as it exists in the Fediverse, would be to host the community assets from the home instance of the community.

Please upload the icon/baner to LW instead of from a 3rd party instance. This is the second recent time these have broken.

I’m…speechless and all out of snark on this one. This is fucking horrifying.

Single-issue voters who threw their vote away or sat out and did not help stop this, well, hope you’re happy with your choices.

More like “Invert selection” for all of the things they’re currently targeting.

DOJ, there is corruption in the government, but it ain’t coming from USAID. You might want to look upward in your org chart if you’re worried about corruption.

No, please keep the "we told you so"s coming. There are still people in the back defending their abstention / 3rd party vote / blaming the 'dems. They need to understand they are at least partially responsible for this.

I’m not trying to change anyone’s mind. Gave up on that months ago when it actually mattered. Now I just want the people who refused to help stop this from happening know how much I blame and hate them. That is all.

That’s a lot of blame shifting there.

The facts are:

• Our elections are FPTP and no amount of wishing it was otherwise was going to change that
• Even if people thought Harris wouldn’t have been great, it took zero additional brain cells to realize Trump would have been will be is infinitely worse.
• Yes, I will “shove it down the leftists throats”, as you say, since they were big cheerleaders against voting for the only candidate that stood a chance of defeating Trump. Sowing doubt/division when we should have been unified against that threat (wasn’t that what you were originally chastising me for?)
• The people failed, not the government. We had a free and fair election, saw what was at stake, and still people decided to sit it out or throw their vote away.

I haven’t browsed your history, and at this point, I don’t care to, but if that’s the kind of messaging you were throwing out up to November, then YOU. ARE. AT. LEAST. PARTIALLY. RESPONSIBLE.

Edit: Also, I never once said “leftists” until I quoted you: You threw and jumped on that grenade all by yourself.

we’re all on the same side against fascism

Then where were those people in November when it freaking mattered?

I’m absolutely entitled to hold a grudge against the single-issuers who helped get us here. Actions, or in this case, inactions have consequences, and I’m not going to coddle them when they come crawling back to reality after they were told over and over again what was at stake.

I mean, it’s not unrelated. You can scream into a microphone all you want, but if it’s not plugged into anything (or no one’s listening)…