CoderKat

Sadly yeah. We absolutely should use email signup because it filters our the absolute lowest effort bots, but it does nothing against higher quality bots or humans. Not only can you easily spin up new emails on the fly, but many emails allow ways to make the email appear unique (eg, Gmail ignores dots and anything after the + sign), there's plenty of temporary email services with a variety of domains, and if you own a domain, you can trivially create unlimited emails until they catch on and ban the entire domain.

Inactive admins are also an issue, but if malicious users are determined enough, it doesn't matter that much how active an admin is. An active admin can mostly help by making IP banning an option (imperfect, but will work on many humans) and can temporarily turn on approvals to make it easier to weed out low hanging fruit. Nothing will work against someone determined enough, but could at least reduce how many instances they can turn to.

How is USB-C not common? It's the default for every remotely modern android phone I've seen, all the modern game consoles I've seen (eg, the Switch and PS5 controllers), and many other random electronics use it (I even had a covid tester that was plugged into USB-C). All my laptops these days use it (including two Chromebooks, a high end MacBook, and a Windows laptop) and of those, only the Windows laptop even had USB-A ports (ie, the other laptops only had USB-C).

I won't pretend it's perfectly ubiquitous. There's lots of older electronics still using micro or mini USB (there's been no reason for manufacturers to update older devices). But it's definitely common in my book.

I mean, what kind of adventure would it be without a deal with at least one devil? Satan knows how to party.

Yeah, it's a serious problem for me. I'm largely channeling those feelings of hatred into reminding myself not to do that. Perhaps not the healthiest approach, but it's been working so far.

Only problems are kids and that I fear that they'd do their best to keep some people from leaving.

There'll always be new kids, many who will be minorities (particularly, even the biggotedest biggot can have an LGBT kid). We can't do a lot to protect them if they're in different countries. Though it's admittedly questionable if we're able to protect them that much today. There certainly are a lot of blatantly fascist laws being struck down by courts, at the very least.

And where women are concerned, I worry that if enough people left, these Y'allqaeda would eventually panic and try to restrict them. I mean, controlling women is one of their favourite pastimes and they love to view women as nothing more than baby factories. I wouldn't put it past them to at least try to prevent people from leaving. There's also things like how they clearly turn their heads away from migrant workers (while at the same time being unbelievably racist towards them). They seem to recognize that their economy depends on underpaid, exploited workers and I fear what they'd do when they recognize that.

That definitely doesn't match what I've seen, in Canada (both Sask and Ontario), nor what polls I've seen (eg, on topics like LGBT acceptance).

Note that the alt right are often the loudest (at least on a per capita basis). I think this can skew perception on how common they are, since they are over represented in online comments and there's some kinds of online comments that are completely dominated by the right (to the degree where "don't read the comments" is a meme in leftist circles).

Location definitely matters, too. Cities are way more accepting than rural or suburban areas. If you're in a rural or suburban area, you have my sympathy. I grew up in a rural area myself and it was awful. I think many people (myself included) are purposefully fleeing shittier areas. That means progesssives not only migrate from rural to cities, but also from shitty provinces/states to better ones.

But even within the same cities, I've perceived younger people to get better over time. I'm pretty hopeful for gen Z, which seems better than my generation (millenials) were at the same age. I just wish we didn't have to wait so long for progressives to outnumber regressives.

Blocking works really well cause there's so few of them. I've only blocked a single one (months ago) and haven't had any bot spam of the level of disliked. I still do see some from humans, but most of the time that's people trying to populate a smaller community where they're basically the only poster so far. There isn't really any other good options to jump start most communities, since people tend to not post (or even know about) new communities until they're active.

Whenever I see the same person reposting like that, I downvote all but whatever seems the highest voted or post in the most specific community. Reducing such spam is one of the values of the downvote IMO. Though unfortunately depending on where the community is hosted, the downvoting may or may not actually work.

I see it as little different from downvoting someone posting the same comment in a thread. They're simply not contributing to making the site better and in fact are actively making it worse. I don't mind a single cross post so that they can use both a smaller community and a bigger, more general one, but take issue when they're posting to a dozen big communities (especially ones that most people are likely subscribed to anyway). To anyone who does this, I wag my finger at you.

I blocked one user when I first signed up that was doing this. I can't remember which. But any chance you've blocked someone, too? Cause I only remember a single bot being really bad at it.

There's also some other bot that's name starts with something like "L4" or something, but it's good in my book. It only reposts something like the top post and I usually only see its posts actually having discussion. It's only the spammy bot that made so many zero discussion posts that I have a problem with.

Good. That's how it should be. But it's not how it is for a very massive chunk of the population. A lot of people have sexist beliefs when it comes to men vs women having sex, and they project those onto their children.

When I completely replaced my PC, I intended to use my old PC as a media box. But in reality, I've basically used my Chromecast for everything. One of these days I'll probably want to watch something that isn't on one of my streaming sites, but I've been surprisingly resistant to that so far.

Chromecast is the ideal smart device so far, for me. No ads or anything. I use my phone as a remote and basically every video app supports it easily. Open app, press cast, select what I want to play. Exactly what a smart TV should have been like.

At least with 0-10, I know to ignore any review that gives a zero. And usually I'd view 10s as just a binary recommend.