Yeah. But then you would have had to interact with those kind of human beings. I say you made a decent deal, overall.
Short answer: you don't.
Long answer: there's no flair system in the Threadiverse (Lemmy + Kbin). We are working on building one limited to our instance but that takes time. Even then, once it will be finished it will only cover our instance. Users from other instances or platforms (such as yourself) will need extensions and 3rd party tools to get access to them. I plan on building those as well, but it will be only after the flairs are fully functional for our local users who of course are our primary concern.
Furries? Never had to deal with those thankfully. As for the kiddy shit that's a serious problem but I feel like it mostly concerns us admins, as with the current tools we have to react as soon as we get notice. As a user you hardly see it, from my experience.
But yeah, the platform as a whole tends to be pretty polarized and extremist, which might scare many people away.
I never said it was in bad faith.
I assumed that was what you meant, my bad.
I remembered it showing up if you hovered but it doesn't, that's true. I guess I was looking at the link below instead.
LMAO "hide" is a pretty strong word. You know you can still figure it out just by hovering over their name, right? Or clicking on their profile, clicking the fediverse icon... plenty of ways to find out, it's just slightly less obvious.
There's no bad faith behind it. I do that just because I like it better, looks cleaner to me.
Of the two posts I mentioned one account is indeed very new and not from Hexbear, the other one is 3 years old and IS from Hexbear.
There might be some external actors trying to stir the water, indeed that tends to happen pretty often all over the internet, but some Hexbear users are definitely involved.
I don't think the problem with Hexbear is political. Some of their points are questionable, but that's of course up for debate.
What tends to annoy me about their users is how obnoxious they can be. Between the flooding of comments and replies, the weird emojis and the numerous attempts at provocating people from outside of their little cicle (which happens both in their domestic communities as well as the federated ones), it all makes you wonder if they even care about the health of the fediverse
Eh, I think I prefer the original. Acoustic doesn't really work with this song imo. But it's still great, these guys rule.
Next post on !pcm@lemmy.basedcount.com : Political Compass of every user on the instance according to the AI model we've trained with the data they've unconsciously given to us.
I don't really care about caching or load balancing, the only reason I'm considering Cloudflare is that CSAM filter.
If someone is really concerned about privacy they shouldnt be using lemmy to begin with.
That's correct, actually. On one hand, the devs seem so focused on the privacy of users that they often prioritize that over improving the safety of the software (for instance the Lemmy server has next to no logs, apparently for that reason). On the other hand, it's crazy how much data is transferred over federation. For instance, I have already developed a script that allows me to view EVERY post or comment someone has upvoted. The data is all there, wouldn't take much for someone to harvest it en masse and start profiling users.
Yeah I remember that. We lost our first instance to that XSS attack (this one we are writing on is the second one).
And I get why some people might not like Cloudflare, but to my knowledge that's quite literally the only tool at our disposal. These constant attack can be stressing to some admins, it's illegal stuff after all. Even if we are doing everything right and reporting it to the authorities, as soon as I got notice of this I had to drop anything I was doing, jump on SSH and start fixing stuff. This isn't really sustainable in the long run.
I take it that beehaw's walled garden policy is working as intended, if you users aren't even aware of the tornados of shit going on out there lol. Good for you.
Personally I am kinda enjoying the chaos, but some threads over on sh.itjust.works are pretty wild with the Hex invasion.