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Cross-posted as part of ongoing boycotting/protest efforts to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly, the instance as a whole, to help vitilize and drive non-.ml comms and make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because of the behavior and attitudes of the .ml instance admins (see megathread link above)

Some highlights from the link:

“If you don’t support Russia then you just don’t understand geopolitics” ~dessalines, main .ml admin, head dev https://lemmy.world/post/27352415

“See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn’t count!!” ~ Davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/30673342

“NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!” ~dessalines, main .ml admin, head dev https://lemmy.world/post/31595035

Showing support for Ukraine on .ml is worthy of a site ban - dessalines, main .ml admin, head dev https://lemmy.world/post/32775563

Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558

Tbf, the article author links the original source right at the start lol

Yes, but this formalizes things, possibly putting in place policies and SOPs and uniformly agreed upon structures

Not to mention, depending on the legal structure, tax benefits and cash pooling and other financial benefits

He shouldn’t have had to steal it, you should have been a good humon and served it to him proper!

This incident will be reported

I wonder if it’s time FOSS projects started taking the view that liberty is for individuals and not corporate use, and license accordingly.

I think so, I think it should have been like that from the beginning tbh. Corporations have plenty of money to support projects that support them, there’s really no excuse

Ah I fucking knew it -_- I thought it was kinda weird, swapping out the link, thanks!

Edit oh wait I already posted that other link lmao, deleting instead

ddrescue and dd_rescue has entered the chat

I’m a pretty decent typer on these blasted OSKs but fuck do I still miss real keyboards :'(

Well, it is, just not in a good way that BSky implements

But

ActivityPub (the protocol behind Mastodon, Pixelfed, Pleroma, and others) planned for the near future. Currently in alpha

If they do that, then it will be for sure, it’s still alpha so hopefully they mean it when they say “near future”

Keep in mind, I stopped making new accounts a while ago, I have my set of stable, but small instance accounts and I just been cycling through them over and over again, if someone wanted to block them for curation, they should not have had a problem to do so by now. And I do have plenty that I don’t post from for comm making. There are also a few floating around from my imposter problem a bit ago.

I do not agree that you’re boosting other instances simply by posting from them, and I don’t think the side effect you’re creating is worth the price. Further, I would argue that most users typically do not pay attention to the instance a user is from, especially when simply upvoting a post.

You’d be surprised, Ive definitely had people ask me about instances that I’ve posted from. Especially funnier named ones like toast.ooo

Do I have hard analyzed data? No, and it’d be pretty hard to gather such, but I’m already posting a good volume so might as well take advantage to give a boost of recognition to small instances however small it may be

The cross posts do not show properly in my case, only sometimes do I see them on your posts. Luckily, clients like Boost add a link to their original post when I cross post. It makes the cross post always show.

What do you mean “better interconnecting smaller instances”? If it’s through cross posting, I doubt it, seeing as you don’t include the cross post link for maximum effect.

These 2 problems, are kinda related to each other. A big reason a crosspost won’t show, is if the other post is on a comm that isn’t federated with your instance or hasn’t pulled that specific post yet

So basically by interconnecting instances I mean I’m encountering comms that the instance hasn’t federated with yet because nobody has subscribed from their instance to it. And nobody on that instance can see content from that comm until someone subscribes to it

The volume with which I post makes it so I’m encountering lots of those comms every day and every time I subscribe to one of them then the instance I’m on starts to get content from it as well. Lemmyverse.net is basically my bff at this point, I’m always on there checking comms and deciding the best ones lol

There’s a bot that does this automatically, but it’s not part of Lemmy proper, so there’s a myriad of reasons why it’s not as effective on smaller reasons everything from the admin just hasn’t gotten around to it to they don’t even know it exists or is needed

The only other user that I’ve seen do this type of thing is Monk, and I know your views of him.

Oh yes. UM, that wonderful user lmao. Yea, but a big difference is, none of my accounts are actually banned from anywhere with the exception of .ml (but I think that’s obvious lmao)

If you’re going to continue to use a huge number of accounts, I would suggest at the very least adding an explanation on each profile so suspicious people like me can understand what we’re looking at and who we’re interacting with. A single comment like this on just one of dozens of accounts will be seen by very few.

Lol I was actually going to write a script to update all my accounts to have the same pfp, but I should get around to that faster so I can do this to!

Ideally, it would be nice to just see a single account develop a good reputation and relationships

I actually kinda did this with my .world account, doing everything through that account and a select few other accounts…but then that whole JordanLund debacle made me essentially abandon it so I figured I might as well float around on these smaller instances that never get attention lol

It has to do with the proxying URLs on images, every once in awhile no matter what I do I can’t get it to shows as a crosspost

See this is how this post is:

Which is what should lock on and show as a crosspost like all the other image posts, but it just…doesn’t in rare occasions lol

(Or sometimes it won’t show as a crosspost because your instance has site-banned the other user)

Edit: Oh just realized you’re on .cafe, you won’t see the crosspost regardless because cafe defeds the whole triad and the crosspost would be on .ml

Or will this be another Elon situation where the company loses customers, but the stock price continues to rise?

ABSOLUTELY NOT! You forgot the 18 gazillion dollar pay package for doing a bad job!

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Why use so many accounts? Don’t give me the “I’m supporting smaller instances” take. It’s not supporting smaller instances when you make them look like they’re part of your spam network.

I’ve told you before my reasons, if you choose not believe them, that’s on you, maybe you’d like me to just make something up that fits better with your predetermined narrative?

1. Promoting smaller instances, because of the volume of my posting it helps makes smaller instances more recognizable
2. Making comms on fitting smaller instances (e.g. a programming comm id make on programming.dev)
3. Mitigating against the imposter problem
4. Better interconnecting smaller instances

It only serves to make it look like you’re a spam network while also making it next to impossible to block your posts. Users will try to block you, think they’ve successfully curated their feeds, only to have you turn up again. It’s not a great Lemmy experience.

Unintended unfortunate side effect, if I truly wanted to dodge the people blocking me or wanted to make a “spam network” why on earth would I use a widely recognizable username? If I wanted to do such things I would generate unrelated usernames and make a million accounts that way. Each account would last much much longer. This method would be the dumbest possible implementation of it lmfao

Plus, it would be a whole hell of a lot easier to just setup shop on a larger instance and call it a day, it’s a lot more work to need to sub to all the comms these smaller instances are missing when I need to post to them, among other random small issues lol

It also is not a good look to strip any reference to the OP, cross posts exist for a reason. It just makes it look like you’re stealing people’s posts and trying to make them your own.

All crossposts show in the crosspost section of your relevant client:

Text posts which have no link to lock onto get a username tag in the post, OC gets a username tag regardless

Thanks I try my best lol

435 of them, based on lemmyverse’s current count of 466 instances

Actually now that I think about it, I still don’t have a slrpnk account lmao, my trading card deck is incomplete!

I mean…is the curse really that much worse than what’s going on now? It would certainly be more interesting I think lmao