That’s a painful comment thread to slog through. Usually technical concerns aren’t so clearly demonstrated and explained, and the same mods just derail the topic with astoundingly selective comprehension, just sheer crazymaking.

The developer of Piefed is at least comfortable with the MeanwhileOnGrad use of ‘tankie’. That’s the poster child community of calling anything left of Kissinger a tankie.

I know at least some models can be rigged to local machines, and I assume chatgpt is one of them. But no disagreement that there’s a bit of weirdness here.

Their whole thing is that they’re running local models on their own systems, so it is unlikely to be corporate at all.

Now, there is a portion of lemmy instances and piefed that did incorporate, and they seem to have it out for db0.

Lemmy was made for people banned from Reddit.

Piefed was made for the mods who banned them.

And MBin? MBin is a fork of KBin.

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Well, it is noting that there’s now at least an appearance of a relationship going on. Especially so, if you’re already clued into the ‘ban-happy’ statistics magic thread.

Similarly this one has some good conversations going.

Hopefully those continue unimpeded and this can remain contextual or tangental.

That’s an odd takeaway, for sure.

these questions are being framed as a question of intra-instance policy

I think this is just more of the ongoing controversy being spun up against db0.

This weeks flavor appears to be more data driven, a ‘just asking questions’ phase. I guess in hope the whole ‘falsifying evidence to make db0 users look like neo-nazis’ thing blows over.

Like it’s clear there’s an effort to rid db0 from the fediverse, and it’s just the pretext hasn’t been sorted out yet.

The doctored photos thing is so last week.

What happens if we do a ratio of bans vs number of users?

We get a graph that compares two unrelated values?

Unless this data is purely internal instance user bannings, ‘Per capita’ has no effective meaning. As the pawb.social case shows: it’s all one user with multiple communities who regularly bans waves of sockpuppet brigades. Even the people catching strays or otherwise goes to show it has nothing to do with ‘the furries’.

Likewise I wager the SJW bans are effectively one community banning essentially one user who periodically spams accounts.

What is it about dbzer0 that makes them such prolific banners?

That whole painfully public fued against db0 over their stance on zionism may have something to do with it. Like the fake neo-nazi shit being spread against db0 that was just going on this week. It’s a wild question to have in light of all that, quite frankly.

I remember 90’s era Starbucks and a bunch were still pretty grungy corners of strip malls. But the point was they were still coffeeshops, despite being a chain that went corporate.

Now they’re glorified coffee stands with real estate baggage and little sandwiches. And zero of that ‘third place’ shit they used to dominate the market.

I’m just struggling to link Brian from Family Guy to Mamdani or SocDems in this.

It’s also my first time seeing that vote-viewing website and it’s honestly a bit insane that this quirk is part of Lemmy design ngl

It’s kind of in the nature of the fediverse.

For the most part though it just proves that you don’t know why people upvote or downvote something until they post. Otherwise it just reveals chronic haters.

Like, I got a couple haters that downvote my post history periodically. I know it’s just primarily just a proud german nationalist and an australian racist that can’t stand to see my username.

But I do see that people use vote lookups to provoke fights and, well, pursue people for their votes, which is kind of silly.

My bet is on groyper. They are particularly prone to doing hasbara in as poor a way as possible because they’re anti semitic. And since it stokes fights with leftists, and they’re actual nazis: it’s two bird with one stone to them.

That announcement thread simultaneously has a user freely and actively running hasbara about the Nakba.

I can offer up a story on it from a British Business magazine, if the Novara source seems biased or uncredible.

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/un-report-systematic-sexual-violence-israeli-detention-1792474

Yeah we got that fun little community of weirdos…

Man this is like every 1 minute interlude jams or 20 second outtro of every metal band ever.

The outtro to Floods by Pantera, for instance.

The one about the snek bites I remember being rather neat.

Then they signed a deal with the U.S. Navy and they never recovered for me.

L’Espresso is the magazine name. Their cover depicts an Israeli settler as he abuses a Palestinian woman.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/israeli-palestinian-italian-magazine/

And well, Cleetus from the Simpsons just fit the comparison. Saw a few threads of people running hard hasbara about it being antisemitic.