I was annoyed at first, because who the heck would do that deliberately.

Then I realized it’s part of the software, so yeah it’s a little quirky but also cool that it works to begin with!

Figured it was qrstuv based on the title of this post.

Not worth the effort, just accept the “joke” community and move on. No need to play their games.

Well, almost. They use the moon for navigation like we used to use stars on the open sea for navigation.

Light bulbs mess this up because suddenly after a bit of travel the “moon” is in a wildly different place than before, tripping them up because they can’t process why that happened.

It doesn’t really answer the question where the money is going, does it? Only why it’s being charged.

Edit:

Revenue from ticket sales goes to: paying for our online venue (QiQo), various supporting web services and automation, human support and facilitation, various promotional activities (handouts, stickers at other events, direct promotion to potential attendees / software demo participants / session hosts, social media), website management, graphic design, the editing of session notes and the production of demo videos published after the event, accounting and other bureaucracy and more.

I tag people that never fail to find something to argue about, obvious trolls, bad faith / sea lion conversationalists and so on. If I encounter them again and they show the same behaviour as a pattern, I fully block them.

I also use it for more fun stuff, like who is overly helpful, friendly or who recommended a good book. This way, if I see them again I get reminded of the positive interaction from before

edit: @OmegaLemmy@discuss.online you might want to replace “tag” with “label” or something, people think you mean username @tagging and don’t read the body of your post

The real guide is still either outdated or doesn’t take into account that there’s a lot more steps. But considering it’s been 2 years, I don’t hold that against the author

I think that’s too simplified and it will create expectations that aren’t true, because It’s more like this:

1. Choose instance

2. Read & agree to Mastadon rules

3. Read & agree to (instance) privacy terms

4. Create account

5. Tap the verification link in your email

6. Solve the Captcha

7. Get a list of people/users to follow (why these people? What is it based on?)

8. Setup profile

9. Done!

Hardly, let alone “world news” worthy.

Gaming is apparently hitting all the buttons on the controller all the time

They require self labeling of AI content so you can figure how well that goes

Ah, I see where you’re coming from now. No, you don’t have to glaze me to get the support that you need, but you sure as hell don’t get to verbally abuse me because you made a mistake and are too much of an narcissistic asshole to reflect on that mistake.

No, I “blame” victims who are assholes about it by taking their shame and loss of pride and taking it out on tech support.

I would sympathise with those that admitted they made a mistake and were looking for real answers

Before it was via search engines.

I was working support for a multinational tech company, customer: “I searched for your support number and I rang them and they scammed me, you guys are shit”.

Turns out they clicked on the top result that was SEO’d to shit to catch these types of people that can’t think for themselves.

So not just assholes, but also tech illiterate folks that trust the first thing they read.

Do they work world wide?

You’re gonna be constructive about this or just call names? Also, FS hasn’t posted for what feels like months.

For those who get a paywall / subwall https://archive.is/IldE9

How do you know they are “in their right mind”?

You can probably manipulate search results by including (site:example.com OR site:example 2.com) or excluding (-example.com -example2.com) websites.

Great band name!

The Malignant Narcissistic Slug & His Incel Gang