I wasn’t entirely sure what to do with this post since Lemmy.World surprisingly doesn’t have any terms of service against brigading. In light of this post, I’ve gone ahead and created Rule 7 against brigading on-site or off-site, and I made it fairly specific to not unnecessarily constrain activism (e.g. relevant votes/petitions) or cross-community engagement (e.g. crossposting or just innocuously linking to another thread). I’m declining to remove this post because I don’t think ex post facto rules are fair short of extreme and obviously dangerous behavior, and I hugely appreciate what it’s trying to do – foie gras is barbaric and reprehensible (and absolutely fuck Omni for perpetuating it).

At the same time, I think brigading (which this is an unambiguous case of) 1) is a bad look for a community, 2) puts an unnecessary burden on the moderators to properly verify that something isn’t just being fabricated or embellished to get a bunch of vegans to go attack someone, 3) rubs up against harassment when directed at low-profile individuals because we can’t predict or control what community members will do, and 4) is often ineffective if not counterproductive activism when directed at extremely niche targets.

In this case, I don’t think it’s likely any human being reading this except the OP has heard of this studio or yogi before today, and I especially think it’s basically impossible that the target of the brigading would respond better to several random people all expressing their outrage over this than just one person thoughtfully conveying that same information to them. That is, if this yogi/studio reads about the foie gras issue from one person and still decides to carry on with it, it seems extremely doubtful several people who just heard about this studio saying the same thing could sway them.

The single person who upvoted this comment didn’t make it four paragraphs into the article. The person who wrote it is a disgusting fucking liar.

MAGA when there’s a real and obvious failure by outlets to note political affiliation when they report on Republican politicians constantly doing reprehensible shit: I sleep

MAGA when they manufacture a conspiracy about a concerted effort by “woke” journalists to cover up the race of black and Latino suspected criminals: REAL SHIT?

The inverse of robots.txt: crawling robots without their consent.

That’s super cool! I guess I should’ve expected that. Still unfortunately means you need to be a Pixel owner and to have installed a non-default OS, which is an extreme minority of Android users – compared to iOS 18.1 blanketing every 12th-or-later-gen iPhone.

iPhones suck. This is still an objective improvement to them and currently an advantage over Android. Hatred and blind hatred aren’t the same.

You probably did on account of the way Beaver (likely) banned you. Effectively, Beaver targeted downvoters with temp-bans, even though they didn’t have any comments or posts here. This goes against the typical ban process (I’m guessing she used an API request directly instead of the UI or an app that lets you do that), and the only means of unbanning I know of is to click the dropdown menu of a post/comment. So for most bans, I just had to accept whatever duration Beaver set since there was no comment to click, and no comment could be made due to the ban.

I could be wrong here, but I don’t think we as mods are allowed to view a list of banned users, which I think is a bit ridiculous on Lemmy’s part. Honestly, in general, I’ve found mod tools on Lemmy to be extremely disorganized, incomplete, and unintuitive.

I was going to say: “I’m honestly surprised you’re able to find any content at all. I want PeerTube to succeed, but I can find nothing worth watching on it.” But logging back into PeerTube, I do see a semi-prominent YouTuber I occasionally watch on there called Shifter… And there’s also The Linux Experiment. (Edit: And RMTransit.) And Flipboard discussing fediverse stuff. But it’s still not nearly enough. The only other channel I see consistently in Trending is someone called Lety Does Stuff, which from what I can gather is a generic reaction channel serving as a front for affiliate links and an NSFW Patreon. (Not sure if I can block those from appearing, since they’re spammy as hell.) For high-production video essay stuff, I already have Nebula, so I don’t mind its absence here too much.

The indie OC on PeerTube could at least be interesting from a kind of early YouTube Wild West perspective, except that it’s just so sparse. For example, there’s a quaint channel I found called Cohan Magazine that does a bunch of camping and wildlife stuff. Not my thing, but I think it adds to the indie vibe. But a lot of the OC is let’s plays, and that to me feels basically like filler content.

It just has that issue where unlike posting on Lemmy, Mastodon, etc., creating content is much harder, so it just can’t get enough momentum. Granted I think PeerTube right now might be in a better place than even a couple months ago when I last checked, but it’s definitely a slow burn.

It’s on the tip of my tongue. PARROT Act? PATRAT Act? PATIO RIOT Act?

What are you even talking about? They wrote: “My issue, as someone with their feet in two canoes, as they say, is with the mentality that rural populations are rounding areas [sic] unworthy of discussion or consideration. Broad statements that erase rural existence is alienating to these admittedly small percentages, but is alienating nonetheless.” My entire comment is spent addressing that paragraph. I’m sorry I chose to focus on the core point of their comment?

People who choose to live out in the middle of nowhere shouldn’t hold back the discussion of public transit and micromobility for the vast, overwhelming majority of people who live in areas which are able to maintain that kind of public infrastructure.

The problem isn’t that these populations aren’t worthy of consideration; it’s that they don’t deserve to get brought up as “Well this doesn’t help me, who lives three miles out of the nearest town in a row of five houses” as a way to shut down discussion of something that would improve the lives of basically everyone. (It would help them too, of course, because it would decongest the streets when they do drive into town; it just wouldn’t obviate their car. Also, people in urban areas are subsidizing the everloving shit out of their infrastructure already to allow them to even live out there in the first place.)

Urban areas account for 80% of the US population. This only fell from 80.7% in 2010, despite the fact that the minimum population for something to be considered “urban” doubled from 2500 residents to 5000 (under the previous criteria, this would have been an increase). That’s not to mention that there’s nothing stopping rural towns under 5000 people from having adequate micromobility infrastructure, like I mentioned. If your kid is walking home from somewhere, unless they legitimately got stranded somehow in bumfuck nowhere, chances are they’re within biking distance.

The kind of “rural” you’re probably thinking of where someone lives two miles out into the country is basically a rounding error. Please stop using it as a magical incantation to shut down discussion of reasonable public transit and safe and efficient micromobility.

🎵 Standing taaaaall 🎵

(If the US had adequate public transit/micromobility infrastructure, worrying about random strangers picking you up – let alone for intra-city travel – wouldn’t be a thing.)

I totally forgot that if I drive on the left side of the road for a bit then swerve way off into the ditch past the right side of the road and stay there, I’m basically “a middle of the road kinda guy”.

>“true middle of the road kinda guy”

>endorsed a fascist for POTUS

lmfao okay

Misery, misery, misery, that’s what you’ve chosen. I offered to read an email, and you spat in my face.

In the future, I highly recommend sourcing to Wikiquote instead. It’s a sister project of Wikipedia which sources its quotes so they can be independently verified, whereas Goodreads just operates on an ad populum approach of upvotes. It also for this reason tends to be more robust to error, and many more prominent figures have specific sections both for popular quotes that are known to be misattributed and for ones that are dubious but not currently falsifiable.

The ultimatum is to finally ban Newsweek for the complete gutter trash it is.

$10 says most death penalty state-sanctioned murder proponents would’ve proposed before 2022 (or even just before this verdict) that she was a clear-cut example of why it’s necessary because what kind of monster would definitely 100% verifiably beat their child to death? Fucking repugnant.