Right? For someone who doesn’t know about things and has never heard of people, he sure does never shut up about them.

Genuine question: what’s the success rate of catching and prosecuting people who make these kinds of threats?

I’m guessing it’s either nearly 100% or depressingly low but nowhere in between.

That’s…not wrong. And I see where you’re coming from.

But they’d end up spending 24/7 coverage just debunking that shit because it’s coming out like a fire hose every time he’s on camera or taking a shit (because what he craps out on social media also gets news coverage).

I can’t tell you how much I’m looking forward to the day the news isn’t dominated by this orange turd (except maybe coverage of his sentencing or something) Mid 2021 was kind of a preview of that, but once our 3 year election cycle kicked back in, there he was again all day, every day.

Maybe they could do a weekly Trump bullshit fact check wrap up instead or something?

Regardless, I agree with them not airing the live feed/coverage, but I can agree with you that the overall behavior should be highlighted in some way.

I won’t necessarily say it’s that.

There are two main crowds when it comes to Trump coverage:

1. Why give airtime to those lies and nonsense?
2. Why aren’t you covering his lies and nonsense?

Literally no way to make both of those groups happy, lol.

When it’s just him spouting off lies, conspiracies, and hate, I say give him as little coverage as possible. The people voting for him don’t care or want that, and the “undecideds” at this point are either just attention-seekers or too ignorant for any additional coverage to get through their thick skulls.

The only people who don’t know what Trump’s about by now would have to have been cryogenically frozen or in a coma since 2014, and I don’t think that’s a large enough voting demographic to really worry about.

At the time of publication, the post had more than 2,700 likes.

Which were probably like 12 hillbillies and 2688 Russian bots.

Ah, okay. I haven’t really messed with Jerboa for a good while since it still seems to have issues with AOSP keyboard (last I checked in on that bug, anyway).

I was thinking of implementing a non-standard way of doing it in Tesseract (basically it would lookup the user’s instance admins and send a DM). Perhaps that’s what Jerboa is doing?

Shame, I was hoping there was an API feature for that now.

Huh. I’ll have to check that out. Unless it’s new in 0.19.4 or 5,I wasn’t aware the API would let you report users (just their content).

Thanks for the follow up.

Yep, seems manual or at least only partially automated based on feedback from other admins.

Also yeah, unfortunately, Lemmy doesn’t have the ability to report users to their home admins, just content they post. Not sure if that’s a moderation feature that’s in the pipeline or not (haven’t checked for a bit).

That would definitely work for rooting out ones local to an instance, but not cross-instance. For example, none of these were local to my instance, so I don’t have email or IP data for those and had to identify them based on activity patterns.

I worked with another instance admin who did have one of these on their instance, and they confirmed IP and email provider overlap of those accounts as well as a local alt of an active user on another instance. Unfortunately, there is no way to prove that the alt on that instance actually belongs to the “main” alt on another instance. Due to privacy policy conflicts, they couldn’t share the actual IP/email values but could confirm that there was overlap among the suspect accounts.

Admins could share IP and email info and compare, but each instance has its own privacy policy which may or may not allow for that (even for moderation purposes). I’m throwing some ideas around with other admins to find a way to share that info that doesn’t violate the privacy of any instances’ users. My current thought was to share a hash of the IP address, IP subnet, email address, and email provider. That way those hashes could be compared without revealing the actual values. The only hiccup with that is that it would be incredibly easy to generate a rainbow table of all IPv4 addresses to de-anonymize the IP hashes, so I’m back to square one lol.

Lol, that sounds like a Randall Munroe unit of measurement, and I love it. If there’s not already an xkcd for that, there should be.

Ah, good to know.

I did know there were two sides of it (we explored MariaDB Enterprise at work, but unfortunately it didn’t pan out).

Any more, I just assume one company buying any other always results in a worse experience post-sale.

Some instances do, but I think it’s more of an automod configuration. AFAIK, Lemmy doesn’t have that capability out of the box. Not sure about other fed platforms.

I’ve never heard of K1.

Should we expect MariaDB enshittification to ensure?

Strategic investment aims to accelerate MariaDB’s mission to deliver innovative, scalable database solutions with new executive leadership to drive the next phase of growth

I’m not reading that as a “no” :(

A speed bump normally doesn’t concern itself with the rules of the road; just has to disrupt the flow of traffic in the intended way.

I used to think so, but it’s barely even that.

I’ve had 3 instance admins confirm anonymously that these were using a throwaway email service. sharklasers.com specifically.

Possibly. I don’t think I’ve been in or active in it for a while. With check it out.

Yep. Also, aren’t there already celebrities on Mastodon? I know George Takei is. Granted, you’d have to know he was @mastodon.social versus mstdn.social so that could complicate things for those unfamiliar with the platform.

OP’s definitely got a point, though.

I hope this post doesn’t tank the monthly active users stats lol. Mostly that’s me hoping this problem isn’t as big as I fear.

True. But it uses a threshold ratio. They’d have to give out a proportional number of upvotes to “fool” it, and at that point, they’re an average Lemmy user lol. That script isn’t (currently) setup to detect targeted vote brigading, just ones that are only here to downvote stuff. I’ve got other scripts to detect that, but they just generate daily/weekly reports.

It takes time to detect them, but it does prevent most false positives that way (better to err on the side of caution and all that).

yeah, i’m split on public votes.

On one hand, yeah, there’s a certain type of troll that would be easy to detect. It would also put more eyes on the problem I’m describing here.

On the other, you’d have people doing retaliatory downvotes for no reason other than revenge. That, or reporting everyone who downvoted them.

It depends on the person to use that “power” responsibly, and there are clearly people out there who would not wield it responsibly lol.