“Let Chaos storm, let cloud shapes swarm; I wait for form”

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Cake day: August 14th, 2023

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  • I think their biggest problem, the reason they don’t understand, is that they believe a conspiracy theory about the government trying to hurt people with fluoride. Despite the evidence that shows how high the unsafe levels for fluoride are, and that they are nowhere near that, as well as the fact that its proven to be safe and beneficial at lower levels. They believe that it is being forced upon them by having it in tap water, which it absolutely is not, as highlighted by the fact that I know people who haven’t gotten enough either from drinking bottled or distilled water.

    I really don’t see the logic of pushing back against something like this when it doesn’t hurt you and the small benefits will benefit you greatly years later, as well as the fact that it’s done for you at no extra cost, which you can’t say for any of the alternatives. Really they’re complaining about getting something beneficial essentially for free without having to pay extra or do work for it.










  • Hear me out, there are trans people who are indeed extremists (I should know, I’ve been victim to many of them). However that doesn’t mean all trans people are. Trans people are just people, and like all people there are good ones, evil ones, and ones who make mistakes.

    Hexbear are extremists though, there might be some decently alright people on there but for the most pat the active ones there are very extreme and tend to spam, lash out, throw insults, and it’s very likely they were the ones who DDoSed Lemmy.world in the days of frequent outages shortly after Lemmy.world denied them. OP you made the right call, it is a very bad idea to recommend people go to hexbear.


  • A solution I thought of is that we could potentially create a bot that checks if a downvoter is subscribed to the community they are voting in. If they downvote more than 3 posts a day in such as community they get a 3 day ban, second time they get a 7 day ban, third time they get permanent ban.

    Also if they downvote more than 70% of a community’s posts they get permabanned either way. Downvote happy subscribers are clearly trying to game the system, so they don’t get two chances to correct the behavior before a permanent one.

    Could have the rules be customizable or not, basically it would check those two statuses and impose a ban if correct conditions aren’t met or the user goes overboard with downvoting. Users who would want to use it in their community could simply add the bot via photon or the API.