Same thing happened to me. If I block someone on Mastodon or another Fediverse microblogging instance, they’re blocked. Because that part of the Fediverse was built by people who had been harassed and doxxed off other platforms.

Here? Blocking just means you don’t see the troll, but they can continue to inflict all kinds of havoc on your post scores. Ironically, “karma” isn’t a thing on Lemmy like it is on Reddit, but votes are still used to rank your posts.

I guess there are a hundred great folk on here for every preteen edgelord, but that kind of nonsense really spoils the fun of this platform. Sorry to see you get downvoted for a perfectly reasonable post.

Anubis makes your browser solve a challenge to verify you’re not a LLM crawler scraping content. It shouldn’t have the effects that OP describes.

“Criticize”? How dare you! 😂 It was only intended as light ribbing as far as I’m concerned, I fully acknowledge the “foolish” part.

You mean worse?

TBF, that should be the conclusion in all contexts where “AI” are cconcerned.

It looks like it’s a Webfinger implementation to parse the ActivityPub user URI. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35750312

The @user@instance.tld format has become a convention across most if not all ActivityPub platforms. In the end the software will look up https://instance.tld/user anyway.

Same here, unemployed workers are workers too ✊

Your statistical uniqueness will be added to our empirical material

The survey is anonymous

I dunno, maybe they thought that cut both ways? 🤷

Not really. They give some lip service to communist dogma, but they really only have a big hard on for totalitarianism.

It’s pretty absurd in 2025 to get high on late 1980s Comintern propaganda, but here they are 🤷

Yeah, why do considerate mods like OP have to wade in and tell others they can just block you? Wotta revoltin’ development. /s

I’d add “report” to that advice. If somebody is outright being jerks, that is probably against your instance’s rules — and if it isn’t, there are plenty others to choose from.

Blocking helps you, but reporting people (or instances) that are just here to troll will help others.

On a good day he’ll just redirect it to X. If he’s off his rocker on ketamine he might have it display a deepfake porn video of himself performing oral sex.

Because “Musk sucks”. That guy loves a dumb pun à la “let that sink in”.

Yeah, I don’t know anything about the state of open Reddit endpoints. Seems they’re intent on closing down non-Google/Gemini access to some of them? 🤷

But if the /.rss “hack” helps setting up a Lemmy bot or at least track the communities with a feed reader, that’s a small victory I guess?

You’d probably have to jump through several hoops to make that happen. Libreddit doesn’t offer any ActivityPub API to follow directly, or even RSS feeds that might be used by a bot to post updates to Lemmy.

I’m not downvoting, because you’re definitely right that the intents of the people in and behind this administration have been telegraphed for years. The responsibility is really on the shoulders of everybody who refused to believe they would follow through.

Project 2025 spelled out their game plan, but people around the world took false comfort that Trump would definitely be a normal president this time, and respect the fundamental democratic and parliamentary process. Well, guest what.

The political pendulum has commuted from left to right on a regular basis for so long, the imagined worst case scenario was that the US would have to wait out Trump v2 for four years and Democrats could get back to business. But part of Project 2025’s agenda is to stop the pendulum and make sure there is nothing to return to.

I’m sad for my US friends and colleagues that are caught in this teardown, but nobody should be able to say they didn’t see this coming a mile away.

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Why the f— would an employee be invested in the corporation “winning”? Unless he sees LinkedIn as a co-op and actively works on distributing profits equally to all member workers, that there is just management drivel.

This sounds like a “fight fire with dumpster fire” sort of solution. Please don’t.

Wtf, how have I not heard that writefreely hasn’t federated since Xmas?

So, I was probably (one of) the first to post that “Pixelfed leaks private posts” thing on here? I first wrote a long reply to this, but it sort if got away from me. The short version would be,

A) sure, the fediverse has a bullying problem in the sense that people do, and that that is usually exacerbated in any online comment field. People are awful, and that includes me, you, Dansup, and anybody reading this. We’re also usually pretty brilliant when nobody’s looking.

B) despite what I write above, I don’t take bullying lightly. I am really uncomfortable with how you use the generally phrased headline to address this specific case. You’re not writing about the fediverse as such, you’re casting Dansup as a victim.

C) Dan’s up, Dan’s down, Dan’s a victim, Dan’s throwing a fit online and then deleting the tweets. As you cite in OP, some people attribute all sorts of unrelated evil to him. Most of all, my impression is Dansup has as a hard time separating from his role as main developer on Pixelfed, Loops, etc, as online commenters has separating his work from (perceived) personal faults.

D) let’s imagine those projects were fully open sourced and developed by the community already. Would we be in the same situation here? Again, resorting to ad hominem bullying in online discussion is unacceptable, but I do question that Dansup is an unequivocable victim. Nor is he an evil mastermind who has engineered this situation to garner pity. He just seems to be extremely hard working, with a generous pinch of need for control of his projects.