I think you’re right - women are also socialized to seek out social/interpersonal connections more than men; this is a big factor in why the suicide rate for elderly men tends to be significantly higher than for elderly women.

This doesn’t explain the 60 year olds but with the elderly (70+) women in my life, the vulnerability to misinformation is also an artifact of their comparatively poor levels of education. They were schooled with the expectation that they would be SAHMs.

Let us know what you go with!

Yeah I think a lot of the real mods left during the API debacle.

What’s left is fewer mod tools and less experienced moderators, a bad combination.

Thanks, you just made it crystal clear to me how we get from here to full on Idiocracy.

My guess is probably what’s happening with these 4-account people is they have them all open at the same time in different browsers, and since they only use them to upvote one account’s post submissions they just have to follow that account.

I’ve noticed a few people doing it but they only seem to use like 4 accounts each. Usually people spamming/promoting a blog.

Sure. But votes aren’t private or anonymous. Anyone on Kbin can see a list of every account that upvoted something, so it’s easy to spot.

It’s only a matter of time before someone writes a third party client that allows Lemmy users to do this as well.

Yes those children and premature babies really bit off more than “they” could chew

/s

Yikes.

I had a conversation with Pi which tries for empathy. It was really weird because every now and again it did sound like it was interested in me or cared about me. Reminds me of that Philip K Dick story about the murder bots that look like wounded soldiers or lost children.

@007KeyLimePie welcome!

Discoverability takes a bit longer here. If you’re looking to add content, then alongside the usual directories it’s worth checking out the lists at https://kbin.social/magazines/collections

Moderation is transparent here.

Also, protip: if you’re in a thread where everyone is raging about “libs” or “the liberals,” on reddit that would indicate a conservative sub, but here there’s a 99% chance they are communists or anarchists.

I had a 3-month ban from a community once and had no idea until I did a mod log search on my own username about 6 months later.

Thinking back to how I could possibly have failed to even notice, I think it’s just that kbin still displays the comments of banned kbin users so I was probably still getting interactions through that.

The JK Rowling “race change” comments were in my feed yesterday, as were you, and you pretty obviously saw them.

Look you’ve made at least three accounts to troll with. I don’t know if you’re bored or if you’re hurting, but here are some ideas (all free) for a better use of your time:

• Get a duolingo account and learn a new language

• Download Insight Timer and try guided meditation

• Sign up to EdX and enrol in a course

• Join Lichess and follow some of the tutorials

• Make an account at Neopets and play some casual games

I’m serious about this. Trolling can feel satisfying at first because you get attention but it’s empty attention, a bit like empty calories. To get the kind of attention that actually soothes your soul you will need to offer something of positive value to an online community instead.

Might be the same person. It’s an obvious troll account that was only created yesterday.

This is probably copying the latest JK Rowling trolling story which is about the same subject.

So, you’re basically asking why we have a judicial system.

If you look at world history pretty much every human society comes up with a code of what is okay and what isn’t, and once they get to a certain size they start standardizing punishments as well.

The reason for this is because it works a lot better than ad hoc justice which is too reliant on variables like who was there that day.

downvotes go everywhere

Unless you’re in kbin.social, which doesn’t federate downvotes.

That said it’s still handy for other kbin users and a good indication that it’s been reported already.

This. There’s nothing in western news media about domestic issues in China. If @PumpkinDrama wants to know more they should look for books or articles about Chinese protests such as the anti PX protests and the anti nuclear plant protests.

I’ve noticed it too but I don’t think it’s only because of the exodus.

I think it’s also because by removing mod tools and opening the floodgates for bots, Reddit has enabled all kinds of vote manipulation and content manipulation by all the shill armies.

Everything from the Hasbara, the 50 centers, Putin’s troll farm, Musk’s troll farm, whatever Zucc runs that used to come and sealion me anytime I talked about facebook’s role in genocide … all those things have come into their full power now.

Really? That’s so interesting, and a bit disappointing.

I’m still on kbin so I can’t see downvotes from other instances, only our own. So most downvotes for me indicate actual spam.

Well yeah that’s the big picture for sure. I live in a country where there is no capital gains tax on houses and consequently no cheap housing anywhere in the country, because capitalism.

We have universal healthcare, but our housing situation creates a huge drain on it. It’s infuriating.

I didn’t think there was anything wrong with them looking, it was the telling management part that bothered me. As a society we’re too quick to throw each other under the bus.

Those roofers are kind of horrible. If someone homeless is sheltering somewhere weird you don’t rush off and tell on them.