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Nah. It's like anywhere else, the loud kinda dumb fucks in the group are trumpers. Don't mistake Twitter for the scene.
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Changing it is very difficult. It takes 2/3rds of our legislative branch agreeing. We don't see that much.
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I think most eth-based transactions happen on different layers and then get settled on the main layer periodically. Same with Bitcoin, come to think of it. TPS doesn't seem like a particularly useful number these days.
Many Minnesota based corporations have resumed donating to election deniers, thinking we wouldn't notice.
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He wants to change? Maybe he should go to a conversion camp.
I attended by sitting in my chair and looking at Whatnot all day, and it only cost me $550. I got lucky and missed Todd McFarlane doing his stream with ComicTom. With the faces of **Hollywood on strike** I haven't heard much MCU/DCEU news. Did you catch anything? As far as comics go, **Mrs. Marvel's going to be back to life,** just in time for the movies. And **she's a mutant now.** We are all very surprised. The house of ideas just can't stop zigging when we expect a zag. /s But really, Mrs. Marvel should have been a mutant this entire time. It better fits her themes; from the little I've read of her books. It sounds like **she'll still be an Inhuman.** The actor that portrays her in Mrs. Marvel and The Marvels, **Iman Vellani is co-writing** the book. She seems great, I love her enthusiasm for comics. I hope she can write. **Todd McFarlane** has his name on another set of new books, mostly related to Spawn. I don't keep up with him all that much, but they were selling fast. **Greg Capullo** will be working on **Wolverine** and a new **Deadpool** title. If you're interested, here's an affiliate link to sign up for [Whatnot](https://whatnot.com/invite/classicgames). You get $10 off your first purchase, and I get $10 if you buy something. It's a cool live-auction app; a great place to score deals on comics and video games.
Aunt May's actor is a badass.
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I wish plex would bring back plugin support. If my podcasts and audiobooks could live there easily I'd open their app a lot more. Maybe watch some of those old TV and movies they're so excited about.
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Is anyone else having issues copying this image? I can't open it directly, it's weird.
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Every paragraph of that article got less and less certain about the results. Someday I'd love to be able to trust the headline.
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I wrote a review about a counterfeit item I received. They never approved that one. I haven't bought cologne from them since.
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I don't remember what I paid for Reddit Is fun Gold, but it was worth it. If a Lemmy client comes around, I'll buy that one too. Thanks for bringing Reddit to phones while they let you, TalkLittle. o7
W0rldtr33 is a suspense/horror book set in a modern-day, cyberpunk-emphasised world. Some kids find a secret forum on the equivalent of the darknet, and a serial killer begins hunting them. It also looks like they have an ARG going at [https://www.w0rldtr33.net/](their website). The series started recently, there are three issues out. The first issue had a recall on a couple of covers because they printed too dark. The main cover depicts a woman sitting on a bed, a corpse laying behind the bed. If the floor/right wall is mostly black, that's a recalled cover. Maybe worth checking out if you're a collector. This is a mature-rated book. There's a good bit of violence/gore, and nudity. It's published by Image.
Yesterday Hickman's new series dropped, "Ultimate Invasion." I haven't been to my comic shop yet, so I haven't read it. I only know the gist of it from the trailer I posted here the other day. As I scrolled through youtube the Comics Explained channel popped up with the title ::: spoiler spoiler "Marvel Just Killed Spiderman: Ultimate Invasion" (respect the fucking hyphen, Rob). ::: Now I don't know if it's clickbait. I would totally believe it happened. But the comic is barely 24 hours old. I get his content is telling people about other content. But jesus dude, wait a week. Steer clear of YouTube until you're caught up on event books, I guess.
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Decorum is important, or whatever she said a couple weeks back.
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Did they get rid of them, or did they hide it from the UI? Bots are the ultimate threat here, and they won't use the UI.
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I didn't consider federation. I'm not sure what prevents me from creating an instance with three users that vote on other servers. I can't run this test tonight. Hopefully someone gave that some thought.
New single from Baroness. I really like the first 50 seconds of this song. After that, it loses me.
TLDR: 3 people working together can gatekeep content on the "active" and "hot" feeds on smaller servers/communities. After some playing around, I noticed posts disappear after reaching a threshold. A quick search later and I'm in the [Lemmy docs](https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html) reading about how this all works. In plain English, any three people working together (or one person with three accounts) can stop posts from appearing on the default feed. Once a post reaches -2 it will only appear to people who browse "new." Edit: Of course, it reappears after it climbs above -2, but it's a race against the clock. As a smaller server, we're vulnerable to this. But we also have some extra mitigations - namely, [@seahorse@midwest.social](https://midwest.social/u/seahorse) has to approve everyone who joins, and that *might* weed out bad actors. So what can you do? Upvote content liberally, downvote sparingly.
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Thanks.
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It looks like posts in the negative are taken off the /active view, but still appear in /new.
Let's test it. Upvote if karma does matter, downvote if it doesn't.
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I'm confused by the user count. I follow a mastodon user count bot, and it's numbers are pretty close to the ActivityPub user bot. Can anyone speak to how these bots work? Can they differentiate between mastodon, kbin, and lemmy?
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He Evades taxes and uses guns recklessly... Republicans don't like this guy?
Stan Lee was quite the character. He was charming. He was creative. He had a major influence on comics and pop culture. But I don't think he wasn't always 100% truthful, especially about how much credit he should take.
1. Go to https://www.marvel.com/redeem 2. Sign in. 3. Enter code: SECRETMU
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I actually went to a supper club and ordered an old fashioned last year, just to keep the tradition alive a little longer.
Comicstorian usually has well considered criticisms of the comic world. I haven't watched this yet, beware spoilers.
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502 bad gateway. Sounds about right for the fediverse.
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I'm a freelance web developer. I'd be happy to pitch in with DevOps/SysAdmin stuff as needed.
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Thank God. If there's one company that needs to continue existing it's Activision Blizzard. They deserve to continue sexually harassing their employees, and force endless crunch. This management team must continue to be entrenched in the industry, so they can continue producing subpar products with predatory pricing.
Way to start the big tech crack down with an issue that impacts consumers, FTC.