Meeting in person.
Meeting in person.
There are millions of them. You wouldn’t know it though, because they don’t announce themselves.
Always has been.
Will this post be a target of exactly, you’ll get a few downvotes. Why are you worried about that exactly?
Often when brigading happens, it’s not just the one comment that gets downvoted, you’re whole post history gets downvoted. Heavily downvoted posts don’t show up in feeds, and you end up struggling to interact with the community. Some communities will outright ban (or shadow ban) a heavily downvoted account. Its forced ostracism.
Once again, it’s a question of incentives. People operating individual servers have no interest to allow corporate interference on the platform.
It may not be openly allowed, I understand that. The problem is when you have bad faith actors and shills. They pretend to be not associated with a corporation, but they subtly push an agenda.
I’m not convinced. You’ve made several claims, and maybe it’s obvious to you as to why it’s hard for corporations to infect the fediverse, but not to me. I’m probably too smooth brained to see it.
Here is Phil Jamesson using the behaviour of Reddit and the upvote system to get to the top of /r/videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69bFOYklP-E
What is stopping the marketing team of a corporation to influence the fediverse using similar and more advanced techniques? Lemmy uses an upvote system. Why can’t it be abused like Reddit’s system?
I’ve already seen several examples of small scale brigading. I can’t mention examples because it would immediately make this post another target.
As long as it’s not run by corporations there’s no problem.
Just because the fediverse doesn’t have sponsorships doesn’t mean corporations aren’t interested in poisoning the well. Anyone could be a bad actor. Heck, it could be anyone. I could be a corporate shill and you’d never know.
Wikipedia runs on donations. Does that mean that outside entities aren’t interested in biased editing?
Microsoft: Cool, now we know what communities care about Tor on our OS. Time to pass this info onto the alphabet groups.
it’s with the ones that amateurs think that are safe because they get sloppy with them.
I changed and highlighted a word that I have concerns about. Keeping in mind, an amateur would have to make sure they correctly purify the end product, and make sure dichloromethane isn’t in the end product.
Just because a reagent is dangerous doesn’t mean the products it creates will be.
I understand that. My concern was with amateur chemists mucking around with the dangerous reagent in their backyards. Imagine them ventilating their lab and killing the neighbours dog, things like that. Or not disposing of wastes appropriately.
even amateurs could make in a backyard lab, from indole and dichloromethane
I hope they don’t. Dichloromethane ain’t nothing to mess with. Wikipedia page section on its toxicity
Hey! That’s “Mr Moron” to you.