HarkMahlberg

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (3 children)

In the wild, it's far more common for them to just spin up a bunch of accounts across "good" instances (particularly those without registration applications) and coordinate.

In 2023, this happened to a ton of unsecured Misskey instances who then proceeded to spam most of the Fediverse. It was just a troll in reality, but revealed that the Fediverse is no less vulnerable to coordinated, sophisticated attacks (and with how politically minded it is, there's plenty of incentive for nation state actors to do so).

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Just wanna say warm wishes, share your research if you find anything.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 5 days ago (9 children)

Might be a great excuse to visit Denmark... I hear it's wonderful there.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The papers we hold up and say "this will be the foundation of our government, society, and economy" can say anything we want, but none of the words on the page matter once the people in the system abdicate their responsibilities to point at something wrong, refuse to participate, and work against it.

SOX controls are the result of the Enron fraud, but those are also just words on a page. The US Constitution is just words on a page. SCOTUS may very well rule this year that the US government cannot deport native-born, tax-paying, passport-holding, lived-here-all-their-lives US citizens.

Watch as the Trump administration does it anyway. It's all just words to them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Well there's the disaster that was hexbear...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

They also have 1.4 Billion people, each.

4x the US population.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

The Baltics catching strays: "and I took that personally"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah they were never learned to begin with.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Wow... That's quite the journey. Thank you for sharing it.

It's particularly enlightening is that the diversity of information presented to you is what helped you change. Not just one "gotcha" quote from some online commenter, one snippy remark about a noticeable hypocrisy. Not one source of disruption, but many. I think that's fascinating, and extremely helpful for those of us with family who only get their news and opinions and politics from one place.

Again, thanks for telling your story.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

They'll willingly catch leprosy if Trump told them to.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I know, I didn't mean to sounds argumentative with you. You presented the facts clearly for the OP who asked their question. :)

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