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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Unfortunately, this is exactly right. Republican vote suppression at it's finest (i.e. it's lowest moment).

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

Following. There's a forum for everything - or almost everything.

However, one gap that I'm aware of - I've not found a forum (or even fediverse magazine/community) for third culture kids. There were some in the past, but AFAIK they've all gone defunct by now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

That's a very good point. It's not a bad idea as it would indeed introduce significant friction. Even if eventually worked around completely, that would take time, during which there may well be a lot of persuasive complaints.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Only in the Spanish dub, which doesn't count. You've made a solid argument that is beyond my ability to refute. Instead I'll accept your position as the correct one and adopt your views as my own.

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

You're right - I must have forgot this was on Lemmy. If we were on FB or something like that then not everyone would get the implied /s - but fediverse users are quite a bit better in this regard.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Wondering if this is some kind of loophole - by a technicality, he's not guilty of vote buying if he doesn't actually pay up?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago

jordanlund wrote,

Oddly, on a personal level, I have no beef with the guy.

So I was just pointing out another example where this user could have tried to troll or inflame me, but instead went with the "no-beef" approach, for whatever reason.

After seeing how that user banned DMs, I don't see how anyone could be against the current permaban. I was just pointing out that somehow I was one of the rare few who somehow got along with that person while they were still here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Ah - I can see why they'd prefer an automod (they'd not have to worry about configuring or changing the server software in that case).

Unfortunately, as far I can tell, none of the existing automods out there support deleting posts by a rate limit. It's not impossible to add this functionality, but it'd take a bit of work and time from a dev.

For example, I think for lemmymodbot one can modify the User Processor at https://github.com/noenfugler/LemmyModBot/blob/master/lemmymodbot/processors/user_processor.py to accomplish this.

Under line 8, add this line to create a user/seen hash

user_post_seen_hash = {}

and replace the entire execute function with something like this,

if content.actor_id in self.user_post_seen_hash:
if int(datetime.now().timestamp * 1000) - int(user_post_seen_hash[content.actor_id].timestamp * 1000) <= 300 * 1000:
handle.remove_thing("Posting too frequently, take a break")
self.user_post_seen_hash[content.actor_id] = datetime.now()

(Oh, and at the top of the file, also add above the first line,

from datetime import datetime, timedelta

)

But for lemmy.world (even if just looking at /m/politics) it would likely OOM from the in-memory hash due to the volume of users, so it'd need to be extended leverage the database for the lookup.

Something similar could be implemented on top of threativore, I think around this line might be the easiest place to implement the check of the username/timestamp, https://github.com/db0/threativore/blob/main/threativore/threativore.py#L285

Edit: Forgot to add, all the above code changes are completely untested by me, use at your own risk, etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Exactly what I was thinking. Even lemmy.world has https://lemmy.world/c/conservative - so why does the instance have to be or support politically neutrality as a whole? Just join the magazines that fit your taste.

Even for political news specifically, I'm sure there are similar magazines to https://lemmy.world/c/moderate_politics - or alternatively, one can fill the gap by subscribing to an RSS feed from the many RSS-to-fediverse options out there, like https://lemm.ee/post/336615

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Coming from someone who successfully did exactly that - because it's quite tough. Immigration to most countries is quite competitive and expensive, with a lot of hoops to jump through. Those who can do it typically are much better off than the average Tommy and Gina (edit: Bon Jovi for those downvoters who don't get the reference).

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

Unfortunately, true. Countries in the Anglosphere generally don't allow immigration at all past the age of 50 or 55 unless you're married to a citizen or something, so odds are good you aren't even eligible to get in by the time you hit midlife.

And going outside of the Anglosphere requires becoming fluent in a language other than English - and even then it's not so easy to immigrate.

Of course, one can always head to Svalbard - they don't require work visas or residence visas, as per https://www.sysselmesteren.no/en/entry-and-residence/ - but it's pretty cold that close to the North Pole. Plus you'd have to learn Norwegian.

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

Which is very unfortunate. I do see hope here, as 41% means a majority of Americans are against such things (since almost all Democrats would also agree, obvs).

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