Holy fuck, ~56 in Canada in the 21st century. We had 3 months last year that beat Canada’s total.

I’m not aware of the exact vote total count and keeping track would be exhausting, but downvotes are rare and are separated from upvotes in my app. So when I see a bunch out of nowhere when there were none before then it’s obvious someone got a little unhinged. Sorry I’m aware of my online presence. Having internet stalkers will do that to you.

Yep, it’s really frustrating. I used to be a decent contributor in statistics, analytics, machine learning, and Linux oriented communities on one of my Reddit accounts before deleting it in June. Thought I could find a better home here but I’m not interested in contributing if the culture is so negative to anyone who doesn’t fit the FOSS/Linux crowd. Like seeing mass-downvotes of well-written contributions along with rude/dismissive comments screams “you don’t belong here” to people and will absolutely inhibit Lemmy’s long-term success.

Don’t care about the votes as much as I care about someone being unhinged enough to go through and interact with my entire post history. Dealt with enough weird behavior here.

They used the same name on their alt instances. I’m not fucking stupid or going to make a claim without knowing. They were dumb enough to comment using their third alt with a different name on a thread with an admin while posting the same content in the communities they were banned in.

For the account that went through my stuff yesterday, it happened after I posted here and hadn’t posted in days and those threads had no activity. But the negative voted all increased by one on everything I had. Going back a month.

Mod who abused their power was on c/politics and c/world and was removed from the mod team then permabanned after using the group mod account to ban people after their temp ban. I’m the one who called them out to another mod and it got escalated to the admin level.

I hate my face too, you ain’t special

Maybe I should add a little context, as honestly it’s much more around the annoyance of having to deal with people that are unhinged online. Dunno what it is about Lemmy specifically, but I’ve definitely encountered more people here per post that will go through my comments/posts to comment and downvote over nonsense than elsewhere.

Like in December, I had the audacity to ask if someone’s post really belonged in the community they posted it in. He proceeded to harass me by downvoting and commenting on my stuff across THREE accounts with no repercussions from admins on either the LW or Reddthat instance their accounts were on. Mods temp-banned him from a few communities it took place in and it calmed down once I blocked the third account and stopped posting for a bit. Then I had a mod on a power trip delete and downvote some of my comments before I got him banned less than a month later over covid misinformation.

It’s one thing if it’s just downvotes on a single comment, but it’s uncomfortable having someone go through my stuff and be that upset at me over nothing. People on Reddit and Twitter have tried to dox me with one dude messaging my old boss on LinkedIn trying to get me fired for discussing why Reddit is severely overcharging compared to industry partners I work with during the API fiasco.

Lemmy needs to make it a lot harder to interact with post/comment history through profiles, as having at least some barrier would help offset the more mildly-unhinged people.

Deleted my original comment about enjoying my AVP. Deleted all of my comment/post history, will probably delete this one too. Say one thing positive about Apple and lemmy comes in with the downvotes. Like going through my old posts and downvoting them is insane behavior. Go see a therapist because ya need help.

Can’t say I’m one of them. Love mine and can’t wait to see how wearable computers evolve from here. Easily one of my favorite tech products in years.

The US spends that much on healthcare each year because the US has multiple inefficient healthcare systems with private healthcare being the worst offender by far. I recommend reading “The Healing of America” by T. R. Reid which breaks down the four major healthcare systems that are found around the world and compares them to America’s. We’d effectively save trillions by overhauling ours and eliminating the Out of Pocket model most of us rely on here and at minimum negotiating costs like the Bismarck model.

Of course funding should be expanded beyond the ultra-rich, but right now the majority of that wealth is sitting idle and benefiting nobody but themselves. The population decline in first-world countries is going to cause a lot of strain on the system, but not doing anything is going to make it muuuuch worse.

I’m very glad your setup works! Totally get that my experience isn’t the same as everyone’s. Outside of the Hue Sync box, my Hue lights work more consistently than my Govee and Nanoleaf lights.

The Sync box does not like Dolby Vision despite a recent firmware update adding support. It will randomly cut out the feed to my TV so I’ve had to continuously disable Dolby Vision on inputs when I catch them reverting back. It’s especially frustrating when playing games or watching sports. Not what I expect out of a $250 HDMI passthrough box.

The government, hopefully. Should be a basic function for any wealthy nation with a social safety net. Real problem is getting enough tax revenue from the rich.

Idk what this author is on about with Hue. I own mostly Hue lights and the amount of times and they regularly don’t respond to commands from Siri, Google, or the Hue App. My favorite is when all but one bulb responds, so you’re sitting there with a bright light on when you wanted to turn them off for bed. Meaning you flip the switch, defeating the purpose of smart lights.

Pairing can be a nightmare on its own if something goes wrong with the hub or you move. Should be as easy as pressing the button on the hub, right? Well, sometimes you have to take the bulbs out and enter their serial numbers individually. Made a note on my phone with all the serials so I don’t have to do that again.

Don’t even get me started on the shitshow that’s the Hue Sync box. Fuuuuuuuuuccccckkkkk I hate that box with a passion.

Here’s how Hillary can still win

For a second my brain read this as Eric Prydz and I got hella confused. Fuck this guy and fuck Blackwater.

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Not advocating for it nor acting like it’s a brand new concept. Just describing why DRM and NFTs aren’t the same thing. You’re kind of being an ass with your tone for no reason.

They aren’t quite the same thing though. DRM only applies as a copyright protection tool so copyright owners can restrict who has access to a given piece of digital content. NFTs don’t provide that access right but instead act as a method of logging who has ownership of a given piece of content via a decentralized ledger.

The use-case from my understanding was that an NFT would be useful for updating the DRM access rights for someone assuming the content was sold and transferred to someone else. In addition, it would allow for the copyright holder themselves to continue to profit off of resold digital assets.

Essentially, that would mean DRM and NFTs would play hand-in-hand. An NFT isn’t much use if the server handling DRM and content delivery is gone. And the decentralized nature means that if the original DRM protocol or copyright owner changed, ownership would be easily transferable assuming the content is made available by the new holder or across products, like in-game skins.

Think of it this way: you bought a movie on Amazon that was later removed from Amazon due to a contract dispute. An NFT would give you the ability to own that movie on another platform, like Google Play instead of repurchasing it. Though at the end of the day, it’s all about creating a market for artificial digital scarcity.

Is it the best solution? Dunno, I’m sure there’s something better and more efficient that’s possible. Or the high seas lol

That was the only argument about NFTs that seemed interesting. But instead we got stupid cartoon monkeys.

I might! Though Lemmy is unfortunately pretty frustrating when it comes to technology that isn’t FOSS/Linux (I use arch btw). Especially towards Apple users to a point where I wouldn’t feel super comfortable making a standalone post. I’d really rather not invite potential harassment and barrages of downvotes. Nor folks generally shitting on me for ‘wasting my money’, being ‘rich’, or a ‘fanboy’ because I bought one. Not worth the effort.

If I feel like writing one it’ll probably be a comment under a post in this community :)