Since Blaze’s answer is comprehensive, I’m linking it here as well for anyone that comes across this: https://lemmy.ca/post/40668574/15756000

Do you have a source for that number?

Good suggestion, thanks!

These are great, thank you! I can link them in this post as well as in our weekly threads.

Ah great, I need to fix the formatting and schedule them out again.

edit: I made some changes and I’ll schedule out the rest based on feedback. How does this look?

I think we can find a way to work that in to the updated rules for the community. I’ll copy this into our notes for where we’re working on those

My guess: they were doing it for tiktok/reels/yt views

Makes sense, there’s lots that they can do with it

• summer time, tensions are heated
• heatstroke, food related illness, fireworks injuries
• conflicts around culture and patriotism/nationalism

I always preferred PrivacyGuides. Looking forward to the activitypub integration with their other community

It’s excellent! I think it has the potential to go the way of Blender and Krita, where it becomes the popular choice regardless of free / open source

We might need that in the future, but for now I think we have enough moderators to users to deal with brigading and bad faith arguments when it happens. So far users have been excellent about reporting it to us

I also don’t love doing blanket bans based on participation alone. Sometimes people comment on content to call it out, and without following the thread carefully and being familiar with the topic, it’s hard to tell who’s arguing for what. That being said, if it’s clear that someone is a problem in other communities, I think it makes sense for mods or admins to preemptively ban them.

That’s fair, can you link some of the posts? You can also DM me, or @admin@lemmy.ca

There isn’t much brigading since it gets dealt with, but it’s not impossible

Mercury’s surface temperatures are both extremely hot and cold. Because the planet is so close to the Sun, day temperatures can reach highs of 800°F (430°C). Without an atmosphere to retain that heat at night, temperatures can dip as low as -290°F (-180°C).

I think this is the big reason. It’s also close to the sun, which makes it difficult to land something on it. There’s likely not as much value in doing it just yet, while we can gather data about its composition through other methods. Eventually we might do it, and I imagine it’ll be for resources of some kind

https://www.space.com/41664-mercury-lander-mission-study-proposal.html

I found this article just now but have read it all yet. Seems relevant

Mercury has been devoid of spacecraft companions since NASA’s Messenger mission ended in 2015, and while the next mission bound for the innermost planet launches later this year, it won’t arrive until 2025.

On the last point, here is that new mission and the updated timeline

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BepiColombo

On 15 May 2024, ESA reported that a “glitch” prevented the spacecraft’s thrusters from operating at full power during a scheduled manoeuvre on 26 April.[9] On 2 September, ESA reported that to compensate for the reduced available thrust, a revised trajectory had been developed that would add 11 months to the cruise, delaying the expected arrival date from 5 December 2025 to November 2026

In their defense, for someone who has never heard of Lemmy/the fediverse, it’s reasonable for them to be cautious. So many other platforms are VC funded, do guerilla marketing, have hidden agendas, etc. It’s especially bad on Reddit with all the AI astroturfing now.

I’ve seen a bit of that in the Canadian reddit comms, where new users are initially concerned that they’re joining another american tech startup’s platform. Once they learn how the network works, how the software is open source, and (specific to lemmy.ca) that the site is managed by a non-profit and the servers are in Vancouver, they’re more excited about it :)

Yes it’s hard to tell what they’re looking at, but I imagine the less info they can collect from your device the better?

I usually lookup ‘alternative frontends’ and then find a list like this on github type sites. They go out of date often

https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends?tab=readme-ov-file#facebook

With the proxy websites, it’s more of an alternative frontend where you still need an account on the platform.

What might be happening is

• your device or IP address is flagged from your previous attempts
• they’ve connected it to your real name / shadow profile somehow

So if you really need to use it and there’s no alternative, you could do one of

• make the real account, ideally from a privacy friendly browser, and give the absolute minimum info you can. Name and email, no profile image, privacy settings to max

• make an account on a new device / wifi network, and have it be believable for the kind of person joining Facebook for the first time. I haven’t tried this myself but I’ve heard it mentioned before

Whether you made an account or not, you can keep an eye out for alternatives. Over here there are a few alternatives, and one of them (Karrot) has been growing in popularity

https://betakit.com/south-koreas-neighbourhood-buy-and-sell-app-karrot-hits-one-million-canadian-users-builds-toronto-engineering-hub/

It might enshitify at some point, but it’s been nice so far

Thanks :)

The community !tech@programming.dev could also use some love

It looks like there are a number of reports on this post. If you could edit a tag into the title, such as [satire], that would probably make everyone happy

When an instance is defederated, that happens at the server level. That content doesn’t get loaded onto your Lemmy instance to begin with, and so you wouldn’t see anything. From memory the comment count would be lower on a post on your instance compared to the foreign one