The quickest way I actually did see someone get fired at my place was by posting racist shit on Facebook - on an account that was followed by many of his colleagues, including his manager. He was summarily dismissed at the start of his next shift.

Another one stole customers’ credit card numbers, but that one ended up with a criminal record.

I think I’ll remain agnostic on that one. Ask me again in 50 years and I’ll probably know the answer by then. Unless I happen to somehow reach the age of 106 without dying, in which case I’ll take a raincheck.

Reddit “stuff” isn’t automatically crossposted here. You’ll only see it when users decided to do that themselves. There are a number of communities that are equivalent to subreddits but the content in them is all new. Lemmy doesn’t have any direct feed to Reddit content.

I now fully understand why those cars keep exploding… 😂

It seems that this happens when you subscribe to a community on a different instance from your own. You can still read, post and interact exactly as if you were fully subscribed, you’re just not counted in the number of subscribers. I’ve been told that you can force the system to subscribe you properly by repeatedly unsubbing and re-subbing, but I’ve had no luck with doing that so I just leave them alone now.

I think lemmings is the best one. Lemmings are cute.

I still use Flickr, but bear in mind that a free account can have a maximum of 1000 images. Its taken me about 7 years to hit the limit so I just delete older ones as I add new ones in.

yes, because no ads basically means my antivirus software has nothing to do. Creators have no choice over what ads are served up with the content and 99% of ads are loaded with malware whether you click on them or not.

Creators need to come up with better ways to monetise their content instead of relying on them.

Classic martini, dirty, with an olive.

No, not really. I used Reddit more for discussions on niche topics/subreddits and tend to particpate more in text posts than link posts. I was never on Reddit for news or politics and its the same here. I’m engaging in fewer discussions on Lemmy so far, simply because there are fewer of them here right now.

nope. Its only affecting some threads, the settings of which are identical to the others, so it appears not to be a language issue.

The trouble with any sort of captcha or test, is that it teaches the bots how to pass the test. Every time they fail, or guess correctly, that’s a data-point for their own learning. By developing AI in the first place we’ve already ruined every hope we have of creating any kind of test to find them.

I used to moderate a fairly large forum that had a few thousand sign-ups every day. Every day, me and the team of mods would go through the new sign-ups, manually checking usernames and email addresses. The ones that were bots were usually really easy to spot. There would be sequences of names, both in the usernames and email addresses used, for example ChristineHarris913, ChristineHarris914, ChristineHarris915 etc. Another good tell was mixed-up ethnicities in the names: e.g ChristineHuang or ChinLaoHussain. 99% of them were from either China, India or Russia (they mostly don’t seem to use VPNs, I guess they don’t want to pay for them). We would just ban them all en-masse. Each account banned would get an automated email to say so. Legitimate people would of course reply to that email to complain, but in the two years I was a mod there, only a tiny handful ever did, and we would simply apologise and let them back in. A few bots slipped through the net but rarely more than 1 or 2 a day; those we banned as soon as they made their first spam post, but we caught most of them before that.

So, I think the key is a combination of the No-Captcha, which analyses your activity on the sign-up page, combined with an analysis of the chosen username and email address, and an IP check. But don’t use it to stop the sign-up, let them in and then use it to decide whether or not to ban them.

Don’t think I’ll be able to get a gin from Portland here, I’m in the UK. And with Ryan Reynolds’ name on it, an import would probably cost like £1000 or more. Islay scotch… I’m not a fan.

Hmm. What about the comments from sh.it users that I can’t see. Is the lemmy.world problem affecting those too? Or is sh.it also having problems of its own?

Good tip, thank you. I thought about that for the community but didnt think of it for myself.

yes it does seem like a Book of Shadows counts as a commonplace book. Is yours hand written or digital?

Thank you!

Drinking journal is fun. Everytime I have a new entry I put a drop of what I’m drinking on the page. The thick cotton pages hold water well and drive fast. Theres a lot of complexities to the flavors when homebrewing so it’s helpful to document whatever I can.

That’s awesome. I don’t homebrew (yet???) but I do enjoy real ale, and Scotch, and my partner is getting me into gin too. The flavour profiles vary so much from one to another (I’ve learned that pale ales made with Citra hops are my absolute favourites; if I see Citra on a beer label I know for sure that I will like it. They remind me of grapefruit). When it comes to Scotch, I like the Speyside malts best, they’re rich, sweet and fruity. I had (a very expensive) one that tasted literally like Christmas pudding. Gin… I don’t really know enough about yet but I’m starting to find flavour profiles that I like and dislike. I like the spicier ones and dislike the more floral ones, I think. I have a gin in my pantry right now that’s infused with Earl Grey tea, and it’s divine.

And… now I need to find Lemmy subs about booze, lol.

no, just undetermined.

Interesting - my friend who sent me the screenshots of comments he can see that I can’t, is also on lemmy.world. I didn’t think it was a federating issue though, because the first comment I could see, was also from a lemmy.world user. I’m starting to think that there was maybe some sort of down-time, with comments on posts created yesterday and the day before.