Isn't the significant presence of hexbear folks here pretty solid evidence that their admins don't have good control over their users (or rather that they have no interest in following their own rules)? They were specifically told to stay out of metas for other instances.

Because I have moderated communities that live and die by the quality of their discussion and I understand that once you slip too far, you will not come back. Rabid circlejerky instances that promote dogpiling do not facilitate discussion and as a whole are bad for the health of the threadiverse. If people can't have a reasonable discussion here they will simply leave. That does not mean that I think hexbear should not exist, but they should probably be contained to their own corner of the broader threadiverse.

It’s a thread about us, so . . .

It's actually a community about us, so...

My valiant neoliberal argument. Their insidious tankie rhetoric.

I am a leftist.

You can see the instance of the poster, can’t you? And it’s not like hexbear people are able to downvote posts, so our vote is (while still something) relatively weaker.

We can't downvote either, but a quick sampling shows over 3x as many hexbear users commenting as blahaj, so...

Not to mention there are potentially serious legal consequences for even hosting such content accidentally.

To be clear, the article is talking about correlations in polling, not suggesting you strike up conversations with your neighbors.

It's a reference to the women's lib movement. It's about liberation from patriarchy and traditional gender roles.

See here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_liberation_movement

Note that what they're really interested in here is a fundamental change in how extras work. They want to turn it from an industry that hires early/struggling actors and turns it into the sort of thing that a college student can get one-time emergency money from. Akin to selling blood or eggs.

One thing they've started mentioning over on Mastodon is that boosts can probably be legally used to build ad profiles.

My biggest problem with that blog post is Eugene seems convinced that Mastodon's brand is sufficient enough to prevent EEE. I really think he is missing the fact that his own distaste for fairly popular features makes Mastodon fairly easy to poach users from.

Existing conversation over here: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/638694

I think this is actually totally reasonable on their part. It does, however, mean that we need to start rebuilding some of the biggest communities elsewhere.

I honestly think it's somewhat irresponsible to have allowed themselves to grow as they did with only four moderators. Other instances have closed registration to maintain healthy growth. That should've happened long before this point.