I don’t smoke with people who like ads shoved down their throats. It’s a personal thing.

Did I say you did so on this account?

Your long reply and bullshit about “bellyaching” isn’t helping me think otherwise.

I’m very aware that you don’t consider it an ad, but it’s an ad in my eyes. It’s literally a call to action to recruit people to improve their paid application in order to extract money from users in the future.

The question isn’t “did OP act in good faith”.

I do consider it an ad to recruit people to do beta testing for a paid product. I don’t want to see ads in my feed. If I wanted that, I’d go to reddit. Maybe they should post there instead, where ads are overwhelming and users don’t give a shit about being advertised to constantly.

Every comment you make makes me more and more convinced that you’ve created a throwaway account to advertise your own paid products here.

I’m aware, and don’t think that ads to provide free labor for a paid product belong here. That’s been my entire argument the entire time.

Yes, but all of your comments seem to miss the fact that this post is talking about paid software. Which is what the OP you’re talking about and defending did. You also said “they aren’t charging you”, which might be true for now, but they will make money off of beta tester’s free labor.

Lmao, the OP you’re talking about literally said that “It’s a paid closed source app”. Why are you not mentioning that little tidbid?

This OP’s contribution to the community was trying to extract free labor for a soon to be paid product.

They did think about that, apparently you did not. Did you not see that they specifically said “brand new” accounts? Or are you talking about the most recent OP that posted an ad to beta test PAID closed source software?

Agreed. Fuck Broadcom.

But I sure hope the “unnamed” virtualization software that they’re migrating to is FOSS, otherwise they’re going to inevitably run into this problem again.

what the fuck

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I think it could drain battery depending on what settings you tweak. However, I don’t have terrible battery drain. Here’s all of my settings that could be related:

With those settings, I get pretty frequent updates to my location. I do wonder about the call out that the update interval for locations is separate from others, I wonder if that applies?

Do you use persistent connection? Both myself and my partner use GOS and it works fine, and updates frequently. You might also be able to change the pull rate as well.

It uses http, and yes, it works perfectly on GrapheneOS.

I use Home Assistant for this. It works very well and the data is all local. It’s probably a bit heavy if you don’t use the other parts of home assistant though.

To be very clear here, I did not call you a spam network or spammer nor did I intend to do so. I said that it’s what your accounts look like at first glance to users that don’t know who you are. Lividweasel is saying this very thing, that they thought you were a spammer of some kind at first. This, and your unintended side effect of making Lemmy more challenging to curate, is really the main thing I’ve mentioned time and time again. I’m glad you’re at least willing to acknowledge that it’s making it more difficult for users to curate their feeds.

I do not agree that you’re boosting other instances simply by posting from them, and I don’t think the side effect you’re creating is worth the price. Further, I would argue that most users typically do not pay attention to the instance a user is from, especially when simply upvoting a post.

I also still don’t understand why you have to use the accounts you create communities with. Why not pick a primary and only post with that account? It would eliminate the “side effect” if you did that one simple thing.

The cross posts do not show properly in my case, only sometimes do I see them on your posts. Luckily, clients like Boost add a link to their original post when I cross post. It makes the cross post always show. You can see how buggy Lemmy is regarding baked in cross post links, since almost everyone above is saying that they can’t see that in their app. Why not add your own baked in link so that everyone can see that it’s a cross post?

What do you mean “better interconnecting smaller instances”? If it’s through cross posting, I doubt it, seeing as you don’t include the cross post link for maximum effect.

I also agree with lividweasel in that I grew to have a negative view on your army of accounts. It’s not necessarily your posts, but rather the way you post with dozens of accounts. Not saying that’s deserved, but if it happened to two of us, how many others get the same views? That can easily be fixed by simply posting from one account, instead of seeming like a spam network or ban evader. The only other user that I’ve seen do this type of thing is Monk, and I know your views of him.

Why use so many accounts? Don’t give me the “I’m supporting smaller instances” take. It’s not supporting smaller instances when you make them look like they’re part of your spam network. If it’s to create communities on them, why not just post to them specifically? Why post to one of the larger instances with a million accounts?

It only serves to make it look like you’re a spam network while also making it next to impossible to block your posts. Users will try to block you, think they’ve successfully curated their feeds, only to have you turn up again. It’s not a great Lemmy experience.

It also is not a good look to strip any reference to the OP, cross posts exist for a reason. It just makes it look like you’re stealing people’s posts and trying to make them your own.

To address your first edit, yes, it’s a script, and yes, it did delete the site and the backups, as confirmed by the site creator. You can browse the data extracted on https://okstupid.lol/

This wasn’t “just a fun script”. The site, backups, and infrastructure were actually deleted.

Did you read the article, like at all? It would have told you the same thing:

As of this writing, WhiteDate, which Hoffmann described as a “Tinder for Nazis”; WhiteChild, a site that claimed to match white supremacists’ sperm and egg donors; and WhiteDeal, a sort-of Taskrabbit-esque labor marketplace for racists, are all offline.

The administrator of the three websites confirmed the hack on their social media accounts.

“They publicly delete all my websites while the audience rejoices. This is cyberterrorism,” the administrator wrote on X on Sunday, vowing repercussions.

The administrator also claimed that Root deleted their X account before it was restored.

I’ve heard that these tools aren’t 100% accurate, but your last point is valid.