I believe in reality, the kneejerk reddit mod multiban just transitioned seamlessly into fediverse multibans and defederations - I know, who could’ve foreseen such shit. Some defederation happened for good reasons, but I’ve been cluster banned from a bunch of communities I never even been in as a “lemmy.world zionist”, apparently, and that last bit is news to me at least. People bring their sad, incredibly petty bullshit with them.

People here are no fonder of “alternate viewpoints” than on reddit, you can tell the hivemind kicking in just from the person who pointed out a couple of blatantly realistic issues 8 seconds ago.

Any pushing you can do is probably not going to help. Last time it was some API shit that actually generated a small amount of outrage enough to move a small amount of people. Apathy, habit and lock-in will tend to defeat that, so unless this gets people at least as pissed as whatever the API thing was, I wouldn’t hold my breath.

Also, y’know, reddit… maybe it’s just as well.

Speaking as a nearly lifelong developer of one kind or another, with ASD and ADHD… there’s a big ol’ overlap. I’m not talking “the venn diagram is a circle” level overlap, but it is significant. Lots of people with these traits have personality quirks, differences in socioemotional processing from the “typical” stuff, experiences in early life, and other things, that can cause some pretty intense rabbit holing/spiraling when things get overwhelming.

To be clear though, this guy is obviously just a major dipshit. Nobody deserves being lumped in with that.

I know, right?! Although to be fair they are very far from mutually exclusive. Looks a lot like both.

The way it was written suggests either LLM slop or just being an obsessive dumbfuck with way too much time on his hands.

Refactored their existing “enable toxicity mode” feature into a clearer, toggleable blocklist feature

Not sure this would help in itself, even though more flexible blocking would ironically be nice. The value in such a list lies in how it’s curated, and the guy is still certifiable and about 3yo mentally, tops.

I have been wondering if “No Stupid Questions” is being misunderstood as a challenge. Originally, I think it was meant to be “no question too ‘obvious’”, but sometimes it does seem like there’s a contest on for asking the dumbest shit imaginable. All things considered LLM slop is likely, but it could still be “literally any topic for attention or activity’s sake” or plain old trolling.

When it comes to deleted threads that makes a lot of sense if you’re running a scam, but I suspect it’s also how people would react if enough people called them out for a bot.