cowvin

From what I’ve read, the troll farms mostly operate funded by Russia but are physically located outside of Russia. For example, Macedonia had quite a few.

Well they mention Github artifacts in that message so it sounds like it’s more like they may have obtained source code and that sort of non public stuff.

Usually what happens is that these sorts of blackmailers will leak small, verifiable pieces of data so people know they really got something. We don’t see that here, so for now there’s no reason to take them seriously yet.

This isn’t ransomware. This is standard blackmail.

I had a couple of Motorola phones back in the day. Most recently I had a Moto Z2 Force, which had a shatterproof screen. I really liked that because around then I had my first kid and kids cause accidents all the time. LOL

I think that would defeat a piece of the point of a decentralized system. In the current design, what will naturally happen is that if one instance has all the good content on a particular topic, most users will gravitate toward it anyway. We can read across federated instances anyway so I, a kbin user, have no problem reading something on lemmy like this.

Then let’s say one day [email protected] gets taken over by people who want to post stuff I don’t want to see. If I miss how it used to be here, I could go make [email protected] and it would be fine.

Just post them quotes from things like the Bible, Abraham Lincoln, or Ronald Reagan that directly contradict what the Republican Party does now.

Post more content here and help make it less boring. More content will attract more users, which will result in more content. We need to grow the community.

Remember that in an interview, they mentioned that they used fake accounts early on to control the discourse on Reddit.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z4444w/how-reddit-got-huge-tons-of-fake-accounts–2

Not saying I have any proof they are doing that now, but it does show what they are willing to do to control the platform.