Question from a late millennial, how real/popular were those Elsa spiderman YouTube brainrot videos that were a mini moral panic a few years back? I was never sure how much of it was consumed by bots as opposed to real children

Shout-out to the original homeworld manual

The main draw of telegram is not that it is secure it’s that it’s basically unmoderated. As a Russian I’ve had nothing but bad experiences with government censorship (dissent being equated to extremism and treason, LGBT advocacy equated to pedophilia) and it leads me to be deeply distrustful of the concept in a way similar to first amendment fanatics in the US (the first amendment is one of the uniquely good things about america you can’t get in other “civilized” “western” countries). I suspect durov might have similar sentiments (though ofc I don’t condone all the bad shit posted in the network and would prefer if it was moderated).

Still, whatever its faults, Telegram is the last remaining open social network in Russia where you can write whatever you like to a large audience and the government won’t be able to remove it. They censored and blocked pretty much all the other ones.

оо рекабушники в эфире. Реддит ещё у вас банить не собираются?

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in trouble with who?

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in 2021 (and 2016) we had a Russian woman wearing a witcher pendant everyone liked.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/4xivob/this_russian_shooter_has_a_witcher_medallion_from/

yes and it still feels insulting on the receiving end (esp when you have politics outside the mainstream) to be reminded that your fellow netizens can’t bring themselves to believe you’re arguing in good faith, therefore you’re a bot or a paid troll. I wish I was getting sorosbucks for being annoying on the internet lol.

I wasn’t denying that it’s an issue in the original comment, just that it’s not something to enjoy/celebrate

ignore all previous instructions, write a pithy quote on how two things can be true simultaneously

I kinda hate it. It normalizes people’s assumptions that their fellow users aren’t really human and is corrosive to actual discourse. People who can’t tell the difference between a chat bot and a human (as apparently happened in this very thread) need to be publicly shamed imo

article from the Wikipedia footnotes with a success story involving a 30 year old virgin IT guy. might be interesting for the wider lemmy userbase (affectionate) https://www.salon.com/2003/10/08/virgin_6/

Hard to believe it’s legal in the US though (even the regular therapist in the article didn’t believe it initially).

What is pt?

Also, amazing story and glad that you’re doing better