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Police dubbed the investigation “Operation Fake Monster."

Per a statement issued Sunday by the Rio de Janeiro Civilian Police, two people were arrested on May 3 who police say were members of an online group “spreading hate speech and preparing a plan, mainly against children, adolescents and the LGBTQIA+ community.” The group — which was not named in the police statement — allegedly attempted to recruit others, especially teenagers, to carry out attacks at the concert using improvised explosives, Rio Police chief Luiz Lima told the Associated Press, with the goal of “gaining notoriety in order to attract more viewers, more participants.” No explosives were reportedly found during the investigation.

[-] [email protected] 64 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Comments are a hilarious minefield and a painful reminder of exactly how online leftists can never get shit done. We want FOSS federated social media platforms to escape the tech giants that would happily facilitate a fascist wave if it meant they can serve more targeted ads. But when that platform actually exists in a totally functional and apolitical way, we don't want to support its development because the people willing to work full time on the project for poverty wages have bad political opinions. It's so bad that we'd rather support Steve Huffman's bot farm which is 1,000 times as politically influential as Lemmy will ever be at this rate.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

The number of times I totally overshot distance based on the quest description and ended up in the Ashlands....

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

There are so few open source games, they have just cemented a permanent audience for themselves for the next 10 years by announcing this.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Read the article instead of responding to the title. It was a university conducting formal research, which created AI bots that impersonated different identities. "As a black man..." style posts in ChangeMyView.

The subreddit mods issued a formal complaint to the university when they learned of it, but the university is choosing not to block its publishing on the grounds of lack of harm.

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[-] [email protected] 84 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The point is outreach to the other platform. Sending engagement to this video on YouTube will boost it due to YouTube's algorithm. More exposure on YouTube = more potential new PeerTube users. Publishing this on PeerTube is preaching to the choir. As an alternative platform, you always need to maintain a presence on the main platform so you can encourage people looking to leave.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

If you have the skillset and CV to work at Meta, you have a choice to work somewhere slightly lower on the scale of exploitation.

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In lieu of a final 4th season, they're producing a feature length film. Despite the rather saccharine and overly PG vibes, I really enjoyed the vision of a queer teenage life that was actually a life, even despite setbacks like rigid family, mental illness, trans discrimination. I spent most of my teen life at home depressed playing World of Warcraft and struggling to conceptualize what I could even be if I was out of the closet, so in a way it's a cathartic watch.

[-] [email protected] 96 points 2 months ago

Not the Ship of Theseus in the last one ☠️

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

😭 I feel like I've had this argument shot for shot. The Internet poetry of it all is astounding.

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Author Marwan Kaabour has curated a necessary intervention in understanding queer Arabness on — and through — our own terms, instead of those imported into the region.

Today's long read for me. Has anyone read the book? I was considering...

[-] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago

Multi generational households are known for their lack of privacy and personal agency. You could not pay me to move back in with my parents. I don't even stay with them over the holidays because it's that bad. The banks did not have to brainwash me on this one.

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Legal experts say the full ramifications of the ruling are still unclear.

J.K. Rowling reportedly donated £70,000 to the appellant, For Women Scotland, in 2024.

Really terrible news for our trans brothers and sisters in the UK.

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https://www.tiktok.com/@illuminaughtytriangle/video/7492101277460008197

TL;DR the venue quietly jacked up the quote for a gay couple planning to wed in the famously gay-friendly resort town in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. The couple suspected they were getting duped, so they asked friends to get a quote for a wedding with the same specs, and their suspicions were confirmed. They did some googling on the venue and found many reviews indicating the same experience among other gay couples.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Completely right OP, and this is worth repeating as MUCH as possible. More than almost any UX or intake changes, Fediverse will only grow if their experience of the community is good.

Unfortunately, some people have never caught a vibe in their life and it shows lol. A single person with a bad attitude can completely tank your experience in a small community, versus a 20,000 person subreddit where usernames are basically indistinguishable.

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If you're in the NYC area, come bid on us April 2 at Animal in Brooklyn.

If not, maybe this is your sign to try out with your local gay rugby team :).

[-] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

I imagine Lemmy skews WAY to the side of PCs/computers. But the average consumer is almost exclusively using their phone for everything except work and taxes. I'm a digital native and I even find browsing Lemmy to be easier via app than browser.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

A lot of disingenuous Lemmy users in that thread pretending that picking a server is more confusing than filing your taxes. I think join-lemmy should probably hot-list like 6 or 7 servers instead of making you choose via a primary interest, since you can migrate your account later anyway. But I am personally not tech oriented and managed to make an account and find an app without an issue.

The goal was never to convince people who don't know how email works to join, it's to convince an average reddit user to join.

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