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On that note, upvotes and downvotes upvote matter even less here ("here" meaning kbin) as the factor dictating comment order in the "hot" ranking is boosting (think retweet equivalent), not the vote count.

Not sure how that goes on Lemmy though.

He's just trolling us and speedrunning the PR meltdown category at this point, isn't he?

I can understand the value of making your community a more tight-knit one with a proactive stance on moderation, that's how Tildes operate and they're doing fine. The thing is I'm not sure I understand why, given this goal, Beehaw is part of the Fediverse in the first place, where there isn't much preventing someone from an outside group coming in. This sounds like a case where a centralized instance makes more sense. Maybe they're trying to see if such a community can exist on the Fediverse, in which case fair enough, but this seems like an uphill road.

Given that kbin (or at least kbin.social) generally doesn't have restrictions on making accounts either I would assume we're next, eventually.

Reading from kbin.social, the flagship kbin instance. All clear.

But isn't the en bannant move supposed to be forced?

So what you're saying is, mass-edit all your comments to contain your full name right before requesting deletion.

I have a few loose ends to tie up before walking away from the explosion as outlined in this comment from a similar thread but at this point, nothing short of the entire chain of decisions that started the API debacle being reversed and anyone involved in the mess, spez included, stepping down and being replaced by competent people would even begin to make me reconsider leaving. Of course, I might as well wish for a meteorite made of solid gold to land into my yard.

Besides, this doesn't fix the underlying issue that led us here in the first place, and the Fediverse might just be the answer to that one.

As exemplified by your comment accidentally getting duplicated four times :]

Perhaps a bit too seamless as there is no indication of which instance users are from unless you go and check their profile. I can see this becoming an issue down the line, so I picked up a userscript that fixes the problem (it has other features, but that's the one I mostly use it for).

/r/place is expected to come back on the 23rd of June, which is Reddit's 18th anniversary.

You'll note that this is also conveniently a week before the API changes go into effect, so I'm planning to, as spez would put it, make some more noise by putting a message right on the middle of the canvas highlighting their bad decision. Time will tell if I'm successful in this endeavor. So far, I have dragged a couple of hundred people and some change into this mess of a plan and The Swarm is going to be backing us up as well, in the manner you'd expect from the group behind the appearance of the black void in the previous iterations of /r/place.

Afterward, I'm torching my account.

Meanwhile over on kbin, the points really do, in fact, not matter since comment ordering is dictated by the boost count.