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   nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 12:25:21 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:
   So if I post that I'm going to shoot myself in the head with a Glock, could I brush that off as a comedic bit
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     nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 12:26:30 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:

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     How many layers of irony until it overflows back to, not irony
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 12:27:48 JST pistolero

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     @nyanide What if there is no such thing as irony?
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     nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 12:28:19 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:

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     @p Right, take everything on the internet seriously and get into fights with strangers
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     nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 12:31:10 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:

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     @p No but really people look at like, people fedposting and saying "it's just a prank bro", unsurprisingly the police is called on them: "Wow comedy is illegal now"
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 12:31:35 JST pistolero

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     @nyanide If *all* of it is serious then there's not too much reason to fight people.
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     nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 12:31:53 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:

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     @p No but really people look at like, someone fedposting and saying "it's just a prank bro", unsurprisingly the police is called on them, the people exclaim "Wow comedy is illegal now"
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 12:32:28 JST pistolero

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     > No but really people look at like, people fedposting and saying "it's just a prank bro",
     
     Yeah, shit, seriously. "The feds will never know what 'in Minecraft' means...this is a flawless secret language."
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     Judge Dread (judgedread@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 14:24:43 JST Judge Dread

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     @p Blocking those dummies saved me endless trouble when Bowers' silicon chip switched to overload.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 14:24:43 JST pistolero

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     @judgedread Every time I have banned someone for fedposting, I got a wave of complaints. I figured the complaints were better than getting a disclosure request from the feds and "The shooter used FSE" being used as an excuse to crack down on fedi.
     
     Honestly not sure how seal.cafe lasted as long as it did, given the people on it. They've moved to nice honeypot dot digital, which, because of the shit on there, will eventually be the website that gets named as the excuse to fuck the rest of us over.
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     Judge Dread (judgedread@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 14:38:32 JST Judge Dread

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     @p I implemented a 'no group chat' rule after I quit the third or forth Gab chat that instantly decayed into fedposting. At least one Gab chat participant killed himself after Bowers because the feds started raiding guys who had been in chats with the shooter.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 14:40:49 JST pistolero

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     > instantly decayed into fedposting.
     
     Wonder how often the decay was prompted by an account going kamikaze because it was operated by a fed (US or German).
     
     Incidentally, did you know that the current Chancellor of Germany is on the board of BlackRock Germany?
     
     > At least one Gab chat participant killed himself after Bowers because the feds started raiding guys who had been in chats with the shooter.
     
     Holy fuck, man.
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     Judge Dread (judgedread@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 14:57:31 JST Judge Dread

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     @p DOGE basically proved that all social media was being rigged by feds.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 14:58:16 JST pistolero

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     @judgedread I figured that was proved somewhat earlier.
     kony2012psyop.jpeg
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     Judge Dread (judgedread@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 15:12:58 JST Judge Dread

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     @p Oh, I was fairly sure BIG social was being rigged. The shocking revelation is that they really were astroturfing on our tiny backwaters. There was so much funding to staff the project that they left no stone unturned.
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     Mr. Bacon (tony@clew.lol)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 15:29:19 JST Mr. Bacon

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     • pistolero
     @p @judgedread NUH UH, DOGE IS GOING TO FIX ALL OF IT.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 15:29:38 JST pistolero

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     > The shocking revelation is that they really were astroturfing on our tiny backwaters.
     
     That wasn't a shocking revelation; I have been posting about this for years. For my part, I didn't need proof for what I could see with my own eyes on my own machine.
     
     Stand up an instance, open registrations, and then when weird shit happens in your logs, try to fix the problems. To fix the problems you've got to diagnose them, and when you do, you will find IP addresses out of government buildings, you will find pedophiles living in Ft. Meade, you will find massive scraping operations run by academic institutions.
     
     > There was so much funding to staff the project that they left no stone unturned.
     
     I keep posting these things and no one listens. It's not just the US, Germany also.
     
     Here are some relevant PDFs. There's a very thorough dissection of the Boardreader thing as well as other scrapers at https://blog.freespeechextremist.com/blog/fse-vs-fbi.html and several more dots to connect under the "Fedi Eats Itself" heading on the entry about Fedilist at https://blog.freespeechextremist.com/blog/about-fedilist.html#Fedi_Eats_Itself . I did that stupid stunt with cramming invisible political hashtags into FSE and a well-funded NGO (channel.org, which runs newsmast.social and was formed because of all that gosh-darned Evil Disinformation that Trump invented) suddenly started scraping followers/following lists on FSE.
     the_hydra_on_the_web--challenges_associated_with_extremist_use_of_the_fediverse.pdf
     sigmetrics22.pdf
     rethinking_the_social_in_social_media--zulli_et_al--2020.pdf
     footprints_of_a_mastodon--how_decentralized_architecture_influences_online_social_relationships--zignani2019.pdf
     20230724-fediverse-csam-report.pdf
     19391_network_analysis_of_information_consumption_in_masto.pdf
     decentralized_web_moderation.pdf
     3614419.3644013--polarization_in_dosn.pdf
     3584931.3606970--characterizing_formal_rules_on_popular_mastodon_instances.pdf
     SSRN-id4213674.pdf
     3614419.3644016_an_exploration_of_decentralized_moderation_on_mastodon.pdf
     10.1145@3292522.3326034--spread_of_hate_speech_on_gab.pdf
     NSF-Staff-Report-rtn--featuring_david_rand.pdf
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     御園はくい (hakui@tuusin.misono-ya.info)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 16:50:55 JST 御園はくい

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     • pistolero
     @p @judgedread NII KONY KONY
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     ForcedInductionRetard (forcedinductionretard@pl.pube.tk)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 17:31:16 JST ForcedInductionRetard

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     @nyanide Only if you refer to «Glock» as «blicky with the swtich» and «shoot» as «dome». Bonus points if you call a drum magazine a «titty clip».
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     Judge Dread (judgedread@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 11-May-2025 03:31:49 JST Judge Dread

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     @p I never doubted feds and academic leftist members of the control grid were scraping. They've been bragging about doing so for ages.
     
     I did doubt that a fed funded human would generate sock puppets and argue with us on sites with a few thousand daily active users, but it appears I was mistaken.
     
     Oh, I did always believe FBI and other glowniggers were posting bait to ENTRAP easily provoked rubes to acquire victims for show trials, but that's not the only thing they did.
     
     It seems they actually attempted to spread propaganda.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 11-May-2025 03:38:00 JST pistolero

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     > I did doubt that a fed funded human would generate sock puppets and argue with us on sites with a few thousand daily active users, but it appears I was mistaken.
     
     The German feds admitted to doing so a long time back. But you know, if they're on the less popular chans, it'd be more surprising if they weren't here. But I think, like, this is stuff you can find out directly by running an instance.
     
     If anything came out of Doggycoin dot government about this and you have links handy, I'm really interested.
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     SilverDeth (silverdeth@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 11-May-2025 04:40:18 JST SilverDeth

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     • pistolero
     • Judge Dread :verified:
     @judgedread @p
     
     It only takes a small number of people backing someone with enough charisma to start a preference cascade. Club fed knows their grip is weak - and the worse the standard of living gets, the less glue holding the rickety framework that is the GAE sticks.
     
     So they will entrap, skitzo-post, shatter-op and argue in the most obscure of locals rather than risk someone with the ability to rally others picking up a following.
     
     One capable man, with ice-water in his veins and 500 absolutely loyal die-hards could cause unbelievable problems - not the least of which would be showing all the rest of the cattle how little reach the feds truly have absent a wholly compliant local government to save their asses.
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     Desire-kun (nepiant@varishangout.net)'s status on Sunday, 11-May-2025 04:54:58 JST Desire-kun

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     @nyanide Depressed people everywhere agree that yes, you can.
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     イリエ (irie@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 11-May-2025 05:03:14 JST イリエ

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     @nyanide the joke here is you thinking anyone would care
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     nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Sunday, 11-May-2025 05:03:58 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:

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     @irie That's the punchline for the people who genuinely try to do what I'm describing.
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     rain (rain@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 11-May-2025 05:04:06 JST rain

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     @p @nyanide Irony is a dead scene
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     御園はくい (hakui@tuusin.misono-ya.info)'s status on Sunday, 11-May-2025 05:06:35 JST 御園はくい

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     イリエ (irie@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 11-May-2025 05:06:37 JST イリエ

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     @hakui wow kahui with another important contribution. the type you would expect from a 40 year old balding man with no dignity and shits for brains. you said you wanted to blow them out? better check if you haven't already, because you fooled me
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     Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 11-May-2025 05:37:10 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb:

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     @judgedread @p
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     Chzikken_1486 (chzikken_1486@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 11-May-2025 05:40:10 JST Chzikken_1486

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     @judgedread @p Ar15.com has been a Fed honeypot for years now.
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     NoDoxGregBrady (nodoxgregbrady@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 11-May-2025 05:40:10 JST NoDoxGregBrady

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     @TrevorGoodchild @judgedread @p I don't know why, but suddenly I feel compelled to assassinate JFK.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 11-May-2025 05:48:03 JST pistolero

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     @ceo_of_monoeye_dating @judgedread
     
     > kinda shocked that everyone forgot about this
     
     Especially given the paper by Facebook researchers about "emotional contagion" that had a study period that overlapped with Kony2012. I'm pretty sure this was a hugely successful psyop experiment.
     
     > The idea that all of social media is a giant trap to make people rabidly and temporarily like/hate certain things is interesting, and being forcibly isolated from it may have made my life far better.
     
     I don't think it's an organic push by normies demanding the Mall Internet, right, I think if you had TV/radio as a propaganda channel all these decades and suddenly people care about the web, maybe you push things that direction. Glowies that were used to being able to just phone up Facebook and get information started shitting themselves over E2EE. "We're going dark!" They don't wanna lose a thing they had.
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     CEO of Monoeye Dating (ceo_of_monoeye_dating@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Sunday, 11-May-2025 05:48:04 JST CEO of Monoeye Dating

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     @p @judgedread That's an interesting point and I'm actually kinda shocked that everyone forgot about this. The idea that all of social media is a giant trap to make people rabidly and temporarily like/hate certain things is interesting, and being forcibly isolated from it may have made my life far better.
     
     Also remind Dread that his skin's made of paper.
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     イリエ (irie@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 11-May-2025 06:28:33 JST イリエ

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     @judgedread @p if the hire people to post in group chats, where at times they only 5 to 30 people, it shouldn't come as a surprise if they pay people to post on the FEDiverse
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     rain (rain@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 11-May-2025 06:29:40 JST rain

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     @p @nyanide the only way out is back through
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     イリエ (irie@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 11-May-2025 06:29:44 JST イリエ

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     @SilverDeth @judgedread @judgedread @p ironically reads like a fedpost
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     rain (rain@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 11-May-2025 06:30:09 JST rain

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     @nyanide @p if one is irony poisoned just get back to speaking straightdorwardly and more directly, occasionally figurative, not doing things or saying things ironically, it's the opposite of what one should be doing. Expression is part of identity, shows someone's character and disposition.
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     dobó istván (istvan@noauthority.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-May-2025 06:30:14 JST dobó istván

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     @p @judgedread I can’t imagine how horrible it must be to run a server with open registration.

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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 11-May-2025 06:32:07 JST pistolero

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     @istvan @judgedread It's like anything: you find stuff out.