The content on here went straight into the garbage the moment they were allowed back. I'm sure I'm not alone in demanding they be defederated again immediately. They serve no positive purpose.

Every social media site is overrun by hundreds of Russian bots, some worse than others (Meta products). What can we do to combat this? Should those of us who don't want to live in a fascist dictatorship be running our own bot farms? Something has to be done to change the iron grip they have on the narrative of history and reality to the common man.

How can I make leftist bots to fight this plague?

Edit:

ITT: "Why you think it Russian bot, comrade? Russia never hack!"

There's enough available research to show that Russia is running massive bot programs, you're either living under a rock, ignorant, or it benefits you to deflect from the issue.

Edit 2: The user with the name like dimesix (I've blocked them) has gone through and downvoted all the comments he could on my profile. I wonder why this thread upsets him to such a degree that he'd do that?

I'm fascinated by their steam system but it's got me curious, having so much steam being used for everything, is the city more humid than the average?

Edit: I appreciate the answers, but I was hoping there was some research on this instead of guesstimations. Also, some of your responses are really general as if you think I'm talking about any city in America, but you should look up New York Cities steam system, it's very interesting and unique and has been in operation since the 1800s.

For whatever reason now when I have Ublock enabled every page on YouTube loads twice, and playlists are completely unusable as they reload indefinitely. If I disable Ublock this stops. Every other site seems to be just fine.

I remember there being a website that listed all the good things Obama had done for people who constantly said he did nothing good, I'm hoping there's a place archiving all the stuff Trump is doing because it's hard to keep track of it all as an individual.

Anyone? Google is not helping me at all.

I have seen so many different approaches to dating be responded to by Lemmings as inappropriate or creepy, much of it hypocritical to other responses, but I digress: is there ANY appropriate way that everyone can agree on for men to approach having a relationship with women?

From the collective consciousness of Lemmy comments I have read, my impression is that the only appropriate thing is to be born into a marriage and never make any moves or even so much as look at a woman in your lifetime.

It may be too early to call, but to me it's looking like democrats are going to be losing for a long long time if leftists are stuck moronically fighting each other over invented strawmen. Honestly the interaction was so bizarre and nonsensical and polarized I have to wonder if the comm is an organized effort to disrupt leftists.

Wipe is not an option, don't read further if you plan on suggesting it.

I don't necessarily think I'll get help here, but I love Lemmy and it constantly surprises me, so I'll shoot my shot.

The other day I downloaded and installed driver updates for my motherboard and then a BIOS update as well. I'm paranoid about stuff so even though I'm experienced with this stuff for the most part I still followed the instructions step by step to a T and made sure it was for my correct motherboard.

After rebooting my internet wasn't working so I checked device manager and it was showing an error for my network adapter which along with other drivers was among the updates. So I tried various things with that for hours and never made any headway. Internet over bluetooth doesn't seem to want to work or be detected, my phone won't tether Internet over USB correctly either or it's not being detected by the PC. So I ordered both a PCIe LAN card and a PCIe WiFi card. The lan card us

Let's keep it light-hearted. For me I've seemed to notice way more conservatives back their cars into spaces than their liberal counter parts.

For example, if I type out a sentence and decide I want to add asterisks around a word for emphasis, why does Gboard replace the space between the previous word and the emphasized word instead of just adding the new character? Is this added functionality for something I just don't understand?

Edit: I believe I have fixed the issue by disabling the "Smart Compose" option.

I'm using Windows and only asking here because Google says it's a Linux thing, but my question is what is a Bluez and why was it trying to connect to my computer at 5AM this morning?

Feels like all of a sudden every thread I open has the worst takes in the comments: religious apologists, conservative propagandists, people defending the worst abuses of power, people stanning for CEOs, middle managers and other corporate ghouls, people defending shitty landlords, etc.

Is this Reddit now? Is this going to be the death of Lemmy as a bastion of progressives?

I'm not a fan.

I played Dragons Quest Tactics on and off for about a year but I never thought it was very good at all and there were a lot of annoying aspects I hated, recently the game decided to delete all my progress and characters so I'm done with it for good. Is there anything actually fun to play on Android in the same vein?

Aside from Egg, I can't afford a controller.

Years ago I used NewPipe but when I wanted a little more from my app I switched the ReVanced until it started giving me more and more issues. For the past 3 months or so I've been using a cracked Youtube Premium app, but now it's dropping every video after about a minute. So what's everyone using these days to avoid all of Google's bullshit but still watch Youtube content?

It's so beautiful I might cry.

After all I've seen and all these years, I'm feeling pretty foolish. I put a lot of my livelihood into this and it has gone nowhere but down. I feel like the biggest joke of a person for believing in any of this for this long.