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Reminded me to check on this Kickstarter I saw ages ago

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/solidfactory/the-cup-a-bug-a-no-kill-bug-catcher-by-solid-factory/description

Looks like they made it, I might grab one at some point

https://cupabug.com/product/cab/

It's a valid concern since this is an area of the Fediverse that requires more oversight for safety, and smaller instances may not have the personnel for it.

I think it can still work, but something like this should be structured so that:

• People moderate local groups, similar to how communities work on Lemmy/Piefed/Mbin
• You join the group that is local to your region, or to your hobby

That way it isn't on the admins to look over everything, and moderators can take action on what they have experience with.

Past that, the usual rules apply when buying something from people online:

• meet up in person, unless they person's profile makes you trust them
• meet in a public place, even better if it is a place that is designated for such meetups
• don't pay them online before you have seen and tested the item

hey it looks like you posted a few times. Two of them have discussions already, but maybe you can delete this one?

Oh the twitter post

I didn't notice where the quote ended

Oh so that's why, I reverse searched the image earlier and it linked to that post. Looks like there is another image on that profile now

By local community I meant one that's specific to a small local area (ex. School, municipality). It's possible that people from other parts of the world are seeing the post in the All type feeds, but I found it odd that only views went up while comments and votes didn't until morning.

It makes sense for the cause to be bots, but that makes the number deceptive since it's implying that your post reached a certain number of human viewers. It should be possible to adjust that number based on their estimates of humans vs. bots

That's true, although some brands will still be better than others for quality at a certain price point, or cost/wear

Ah it was an air ambulance :(

The post has been viewed 3.7 million times.

Assuming this is the info box in new Reddit, those stats always felt... wrong

The difference between comments/votes and supposed "views" made it seem like the later was inflated.

Even more obvious was when something got posted at odd hours of the night in a local community. The view count would take off shortly after, while the comments and votes would only show up around when people wake up.

For astronomy there is [email protected]. The communities on mander.xyz are STEM focussed and usually well moderated.

You could also try

• [email protected]

• [email protected]

• [email protected]

As for the instance, stay wherever you feel most comfortable. I have a few alts on other instances, including lemmy.world. You're also free to move later if you decide to.

If it helps I am based in the UK.

You can also check out the instance / communities at

https://feddit.uk/

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/24837

I think so, and I agree that it's confusing. There's some discussion about it here

So my understanding is that

• apps can let them collect a lot more data than the website version. Apps have access to a bunch of device APIs, they might be running all the time vs a website tab that you close afterwards, etc.
• you just open a link vs. logging in through the play store

On top of that if you want to lock down further, it's easier to use a privacy respecting browser than it is to sandbox the apps to. For the average person it's easier to go from using the app to opening the website in a browser, than it is to swap their OS to GrapheneOS and set up sandboxing

That's also why a lot of websites mess with the mobile site, they want you to use the app