I think that the relative lack of content is actually a feature for this reason - sometimes I open Lemmy out of habit, but I see the same content and go do something more worthwhile instead.

I think any federated service is more vulnerable, because there’s no central oversight, e.g. of IPs used to create accounts.

Even without any code, you could easily register accounts at the 20 largest instances and upvote yourself. I’m sure some people will have done just that.

This reminds me of when a couple of lost Doctor Who episodes were found but the owner was nervous to share them with the BBC because he feared confiscation and/or prosecution. I don’t know what happened with that story.

You mean Cloudflare is down this evening. Timezones, how do they work?

thirst spaces

I can’t decide if this is a joke or a Freudian slip.

I wonder if they asked for red in their prompt, or if the AI did it - and if it’s the AI how much the red association is with evil vs Republican.