To clarify, by news sources I mean this in broad terms, so from wherever you may get info about what’s going on around you, or the world in general.

Thanks for yours and @JupiterRowland@sh.itjust.works’s deep dive into this!

Ooh, I’d never heard of nor seen these before, thanks!

What are they?

Are the chokers somewhat adjustable to fit different size necks? Do you have any dislike or fear of giraffes? If yes and no, you might look into getting some giraffe dolls that are firm enough to basically wear and display the chokers and ease your selection.

You could even slightly decorate the giraffes to help in sorting them, supposing the wearing of chokers wasn’t enough for your tastes.

Thanks for the heads-up on this! Didn’t realize that was in the works

Interesting, thanks! It sounds like you could hide the ability to vote either way then on an instance’s frontend, but as you say, it wouldn’t really do much to address voting activity from either other frontends or instances.

Yeah, that’s along the lines of what I’m asking about, albeit instead of a subscription check more like, I think, however the instances disabling/removing downvoting have done so, but adjusting the scope strictly to the Local or All views.

Another approach to addressing outsider/passive voting behaviors.

What’s a spoonerism?

Have you been following your heart? If not the most, the moist may at least be there.

Doesn’t the Earth deserve the occasional pizzafice?

What are shitboxes?

Appreciate the thoughtful reply! I can see where you’re coming from in terms of opening TLDs up creating a bunch of issues, even though I do still enjoy the more playful ones despite that.

It’s honestly a little surprising that so many have been made available given the issues it can present, but I think that’s largely a byproduct of approaching the internet less from a rigidly structured perspective and more of a loose informal perspective.

do you think you’d be able to tell if it was instead a massive homelab run by the microorganisms in your house?

Personally, the childish side of me will always get a kick out of .wtf in a website name.

Is this part of your sibling goofing routine?

Anywhere it’s generally okay to look/find things

Why is this all so convoluted and, seemingly, legal? Is this purposely convoluted to obfuscate illegal activity?

I think separating them improves the user experience for regular users, which I think counts as a real advantage. As I wrote in the body text:

As-is seeing an indication of a comment for a post only for it to turn out to be a bot is slightly disappointing at best, and mildly confusing at worst when their display has been disabled.

It’s a small detail, but small details add up when it comes to the user experience.

If I just wanted to label it, colored tape. I don’t know if colored masking tape is ideal – my experience has been that masking tape left on a surface for a long time leaves some goo, though Goo Gone might get that off. But I suspect that it’d stay on the thing for a long time.

Yeah, the gooey factor is one of the only reasons I’ve been somewhat iffy on using masking tape for this purpose. However if it holds up to where it doesn’t need replacement, could be a nonfactor all things considering.