No. So fair enough 🙂

Even a 20 year should know Napster saga (with all the implications involved) happened in 2001.

There is no “push back” from most developers, not in the direction you’re thinking anyway, which is what the microblogtard is calling “apathy”, as people grew tired of the moral imposters, who happen to (very randomly) align with corpos when it comes to target lists btw (they are “GNU bad” and “Stallman bad” mobs).

Most developers, when they have their developer hat on, are not bothered by the constant hormonal brainless unhinged Find a Nazi under the pillow campaigns of the microblogtard sphere and its echo chambers when they leak outside, and that’s exactly the right positioning.

Some of those developers may even be more “radical” than the microblogtards themselves. But they have the ability to compartmentalize, contextualize, and have the assuredness, mental stability, and impulse control not to feel the need to moral posture and find mob targets 24/7 to feel good about themselves.

This is a mix of you growing up with a hint of nostalgia, and the death of the TV.

Excitement for the world cup is waning, just like it’s waning for any other event/show that collected the family in front of the small screen.

The quality of game itself has always been not good at the international level. And that probably increased with players playing in many different leagues, not just teams. While decades ago, you had some cores of teams playing for the same club.

The game itself changed of course. No more no.10 artists giving you a good show.

In my extended family, most people who care about the world cup are people who don’t watch the sport much during the regular season. So it’s not really primarily a sporting event for them.

I would love it if it was a moral awakening, or increased awareness of the hubris that is the modern nation state identity, that is driving this. But I genuinely doubt it. And if you think it is now, or was in Qatar (the biggest moral posturing maxxing event in internet history) or Russia, I’m afraid you’re probably over-influenced by your echo chamber of choice.

LLM’s and stylometry are not magic.
i write using different styles constantly.
And It’s not like people are writing original long essays here all the time, for the weapons grade tools to assay anything with high confidence.

The best way to get full access to fediverse data (including e.g. voting) is to run your own instance. So what instances, do we think, are operated by bad actors, irrespective of their identity or nature❓🤔

Or to get more conspiratorial, a bad actor would need one or more big instances to collect that info without sticking out. So which big instances, do we think, would be willing to give, or sell, a “bad actor” full access❓😉
(This of course assumes that none of the big instances were created by bad actors).

In any case, if you’re posting overton wrongthink™, and not doing it (pseudo-)anonymously, then you’re doing it wrong. I mean, you’re in a network/platform that goes as far as encouraging you to use multiple accounts, so what’s stopping you from doing it right?!

ITT: Uniparty-ists thinking anyone with a brain trusts anyone of them, from any faction, current or former.