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Maybe if enough people do it, it can make a dent.

Cross-posted from https://lemmy.ca/post/41467887

Lemmy newb here, not sure if this is right for this /c.

An article I found from someone who hosts their own website and micro-social network, and their experience with web-scraping robots who refuse to respect robots.txt, and how they deal with them.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/24587230

I’ve had people in my family who have fought in every war for the United States, ever. And we live in Canada! It’s disturbing,”

Newb here. In my main feed, I see some posts over and over again. I see a post, click "Next" and there it is again. And again on the next page, and a couple of others I've already seen too. And again on the next page. (Sometimes they are cross-posts to a different /c, but mostly not.)

It's annoying having to wade through post after post I've already seen.

What I've tried so far:

• Set main feed to "New" rather than "Active" etc.
• "Hide this post" when I see it for the third or fourth time

Are there other ways?

Over the last couple of days, a few posts on Lemmy led me to read more about:

• Alternatives to (US-based) Wikipedia (triggered by a few comments in this /c)
• Gamergate & Rabid Puppies

Thus I found out about Infogalactic (I won't link to it); it's a fork of Wikipedia created by a far-right white supremacist mysogynist "Vox Day" (a sci fi author and publisher who tried to rig the Hugo Awards to show his disdain for non-white, non-male authors) so as to have an encyclopaedia free of "the left-wing thought police who administer [Wikipedia]".

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox_Day

Trying out Mojeek today, I did a search (population of Rome through history) and an Infogalactic page (History of Rome) was the 6th result.

Not only was a far right website I had never seen before in the 8 years of its existence one of the top results, but the Wikipedia page it forked is nowhere to be found.

1. Is this common with Mojeek?
2. Are there ways to adjust its settings so as to not return far right search results?
3. And should we just stop recommending Mojeek as an alternative to US search engines as long as it does return far right search results to ordinary search queries?

I kind of remembered that the European flag is not just for the European Union. (It was actually created for the Council of Europe.)

I had no idea that the stars are properly called mullets.

"On an azure field a circle of twelve golden mullets, their points not touching."

What I think of when I hear "a flag with a circle of twelve golden mullets":

Why are some comments highlighted (or "greylighted"), e.g. the three in the middle, and some are not?

https://pixelfed.ca/p/klu9/806559107614177586

Is it something to do with my instance (lemmy.ca)? Their instance? Invidividual users?

(I'm viewing in a web browser. Default settings, lemmy.ca)