From urban dictionary:

A website full of cynics who yearn for the approval of those around them, and anonymously harrass people online for not conforming to their community’s beliefs, which they themselves have religiously adopted.

“Boy ol’ gosh golly, I sure do love going onto Kiwi Farms and laughing at autists and liberals!”

I think you should try it then, see how much fun it is.

We get trolled a lot, that’s mostly what you’re seeing. They seem to be off schedule lately or the admins are handling them better, not sure which. I agree with being better commenters though, it would help the atmosphere.

I almost joined you. Thank you for all you did and I’m sad to see you go. I guess there’s a reason why it’s not that toxic on Lemmy, you guys were/are taking the brunt of it.

This might be the one time I’m okay with this. It’s too hard on the humans that did this. I hope the AI won’t “learn” to be cruel from this though, and I don’t trust Meta to handle this gracefully.

Letting the user decide? If the user decided that they liked fly fishing 8 stars and mother-in-law 0 stars, then the algorithm would show mother-in-law once a week at best and fly fishing 8x out of 10 posts.

Thank you for the explanation, so it’s as bad as I thought. How do I know what apps and programs have access to my network?

can effectively use it as a VPN to access your private network

I’m dumb. I still don’t know what that means. When they can access your network, does that mean they can make copies from your printer or does that mean they can access your hard drives?

Does that mean if your laptop is on your network, they can control and access that?

Beyond the basics, what does access to a device on your home network grant them? Any other device connected to that home network - smart fridges, smart stoves, smart washing machines, laptops - is typically routable via your bed. The (in)security of those devices is now entrusted to random Eight Sleep engineers.