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New comment by kaldev in "Meta censored the No Kings Instagram account during a nationwide campaign"

kaldev — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:52:42 +0000

People def do and that's totally fine. You don't feel like the fact that this "movement" is funded by a WalMart heiress is fishy? Full page NYT ads trying to mobilize people into protest?

Organic protests of any sort is fine. Between this shit and the "ChaoticGood" marketing operation ran for Geese, you cannot begin to understand how much of the interaction you see on the web is bought and paid for.

New comment by kaldev in "Meta censored the No Kings Instagram account during a nationwide campaign"

kaldev — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:50:43 +0000

Gambling companies literally pay people to post on twitter?

You can go to an SMM panel right now and get a bot farm to rebrand tens of thousands of accounts on any platform to align with your messaging and spam the fuck out of replies to manufacture consensus. There is a very high chance this exact playbook worked on you lol.

New comment by kaldev in "Meta censored the No Kings Instagram account during a nationwide campaign"

kaldev — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:22:59 +0000

I felt like this whole thing is extremely inorganic. Funded by a WalMart heiress, website went up hours before a massive NYT ad buy, and (in my opinion) what felt like lot of coordinated / paid / botted engagement.

Idk, I don't want the internet to be dictated by followers/engagement that can be easily botted via a SMM panel for pennies.

New comment by kaldev in "Men should abstain from drinking at least three months prior to conceiving"

kaldev — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 16:44:10 +0000

New comment by kaldev in "Google Drive files suddenly disappeared"

kaldev — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 06:14:10 +0000

No way. My mom called me today and we spent an hour trying to figure out where her Google Drive files went. I was unable to figure out how this was happening and I'm convinced this must be the cause.

New comment by kaldev in "Create a shortcut for even lower phone brightness"

kaldev — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 16:38:39 +0000

I did this a few weeks ago and it is a gamechanger. The only bad thing is that it enables me to stay on my phone late at night when I should be sleeping.

New comment by kaldev in "Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser"

kaldev — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 21:19:04 +0000

Still have a VAC ban on my account for 5402 days from 1.6. Never downloaded cheats and no idea how I got it. I'm kinda proud of it now but was devastating at the time. Still astounds me knowing that my account has been around for that long.

New comment by kaldev in "Wonders of Street View"

kaldev — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 21:45:17 +0000

Reminds of of the "Nine Eyes" project by Jon Rafman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKtY943F_Qg