ChatGDT said I had a 135 IQ, does that mean I’m also a pseudoscientist?

100%. I don’t want to brag or anything but I do have 25 followers on Mastodon so I’m kind of a big deal and my posts get lots of engagement. I had 5 stars on one post, that’s the most amount of stars possible. Again, trying not to brag.

Meta

An influx of folks moving away from US social media companies. The the twitter exodus of late 2022 but for all US platforms

I’m sure some servers will struggle with a huge influx but the fediverse as a whole would be ok.

applying for an Irish passport (Irish grandfather)

That’s how I got my Irish citizenship. I applied after Brexit so I could keep my EU citizenship.

AFAIK, you can’t enter the UK using your Canadian passport if you’re a British citizen. You need to enter the UK using a British passport as a British citizen. I have Australian, Canadian, British, and Irish citizenship. It’s a lot in passport fees.

Being conceived

And the original I need to survive for 3 days without pooping post only exists on the Internet Archive now

Is this in preparation for Lemmy’s 3 day no poop challenge in July?

Facebook has ghost profiles of non Facebook users because of tracking embedded in “like” buttons on websites. If you wanted to go full paranoid I would suggest using an extension to change your user agent. But it is probably worth identifying the specific threat vectors you are concerned about.

MySpace complete with way too much customer JavaScript injection.

You’re hosted on lemmy.selfhostcat.com, cat in Chinese is Mao. You nearly got away with it China 🕵️‍♂️

Nice try China!

I have no useful advice but much sympathy.

You aspects of Reddit’s toxic culture have you observed on Lemmy?

Whose engagement?

The engagement with my presentation for instance. I don’t care about tracking specific users.

It doesn’t change the user-facing URL like a shortener.

Where the user-facing URL points can easily be changed! For instance, changing the DNS record or changing where the reverse proxy points. I really don’t think you understand how the internet works under the hood.

Someone archiving the original content. It’s your fault for breaking the link at a whim.

I’m not going to optimize my content for lazy archivers. Check out web.archive.org for an example of how to properly archive, they update the URLs so links don’t break

Third party (you) tracking the user

I’m not tracking users, I’m tracking engagement. I’m not Zuckerberg

Hiding the true target from the user

99.99% of website use a reverse proxy, the target is nearly always hidden. I don’t think you understand how the internet works.

Destroying any attempt at content archival

Who would archive a shortened URL and not follow the link to its target? It’s not my fault if people don’t know how to archive my content.

URL shorteners are not inherently bad.

No sorry, I was just lucky and persistent

I don’t believe in security by obscurity