Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

@interfluidity For texts, you can typically report it to your carrier. For example, on AT&T, you can forward spam to 7726. Some phones (I've seen it for sure in Samsung ones) have spam protection built in and allow you to block & report a source directly from its contact record. Those that don't have it built-in can benefit from 3rd party apps.

Email, being a bit more decentralized, is a bit harder to punish the bad actors. But, you can report spam to your email provider. Gmail's user-report-based anti-spam, in particular, is fantastic, but even small organizational email servers have a vested interest in increasing the signal-to-noise ratio.
If you're feeling really salty, you can even report them to the FTC for violation of the CAN-SPAM Act, but that requires you to have requested removal at least once. If you click unsubscribe and they still mail you, though? Report 'em to the feds.

@interfluidity Fwiw, I don't ever click unsubscribe links. As often as not, they just confirm your email/phone number is real and add you to a dozen other lists. Instead, I simply block and report.

@interfluidity I doubt it will help. Those lists aren't sourced ethically. I donated to one or two Florida candidates and I was inundated last cycle with state candidates across the country begging for money. It never ends and they don't ever seem to respect the anti-spam acts they themselves passed.

@Pat Reporting you for using deepfake 😛

@davidshq @froomkin Bingo. Responsible gun owners are all for reasonable gun control, and most of us are happy to explain to non-gun-owners exactly how legislators should do it to make everyone safer.
But, instead of listening to these suggestions, our ideological opponents tend to just push for bans of weapons, using grouping classifications they can barely define because they don't understand the subject.

@froomkin 🤔

@not2b @futurebird And that's before you get to the lack of routes. I grew up in St. Louis and now live in Orlando. If I wanted to take a train back to my childhood home, I'd have to tour the entire east coast before turning to ride the northern border towards Chicago before finally turning south again to head to St. Louis. It's like a 2-3 day trip.