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MaximilianKohler OP , (edited )

Yes, I was a public figure on reddit. And even if I wasn’t, it’s irrelevant. You don’t need to have a reddit account for scammers to post libel about you and your business.

MaximilianKohler OP ,

even if it were on Reddit what would you expect them to do?

Supposedly they have dedicated “anti-evil” teams that deal with this type of thing.

Ban the people? They’ll make new accounts. IP ban? VPN.

Reddit can deal with that much easier than lawyers can. It would be a continual, massive money-sink to use legal action to continually take down the new accounts. Whereas reddit can track trends and things that are occurring on their own website much easier. They already deal with stuff like this on a regular basis in regards to spam, etc.

that’s the court’s job

Find a lawyer, you might be able to get someone to work on contingency if your case is solid

It doesn’t appear that defamation is something lawyers take on contingency. They all asked for a retainer and hourly rate and made it sound like it might not even be possible even after spending tens of thousands of dollars.

Ideally you’d be able to simply go to a judge and show that the info was defamation and get an order for reddit to take it down, but apparently it doesn’t work like that, and you have to hunt down the individual people behind the accounts and be able to get them to court.

MaximilianKohler OP ,

Well, it’s not that simple because when people search for my project they see a bunch of disinformation and libel that these people are spreading.

MaximilianKohler OP ,

I actually assumed that they’d give up once they were exposed, and move on to their next grift, but apparently they are very dedicated to this one. And blocking their accounts does nothing to stop them posting libel about me.

MaximilianKohler OP ,

That would be quite difficult due the nature of my project. But certainly I could calculate some; monetary and reputation.

MaximilianKohler OP ,

A subpoena would do nothing if they were using a VPN, and if they were in another country I expect it would be just as difficult/impossible.

Taking legal action doesn’t stop a whack-a-mole.

But it is the (legal) solution to your problem.

Yes, I noted that in the OP.

MaximilianKohler OP ,

And can you prove the comments were false/lies/intending to mislead?

Yes, very easily.

MaximilianKohler OP ,

Not sure what you mean.

MaximilianKohler OP ,

I care because they’re harming my reputation, business, and more.

MaximilianKohler OP ,

Interesting. As soon as you posted your dishonest comment and it got 100% upvoted, the other comments in this thread seemed to have been vote-brigaded by the same people.

Lawyers will not take on your case unless they think there is a solid chance of financial or reputational gain beyond the standard hourly fee. They are telling you in the most professional way possible that they see no merit in spending their time on your theory’s reputation

My suspicion is that they feel your… zeal and passion for your theory is bordering on fanatical. They don’t want to work with fanatics.

This is entirely false and dishonestly fabricated by you. A lawyer never said anything remotely like that, and in no way was such a thing insinuated in previous comments in this thread. No lawyer turned me down.

This is blatant pro-reddit astroturfing.

Without substantial and demonstrable effects on your finances, what you are left with is just some low level insults on the internet, and one or more relatively anonymous individuals who know that trolling you will get them the reaction they desire. If you continue to react like this, they will continue to try to get a reaction from you.

your reactions and inability to let minor insults

You have no clue what you’re talking about, and are just making things up. You’re the one trolling now.

These concepts have been explained to you previously.

Oh yeah? When was that?

I understand that you believe you have found answers that have previously been ignored by medicine. I know how that feels. But research is already being done in this area and will take time to bear fruit.

Another completely nonsensical troll comment.

MaximilianKohler OP ,

Taking legal action stops the problem at the source

It’s not going to stop a bunch of anonymous people in other countries, it is likely not even viable (Eg, and it would cost me tens of thousands of dollars to attempt.

MaximilianKohler ,

humanmicrobiome.info/faq/

Why has the world gone to shit?

In the last 5 to 10 years everything seems to suck: product’s and services quality plummeted, everything from homes to cars to food became really expensive, technology stopped to help us to be something designed to f@ck with us and our money, nobody seems to be able to hold a job anymore, everyone is broke. Life seems worse in...

MaximilianKohler ,

Chronic disease and general poor-functioning has been skyrocketing and the vast majority of people just ignore it like it’s no big deal.

Obviously it’s a big deal when the intelligence and competence of a majority of people has been severely diminished. We’re now living in Idiocracy. And it’s why for two elections in a row we’ve ended up with the choice of two senile old white men.

MaximilianKohler ,

It’s definitely convenient to have everything in once place, and Steam has way more features, but it’s good to avoid Steam becoming too monopolistic. We saw recently how badly that can go with reddit.

Despite the widespread worshipping of Steam and GabeN, I’ve had lots of issues with Steam and Valve over the years.

MaximilianKohler ,

It’s inconvenient for sure, but monopolies are worse.

MaximilianKohler ,

It will definitely start to happen more as more forums start to join the fediverse (discourse for Eg).

MaximilianKohler ,

Forms vary with those types of rules. I absolutely hate the ones that are autolocking after a few days/months.

MaximilianKohler ,

github.com/0x48piraj/fadblock

MaximilianKohler ,

First time I’m seeing what it looks like. Looks exactly like Twitter.

Over 50 per cent of users may shun social media by 2025 as misinformation, toxicity grow (www.newindianexpress.com)

Over 50 per cent of users may shun social media by 2025 as misinformation, toxicity grow::A Gartner survey found that 53 per cent of consumers believe the current state of social media has decayed compared to either the prior year or five years ago.

MaximilianKohler ,

Yep. This is the primary thing preventing me from contributing to, and recommending Lemmy. People confidently posting and upvoting harmful misinformation, and toxic/unintelligent people. I’ve already left Reddit and Facebook (a long time ago) for similar reasons.

MaximilianKohler ,

It is still very similar. Reddit and Lemmy are now primarily fluff content. I’ve had to block dozens of fluff subs on Lemmy. And misinformation and toxic/unintelligent users are a problem here too.

MaximilianKohler ,

fluff

Low-quality, mindless content designed to keep mindless people infinitely scrolling.

MaximilianKohler ,

It was said in the previous thread that the TPM and Microsoft account requirements can be overridden with Rufus, so anyone can update to Win 11.

MaximilianKohler ,

It would be better if they gave their AI the task of finding alternatives to antibiotics.

While antibiotic resistance gets all the attention, the damage being done to our host-native microbiomes is arguably as big a threat as climate change, as the damage compounds over generations, and once it’s gone you can’t get it back. (Apr 2019).

YSK: Do You Really Need That Antibiotic? It’s antibiotic season. Brush up on how you should use them — and when to avoid them. (NYT, Dec 2023) (www.nytimes.com)

It’s refreshing to see a major news outlet discussing collateral damage and not just resistance. Over the past decade, 99% of the time antibiotic overuse is covered and warned about it’s always only in regards to resistance....

MaximilianKohler OP ,

Some relevant info I shared yesterday:

While antibiotic resistance gets all the attention, the damage being done to our host-native microbiomes is arguably as big a threat as climate change, as the damage compounds over generations, and once it’s gone you can’t get it back. (Apr 2019).

Resistance can be solved by restoring lost microbes with FMT: humanmicrobiome.info/antibiotics/

MaximilianKohler OP ,

Yep, I crossposted to two of those already. Feel free to x-post to the medicine one if you want.

MaximilianKohler OP , (edited )

That’s wrong. Stop confidently spreading harmful misinformation. I already provided citations that you should have checked before making that statement: humanmicrobiome.info/antibiotics/

EDIT: And to all the people who upvoted the person I’m responding to, you should not be upvoting people who make medical/scientific claims without a citation, especially when they’re contradicting a highly reputable news source (NYT) that contains scientific citations and expert commentary.

MaximilianKohler OP ,

IMO the future lies in replacing antibiotics with adding instead of subtracting: phages/phage cocktails, FMT, etc. There’s also a massive amount of antibiotic overuse for a variety of reasons, including public ignorance about their necessity (lack of) and harms, and emotional thinking and lack of consequences for people in the medical system.

Phages were given up on because antibiotics were an easier solution and the consequences aren’t always immediately obvious. But that decision has likely played a major role in getting to the current chronic disease crisis.

MaximilianKohler OP ,

Yes and no. …humanmicrobiome.info/…/doctors-are-not-systemati…

MaximilianKohler OP ,

That is not a website doctors look at.

Wrong. Also irrelevant. It contains a plethora of scientific citations, which is all that matters.

Medical procedures are formed and approved through NIH articles with vast testing pools across many geographical areas.

Gibberish that tells me you don’t know what you’re talking about, but want to sound authoritative.

MaximilianKohler OP ,

MRSA is actually covered in the cited links. Here’s one for example academic.oup.com/ofid/article/6/7/ofz288/5522275.

The gut microbiome regulates the entire body, including the immune system and other body site’s microbiomes humanmicrobiome.info/systemic. You can see what a great resource it is – very handy to provide categorized citations.

his website is not peer reviewed

Anyone is welcome to contribute and peer review it.

MaximilianKohler OP ,

When you wipe out all of your microbiome, chances are it returns to normal in the following months after antibiotic treatment.

Harmful misinformation. A plethora of citations were already provided that debunk that claim.

You have to take the full course to prevent resistance from forming.

Harmful misinformation that is contradicted by the citation in the article and numerous other citations that I provided in the OP and my introductory comment.

If you let resistance flourish, then every single time someone needs to take an antibiotic it will be even more likely they develop a C. Diff infection due to the microbiota being wiped even harder.

This makes no sense. I’ll rephrase it to make it sensical and accurate:

If you overuse antibiotics, every time someone needs to take an antibiotic it will be even more likely they develop a C. Diff infection due to their microbiota being wiped out previously.

MaximilianKohler OP ,

Everything in here refutes and proves all your claims wrong

Not even close. You seem to be the only one playing games.

MaximilianKohler OP ,

NYT undoing years of “finish your fucking course”

WITH CITATIONS.

“finish your fucking course” is wrong, and pigheaded people that refuse to review scientific evidence and reshape their opinions accordingly do a lot of harm and make it impossible for the scientific method to work and for the scientific community to update the public when the evidence and consensus changes.

MaximilianKohler OP ,

as to effectively use phage therapy you must identify the organism and then select appropriate phages which will kill the bacteria, which takes time that a sick patient may not have without antibiotics

Phage cocktails, FMT, etc… Also, we should get better at speeding that process up if we fund research for it, but we’ve been instead continuing to rely on antibiotics.

We also haven’t quite figured out how to keep our immune system from eradicating the bacteriophages

Citation? I don’t recall that being a thing… phages are ubiquitous in the human body. As much or more so than bacteria. They are the natural way bacteria are kept in check.

MaximilianKohler OP ,

I’m not as confident as you are in the evidence-based nature/abilities of doctors. See …humanmicrobiome.info/…/doctors-are-not-systemati…

MaximilianKohler OP ,

Wow, projecting hard with that comment. This is a fantastic and well-cited article, and your comment does nothing to debunk anything in it, and you end with a baseless “you’re scientifically illiterate” comment. Amazing.

MaximilianKohler OP ,

even a 5-10 year out-of-date medical professional has immensely more knowledge and safe ability to recommend therapy than a layperson

I know from a plethora of experience that this is wrong. It’s also way too broad of a claim. Laypeople knowledge varies a lot. I know first-hand of some laypeople who are actually top experts in scientific/medical fields and I know of people with medical degrees who promote themselves as experts in their field yet they spread harmful misinformation that severely harmed patients and nearly got them killed.

you’re not supporting your position by citing a forum instead of the actual primary literature that supports your position

I think this is poorly worded, but I think I still understand what you were trying to say. There is no reason for me to duplicate the forum post here. There are citations there. Copying them here doesn’t make them more legitimate.

MaximilianKohler ,

There’s a lot of stuff that still doesn’t run on linux as far as I know.

MaximilianKohler ,

I mean the software I’m running on Win 10. As far as I know, a lot of it still won’t run on linux.

Anyway, moot point since people said in this thread that you can bypass the TPM and Microsoft account requirements with Rufus. So anyone should be able to upgrade to Win 11.

MaximilianKohler ,

I guess all the people solely cheering for this aren’t aware of the damage we’ve been doing to ourselves with antibiotics:

While antibiotic resistance gets all the attention, the damage being done to our host-native microbiomes is arguably as big a threat as climate change, as the damage compounds over generations, and once it’s gone you can’t get it back. (Apr 2019).

Resistance may already be a solved problem: humanmicrobiome.info/antibiotics/-to-counter-…

MaximilianKohler , (edited )

Only a Sith deals in absolutes. humanmicrobiome.info/antibiotics/-ove…

IMO, the lack of ability for nuance is a sign of low intelligence.

Relevant: Antibiotics that kill gut bacteria also stop growth of new brain cells: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/…/160519130105.htm

MaximilianKohler ,

It says who they are in their signature. And a plethora of peer-reviewed papers are cited.

MaximilianKohler ,

There was no nuance in what you posted

This is a flat out lie. The fact that people are upvoting it is very depressing. It’s disappointing to see that people on lemmy aren’t any smarter than people on reddit.

MaximilianKohler OP ,

It was a firewall issue. I disabled my firewall and it works.

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