• FauxPseudo @lemmy.worldOPM
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    4 days ago

    Did you just invent a conspiracy theory where people are using VPNs to fake their location data to make it look like Grindr is having an outage?

    Then you followed that up saying let’s be real?

    Did I read your comment correctly? I don’t want to misinterpret it but that’s what it looks like you said.

    • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 days ago

      You’ve been on the internet for more than 10 minutes and believe absolutely nobody would submit a fake DownDetector report for a laugh? Not even one person, because the data of a website that lets anyone click a button that says ‘I’m having a problem’ is a perfect capture of reality? Just making sure I’m understanding you correctly.

      I said other things in that comment, but the fact VPNs exist and that it can be done is relevant to the data’s trustworthiness regardless of whether or not it happened but sure dawg. That’s exactly what I said: it’s a vast conspiracy. Whatever lets you not engage with how desperately you need Republicans to secretly be gay.

      Where are the NYC and Boston Republican conventions, man? That’s gotta be the only way anyone can have problems accessing Grindr, right?

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          3 days ago

          Thanks for confirming that not only are you interacting in intentional bad faith, you also think it’s impossible to use a VPN to access downdetector and that nobody would ever do such a thing on the internet. Don’t think too hard about why it’s so important to you to “prove” that Republicans are mostly gay.

          • FauxPseudo @lemmy.worldOPM
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            3 days ago

            I never said impossible. I said you decided a conspiracy was the more likely situation. I also never said Republicans are mostly gay. That’s your wording and not my position at all.